The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-04-10
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Ohio is to probe white slavery.
This years rice crop is short in Japan.
Blackfeet Indians are appealing for food.
It is said California oil land are worth
less.
Any one receiving 81, 100 must pay in
come tax.
Champ Clark was re- elected Speaker of
the House Monday.
Two boy burglars were killed by police
men at Greenville, S. G..
Four persons were shot last Friday in a
strike riot at Auburn, N. Y.
Pinchot predicts a timber famine in
twenty five years at the most.
More than 100000 persons in New York
State are now out of employment.
The National Drainage Congress will be-
gin it's annual session at St. Louis to-day.
One person was killed and twenty nine
others hurt last Thursday by tornado
near Sturgeon, Mo.
Twenty-Five men were drowned in the
hold of a German ship which capsized off
Bay City, Oregon, Sunday.
The New York Flower Show opened last
Saturday with $1,000 plants and blooms
worth 100000 on exhibition.
One man was killed, four policemen and
six firemen were hurt and property dam
age of $4,000 done by fire at Pittsburg,
Pa, last Thursday.
More than 1900 bills, public and private,
were introduced Monday by various men,
bers of Congress.
An average of nearly two persons day
are killed by boiler explosions in the United
States every year.
The fight for women suffrage in the pres
ent Massachusetts Legislature probably
ended last Monday in defeat.
A loaf of bread exhibited in New York
recently is 12h feet long by 3 feet wide
and 6 feet deep. 1t weighs 800 pounds.
&c. Collins, negro, the slayer of Sheriff
Thomas Courtney of Sheridan County,
was taken from the Mondak, Montana, Jail
last Saturday, and lynched.
Over 100000 women in the United
States are employed in the various callings
known as trades, most of which are of
comparatively recent origin.
The average condition of winter wheat
on April 1st was 916 per cent of normal
compared with 8O6 last year, 1873 ir 1911,
and S63 the ten year average.
| English militant suffragetts last + day
night succeeded in burning another large
country home in England. All railkad
are patrolled to prevent the destructi h-of
property.
Salo J. Jackson, the garment manulfac-
turer, known as the ''Petticoat King
pleaded guilty to the charge of grand lar
ceny in connection with embellishments
aggregating 81 100000.
Twenty three persons were killed last
Saturday at Bona, Belgian Congo, when
an entire train with its locomotive plunged
through railroad bridge crossing an arm
of the Congo, at height of $50 feet. Nc
one on board was saved.
Automobile bandits blew up the Bank Of
Commerce at Summerville, Ca, Tuesday
robbing the safe of $4,000 in cash, valuable
securities and several hundred dollars If
stamps. The robbers escaped in waiting
motor car, after a desperate fight with {
deputy sheriff and business man, in which
, the two latter men were badly wounded.
The Canadian Pacific Railway announc
: ed last Saturday that it would begin con
struction of the longest tunnel in America
] The tunnel will be built through Luck,
5 Horse Pass, in the Rocky Mountains, ane
will be sixteen miles long, costing Sl4, 900,
a 600. 1t will take seven years, it is esti
t mated, to build it.. The great hole through
t the mountain will be four miles longer thai
j the famous Simplon tunnel through tn
Alps. Railroad officials assert that tn
v construction of this tunnel will eliminat
e many miles of dangerous snowsheds.