The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-07-11
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

After quarrel, Peter Parri shot his wife
dead in Chicago Sunday.
The Inheritance tax on the Crane estate I
in Chicago was 1925, 131. 66.
The damage to the Jamaican banana !
crop from drouth exceeds 60 per cent.
The existence of bubonic PLACE in Ha- I
vana has been defniately determined.
Richard C. Kerens sold his interest in
two St. Louis newspapers for $500, 600.
Lieutenant Garonda, Roumanian aviator,
was killed in 30O-foot fall at Bucharest.
A number of railroads have recently
made heavy contracts for new equipment.
The first half of 1912 was marked by an
unusual number of disasters on land and
sea.
The tuberculosis Association at
Kalamazoo, Mich, has set its membership
mark at 1900.
On tuberculosis Day at Patterson, N. j.,
talk on tuberculosis was given in every
school in town.
Mrs. A. L. Barber, widow of the ''asphalt
king" was found dead on train at Wash
ton, D. c., Saturday.
Nine men were killed Sunday in pre-
mature explosion of dynamite in mine
near Reno, Nevada.
A cloudburst last week in the Bad Lands
districts of North Dakota caused loss of
a half million dollars.
Holly Springs, in Marshall County, 6O2
feet above sea-level, is approximately the
highest point in Mississippi.
Canada's government has appropriated
S38, OOO, 900 to carry out its railway and
canal program for the present year.
The State of Pennsylvania will spend
$50, 900, 900 on its public roads next year.
It hopes to have the best roads in the world.
DR.. R. @. Lilliard, Secretary of the
Tennessee Board of Health, reports that
pallagra is alarmingly on the increase in
Tennessee.
August 7th has been selected as the date
for Gov. Wilson to make his speech &C
cepting the Democratic nomination for the
presidency.
The cotton crop, except in Texas, is late
and poor. The stands are spotted in most
of the States, and much depends upon the
date of the first frost.
The sugar crop in Australia this year will
be very far below the average. Instead of
800 900 tons, it is predicted it will only be
14O 900 tons, or even less.
The imports of rice into the United States
for the ten months ending April 80 amount
ed to $4,000 short tons, valued at about
three and half million dollars.
Out of money and work, a young man
who had registered as T. O.. Meador, of
Chattanooga, killed himself with poison in
hotel at Atlanta, Ga, Saturday.
Abnormal weather prevailed all over
France Friday. Snow fell heavily at Tar
hes during the night, covering the Azure
valley to the depth of eighteen inches.
The most violent earthquake ever known
at Fairbanks, Alaska, occurred Saturday
, night, the earth rocking continuously for
Al seconds. Less violent shocks occurred
throughout the night.
Rare, old Bibles have always commanded
good prices. The famous Hoe Gutenberg
Bible, which was recently purchased to be
} presented to Harvard University, COM
, manded the price of S27 500.
Forty two passengers were killed and
sixty injured last Thursday morning at
Gibson, N. Y, when an express train
bound from New York to Buffalo crashed
, info stationary excursion train.
The Egyptian Government has begun
the work of redeemiug 1000, 900 acres OF
i! wet land, an undertaking that will cost
SIS, 0OO,0 900. Ninety per cent of the re-
F. deemed land will be owned by the govern
e ment, and will be leased out to small far
mers for the cultivation of cotton.
. DR.. R. H. Graves, who died a few weeks
age in Canton, China, was the pioneer
Southern Baptist missionary in that field
! having labored in China fifty six years
He lived to see in the territory where prac.
!, tically all his ministerial life was spen
! thirty three churches, seventy two preach.
. ing places, and a membership of 5,154.
q A determined fight is being wagee
against the cattle tick in Mississippi ane
I, . Tennessee, and fight is being begun ir
Louisiana to stamp out Charlton among live
y stock. The cattle tick and Charlton to-
\ gether have wrought great havoc to thu
. Southern farmer, and, when these two
y plaques are destroyed, there is nothing t,
! prevent the South from becoming as wei
q known for its stock raising as it now is TO
q its cotton, cane and rice culture.
h Major General Robert Frederick Hok
: died on the Sd instant at his home an.
II birthplace in Lincolnton, N. c., in the sew
enty- sixth year of his age. He was gal
v liant and prominent officer in the Army o
It Northern Virginia, and it is said, after tn
- death of Stonewall jackson, was desig
d mated by Gen. Lee, in the event of hi
"a death or his being wounded, to succee
q him in command. The deceased bore
: strong resemblance to the great Southern
). Chieftain.
! A mysterious disease, supposed to b