The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-09-12
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

YaQui Indians are starting reign OF
terror in Sonora.
In an aeroplane accident in France four
persons were killed.
Banana flour, specially prepared, is be-
ing used in Paris as tonic.
A lone bandit robbed passengers on a
train near Usage City, Kansas.
Labor unrest in Germany has spread
rapidly in the last twenty years.
There are more telephones in Japan than
in all the rest of Asia combined.
Philippine exports amounted to 500, OOO,-
600, including $50, 100000 of sugar.
Ohio Progressives have named State
ticket and adopted vigorous platform.
The negro accused of assaulting white
girl at Princeton, W. Va, was lynchsd.
Yazoo City, Miss, by 80 to 100, de-
feated the commission form of government.
There are six million girls in the fac
tories, shops and stores of the United States.
At Cleveland, Ohio, in an electric wreck,
thirty-five persons were injured, five seri-
ously
T.. riders and four spectators were kill
ed in an accident during race near New
ark, N. J.
While preparing his breakfast Monday,
L. K. Hopkins dropped dead at Ocean
Springs, Miss.
In the first six months this year England
paid 50, 722,00O for fresh tomatoes from
other countries.
A lightning flash during a severe hail
at work in his barn.
One death and several prostrations were
reported, due to excessive heat, in Mill
waukee, Wis, last Friday.
Gov. Brewer of Mississippi threatens to
remove the sheriff of Warren County un-
less liquor selling in Vicksburg is stopped.
A call has been issued for a State Con-
vention Of Independent Democrats of Ten
nessee to meet at Nashville on September
18th.
The States in which women will vote for
president next November are: Colorado,
= California, Idaho, Utah, Washington and
Wyoming.
Twenty million pounds of butter were
j sent out of European Russia in the first
three months of 1912. It was valued at
s., 1853 900.
A rear-end railroad collision at Calera
f Mexico, last Thursday, resulted in the
death of twelve passengers and the injury
a of four others.
d Australia is making strenuous bid fol
d population. The world is being invited tt
: help fill up the vast unpopulated area o.
= the island continent.
/. The Court of Appeals of France has
d declared that no person who is not capable
: of military service, under the French Con
8 stitution, is entitled to hold office.
,, Between 10000 and 10000 lives wer'
;, lost in the vicinity of Wen chow, in tn
II Province of Chegiang, as the result of ;
q typhoon, combined with torrential rains
: and high tides, on August Goth.
e While recalling the deeds of the Twenty
} fourth Wisconsin Regiment in the Atlanta
- Ca, campaign during 1854, Lieutenan
- General Arthur McAuthur, United State
- Army, retired, dropped dead last Thurs
T., T. day in Milwaukee, Wis.
According to a Census Bureau report is
" sued last Monday 729,926 bales of cotto
~ were ginned in the cotton States prior t
40 September 1st. OF this amount Texa
n alone ginned 673, 1899 bales, and it is be
/ lieved that the crop of that State will reac
]e anywhere from 100000 to 100000
of bales. Last year III ,297 bales were gin
o. ned during the first period.
i Tampa, Fla, Sept. 10.-Damage est
il. mated at several hundred thousand dollar
to has resulted from the torrential rains whic
A. have fallen in this section since last Satur
as day. The damage here is estimated &
re $4,000. The precipitation in Tampa sine
he noon Saturday is 14.06 inches, breakin
all former records since the establishmer
er of the weather bureau here twenty yeal
IN ago.
mt The United States Rubber Company
re putting out thousand rubber trees da
as in Sumatra and will continue until the
I'D have $1,000 acres under cultivation. I'll
company spent on the investment abo,
S37 ,O0O,O 900 last year, but predict all of
will come back with handsome prof
within few years. The trees which al
'er now being planted in Sumatra will be pro
in ducing inside of two years.
The commercial cotton crop of 1911-1
ng reached Is, 1873, 426 bales, which represen
he an increase over the preceding year
ng 4.O18, 331 bales and over the crop of 1909.
of 5,528, 1913 bales. The value of the GRO
lin including the seed, is put at 1897, TO, OF
I'm against $1,000, 1882 last year. On
in crop embracing 4,O18,OO0 bales more
MS cotton and 1,822,OOO tons more of see
%, the South received nearly S92, 500 900 lie
,rn in money. The amount of old cotton lie
or over up to September LIST is approximate
at at $4,000 bales.
'us The College of Agriculture is engag.
ry, in making soil survey of Missoul
on Twenty five counties have been covere