The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-11-28
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


Roseburg, Ore.
Infant paralysis is said to be transmitted
entirely by the stable fly.
State prohibition carried in West Vir-
GINA in the recent election by large ma
jority.
Two negroes were accidently shot and
killed while hunting in Queen Anne's
County, Md.
Twenty four men lost their lives through
the explosion of fire. damp in coal mine
at Alais, France.
The corn crop of S. H. 'Mosley of Hop
kins County, KY, averaged seventy five
bushels to the acre.
There will be twelve more Democrats
from Northern than from Southern States
in the new Csngress.
Twenty five villages were destroyed in
Oaxaca within ten days ending last week
by Mexican Federal troops.
The Massachusetts Game Warden fig
ures that $4,000 worth Of venson was
killed 10 his State last year.
Two French aviators were instantly kill
ed last Thursday when their aeroplanes
fell during practice flights.
DR.. G. A. Gates, former president of
Fisk University at Nashville, committed
suicide at Winter Park, Fla.
F. R. Barron, a fireman, was run over
and killed in the railroad yard at Center
vile, Nd, his head being cut off.
The great powers of Europe are said to
be taking a darker view of complications
arising frcm the Balkan situation.
! The cry of fire caused q panic in NOV
in, in
fifty children were among those killed.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad report
for October shows an increase in operating
revenue of 81, 148, $40 over October, 1911.
The United States postal banks have re-
ceived 28,OOO,OOO in deposits since they
we're opened little more than year ago.
Eight workmen were killed and twenty
others seriously injured in an explosion
that wrecked starch plant at Waukegan,
ILL.,, Monday.
The active movement in the steel trade is
said to be world wide, and finished products
command higher prices in the international
than in the home market.
Fifteen persons were injured and prop
erty loss of 81, O0O,O caused by an ex-
plosion Tuesday on the East River water
front at Brooklyn, N. Y.
/ President-elect Wilson attended the
oldest Presbyterian Church in Hamilton,
Bermuda, Sunday, and Monday attended
the session of Parliament.
According to the opinion of an expert
who has inspected crops in all districts,
light weight and good quality insure high
prices for Kentucky tobacco.
The value of all the gold produced in the
United States from 1892 to the end of 1911
is estimated at So, 1858, 463, 800; the value of
the silver at 81 1929, $4,000.
A West Virginia farmer living near
Romney shot and killed one of two negroes
who, while trying to rob his home, were
beating his wife and servant.
Bourbon County, KY, comes to the front
with pumpkin weighing ninety -four
pounds. In 1874 Robertson County raised
one weighing ninety-s pounds.
The months old child of Rev. E. P.
Swindall, Methodist minister, was burn
ed to death when his home was destroyed
by fire at Fort Worth, Texas, Monday.
| Forty two lives were lost in the five days
hurricane last week that swept the western
end of the Island of Jamaica, and several
, coast towns and villages we're wiped out
no UuulcS VI 1OO p0TSOuo hHl0u Ill Illc
: earthquake of the 10Th have been recover
. ed from the ruins of the little town oil
} Acambay, in the northern part of the State
5 of Mexico.
+. Congress will convene next Monday fol
the short session. While the tariff is not
included in the winter programme, early
. arrivals in Washington are planning 9
I busy session.
Walter Austin, Louisville drummer
committed suicide at Scottsville, KY, las
, Thursday. He left instructions that he be
buried at his old home at Fountain Run
= even naming his pail bearers.
Future ex-Presidents of the United States
y will be pensioned in the sum of S25, 0O(
annually by the Carnegie Corporation o.
New York. Widows of ex-Presidents, sc
long as they remain unmarried, will receive
the same sum, it is announced.
d Destructive forest fires were reported
It raging Monday in the Cumberland Noun
n tains in the Whitesburg, KY, region ane
# farm houses were endangered and thu
s smoke was so dense that travel was ex.
perienced with much difficulty.
s The official count shows that Congress
> man Nicholas Longworth, son-in-law o
: former President Roosevelt, was defeated
: for Congress in the First Ohio District b,
q seventy mine votes. His successful oppo'
nent was Stanley Bowdle, Democrat.
J The See and-Bee, claimed to be tn,
:, largest fresh water steamer afloat, wa
= launched and christened at Detroit, Mich.
= on November 9th. 1t is 500 feet long, ha
q q $40 rooms, sleeping accommodations fo
;. 1900, and can carry 5000 passengers.