The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-06-20
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Fifty-nine laborers lost their lives when
fire destroyed barn in Russia.
There was big increase in steel exports
for the current year.
Three earthquake shocks we're felt in
Georgia and South Carolina on the 18th.
A person taking part in strike is liable
to fine and imprisonment in New South
Wales.
South Florida has recently suffered a
half million dollar loss, it is estimated, from
torrential rains.
Cardinal Gibbons will open the Demo-
cratic Convention in Baltimore next Tues
day with prayer.
English Baptist propose to raise sus-
tentation fund of ST ,25O, 900, which it is
estimated, will secure for every minister
salary of $500.
Tiny three-year -old Mildred Haskins Of
Columbus, Ohio, drowned Sunday in Buck
eye Lake in an attempt to save her doll
from " drowning
The twenty-fiv thousand colored men,
bers of the Northern Presbyterian Church
gave last year for their own church and
school expenses S245, 900.
uo OLltcO lCoOy IOIloHos AOosOAs III
number, paid for foreign missions the past
year 1922, $4,000. Their contributions for
all purposes we're S18.78 per member.
Great Britain largest, fastest and cost
Hest armored warship -the Lion-has just
been placed in commission. Her length is
$50 feet; speed twenty eight knots per
hour, and cost S10,OO0,0O0.
The Board of Education of Wabash
County, Indiana, has put the ban on short
sleeves, low necks and short skirts. The
mode in the Wabash County schools next
year will be strictly full dress.
The State of Oklahoma has not quite
the population of New Jersey, and has ten
times it's area. When Oklahoma is as
densely populated as New Jersey, and it
will be, it will have 2O,OOO,O 900 people.
Mrs. Margaret Sangster, poet and au-
thor, died on Jnne 4th at her home in Ma
plewood, N. j. She was seventy four
years old, and had been an active contrib
utor to the leading American magazines
for more than fifty years.
David K. Pierson Sunday afternoon en-
tered the home of his divorced wife, Mrs
William Shelly, at st. Louis, and shot her
twice through the left breast, both bullets
passing through the lung. He then shot
himself and died instantly.
Heavy rain Sunday caused sudden
overflow of all streams near Jefferson City
Missouri, greatly damaging wheat, which
was almost ready for cutting. A sudden
rise in the Missouri River destroyed large
areas of corn in the bottoms.
In the presence of more than 1000 resi-
dents of Villisca and Montgomery County
Iowa, Wednesday of last week, the bodies
of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph B. Moor, their four
children and the two little Stillinger girls
the victims of an unknown midnight asas-
sin, were buried.
In the United States District Court al
Toledo, Ohio, few days ago, fine o.
S42, 900 was announced upon the Hooking
Valley Railroad Company and fine o.
$780, 900 upon the Sunday Creek Coal Com.
pany of Columbus, Ohio. Both companies
had been found guilty of violating the
Hepburn law relative to rebates.
The largest tract of land on which all the
methods Of farming are purely scientific is
located in Texas, and is called the Tai
Farm, Charles P. Taft being one of the
owners. The farm is 100, 900 acres in size
and 10000 acres are under cultivation. NJ
o'IOlIpo 10 uIoOO W PIONuCC SAOPo III SiiS
market, but all grain and provender raised
is fed to the large herds of cattle and sheer
which are on the farm.
Twenty persons were killed and fifty in.
jured by a tornado which tore it's way
; through Bates County, and parts of John
son and Henry counties, Missouri, Satur
day evening, moving down great trees ant
demolishing all homes on its death trail
The storm hit the earth near Lacygne
Kansas, and increased in fury as it swep
northeast into Bates County, killing Who'll,
families, until its force was expended fiv,
miles northeast Of Drexel, Mo. Womer
and children were it's chosen victims.
Hundreds of persons were made tempo
rarily homeless, street car and railroad
tracks inundated and destroyed and mil
lion dollars damage through st. Louis ant
st. Louis County, Mo-, done Sunday fol
; lowing an almost steady twelve hours rain
The flood spread like a gigantic lake ives
! of Kingshighway for blocks along Man
chester Avenue on both sides of the ca
, tracks. Persons living in the lowlands ad
. jacent to the street had to stand on chair
in their dwellings to keep clear of the water
} Two hundred homes between Clayton AM
! Webster Groves were flooded.
remarkable record of Sunday schoo
attendance has been made by DR.. Samue
: Jones of Clinton, Mo. He was born il
Ohio eighty seven years ago in April, an
r when lad of four years old commence
3 attending Sunday school and church serv