The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-01-15
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

A general strike in South Africa threat
ems serious trouble.
The Ford Automobile Company last year
made S37, 100000 profit.
The public school at Phenixville, Pa,
keeps photograph of every pupil.
Many deaths from starvation follow the
war activities in northeastern Mexico.
John Spooner killed school teacher at
Madison, Wis, and then shot himself.
Only sixty-eight per cent of the school
population of Pennsylvania is in public
school.
More than 5000 immigrants landed at
New York within two days just before
Christmas.
There has been more railroad building in
South America during the last year than in
the United States.
A State wide prohibition measure will
come before the coming session OF the Vir-
ginia General Assembly.
More than thousand women were among
the Mexican fugitives who crossed last
Monday to the American side.
Chicago has raised the 100000 needed
to finance the next International Sunday
School Convention in that city.
At Hamburg, Germany, last Friday, a
city policeman killed his three daughters
and then himself after family quarrel.
Twelve men, five whites and seven ne
groes, were killed last Saturday in mine
explosion in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.
In Montevideo, Uruguay, $4,000, 900 is
being spent on harbor work, which will
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world.
The General Film Company pleaded
guilty Tuesday at Austin, Texas, to violat-
ing the State antitrust law and was fined
$50, 900.
Poverty is supposed to have driven a
man and his wife to kill their five children
and themselves last Friday in Soldua,
Prussia.
| Three persons were killed and twenty
seven hurt last Friday when a railroad
passenger train was derailed near Cordele,
Georgia.
Just S707, 948 300 was expended last year
in construction by the seven naval Powers
of the world. Great Britain was first and
America second.
The trade of South America is one of the
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imports were 81, 1923, 200, 900 and the ex-
ports Sl,318, 100000.
Four seamen of the United States battle
ship Wyoming were drowned last Friday
when motor cutter capsized two miles off
Old Point Comfort, Va.
i Annual losses suffered by New York
merchants through commercial frauds ag-
gregate S25,0O0,0 900, according to a com
mittse of business men.
i Congress resumed it's work last Monday
: after the first vacation since last April ano
faces busy time with many importan
} matters to be legislated upon.
On arrival at Kugoshima, where the vol
cano Sukura- Jima is in eruption, the Jap
anese warships reported that about 1O(
persons had persisted and that the popula
ton Of the city had fled to safety.
Jack tars of the American Navy, afte
> sampling forty-five different kinds of to
: bacco, have approved the navy plug of
(, chewing, and Secretary Daniels has award
+ vored brand. A chemical test supporte,
the choice of the sailors.
4 George F. Crandall of Binghsmpton
NJ Y, the oldest mail carrier in the Unite,
. States, retired last Friday at the age 0
seventy four. He has carried mail con
!; tinuously since 1856. His trips as drive
), of stage wagon reached an aggregate Q
y $50, 900 miles, and his income from tn
!, Postoffice Department during the entir
. period totaled $4,000.
= Seattle, WASH, Jan. THE Pacifi
s Coast, from San Francisco to British Co
umbia, was flooded to-day by storm
which have continued for ten days an
which have extended well inland. Nor
than nine inches of rain has fallen a
g Aberdeen, since Saturday, and lowland
over wide section of Western Washing
IT ton are under water. 1t has been impossi
| BILE to estimate the damage in that section
- St. Petersburg, Jan. ia snowstorr
;, has swept over northeastern Russia, block
II ing roads and railways and interfering wit
,, Geographic communication. Inthe suburb
). of st. Petersburg the snow is nine fet
u deep, and 10000 soldiers and laborers ar
enlarged in clearing away drifts. No far
produce is reaching the city. Offici'
! reports record 100 deaths from cold an
3. exposure. Many peasants have been dc
'e voured by wolves.