The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-08-22
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Pittsburg, Pa, began crusade against
gamblers last week.
An auto joy rider in New York was SEN
fenced to 358 days in Jail.
A California boy confessed to repeated
attempts to poison his mother.
Lester Watson committed suicide near
Harper's Ferry, W. Va, Friday.
Page County, Va, farmers are alarmed
at the spread of the dodder weed.
Lightning killed two persons and injured
two others in Macon, Ga, Sunday.
A girl of seven was mangled by SOW
on farm in Allegany County, Md.
A Chinese boy, eighteen years old, has
learned to speak English in six weeks.
Three persons were killed in an auto
mobile accident Friday at Greybrook, NJ.
Three persons in an auto were run down
and killed by railroad train at Columbus,
Ohio.
The people of the United States smoked
II, 221 ,624,O84 cigarettes during fiscal year
of 1912.
A New York church will install telephone
device so that stay at-homes may hear the
preacher.
Congress was reported last week to be in
the worse tangle since the days of Grover
Cleveland.
President Taft's hostility to the acts OF
the House is cauring anger among the
members of that body.
| Wanconda, Ill.,, plans to erect a shaft at
the grave of DR.. Joseph Dawson, ply
stefan who never asked fee.
1t is reported at Washington City that
the substantial business interests of the
country are turning to Gov. Wilson.
Archer Gibson gets $4,000 year for
playing " Dearie . one hour daily on the
500 1000 organ of Millionaire Frick.
DR.. T. B. McClintic, after driving out
rocky mountain spotted fever from Bitter
Root Valley in Montana, himself sue
cumbed to the deadly disease.
Thomas O'Halloran, a well-educated
Englishman, on account of poverty, com
mitted suicide in New York Friday by
hurting himself under an elevated train.
A woman crushed under an automobile
near Pasadena, CAL, begged her husband
to shoot her and end her sufferings, but he
could not. Ten minutes later death re.
lieved her.
Capt. Hicks Murray of East Bourne
England, last Friday night shot and killed
his wife's sister, her two young daughters
and a servant, wounded his wife, set fire tc
the house and then killed himself.
Congress has passed bill authorizing
the construction of a second railroad bridge
across the Mississippi River at Memphis
Tenn. The structure will have a traffic
department for horses, pedestrians anc
other ordinary traffic, which is to become
free.
William Fleming, farmer of Alligator
Miss, captured all records for corn raising
in his vicinity with the production of. thir'
teen we'll developed, sound ears of corn of
one hill. The thirteen ears were on fou
stalks and came out of field of eight acres
The Memphis Commercial Appeal says tn,
entire field will average nearly the same tt
the hill.
Five hundred dollars in gold, that hat
been buried since 1862, were deposited il
) bank at Cape Girardeau, Mo-, last Thurs
day. The coins we're twenties, tens ant
, fives, the earliest being of 1846 and tn,
latest dated 1861. The money was fount
, by Don Grimm and was in an earthen po
, that had been in the ground since hi
grandfather buried it fifty-two years ag'
during the Civil War.
More than ten million stamps are issue'
annually by the Bureau of Engraving AM
Printing at Washington, u. C. The dali,
income from the sale of stamps Throughout
the United States is said to be ST, $50. 900
+ 1t costs the Government an average of ST, 10
to make S603,OOO worth of stamps; tn
difference in the manufacturing cost an
the selling price being the principal incom
of the Postoffice Department.