The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-07-17
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

ing of sloop Sunday in Boston Harbor.
There are 20 900 boats engaged in British
fisheries, employing over 100000 men and
boys.
Desire Dekemel and Francis Kraus COM
mitted suicide last Thursday in New Or
leans.
English engineers plan an electric rail-
road up the slope of Mount Popocatapetl,
Mexico.
Lawrence Sortine, eight years old, was
killed by lightning last Thursday in New
Orleans.
Since the earthquake and fire San Fran
cisco has erected buildings at cost OF
$500, 100000.
The familiar swamp "cat-tail' is now
used for calking barrels, and as pulp for
making paper.
One man was killed and dozen others
injured Sunday in two railroad wrecks near
jackson, Mich.
AS means of exterminating grasshop-
pers Kansas farmers are spreading poison
ed bran in their fields.
Miss Elizabeth Dunn, of Louisville, KY,
died on the 9th of injuries suffered when
struck by an automobile.
Rocking the boat is said to have been
the cause of three young women being
drowned near Durant, Okla.
DIR. George S. Tigner, a prominent den-
fist of Atlanta, Ca. committed suicide by
cutting his throat with razor.
Every ship coming from Mexico is bring
ing destitute Americans at the expense of
the United States Government.
Leon Martinez committed suicide in New
Orleans on the 9th, making the third death
in the same family within three weeks.
Three women were drowned Saturday in
the Schuylkill River when they stood on
seats of a rowboat to keep their feet dry.
The Department of Agriculture estimates
wheat production for 1918 at 218,00O,O
bushels, falling off from the 1912 crop.
For the first time in its history an effort
is being made at Jerusalem to check the
mosquito nuisance and the malaria plague.
A law has been passed recently in New
Zealand which makes a fine possible for
any person that works more than eight
hours day.
Three persons we're killed and a number
injured Sunday in collision between a
passenger train and an interurban car at
Cambridge, Ohio.
A special exhibition is now made in the
natural history department of the British
Museum of birds, animals and plants men
toned in the Bible.
London, July 14.-Eighty persons have
been drowned and eight villages destroyed
by floods in Maros- Torda District of Tran
sylvania, Hungary.
Though Germany has 65,000,000 people
in an area less than Texas, she has to i'm
port workers from Russia and Austria tt
help harvest her crops.
Statistics just compiled show that in 1911:
on the Pennsylvania Railroad 837, -.
trains travelled 4O,Oo0,O0O miles, and car.
ried 100, 600, 900 passengers.
The agricultural college of Kansas claim:
to have effected a saving of a million dol
lars a year in the homes of that State by
teaching domestic economy.
The United States Government, by ex
perts and the use of the monograph, il
making permanent recorded collection o
the music of the native Indian tribes.
A San Antonio man has perfected ma
chine for removing the spines from prick,
pear cactus, and cutting up the flesh,
leaves into excellent fodder for cattle.
Two women were killed and three othe
persons injured Saturday when an auto
mobile going sixty miles an hour dashed
Americans spent 100000, 600 nickel
for admissions to "movie" shows last year
according to figures announced at tn
movie exposition held in New York las
, week.
, Thirty-six States now forbid the employ
, ment of children under fourteen in facto
ries, and twenty-one States limit the hour
of labor for children under sixteen to eigh
hours day.
, Proprietors of all the laundries in Littl
r Rock, Ark, and Argenta, have agreee t
grant all women employees a minimur
wage of S. week instead of the presen
, scale of 81
The English language is spoken b.
100, 900 persons, German by 100000,
600, Russian by 100000, French b
45,00O,O 900, Spanish by &C, 600, 900 and Ital
: ian by 100000.
Uttering piercing screams, Anna Rosata
beautiful young lady, dressed in he
prettiest clothes, ended her earthly trouble
early Friday morning by plunging into tn
Mississippi River at New Orleans.
: Silver City, N. NJ, July ia heav
. snow fell in the Santa Rita mountai
:. ranges Of northwestern New Mexico yester
! day. In the valleys torrential rain fel
! relieving a drought of several weeks, whic
!, had burned up the range, causing intens
= suffering among the live stock.
\ Manila, P. l., July 9.-While a detach
! ment of cost artillery was en- route to Cor
+ regidor, where the drill ground is located