The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-09-26
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

The voting population of Baltimore is
LAT, 254.
The country Is gathering in the biggest
corn crop on record.
Aviator Russell Blair was killed in 30
foot fall at Shenandoah, Iowa.
Hawaii expects to pack 24,00O,00O tins
of canned pineapple this year.
Deaths from small pox at Pittsburg, Pa,
totaled eighteen up to the 10th inst.
Five hundred Chinese soldiers were
burned to death on the 18th in forest fire.
The public schools of Baltimore opened
last week with an attendance of $4,000
pupils.
Arthur Hall, at San Francisco, killed his
brother, James, and the latter's wife, and
suicided.
c.. R. Rasmussen hurled himself to death
! from the top of a twenty two story build
ing in Chicago.
Cuba's sugar production for this year is
estimated in excess of 100000 tons, the
largest on record.
The New York Cotton Exchange plans to
erect twenty two story office building,
ct,s:is S2,200,OOO.
DdlllluOIC OAPOAtOl AoSO oAlduSCO w
ship 10000, 900 bushels of oats to English
and German ports.
Seventy thousand dollars was stolen from
a sealed package in transit from Pensacola,
Fla, to Flomaton, Ala.
Two men were killed and twenty five
hurt by an explosion at a steel plant at
Johnstown, Pa, Friday.
Wyoming produced more than six times
as much gold last year as the year before,
but less silver and copper.
A pearl breast pin swallowed two years
ago was drawn from the lungs of an eigh-
teen year-old New York girl.
Hundreds of gallons of whisky were
poured into the street of Petersburg, Ind,
following raids on blind tigers.
The worlds investment in telephone
property is over ST, 735, 900. The average
earning per telephone is 1927.
Kansas City railroad yards and elevators
are reported crowded with wheat and a
blockade of the West threatened by fight
against a September delivery corner.
Sixteen persons we're killed and fifty in
jured by the derailing of an express eight
miles from Liverpool, England, on the
18th inst Several bodies in car were
cremated.
Waldemar B. Archer, prominent lum
herman, is in Jail at st. Louis and admits
forging eight checks aggregating $82 after
having squandered his savings of SAC, 600
for drink in the last three years.
The postofflce receipts in Chicago for the
month of August were 81 1892, 1885, $50, which
is S2O,274.30 in excess of the receipts OF
the New York postoffice, which was its
nearest rival.
The shipyards of the United States will
be buster this year than for many years
On July 1, 100 steel vessels, aggregating
254, 900 gross tons were under construc-
J, ton. The cause of this activity in ship
construction is said to be the near compile
ton of the Panama Canal.
} A special from Huntsville, Ala, says
; that section was visited by the worst flood
in it's history last Sunday, after twelve
inches of rainfall during the night. There
| was serious damage to the cotton crop in
the country. Hundreds of persons were
} driven from their homes in Huntsville, and
many cattle and hogs were drowned.
Failing to realize as much as they ex-
pected for this years crop, with thousands
of bushels of peaches going to waste, the
owners of the largest peach orchard in the
world-225, 900 bearing trees-at Ameri.
Gus, Ca, have cut down and burned the
trees, and will use the land for genera
farming. Other peach growers, believing
they can raise cotton at greater profit
are threatening to chop down their trees
Former United States Senator Hernandc
De Soto Money died near Gulfport, Miss.
, on the 18th inst. Senator Money served
in the Confederate Army from the begin
ming of the war until September 26, 1864
; when he was forced to retire from service
by defective eyesight; was elected to Con
, gress for seven consecutive terms, begin.
ming with the forty fourth and ending with
the fifty fourth terms. In January, 1896
, he was elected to the Senate for two terms
, refusing to be candidate for third be.
, cause he had been stricken blind.
, The Cotton Crop.
, The Memphis Commercial Appeal of las
) Monday says:
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