The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-08-15
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

from the United states Senate.
Missouri farmers will have $1,000, 900
of grass seed for sale this year.
The Turks, before abandoning Zuara,
poisoned the wells with typhus germs.
Three persons were killed and forty hurt
in railway wreck in Dorchester, Mass.
Two California girls were shot to death
by the rejected lover of the eldest sister.
Elliott W. Major of Bowling Green is the
Democratic nominee for Governor of Mis-
souri,.
Three girls were killed and twelve in
jured in a cigar factory accident at Pitts
burg, Pa.
Uncle Sans money laundry recently
converted 100000 dirty greenbacks into
fresh and crisp notes.
Eight millions miles of wire have been
added to the telephone system of the United
States in the last five years.
Ry hurting herself in front of passen-
ger train, Miss Christina Becker, forty years
old, of Pekin, ILL.,, killed herself Sunday.
James Bussanich, twelve years old, sui
cided by hanging at Hoboken, N. j., Sat-
A catfish three and a. half feet long and
weighing forty five pounds was caught in
Black River, at Popular Bluffs, Mo-, Friday.
The American Bible Society is now en-
gagged in translating the Scriptures into the
language of the various Philippine tribes.
Miss Bessie Wyman was rescued from
hermit's hut in the center of desert near
Kramer, Cal, after being held captive
three years.
Fifteen aldermen we're lodged in cells in
Detroit, Mich, Friday, charged with "sus-
picion of conspiracy to get brides from the
Wabash Railroad
President Laconte of Hayti, was killed
in fire and explosion that wrecked the
palace at Port au- Prince. Four hundred
others were killed or wounded.
One thousand persons were killed and
many towns burned as result of an earth
quake early Friday morning in the district
between Constantinople and Adrianople.
Theodore Roosevelt and Hiram w. John
son of California were nominated for Pres
ident and Vice President, respectively, by
the Progressive Convention at Chicago.
More than SIS, 100000 damage was done
to crops in the South last month by the
army worms, according to unofficial esti-
mates Of the Department of Agriculture.
One thousand stolen chickens in three
months is the record of Henry Richardson,
colored, of Rome, Ga. He told the police
that his income from the fowls during that
time had averaged 500 month.
Three weeks ago Dan Williams, a farmer,
living near Cleveland, Ohio, lost two horses
when lightning struck his barn. Last
Thursday he went to Elyria, bought another
team and was driving them home when he
and his team were killed by lightning.
The cotton crop did we'll over nearly the
entire cotton belt last week, the exceptions
to improvement being Southern and Cen
trail Texas and parts of North Carolina,
where insufficient rains fell. Insect dam
age up to the present has been almost neg
!: llgible.
A turkey which Edward Richardson of
Brookfield, N. Y, had been fattening dis
appeared. Fox tracks led to cave and
Richardson set charge of dynamite, which
blew up the cave. In the ruins he found
the carcasses of six foxes. Their pelts
were worth $50, far more than a turkey.
The August crop report gives the corn
condition in the United States at 80 per
, cent last year, and 1878 per cent the aver
dS0 III lIi0 pooe tOu years. 1H0 VOIdl Plo-
, duction this year will be ash 900, ZOO
bushels. The rice yield, 100000 bushels.
, A massacre lasting seven hours followed
5 the bomb explosion in the market place of
( Kotschana, European Turkey, August I'd.
Fifty Christians were killed and 200 seri-
, ously wounded by the Turks, who suspect
, ed them of having committed bomb out
RACES by which about fifty persons were
killed or injured.
Disregarding flames which enveloped
her, noble little Ethel Fleming, nine years
+, old, of Lidgerwood, N. D., carried her
i. three year-old brother, whose clothes also
were burning, down stairs, placed him in
the kitchen sink and turned the water upon
: him. She died Saturday of the burns she
+, received. The lad will recover.
A. D. Millhouse, of Jackson County, Ill.
has the distinction of possessing the first
SIS bill issued by the United States Treas
ury. 1t is No. 1, Series A, issued in March,
y 1862. He has several times been offered
, large sums for the bill, and it is now re-
ported that he has received an offer Of
81 900 and will accept this for the old bill
When tho United States Government
purchashed Alaska in 1866 Russia parted
. with more than half a million square miles
: of land for 81, 100000, or good deal less
than the value of some land upon which is
:, built single sky scraper on lower Broad
= way, New York. The tremendous resources
= of Alaska prove the investment to be one
: of Uncle Sans best bargains.
8 Ruston Leader: People will not recog.