The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-03-13
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.
The University Of Minnesota has added
a course in agriculture for girls.
A blow with broomstick caused the
death of negro man in New Orleans.
North Dakota farmers are turning from
wheat to cattle raising. 1t pays better.
Ben Brush, the once~famous race horse,
was sold Saturday in New York for $40 900.
A Federal report shows an enormous in
crease of trade through ports on the Gulf.
Recruiting Offices in France last week
were thronged with thousands of volun-
teers.
Sixty-six of her crew persisted when a
sunk.
Three prisoners in the Monroe, La, Jail
sawed their way out of their cell and es-
capped.
Burglars blew up the safe of bank in
Bastrop, La, and got away with $1,000 to
$4,000.
Emilio and Raoul Madero of Mexico, af-
ter a 900 mile horseback ride, reached the
United States.
Cleveland, Ohio, police hereafter will
photograph all women and girls caught in
wineroom raids.
Shop girls ad department store officials
last week gave startling testimony in the
Illinois vice probe.
The upbuilding of the South was dis
cussed last Thursday at a meeting of bus
mess men in Baltimore.
Three United States marines we're killed
and others injured Saturday in wreck in
Nicaragua caused by marauders.
The body of Mrs. Katherine Godfrey, a
young widow, was found lying in flat in
New York with the head crushed.
Joseph B. Heiskell, eighty nine years
old, a member of the Confederate Congress,
died in Memphis, Tenn, last Friday.
Capt. G. c. Davenport, Confederate Of
ficer, banker and legislator, died last Fri
day of heart failure at Mer Rouge, La.
Two hundred persons were drowned
March /, when British steamer founder
ed during a blizzard in the Sea of Marmora.
The mutilated body of an unidentified
white man was found afloat in a wooden
box in the Cumberland River near Gains
boro, Tenn.
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ration Of bread and pies by an Atlantic
City, N. j., baker caused thirty persons to
become seriously i'll.
James W. Emmons, chief of police at
Owinsville, KY, committed suicide Mon
day in the office of the county clerk while
court was in session.
Sixty-eight women were drowned last
Monday by the swapping of boat on
Lake Scutari, body of water on the bor-
ders Of Albania and Montenegro.
Henry>McConneville, eighty-five years
old, and his three grandchildren, nine, ten
and twelve years, were burned to death in
their home near the Chateauguay River,
in Canada, last Saturday.
J.V. Thompson, banker and plunger, of
Uniontown, Pa, put through business
deal last Friday that netted him profit of
ST ,OOO,O He sold tract of coal land to
the Midland Steel Company for ST, $50, 900,
an average of $500 an acre.
President Wilson has notified Democratic
leaders, it is stated, that he is opposed to
exemption of farmers organizations and
labor organizations from prosecution for
violations of the Sherman antitrust law
as interpreted by the courts.
The Turkish fortress of Janina, the key
to the possession of the province of Epirus,
with its garrison of 49, 900 men, surrender
ed to the Greek army last Thursday after
a defense which forms one Of the most
brilliant episodes of the Balkan War.