The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-10-03
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


Two army aviators were killed at College
Park, Md, Saturday.
A grist mill at McNeill, Miss, was blown
up with dynamite Sunday morning.
Hold-up men and robbers of every va
riety were active in Chicago last week.
Three persons were wounded when State
troops fired upon street car strikers in Au-
gusta, Ca, last Friday.
Gov. Wilson's trip through Massachusetts
last week was an almost continuous series
of ovaIions iron, the people.
MARYLAND has the most elaborate exhibit
of any State at the International Congress
on Hygiene at Washington.
John Fox, convicted in Frederick, Md,
of stealing chickens, was sentenced to the
penitentiary for eighteen months.
Recent heavy rainsin Western Maryland
filled mountain streams, flooded miles OF
territory and caused great damage.
A ticket composed entirely of women
has been put out in Idaho against the Re-
publican and the Progressive ticket.
For the first time in the history of the
industry cotton consumption in the South
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While painting bridge over the Cum
berland River Turner Olivant fell eighty
feet into the stream and was drowned.
Beulah Chandler, aged twelve years,
signaled passenger train with her apron
at Curve, Va, and saved it from wreck on
a landslide.
An expert of sugar statistics testified he
received S25, 900 for three weeks work In
negotiating the sale of the Utah Sugar
Beet Company.
White County, Illinois, recently held its
annual fair. A farmer owning ten acre
fruit patch was one of the exhibitors. His
display comprised twenty seven varieties
Of apples.
, Kentucky has more negro voters thar
any other State-75 900. Pennsylvania is
next with 10000. Then comes Maryland
? New York, Missouri and Illinois, in tht
order named.
The Department of Agriculture of Sas
katchewan, Canada, reports the grain crol
:. of that country at 228, 1866, 1874 bushels, al
crop for 1911.
A Centralia, ILL.,, farmer has two acre
in sugar beets. His yield will be fou
tons. By giving two beets at each feeding
to his cows he has increased his milk out
put II per cent.
Ohio has now 8,643 saloons, an increas
of nearly seven hundred during the pas
six months. The total amount of the rev
enue from the saloons for the first 81
months of the year was 81, 424, 442.82.
The corn crop of the United States wi
probably reach 1906, 900 900 bushels thi
year, exceeding last years crop by SO,
e 600, 900 bushels. The spring wheat GRO
Q will probably reach 300, 600, 900 bushels.
" A consular report says that the island {
e St. Cfoix is the garden of the West Indie
lr because of the cotton and sugar planta
: tons. The population numbers 14,OO(
If The Danes and the Britains are the suga
e manufacturers.
Each Saturday the pay roll in Hillsbore
IS Illinois, is something like S40,O 900. It take
J. this amount to pay off the men at work {
le the milk condensery" on the Big Fou
% Railroad, at the Hillsboro mine and othe
= active industries.
"a Judge Hough, of the Federal Distri'
~ Court, says the opium smoking evil is Q
- the increase in New York. In substantia
ton of this he says that while but 1000
pounds of opium is imported every yes
for medical purposes, he has good reaso
% to suspect that 100000 pounds is unlaw
a fully brought into this country annual,