The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-06-05
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Petroleum production is ra pidly increas-
ing in Mexico.
The Bell Telephone Company has 175, 900
employees on its pay roll.
The headless body of woman was found
last Friday in a lot in Bloomfield, N. j.
More than 100000 persons are en-
ployed in the textile mills of Great Britain.
Frederick Albion Ober, noted author and
ethnologist died at Hackensack, N. j., last
Sunday.
The population of Louisville, KY, ac
cording to the city directory for 1913, is
254, 078.
The library of Congress at Washington
is the third largest collection of books in
the world.
Democrats urge establishment of special
national banks in foreign countries to pro-
mote trade.
Sugar producing countries of the world
are export thirteen billion pounds OF it to
other lands each year.
A bill providing home rule for Scotland
was read for the second time last Friday in
the English House of Commons.
Five men were blown to pieces last
Thursday by the explosion of dynamite at
factory at Port Vendres, France.
Government revenues from customs re-
ceipts fell off more than Sc, 900, 600 in May,
compared to the same month OF last yea.
Heat records for May for thirty one
years were broken at st. Louis last Friday
when thermometers registered 1O2 degrees.
John Thornton and his wife were drown
ed Monday when their motor boat was run
down by fleet of coal barges at Cincin-
natl.
An attempt was made Friday night to
set fire to the Royal Academy in London.
The police attribute the attempt to militant
suffragettes.
Twelve thousand structures of various
kinds were erected in New York City in
the last year, representing an expenditure
of S207 100000.
Lunsford L. Lomax, Major General in
the Confederate Army, and seventy nine
years old, died in Washington, D. c., on
the 28th ultimo.
Sitting at a piano continuously for six
teen hours, j. S. Whatham, Manchester
musician, played 400 tunes from memory
and then collapsed.
Zach Combs, convicted of manslaughter
III 1 Gil y oOulily ACACuSny, u0o OOCu lSOh
new trial because some of the jurymen
left court to save their homes from fire.
Taking refuge in an ice box when pur
sued by man with revolver, saloon
keeper and his wife in Chicago came near
being frozen before they We're liberated.
Missouri has farm which annually pro-
duces more than million bushels of corn.
One field on this farm has 5000 acres, and
forty 1.-two two-row cultivators may be seen
at one time working in it.
Laws requiring health certificates of
applicants for marriage licenses were ad
vocated at a conference of prominent So
ciety women and sociological workers last
Monday at Washington, D. C.
The remains of General Lighthouse
Harry Lee, of Revolutionary War fame,
last Friday were inferred in the Lee maus-
oleum at Lexington, Va, beside the body
of his son, General Robert E. Lee.
Daniel Daley, who pleaded insanity and
eral years ago, one being for the murder
of his father, was last Friday burned to
death in Chicago by fire of incendiary
origin.
Chicago officially put ban on the
naughty song last Saturday. An or
dinance went into effect prohibiting all
public acts of indecency, suggestive ges-
lures or songs or abusive or threatening
words or acts in any public place.
The bodies of Irving Grant and his wife
were found in their home in South Bend,
Indiana, last Friday. Neighbors assert
the husband, temporarily deranged be-
cause of tuberculosis, shot his wife and
then turned the weapon on himself.
Eight Russian Jews were burned to
death last Friday at Pontneff, Russian Po-
land. A band of men whose identity has
not been ascertained, after mailing up the
door and windows of the house in which
their victims resided, set fire to the build
ing and disappeared.
Iowa last Thursday suffered its hottest
May day since records have been kept in
that State. The Government record was
ninety-six degrees, while the Thermometer
registered about ninety degrees for five
hours. Fifty Des Moines school children
taking part in the annual public exhibition
were Frustrated, and only heroic emer-
gency work prevented several deaths.
A dispatch says new record in wireless
telephony has been established at the
Nauen Station, Berlin, Germany. An op.
orator there read the newspapers aloud fol
half an hour, his voice being heard dis
tinctly at series of stations, ranging in
distance from 375 to 425 miles, including
Vienna. Some of those at the receiving
end complained that the reader spoke toe
loud.
WHAT THE PAPERS ARE SAYING.