The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-12-03
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Redlands, CAL, has an official fly killer.
Minnesota,s 1913 fire loss was 1888 per
capita.
The United States last year imported
%, 293, 533 square yards of fiber mattings.
Water from King Soomon's sealed foun-
tain is now piped through the streets of
Jerusalem.
There were 1000 persons killed at grade
crossings in the United States during the
last three years.
Twenty three persons met death and
number of others were injured in the
earthquake that occurred Friday in West
ern Greece and the Ionian Islands.
Little Rock, Ark, Nov. 28.-Eight men,
four whites and four negros, will pay the
death penalty in the electric chair in Ar
kansas within sixteen days, beginning next
Wednesday.
Chicago, Nov Appropriations for the
shipment of 800 horses held at the Chi
cago stockyards and purchased by agents
of the French Government were completed
o-night. They were selected for calvalry
use.
Railways in Great Britain kill in acct
dents for which the passenger is in no way
responsible one passenger for every H.
| 100000 carried, while those of the United
States kill one for every 1900, 900 passen-
gers carried.
Montgomery, Mo-, Nov. 26.-Called
from her work of preparing Thanksgiv-
| ing dinner, Mrs. Sallie Tyan was shot and
killed to-day by her son-in-law, Isaac
Strickland, who later was killed by another
son in law, Rex McHoney, while attempt
| ing to enter the Ryan home, presumably
to seek his wife.
| Dallas, Tex, Nov. 28.-Paul Lecoq,
leading cotton importer of Havre, France,
conferred with cotton buyers here o-day,
intimating France would take about $780,
GOO bales this year at the fright" price
This is only half of the normal purchase
of cotton by France. Many mills located
or cannot operate. The problem OF ship
ping the cotton abroad was not given any
great concern, Lecoq said.
Fort Wayne, Ind, Nov. 28.-The Rev.
Asher S. Preston, of Portland, formerly
pastor of the Wayne Street M. E. Church,
this city, stopped off in Fort Wayne on
his way home from his farm in Steuben
County. He had with him an ear of corn
which was Az inches long, and was rails
ed on the farm of Mack Pogue, just across
the road from the Rev. Mr.. Preston's farm.
Pogue's corn averaged about 100 bushels
to the acre.
l st. Louis, Mo-, Nov. 49, Bids for
100000 flannel army shirts for British
soldiers were submitted by several St.
Louis firms to-day. The contract will
amount to more than S2,O00,000, it is
thought. An order for 1000 sets of artil-
} lery harness., costing S175,000, was given
! to St. Louis manufacturer to-day. An
other firm announced tonight it had just
shipped As, 900 suits of underwear for army
use to Amsterdam and $4,000 blankets to
Mexico.
Frankfort, KY, Nov. 25.-Whisky in
bond was assessed at SIP the barrel, the
! same as last year, by the State Board OF
/ Valua!ian and Assess ment to-day. It is
expected that the January reports will
|, show immense quantities of whisky taken
out of bond since September in anticipa-
ton of the Federal war tax. For the year
ending September LIST 716,050 were taken
out of bond and 1925, 1900 taxes were
paid. The preceding year 657 ,505 barrels
were taken out and S168, 1881 AZ taxes were
paid.