The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-08-07
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


keansburg, N. j.
Last week was the hottest week during
the year in New York.
New York may spend S42, 1000, 900 for a
bridge over the Hudson River.
Six inches of rain fell in West Plains,
Mo-, in ninety minutes, July Goth.
1t takes the constant labor of &C, 900 per-
sons to make matches for the world.
Senator Walsh of Montana declares new
wool rates will not ruin sheep growers.
Nineteen persons we're killed Saturday
in double mine explosion near Tower
City, Pa.
Oswego, N. Y, last Saturday, and was
drowned.
The condition of the growing cotton crop
of the United States on July 25th was 1915
per cent of normal.
The Missouri corn crop dropped sixteen
points in July. This deterioration was due
to lack Of moisture.
Thirteen Burmese were killed by the
police at Cawnpur. India, in dispensing
gathering of religious fanatics.
Two men were killed and another injured
when railroad train was derailed near
Livingston, KY, last Thursday.
American and German competition have
paralzed the Welsh tin plate industry. AL
most one hundred mills have shut down.
Gov. Baldwin's son was arrested as
suspicious person when on an early Satur-
day morning stroll in New Haven, Conn.
The first bale of 1918 cotton raised and
ginned in Alabama was sold at public auc-
ton at Montgomery last Friday for Is cents
per pound.
Members of posse at Carlo, Ca, hunt
ing for an accused negro fired upon each
other in the dark and one man was killed
and two wounded.
A Fort Smith, Ark, wholesale druggist
was sentenced to 100 days in Jail and a
$3.50 fine for sending liquor into the Indian
country of Oklahoma.
Seven persons we're killed and others
perhaps fatally injured last Thursday as
result of a motorcycle accident on motor
drome at Ludlow, KY.
"Things has changed" Five barbecues
were held in Livingston County, KY, Sat-
urday, July 26th, and not single fight or
other unpleasant feature occurred.
Following an explosion of coal oil lamp
in the room in which he was sleeping, the
three year-old son of Harvey Boyle of
Mortonville, Pa, was burned to death.
Woodstock, Ca, Aug. 2.-Several deaths
oning which attacked about fifty persons
at a Sunday school picnic near here to- day.
George C. Morris, wealthy tile manu-
facturer; his wife and their two daughters
were killed by a railroad train which struck
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vile, ILL.,, last Thursday.
Topeka, Kan, August 1.-The month of
July, 1913 was the second dryest month
since the local Weather Bureau was es-
tablished thirty years ago. The total rain :
fall was 1.57 inch. In 1887 the total rain
fall for July was LOG inch.
A burning cigarette "butt" carelessly
, thrown from an observation car in Califor-
, MIA is said to have caused forest fire
which engaged the heroic efforts of 5000
fire fighters and consumed a priceless
grove of redwood trees hundreds of years
old.
Washington, D. c., July 3O.-A wind and
hail storm of cyclonic proportions, accom-
, panied by deluge of rain, swept over
) Washington this afternoon and left in its
wake three dead, twelve injured, 15O
broken plate glass windows, thousands OF
broken windows and hundreds of smashed
store signs. The damage will reach $3.50,
600.
From $50 100000 to $50 ZOO, 900 of Gov
: eminent funds will be deposited in the
national banks of the South and West al
= once by Secretary McAdoo to facilitate the
t movement of crops. Federal, State and
f municipal bonds and prime commercial
/ paper will be accepted as security for the
money, upon which the banks will pay
a per cent interest.