The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-09-11
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

In 1912 the corn crop Of Illinois was worth
sos, 1927 1922.
Australia has nearly 100000 acres of
untouched forests.
Joseph E. Willard of Virginia has been
named Ambassador to Spain.
James Shirley committed suicide at
Springfield, H., by hanging himself.
National bank deposits in Kentucky fell
off 100000 between June and August 9.
An unsuccessful effort to dynamite Gov
eminent dipping watts for cattle has been
discovered in Alabama.
Tennessee's first extra session of the
Legislature in fifteen years convened Mon
day afternoon at Nashville.
The dry excavation of the Panama Canal
is finished and the last steam shovel has
! been removed from Culebra Cut.
Two more officers of the German army's
flying corps were killed in an aroplane
accident last Thursday at Brieg.
Four men engaged in gun and knife
fight at a country church near Salyersville,
KY, and three we're killed on the spot.
The Commercial Appeal says there is
more building and public improvement 60
ing on in Memphis to- day other city in the
South.
The State certificates of twenty Fayette
County, Kentucky, teachers were revoked
| for alleged failure to attend the so-called
institute.
| Twenty-one persons were killed and
nearly fifty injured Wednesday of last
week by a railroad collision near New
Haven, Conn.
Showers in many parts of Oklahoma,
Missouri and Kansas Monday afforded
general relief from the heat and drouth in
those sections.
! One manwas burned to death and another
badly injured Monday when barn near
Brownstown, Indiana, was struck by light
ming and destroyed.
| William F. Havemeyer, one of the Or
ganizers of the American Sugar Refining
Company, died suddenly of heart disease
in New York Sunday.
Two persons were killed and four others
seriously injured near Ohio, Sunday, when
an automobile in which they were riding
was struck by train.
The year 1918 shows the greatest guam
tity of cotton ever ginned in the season
prior to September LIST, according to reports
of the Census Bureau.
The heat last Sunday is held responsible
for making a maniac of man at Colum-
bus, Indiana, and of driving woman to
attempt suicide at Evansville.
A woman patient at sanitarium at
Stoneham, Mass, and nurse were drown
ed when the patient leaped into pond and
the nurse attempted to rescue her.
A series Of earth shocks occurred at
Martinique, West India Islands, early Sun
day morning. The shocks numbered thirty,
but no material damage was reported.
i Chicago capitalists announce the acqui-
sition of 5000 acres of land on the Mobile
River in Alabama, upon which they pro-
pose to erect S. 100000 steel plant.
Lieutenant NJ. L. Love, of the Eleventh
Cavalry, U. S. A., was dashed to death at
San Diego, CAL, when an Broplane whic b
he occupied fell $50 feet to the ground.
A Chicago expert says the Irish potato
crop of the United States is 100000, 900
short of last year. Prices in the Chicago
market on the Sd advanced to 10 cents a
bushel.
Three men held up two employees of a
construction company and deputy sheriff
and obtainedS Sic, 900 being taken to a power
dam near Columbia, S. c., to pay the
workmen
Following is the official scores of the in
ternational shoot last Saturday at Cam
Perry, Ohio: Switzerland 1859, France
4.767, United States 4,578, Sweden 4,577,
Peru 1872, Canada $3.50.
Simla, British India, September Gone
hundred and fifty native men, women and
children were drowned day while ford
ing the river Beas, in the Hoshiarpur Dis.
trict of the Punjab, on their way to attend