The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-08-01
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

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more next fall.
The African cotton crop is growing rap
idly in quantity.
American soldiers will wear only tan
shoes in the future.
The death rate in France still exceeds
that of the birth rate.
Gov. Wilson has declared war on loan
sharks in New Jersey.
One town in Mexico has had twenty six
earthquake shocks this year.
Argentina's corn crop for this year is
estimated at eight million tons.
Food adulteration in France is said to
net profit of S100,0O0,O0O year.
Missouri looks for a two-thirds crop of
apples or twice as many as last year.
Six persons were killed at Alexis, Ohio,
Sunday, when train hit an automobile.
A wealthy street beggar of Los Angeles
went insane through counting her money.
Four hundred persons are believed to
have persisted from floods in Japan last
week.
Seven girls were killed and number of
others injured by recent factory fire in
the heart of London.
Mexican rebels threaten to massacre
Americans in order to force intervention
by the United States.
Offering his life for his dying Emperor,
young man committed suicide in the
palace grounds at Toxic Saturday.
An order prohibiting the sale of liquor
on any of its lines in Pennsylvania has
been issued by the Reading Railway.
Roy Childers, four years old, was burned
to death near Broken Arrow, Ok. He set
fire to barn and could not get out.
The Chairman of the Maryland Shellfish
Commission says oyster culture in that
State is con the high road to success
Farmers throughout the State of Ken
lucky have planned chain of stores for
purpose of reducing the high cost of living.
The town of Wausau, Wis, was dam
aged from 100000 to 100000 by the
breaking of two dams on the Wisconsin
River.
A terrific hailstorm Saturday destroyed
crops over vast area north of Loveland,
Col. A path two miles in width and eight
miles long was laid bare.
Two $50 bank notes were found in the
pockets of Meyer Davidson, junk dealer,
whose body was found hanging from raft
ers of barn in Cohoes, N. Y, on the 26th.
While fishing Sunday morning, two men
discovered parts of a human skeleton
among driftwood in the Mississippi River
at st. Louis. The bones were taken to the
morgue.
The temperature was twenty degrees
above zero at 5 a. N. on July 23d at the
summer colony of Caroga Lake, N. Y. Ice
: was formed and fruit and vegetables were
damaged.
Charles Woodward, twelve years old,
died in Wabash, Ind, last Thursday, as a
result of having eaten twelve green apples.
7 The boy became violently i'll Immediately
3 after his feast.
Mutsuhito, for forty five years Emperor
of Japan, and the 121st emperor of that
} nation, died at Tokyo at 12:43 Tuesday
2 morning. He is succeeded by the crown
=, prince, Yoshihito.
w. j. Winkleman, at Pittsburg, Pa, set
fire to his home in which slept his family
? was arrested; made his escaped, and three
hours later his body was found hanging by
> his suspenders from tree.
= The body of Naomi Mitchell, fourteen
p. years old, was found in a cornfield near
. Carmel, Me. The child's hands we're tied
a behind her back, her throat had been cut
: and there we're evidences of assault.
r A car repairer was killed outright and
John Craven, also repairer, was fatally
d injured at Denison, Texas, Friday night
g when switch engine backed into the cal
8 under which they were at work.
It A daylight burglar in Kansas City, Mo-.
Il forced mother and her two daughters tt
: go into the bathroom of their dwelling anc
IS locked them up for forty-five minutes
Y while he plundered the house, escaping
h with $500 worth of jewelry.
II Following reports that crop conditions il
: Texas had taken decided turn for tn
e worse, the cotton market in New Yorl
d Friday made new high records, new croE
70 deliveries selling above the 13-cent leve
y for the first time this season.
= The wheat harvest, just commenced il
Northern Indiana, shows an average O
" eighteen bushels to the acre. The presen
IL the farmers in that section will not hav
: enough for their own consumption:
J. Many reports are made of damage il
10 Western Maryland and West Virginia b,
! the rain storm of July Oath. The flood los
- in Barbour County, Md, alone will amour
:. to several hundred thousand dollars. TIL
n damage at Oakland, is placed at $50, 900.
ID A fine of $40, 900 was paid into the Unite
I'd States Court at Savannah, Ca, last Thurs
ut day by the Merchants and Miners Trans
at portation Company. It was levied by Judg
" Emery Speer after the corporation wa
p convicted of violating the commerce law
10 in shinments of GRAIN from Philadelnhia I