The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-05-22
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

st. Louis is discussing means OF dealing
with speed maniacs.
Gov. johnson signed the California anti
alien bill last Monday.
In 1912 property valued at S173, 1897 ,055
changed hands in Chicago.
One American telephone company has
ID, SOC, 900 miles of wire in use.
Argentine is devoting 100000 acres to
the production of oats this year.
The Illinois State Labor Bureau last year
furnished jobs for 10000 persons.
David Engart, poor farmer, of Macon,
Ca, has just enherited ST, 100000.
Windsor, Ontario, is now recognized as
one of the most rapidly growing cities of
Canada.
The chestnut blight has destroyed S1O,-
OOO, 900 worth of valuable timber in Penn
sylvana.
The tax payers of London in the last
year devoted $4,000 to feeding $4,000
poor school children.
DR.. E. w. Saunders advances the theory
that the common housefly carries the germs
of infantile paralysis.
Sentiment of Canada and Australia is
said to be with the United States in its
anti alien land troubles.
An aged man in New York Saturday
sacrificed his life to save boy from the
wheels of an automobile truck.
Rains reported in various sections of
Kentucky last Sunday are pronounced the
''salvation" of growing crops.
The French Chamber of Deputies last
Thursday approved the Governments mil
itary policy by vote of 315 to 241.
Secretary of the Interior Lane favors a
railroad system in Alaska Constructed,
owned and operated by the Government.
OF AT candidates for the ministry in
the Southern Presbyterian Church 22O are
sons of farmers and sixty are sons of min
listers.
| There are several thousand persons in
the civil service of the United States and it
takes more than $500, OOO,O 900 year to pay
their salaries.
Waters of the Pacific Ocean were let into
the Panama Canal for the first time last
Sunday when blast of dynamite demol-
ished a barrier dyke.
A poultry dealer told New York audi
ence few days ago that poultry shippers
are feeding chickens on sand and cement
to make them heavy.
AS the date of its birth, the latest child
of Mr.. and Mrs. William Snow will carry
thirteen through life. Born May 10, 1918,
it is also the thirteenth child.
High authority of Bank of France says
eigth- tenths of all gold sent from United
States since January list has gone to Ger
many, Austria and Balkan States.
Philadelphia firemen risked their lives
and two were overcome by smoke in rescu-
ing woman who, when carried to the
street, proved to be dummy model.
For the first time in the history of Pres
byterianism the four principal divisions of
the church last Friday afternoon joined in
union communion service at Atlanta.
A negro bootblack ran amuck in street
at Fort Worth, Texas, last Thursday and
killed policeman and negro and wound
ed two civilians, after which he shot him
self.
:. John Walker, British mine owner, and
his wife killed five and wounded three
miners in fight at Villa Garcia, Zacatecos,
Mexico, when eleven men attacked their
office.
The Mississippi Legislature will meet in
special session June 10th for the purpose
of issuing bonds to meet expenses of
Strengthening levees against the next high
water.
The silver inkstand used by Torquemada
in sentencing prisoners to torture in the
days Of the Inquisition was sold one day
last week at auction in Brussels, Belgium,
for $500.
With a girl on his back and his motor
cycle going sixty-five miles an hour, Rod
man Law shot through an open draw into
into the river at Seabright, N. j., for the
movies"
} To prove that they are in condition for
service, eleven policemen, ranging in
weight from 1876 to $50, ran seven and
one-half mile race through Central Park,
New York.
, Harold E. Magill, city clerk, committed
suicide last Saturday by leaping 200 feet
from the fourteenth story of the new city
hall of Oakland, CAL. to the roof of lower
part of the same building.
When the Superintendent of Charities of
; Fuenfkirchen, Hungary, found last Friday
: purse filled with gold and silver coins in
the stomach of pike the Mayor ordered
the money spent on dinner for the towns
t poor.
Thirty thousand deer die in California
each year, the victims of hunters and prey
ing animals, according to a report issued
by the State Fish and Game Commission.
OF this number about 10000 are killed by
hunters.
The Southern Baptist Convention in ses-
sion at st. Louis last week chose Nash
vile, Tenn, as the meeting place for the
: 1914 convention and asked the States of
tho convention IN ro;oo C1Q OOO Tho 49,,