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

The third party has put out a full ticket
in Indiana.
A woman with $4,000 in her clothing
starved to death in New York.
Four peasons were burned to death in a
recent hotel fire in Fairlee, VT.
A reunion of Presbyterians at PEN Mar,
Md, last week, drew 5000 persons.
Statistics show that there was murder
each day in Greater New York in July.
During a sudden storm in Savannah,
Ca, Tayl Tor Winters was killed by lightning.
Foreign people are being poured into the
United States at the rate of 1,O0O, 600 year.
Four men were killed by lightning in a
camp near Eagleton, Ok, last Thursday.
Arkansas has started suits against insur-
ance companies for 81, 250, 900 back taxes.
In a rainstorm near Mount Vernon, ILL.,,
hundreds of English sparrows were drown
3D.
Forty persons we're injured when three
street cars crashed together in New York
Friday night.
The Southern Prolific during the last four
years carried 157 600, 900 passengers safely
to ;l.,t, destinations.
The drouth which has extended over
many weeks in Oklahoma was broken Fri
day by : heavy shower.
Ten workmen were killed and thirty five
wounded by the collapse OF power station
at Nuremburg, Bavaria, Friday.
Meet is now at the highest mark in his
tory, and there are indications amounting
almost to a certainty that it will be still
higher.
At the close of revival service near
Hartwell, Ga, Friday night, Henry Nixon
shot and killed his brother in-l law, John F
Heaton.
A fierce storm in friedrich. Carroll and
Howard Counties, Md, last Thursday
brought hail that was sixteen inches deer
in places.
Canadian Pacific Railway officials say
the company could use sc, 600 more freight
cars than it has in handling this years
wheat crop.
A census just completed shows that there
are 61,279 persons in the Canal Zone
Most of the countries of the world are
represented.
The first bale # cotton for the season O.
1928 was sold at auction in Savannah
Ga, July 31st, for 81 cents, the highes
price for the first bale for many years.
The United States has issued an order
prohibiting absinthe from being imported
and sold in this country after October 1st
on the ground that it is a dangerous ane
hurtful poison.
Up to July 9th the total exports of cot.
ton from this country since September
1911, were 11,84O,11O bales as compared
with 8,475,528 for the same period of thu
preceding year.
The Second Baptist Church of New Yorl
City holds services every Sunday in sever
different languages or dialects, including
in its membership or regular attendants
representatives of as many nationalities
Roy Cox, fifteen years old, killed his nine
year-old sister at Melba, Mo-, Friday. The
{ boy was playing with rifle and did no
know it was loaded. Hepulled the trigge
and a bullet went crashing through hi
sisters heart.
George Ballew, native of Tennessee
Friday night run amuck at South Plat
Colo, shot and perhaps fatally wounded
, three persons, set fire to the hotel and 70
, several hours held the summer colony il
terror, threatening to shoot "the first ON
/ to open his mouth"
Superintendent John P. Williams, of tn
) First Presbyterian Sunday Schoolin King
ston, Pa, Sunday morning called the so
, members Of his school together in review
AS he took the platform he repeated tn
words of the golden text, "Seek We first tn
! kingdom of God and its righteousness; an
> all these things shall be added unto you.
: Scarcely had the words left his lips befor
t he fell to his knees. Then he dropped owe
on his back dead. The words of the colder
/ text were his last.
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