The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-08-29
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

totaled S7,000,000.
New York City spends about 1914, $685.
600 year for food.
Whales to the value of S11 ,OO0, 900 were
killed during the last season.
More than 500 executions have occurred
in Canton, China, in the last month.
The population of Ireland has decreased
more than Is, 900 in the last ten years.
George Line, wealthy retired farmer,
was killed by lightning in Keedysville, Md.
On an average, every resident of the
United States eats five quarts of ice cream
year.
Fifteen Russian soldiers we're sentenced
to be hanged and 206 to Jail on charges of
mutiny.
Six persons were killed and like num-
Der injured by lightning near St. Louis
Sunday.
G.. A. Kenyon, chemist, of New York
Navy Yard, was drowned while saving two
children.
+ In addition to all other bumper crops
Texas reports a record breaking produc-
ton of pecans.
Child playmates of Mary Callan in New
York beat out flames that were enveloping
her and saved her from death.
On October 18th and 10Th New York City
will witness the mobilization of the greatest
fleet ever assembled in American waters.
A new thirty six story building will be
constructed in New York City, which will
be the largest office building in the world.
Disappointed because his wife had given
birth to daughter, the third, Frank Novak
killed himself in Chicago Saturday. He
said he wanted a boy.
For the love of girl who had killed
herself for love of another man, William
Toenyes ended his life on her grave in
st. Louis cemetery Saturday.
More than twenty five persons were in
jured in New York Sunday by the collapse
of section of the grandstand while they
were watching game of baseball.
Snatching scissors and scapal from the
hands of his surgeon, Joseph Ulrich stab
bed himself to death Saturday on an ope-
rating table in San Bernardino, Cal.
Some of the finest peaches ever raised
in Maryland were gathered from orchards
at Berlin last week. Many measured from
eight to ten inches in circumference.
Patrolman Charles Marshant of West
field, N. j., heir to 500, 900, returned from
vacation to find that his good fortune had
brought him 1900 offers of marriage.
Silverware stolen sixteen years ago from
James Watson was found hidden in a tree
in his back yard in New York by his SON.
in law when the later started to chop it
down.
Carrying his baby, Douglas Yancey
stumbled and fell against pole where his
hand came in contact with a live wire, and
was instantly killed in Huntsville, Ala,
Saturday night.
A trolley wire was pulled down on a
loaded Coney Island (New York; train,
setting the coaches on fire and causing a
panic in which women and children were
burned or bruised.
The Methodist Church of Canada has
adopted resolution expressing its willing
ness to proceed at once toward union with
the Presbyterian and Congregational
Churches of Canada.
-Four persons who had sought shelter
under tent near DeSoto, Mo-, were killed
by lightning Sunday. The rainstorm was
general in its scope and very heavy, and
did great damage to crops.
The Suez Canal Company at its annual
meeting in Paris on June Sd reported an
increase of $3.50, 900 in it's receipts COM
pared with the preceding year, the total
for 1911 being S27 100000.
John Davidson, a Civil War veteran,
shook hands with an old war comrade in
Pottsville, Pa, and then tainted from
pain in his side. An operation disclosed
bullet he received at Bull Run.
While on hunting expedition in COM
pany with his father, John Ivanhoe of Gen.
trail City, ILL.,, was killed. A rifle in the
hands of his father was discharged as they
were crossing fence, the bullet penetrat-
ing the boys body near the heart.
London, Aug. 26.-The flood situation
in England is becoming increasingly seri-
Gus. Six inches of rain fell to-day. All
train service between London and Norwich
and Cromer has been suspended. The en-
tire county of Norfolk is swamp and
Lincolnshire, Suffolk and the other eastern
counties are in an alarming condition
Everywhere crops are being destroyed by
the swollen rivers, and there is no sign of
cessation of the rains.
Egyptian Inspecting Cotton Lands.
A Natchez, Miss, special to the New
Orleans States of the 22d says:
Should he be able to secure a suitable
tract, A. H. Abaza Bey, of Carlo, Secre-
tary of Agriculture of Egypt, will purchase
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