The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-05-01
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

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England's textile mills employ more than
10000 persons.
Arizona in 1912 produced $4,000, 900
pounds of copper.
New York uses $40, 200 worth of postage
stamps every day.
Argentine lines will join in bringing
ships to New Orleans.
Twenty-Five aviators have fallen and
been killed since January 1st.
Dairy products of New York farms in
1912 were valued at 100000, 900.
Automobiles in January killed seventeen
persons in the streets of New York.
Fourteen persons were bitten by dogs in
st. Louis within three days recently.
Miss Helen Lynch owns and operates a
cattle ranch of 10000 acres in Nebraska.
The Five-Powers loan contract for
S125, OO0,O 900 to China was signed Monday
at Pekin.
Berlin makes profit of S3,5OO, 900 a
year through municipal ownership of its
public utilities.
Jersey City, N. j., has paid ST 100000
interest on 100000 water bonds and still
owes the 100000.
A former police lieutenant in Philadel-
phia killed himself Friday on the eve of his
trial for padding payroll.
The expectations of foodstuffs, cotton
and oils show decided decrease this spring
from the record of last year.
Lake Charles will ship to St. Louis and
other Northern markets more vegetables
this year than any year in its history.
With the weather at 50 degrees in the
shade last Friday at Reading, Pa, the
first sunstroke of the year was reported.
The anti saloon element in Indiana last
Monday won four out of five local option
elections. Close elections were the order.
Precious stones and pearls valued at
SAC, 571 ,543 were imported into the United
States through the port of New York in
1912.
A glass bottle blowing machine invented
in Germany has speed of 1000 bottles an
hour, equal to the work of $50 expert glass
blowers.
Forty million dollars worth of under
wear is made every year in New York City.
OF the $4,000 operatives, at least $4,000
are girls.
Ninety-six bodies have been taken
from the mine at Finleyville, Pa, where
disastrous explosion occurred Wednesday
of last week.
1t is said American capitalists propose
to pay S25,0O0,00O for Lower California
and advocate immediate annexation by the
United States.
The contract has been let for the main
building of the Methodist Oklahama
Woman's College, Muskogee, Okla. The
building will cost $50, 1000.
In thirty seven countries of the world
the income tax is estimated to yield one
half of all the returns from direct taxa
ton. In Great Britain it yields more than
half.
Refused permission to play the accordion
at party in Dayton, Pa, Monday, Joseph
Conjuan emptied his revolver into the
guests, wounding one and killing three
others.
William c. Borden, the young missionary
who died at Cairo, Egypt, April 9th, left
practically his entire estate of ST, 900, 900
to foreign missionary work, according to
will filed last Friday.
st. Mary Parish is going to produce this
year the biggest corn crop ever raised
there. The acreage in cane has not been
materially reduced, but the acreage in corn
has been largely increased.
The imports of rice into the United
States from foreign countries for the eight
months ending February %, 1918, amount
ed in value to over $3.50, OOO, 900 and in
weight to $4,000 short tons.
The home of James T. Bacon, a miner
and former member of the Colorado Leg
islature, was blown up at Cripple Creek
Monday with dynamite, killing Mrs. Bacon
and her e-year-old daughter.
The trial of seven members of the West
| Virginia Legislature charged with accept
! ing brides in connection with William S.
Edwards campaign for the United States
Senate, began at Charleston last Tuesday.
The insane asylums of all civilized
countries are now overburdened with pa
tents as never before. DR.. T. B. Hyslop
of London, a leading brain specialist, pre-
diets that in fifty years half the worlds
population will be insane.
OF the S6O,0OO,OOO worth of sugar i'm
ported from foreign countries into the
United States for the eight months ending
February %, 1918, S55, 100000 in value
came from Cuba and 1900, 900 in value
from the Philippines, the other million be-
ing in scattering lots.
Lured by a telephone call to a vacant
house in Chicago last Friday, Mrs. Emma
M. Robinson, trained nurse, was met at
the door by negro, who knocked her
down, dragged her into the basement,
bound her hands and feet and menaced
her with razor. She was cut about the
face and hands.