The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-05-29
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


to stamp out poppy culture.
Two women were assaulted in Trenton,
N. j., last Friday by negro.
Telephone records show New York is the
most laxative city in the world.
Two men were killed last Sunday when
an automobile was ditched at Meadville,
Pa.
The debt of New York City is $500, OOO,-
600, being almost as large as the national
debt.
The Wisconsin Legislature defeated
bill making Opponents into other States
illegal.
An Indiana farmer confessed that he
burned his wife to death because she nag
ged him.
Delegates from Uruguay are in this
country to study American agricultural
methods.
Thirty three were killed last Saturday
when pier in Long Beach, California,
collapsed
The French Cabinet has approved
proposition to borrow $500, OOO, 900 for mil
tary purposes.
H. c. Seymour of Ocean Springs, Miss,
shot himself through the head last Satur-
day, dying instantly.
Gen. Hsu Pa San was killed last Sun
day at Shanghai, China, by the explosion
of bomb in his home.
Since January list gems valued at $751;
OOO, 900 have been imported through the
New York Custom House.
With an engine driver dead at the throt-
tie, New Jersey Central passenger train
ran for miles at high speed.
A report of the Commissioner of Corpo-
rations maintains that the profits of the
Steel Trust are excessively high.
Gen. Bennett H. Young, commander-in-
chief of the United Confederate Veterans,
was seventy years old last Sunday.
Five hundred former Kentuckians living
in Los Angeles and vicinity had their an
nual picnic and reunion last Sunday.
Girls Canning Clubs have been formed
in nine counties in Kentucky to compete
for State prizes. No more counties can
enter.
At Blackfoot, Idaho, Peter Bradovitch,
an insane Austrian, Drained his five room
mates in the insane asylum while they
were asleep.
One man was drowned and two boys in
jured last Saturday at Camden, NJ, when
an automobile dashed through guard rail
on ferry boat.
Eighty persons were arrested last Sum
day in connection with Venezuelan plot
which had the assassination of the Presi-
dent as its object.
A proposition to issue $500, 900 bonds for
road building purposes was defeated in
special election in Yazoo County, Mssis-
sppi, on the 18th.
More than quarter of million pieces
OF jewelry are pawned in London every
day, according to the police, who have
rigid supervision of the matter.
Travelling northeastward column of
grasshoppers five miles wide and eighteen
miles long were seen last Monday passing
over Northeastern New Mexico.
Postoffice inspectors failed to trace S75
worth of stamps missing from the postoffice
at Yonkers, N. Y. Work of tearing out a
wall found mice had built nest of them.
Three men were killed and several others
seriously injured last Thursday night when
the breech block of three Inch gun at
Fort Moultrie, Charleston, S. c., was
blown off.
The steamer Nevada, with 200 passen-
SClo OIi OOdIO, olIuCh IuTcC tulu0S Ill success.
sion last Saturday in the Gulf of Smyrna
and sank. Only eighty of the passengers
and crew are reported saved.
The cofferdam sheet piling in the Old
Basin Canal, in New Orleans, through
which is being built the siphon for the
Broad Street Canal gave way Sunday
evening, which caused the sudden death of
five men.
Suffering from what was declared to be
temporary alteration of the mind, A. U.
Siegel of Salt Lake City, Utah, student
at the university at South Bethlehem, Pa,
last Saturday shot and killed himself at
his apartments.
At Chattanooga late yesterday Jackson
vile, Fla, was selected as the place where
the Twenty fourth Confederate reunion
will be held in 1914 by the following vote:
Jacksonville 1923, Nashville, the nearest
opponent, 405. Gen. Bennett H. Young
was re elected Commander-in-C Chief.
Miss Oline Parfer, seventeen years old,
stenographer, was roughly handled by
negro man early Saturday morning in
Petersburg, Pa. After severe tussel
with her assailant the girl broke loose and
ran to nearby restaurant. The negro
was arrested, identified and sent to Jail in
default of $1,000 bail.
Maysville (Ky.) Ledger: Saturday an