The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-06-19
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Austria is raising 100000 tons of cab
bage.
The United Kingdom has ], 100, 900 in
come tax payers.
Italy raises one-sixth of the entire
European corn crop.
The agricultural conditions all over the
United States are good.
Frost and drought damaged crops in
many parts of New York State.
Canadian thermometers registered 1903
degrees in the shade last Thursday.
The lumber business of the South is ac-
tive and the marketed product fetches
good price.
A lumber plant at Memphis was destroy
ed by fire Sunday. The loss is estimated
at 100000.
Agnus Hamilton, an English cores
pondent in ten wars, committed suicide IN
New York Saturday.
At Newark, Ohio, a saloon keeper who
was compelled to close his saloon on Sun
day committed suicide.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Leupp of St. Louis,
Mo-, have lived forty eight of their fifty
married years in one house.
Sing Ho, after forty years in Spokane,
WASH, is returning to China with Sl,OOO,-
900 amassed in railroad contracting.
The steamship Vestris was delayed ten
minutes at New York Saturday because
young woman had forgotten her pet canary.
India has produced about 100000 tons
of sugar annually for the last two years,
or more than any other county in the world.
Karl Hutter, who amassed fortune out
of the invention of a porcelain bottle stop
per, committed suicide in New York Sat-
urday.
A woman mislaid her handbag contain
ing $4,000 on board the iceland Saturday
and caused the steamship to return to the
pier in New York.
A speeding automobile upset Saturday
between Dover and Rockaway, N. Y, the
owner was killed and two women and a
man were injured.
Three men were drowned at Hammond,
Indiana, Sunday when they tried to change
places in the rowboat in which they were
crossing Cedar Lake.
The New York City grand jury severely
condemns "suggestive, sensational dane
ing in hotels and restaurants where the
sale of liquor is allowed"
The number of horses in the United
States increased from Is, 800, 900 in 1900 to
III, GAO 900 in 1910, in spite of the rapid de-
velopment of the automobile.
The total value of the merchandise de-
clared for shipment to the United States
through the London Consulate Genera
during 1912 was $3.50, 105,653.
A girl in New York Saturday leapec
from the roof of thirteen story building
crashed through a skylight over bank
eleven stories below, and was killed.
The merchants of Kansas City, displeas
. ed over the freight rates charged by th'
railways have come to their own rescue by
; establishing boat line to st. Louis.
J Sirius Williamson, twelve-year- son o
Sirius Williamson, of Ramsey, ILL.,, Frida.
e morning was discovered dragged to dealt
I by COW he was trying to lead to pasture
2 An earthquake shock killed many per
!. sons and did great damage in Bulgari
j Saturday. A dispatch from Sofia Monda,
says the bodies of 100 dead have been take1
r from the ruins of the houses at Tyrnvo.
: The Memphis Commercial Appeal say
e the prospects for crops in that territor
a we're never more brilliant at this season Q
e the year than now, and that crops are be
VI ing made at smaller expense than for sew
y eral years past.
DR.. Guy 0. Brink)ey, physician c
!. Savannah, Ga, was shot to death in hi
= office Monday afternoon by Mrs. Kate Kit
>. ties, widow, who, after firing six shots q
) DR.. Brinkley, sent seventh bullet throug
- her temple, falling lifeless across the bod
G of her victim.
r. The Missouri, Arkansas and West Wiz
v ginia 2-cent passenger rates laws and tn
y Missouri, Arkansas and Oregon freigt
g rate laws were upheld by the United State
= Supreme Court Monday in decision fol
lowing, generally, the lines laid down
= the Minnesota rate decision of last weel
ID The Ozark berry growers in the south
ID western corner of Missouri have shippe
at 800 cars of berries, valued at an average
st $1,000 per car. Peach shipping will SOC
J. begin, following cherries which are alread
t. in market. The peach crop is said to
,e the most abundant, and, where orchard
have been properly sprayed, the finest tt
State has ever had.
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