The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-04-24
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

There are forty -one editors in Congress.
Chicago will put an end to baby farm
trade.
Missouri's 1912 corn crop is 244, 042, 951
bushels.
A New York lawyer was indicted for
bribery.
New York is lined up against Sunday
saloons.
Foes in petticoats mauled suffragettes in
London.
Kansas City is preparing to drive out
clairvoyants.
Five French @ronauts were killed by a
fall last Thursday.
California millionaires are accused of
Turing young girls to ruin.
! Four persons were indicted last Thurs
day for smuggling at Boston.
Seven persons were cremated in fire
last Thursday at Malone, N. Y.
Of the 1888 national banks in the United
States only eight failed in 1912.
Two children we're killed Saturday in
an auto accident in Paris, France.
Elk Point, S. D., on the 18th, selected
its saloon keepers by popular vote.
President Wilson says the Government
will not help settle Pan American debts.
The income of Chicago from "movie -
shows, saloons and cigarettes is 81 SOC, 600.
The fourth session of the American
Peace Congress will be held in st. Louis
May 1-3.
In the last fiscal year distillers of the
United States produced 178, 249,9 gallons
of spirits.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has ordered
1906 new freight cars. They will cost
So, 500, 575.
The Premier of Belgium Estimates $780,
900 men are involved in the strike for man
hood suffrage.
Three persons were killed and fifty three
hurt Saturday afternoon in premature
Panama blast.
The Supreme Court of the United States
says appellate courts must not disturb
findings of facts.
The government in the last fiscal year
collected 1928, 032, 1894. 88 in taxes on beer,
whisky and tobacco.
New York will receive between So, OO0,-
600 and 81 600, 900 inheritance tax from the
estate of j. P. Morgan.
Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston declares So
ciety dances are responsible for abuses
developed in public halls.
Suspected of stealing dinner pals, a
} negro youth in Vermont was hurled to
, death by white workmen.
; While sitting as juror in felony case
; Monday Jacob Swank of Columbus, Ind,
fell dead of heart failure.
The National Good Roads Federation
I.-,:li L,oll
ham, Ala, April Oath and 18th.
!, The Vermont House found Representa-
= tive Clifford L. Snow guilty OF offering to
sell his vote, and expelled him.
The world s richest ruby mines, in Upper
! Burma, are known to have been operated
s since early in the seventeenth century.
The Government is considering further
t steps to separate the interests of coal
: carrying railroads and coal-mining com.
Y panies.
t The various Protestant missions in South
s America report total of S91 Sunday
e Schools, with 63,524 officers, teachers ane
: scholars.
The Southern Baptist Convention viii
: meet in ST. Louis on May 14th and The
Northern Baptist Convention in Detroi
r on May 21st.
The engineer was killed and number O
. persons seriously hurt Sunday when {
work train rolled over an embankment nea
= Evansville, Ind.
: Five women captured an alleged burgla
q in an apartment house in New York ant
Il beat him until he was glad when the police
q arrived and arrested him.
q The bin granting cities of New Yorl
e State the right to control their local affair
IL without interference from the State ha
been signed by Gov. Sulzer.
Prof. Lester F. Ward, one of the mos
II noted American social philosophers, AM
If author of many scientific works, died las
), Friday in Washington, D. c..
g old plumbers boards of New Yoak Cit,
y collected $3.50 900 in brides to issue license
I'd upon fictitious examinations.
y The Democratic caucus last week de
cided, 100 to AZ, to put wool on the fire.
X list, Louisiana members voting for amend
Of ment placing Is per cent duty.
On May 10Th the General Assemble
IN of four Presbyterian bodies-Southerr
ar Northern, United, and Associated Reform
- ed-will convene in Atlanta, Ga.
Enraged because she was not at HON
rs when he returned from Bedford, Wiiliat
er Willard of Mitchell, Ind, Monday shot an
killed his wife and committed suicide.
J. W. Newman, Kentucky COMMISSIONS
IN of Agriculture, declared at the Souther
tn Educational Conference that any farme
20 who depended on the commercial fertilize
d, would land in the poor house.