The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-05-15
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


Seven of the present members OF the
Senate were born in Mississippi.
An Italian maniac was killed Sunday by
a policeman in New York park.
Farmers demand that the national gov
eminent enact laws to protect birds.
Democrats will spend 100000 in de-
Tending new tariff rates from wrongful at
tacks.
Two members of Louisville, KY, fish
ing party were drowned Sunday in the
Ohio River.
Two boys were drowned last Saturday
when motor boat was wrecked on rocks
in He'll Gate, New York.
The Brazilian President in his message
to Congress thanks the United States Gov
eminent for its friendship.
A man in New York City Saturday was
arrested and accused of'trying to sell a
girl to Japanese for $1,000.
Closing of places of interest in England
through fear Of damage by suffragettes is
driving tourists to the continent.
Judge T. F. Bell, sitting at Shreveport,
decided that a clause in deed prohibiting
transfer to negro is good at law.
The United States Army has adopted the
straight sword for its officers, leaving Rus
STA the only country to retain the old saber
model.
The assessment Of New Orleans for 1918
shows total of 1925, 352, 1896, against
S217 ,529, 1853 last year, or a gain of ST.
1923, 1873.
One man was stoned to death and another
seriously hurt Sunday in a race war at
Miami, Arizona, between Americans and
Mexicans.
The mercury reached ninety-three de-
gress in New York Saturday and one man
died as result Of heat and score were
overcome.
Belgium appears to be the only country
where the manufacture of artificial silk by
the old guncotton process still yields hand
some profits.
The damage to property in the British
three months amounts to more than five
million dollars.
The winter wheat crop condition for May
1st was 91.9 per cent of normal, with a
prospective crop of 513, 571 900 bushels, or
more than last year.
Ten persons were killed and thirty odd
injured by tornado yesterday which de-
stroyed more than third of the town of
Seward, Nebraska.
A small bronze cigarette tip led officials
to the decision that $4,000 acres of Maine
forest had been destroyed by lighted
cigarette thrown in pile of debris.
IN offl l. - h.
elementary schools in New York signed a
pledge to quit eating cheap candies, etc.,
to be ready for spring athletic games.
Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge, President of the
Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage,
alleges that the equal suffrage agitation, if
not checked, will result in deterioration of
the race.
For being "stood on her head'' on a
table in saloon in Detroit, Mich, Rose
Donnelly, Salvation Army lass, has set
tied her suit against the saloon proprietor
for $1,000.
"Where is my hand?'' asked Felice
Bournier when he was picked up from an
81" platform in New York after being
run over. The hand with two diamond
rings had fallen to the street.
use VI the phrase SnOulQ worry
was positively forbidden in an order pro-
mulgated recently by the Atlantic City
(N.J.) High School faculty to 800 students,
all of whom are said to be more or less
given to slang.
After shooting one of her children to
death at Weimar, Texas, last Sunday, Mrs.
Victor Slavick poured coal oil over two
more of her children and herself and set
fire to the oil. The woman and the two
other children burned to death in closed
room at her home.
A shipment to New Orleans of turtles
weighing 1,745 pounds was made from
Donaldsonville last Saturday. The turtles
weighed from five to ninety pounds each,
and there were more than 100 of them in
the lot. They were mostly of the logger
head variety, and were caught in the in
terror of Assumption Parish.
Bible Brilliants.