The Bossier banner., 1912-11-21
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Fresh eggs in New York brought seven
ty-two cents dozen last week.
Six persons were killed in dynamite
explosion at Gary, Ind, on the 18th.
In Russia 100000 children are born
each year, and half of them die in infancy.
Timber privileges near Gulfport, Miss,
were sold last Thursday for a sum exceed
ing 100000.
The nude corpse of girl stenographer
was found in bath tub in a Boston hotel
last Thursday.
A packing plant at Indianapolis was
partly burned Saturday morning, causing
loss Of 100000.
A Turkish powder magazine near Athens
exploded on the 18th and one hundred
persons were killed.
Ten persons we're drowned when the
steamer Mayflower floundered in the Mad
awaska River, in Canada.
Five men were killed in a quarry near
Westchester, Pa, Saturday when laborer
dropped box of dynamite.
A thief crept into a jewelry store without
being noticed in Paris, France, and robbed
the shop Of jewelry worth 100000.
Five hundred Pittsburg, Pa, women will
launch cooperative plan of buying food
products, cutting out the middleman.
Storms that ragged in Jamaica last week
inflicted heavy damage to railway and tel
egraph properties and banana planters.
Anegro killed one patrolman in st. Louis
Sunday, wounded three others and escap-
ed through a Gordon Of thirty policeman.
There is much discont among Kentucky
school teachers because of the States de-
linqency in meeting their salaries when
due.
Former nited States Senator Joseph M
Terrell, twice Governor of Georgia, died
in Atlanta Sunday, after an extended ILL
ness.
Three workmen were buried and four
others were injured when concrete build
ing being constructed at Detroit collapsed
Friday.
The dismembered body Of seven year
old Josephs, kidnapped year ago from
Lackawanna, Pa, was found packed in a
sewer.
According to recent reports the annual
sugar production of Mexico was 155, 900
tons. There has been steady increase
for thirteen years.
Three masked bandits Friday forced a
chauffeur at lola, Kansas, to drive them
to three nearby towns, where they robbed
stores and garages.
Miss Florence F. Wilson of New York
eclipsed all fast typewriting records on the
18th by writing at the rate of 116 words a
minute for an hour.
Mrs. Bessie Lyle and daughter we're
thrown from their auto under street car
when the trolley and their machine collid-
ed in Atlanta, Ca, Sunday.
Witnesses in dynamiting trial told how
James B. Mcnamara plotted to put bomb
under girl stenographer in Iron Workers
Union office because she knew too much.
Banking resources in the United States
increased S., ,4O3, 100000 during the last
four years, exceeding the record of any
similar period in the history of the nation.
Believing that her mother, who was
about to enter her berth in a sleeping car,
was robber, Miss Gladys Elizabeth Myers
of, Owensburg, Pa, shot and killed her
parent.
A mob at Ocala, Fla, last Thursday took
negro charged with the murder of white
of town, released him and then shot him
as he ran.
That fully 25 per cent of the cases of
cancer peculiar to women can be cured,
was the statement made at the Clinical
Congress of Surgeons at New York last
Thursday.
Lieutenant Fred de Mannerfeldt, of the
Royal Life Hussars of Swenden, and son
| Of a member of King Oscars personal
staff, committed suicide in a Tampa, Fla,
hotel Friday.
E. F. Clark, an ironworker, testified at
Indianapolis to participation in the dyna-
hitting of bridges in Ohio, and asserted
that certain officials of the association in
duced him to engage in the work.
| An extraordinary snowfall, practically
unprecedented at this season of the year,
lasting during the 18th and 18th, covered
the whole of the Vosges, in France, to a
depth varying from eight to sixteen inches.
Fifteen persons were killed and seven
teen others severely wounded in railroad
wreck at Irvington, suburb of lndianap-
oils, on the 18th. The wreck was caused
by the failure of the head brakeman to
close switch.
George Newton, aged seventy, was killed
at Raleigh, N. c., Monday, when he was
caught under falling casket display case
in an undertaking establishment where he
had gone to purchase coffin for his wife
who had died few hours before in local
hospital.
Eight trainmen were killed and three
/ badly injured near Norlina. N. C.. Tues.