The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-07-25
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


The Missouri corn crop is reported to be
in excellent condition.
America manufactures the best shoes of
any nation in the world.
A German military aviator was killed in
fall at Leipsic, last Thursday.
A Meadville, Pa, man was instantly
killed by falling heir to S250,OOO.
Three deaths occurred Saturday in San
Juan, P. r., from bubonic plague.
Final calculations show that the spring
floods cost Missouri over 13,OOO,OOO.
The Smith family in the United States
Senate voted to against Lorimer.
Nine persons were drowned last Thurs
day in storm near Jacobs Creek, Pa.
A bolt of lightning killed four in fam
lily of seven at Richland, Mo-, Thursday
Mountain lions are said to be causing
considerable losses by their depredations.
Two lives were lost and $4,000, 900 dam
age was done by a flood at Denver recently.
Senator Works of California declares the
Republican party has no nominee for
President.
Forty-one per cent of the United States
is drained by the Mississippi River and its
tributaries.
Two thunderstorms passed over Wash
ington County, Md, last Thursday, doing
much damage.
The value of canned pine apples shipped
from Hawaii during the fiscal year of 1911
amounted to S2,0OO,000.
Twenty persons we're drowned and the
town of Seven Troughs, Nevada, was de-
stroyed by cloudburst last Thursday.
The New York Observer, which was one
of the oldest Presbyterian weeklies in the
United States, will be no longer issued.
Tho loftiest mountains in the world are
something over five miles high, bnt there
are some ocean depths of over six miles.
Los Angeles, CAL, proposes to reduce its
saloons from zoo to loo, and to make it a
misdemeanor to treat friend in saloon.
The Rivers and Harbors Appropriation
Bill, as finally passed by Congress, carries
about 100000 for Mississippi River i'm
provement.
Ill for several days, w. J. Rowe of On
aha, Neb., ended his life by leaping from
the fifth story window of hotel in Wichita
Falls, Texas.
1t is stated that Mr.. j. Pierpont Morgan
has purchased the copy of Fox's Book of
Martyrs formerly owned by John Bunyan,
paying therefor 100000.
The great American industry of shoe
; manufacturing, which now amounts to
$500, 900 900 annually, appears to have had
|, it's beginning in Salem, Mass.
Most of the American diamonds come
, from Arkansas and California. During the
i last three years one locality in North Car
DINA has yielded gems worth SIC, 1000.
The total movement of the cotton crop
to the 18th instant, showed receipts since
, September 1st of Il, 1855, $40 as compared
? with II ,674, 113 bales for the same period
> last year.
; portable church which will seat 100 per-
sons, and which has two Sunday School
: class rooms. 1t is said to be accomplish
I, ing much good.
Paris in point of population is the third
city in the world, being surpassed only by
Y London, which has Z, 43O, 900, and New
t York, which has 4,767 900, the population
q of Paris being 2,763,OOO.
d The National Packing Company, com.
monty called the Beef Trust, has been dis.
= solved. On paper, at least, it no longer
exists. The dissolution" is said to involve
;. ;. $50 packing plants, valued at $50, OOO, 900
!, The Russian Duoma has recently votee
!, = S645 ZOO, 900 to be expended over five years
. on the imperial navy. This action will
place Russia next to England in order o
= expenditure and ahead of the United States
v Germany, France and Italy.
r Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, Md, hal
been abandoned as a fort, but will be pre-
: served as an historic relic. 1t was tn
i. bombardment of this fort by the British OF
% September 81, 1874, that inspired Francis
!. Scott Key to write "The Star Spangle,
1t Banner
d The Baldwin Locomotive Company o
: Philadelphia has received another larg
y contract from the Japanes Government
n calling for eighteen locomotives, of tn
is Mallet type. These engines will have
8. double set of cylinders, and will be tn
m largest in the world.
3, The amount of money now in the Unite
ot States is S., $40, 407 1921. All of this is i
ID circulation except $685., 1921 ,0O8, which
y, held in the treasury vaults as an asset c
Is the United States Government If all thi
r. money were pro rated, each person in tn
s. nation would have S34.26
A Southern Methodist Church was re
Gently erected in single rainy day at Dix
leland, Fla, suburb of Lakeland. Th
,. first nail was driven by Bishop H. C. Nor
I'd rison, who also was announced to condut
ne the first service at the o'clock p. m. tn