The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-07-04
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Horse drawn cabs have been prohibited
on the streets.
A hundred acre field of oats in Alabama
is said to have sold for &c. 600.
Whales to the value of S11, 100000 were
killed during the last season.
Turkey is in a bad plight on account of
its inability to meet its war expenses.
Bob Hunter was killed speeding seventy
five miles an hour in Cleveland, Ohio.
An Austrian aviator, at Vienna, arose
with passenger to height of 13, ITO feet.
A remarkable record of longevity is to
be found in some of the rural parishes of
France.
Ton for ton, warships are built in this
country as quickly as those abroad and at
less cost.
The first bale of cotton of the crop of
1912 was shipped from Harrington, Texas,
to Houston, Monday.
1t has been computed that one day of
fog in London entails an extra expense of
from $50, 900 to $4,000.
| Five persons were killed and twenty
wounded in an attempted Jail delivery at
Turres Novas, Portugal.
Migration from country to town has be-
come national menace in France. Steps
are being taken to arrest it.
| A recent fire at Chicautimi, Quebec, did
a total damage estimated at So, SOC, 900 and
made 500 families homeless.
Fifty people were killed and ST, OOO, 900
property damage done by tornado in
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sunday.
A Kinds county, Miss, grand jury re-
ported officially that gambling seems to
be on the increase in Mississippi"
The Navy Department., believing the
Cuban rebellion has subsidized, will recall
the battle ships now in Cuban waters.
| Recent statistics show that there are 1859
men operating meat-packing plants in the
United States. These men employ Sc, 728
men.
1t is estimated that the telegraph COM
panies in Baltimore handled hundred
thousand messages from home" to dele
gates.
| At conference of number of Roose-
welt delegates to the Chicago Convention
it was decided to remain in the Republican
party.
| The chief surgeon of the United Fruit
Company says that concern is conducting
effective sanitation campaigns throughout
Central America.
The railroads of the United States are
nearly all engaged in teaching their en-
ployes how to avoid accidents to themselves
and the travelling public.
Some one has figured out by actual ex-
pertinent the profits that accrue in the rails
ing of sugar beets in California, so that,
after deducting all expenses, S34,44 was
left on one acre. In grain it was only
S12.85, beans S27.35, potatoes S26.6O and
S17.65.
Because thirteen -yoar-old Guy Hurdle
of Washington, D. c., received parental
rebuke for exchanging watch for chick
en- to which he had taken fancy, the bow
hanged himself from tree near his home.
His disappearance caused search for him,
which resulted in the discovery of his body.
The damage done by the recent volcanic
eruption in Alaska was much larger than
was at first thought. An area 700 miles in
diameter was covered with ashes, ranging
from depth of two inches to twenty feet,
and every leaf of vegetation was killed.
Congress has voted an appropriation of
500, 900 for relief purposes.
During the summer months mothers of
young children should watch for any I'M
natural looseness of the bowels. When
given prompt attention at this time serious