The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-02-19
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Japan.
A miner was killed in a labor riot at
Golfers, W. Va.
A fever outbreak at Rockville, Md, was
traced to polluted well.
The South Carolina Legislature defeated
an alien land bill.
In New York State there are 1886, $50
dersons employed in factories.
Nearly 7,OOO,O0 tons of coal were dug
last year by eighty coal companies.
John Krastel of Chesapeake City, Nd,
was thrown from his wagon and killed.
Automobiles to the value of $4,000, 900
were exported from this country in 1913.
The Austrian Government railroad lines
are to be extended at cost of S120, O0O, 600.
The biggest cactus in the world, 232 feet
high, has been found on the desert of Ari-
IONA.
Eleven members of New York s Poultry
Trust began serving Jail sentences last
week.
To build the Ashokan acqueduet for New
York City's water supply cost $50 ,O0O, QUO
and 253 lives.
1t is estimated that S75O, 100000 is in
vested in moving picture companies
throughout the world.
Investigation shows that the rivers of
Western Kansas are fast disappearing into
subterranean channels.
The huge profits in fox farming have led
several Alaska mining companies to pay
more attention to furs than gold.
Three deaths due to the intense cold oc-
Cured last Friday in New York, making
the total for the cold snap thirteen.
Nineteen out of twenty -five prisoners in
Jail at Opelika, Ala, escaped Wednesday
night of last.week after overpowering the
jailer.
! Five separate articles can be cooked over
single gas burner at once without inter-
ference by the use of a utensil that an Ohio
woman has patented.
The construction of a pipe line 220 miles
long has enabled oil to replace wood for
fuel for navigation and other purposes in
the interior of Congo.
Albert Mclaughlin, a farmer of Oakdale,
Maine, was overcome by the cold last
Thursday while driving, fell from his wagon
and was frozen to death.
The New York Legislature is asked for
appropriations amounting to S52,O89, sos
for the various divisions of the State Gov
eminent for the year 1914.
! Charles Teller, the Frenchman who in
vented the ammonia refrigeration process
and was known as the father of cold stor-
age, died recently in France.
During the years 1918, 1912, 1911 and
1910, in New York City alone TIT persons
were killed by automobiles, 400 by troleys,
and 730 by wagons, or total of 2,OO6.
Territory around Punta Arenas, at the
extreme south of Chile, has a healthful
climate. Much,cattle and sheep raising is
done and the district is rapidly building.
i The entire crew of eight seamen of the
steamship My Own were drowned last Fri
dBy when that vessel was wrecked while
entering the harbor at Shoreham, England.
i The average age of all the physicians
who died in the United States and Canada
was fifty nine years and eight months.
The average length of their practices was
thirty three years.
The foreign commerce of the United
States for the six months ending December
81, 1913, shows an increase of S38 ,401 1884
in the balance in favor of this country over
the same period last year.
Snow from four to twelve inches deer
last Friday. Oklahoma had from one and
a half to seven inches. The Ozark fruit
belt was under ten inches Of snow.
The jury at Oklahoma City yesterday
completely exonerated Senator Gore of any
wrong conduct toward Mrs. Bond, return
ing within two and half minutes unan
imous verdict against the blackmailers.
!, The agricultural bill which has juts
, passed Congress appropriates $4,000 fol
! each State in the Union for the assistance
) OF State agricultural schools. This amount
, will be increased yearly until the annua
appropriation reaches the total of Sc, 900.
: 600.
A report issued last Saturday by the
7 Wisconsin Railroad Commission makes the
t claim that the commission saves the public
; more than 100000 a year in reduced
freight and public utility rates. There are
I subject to its regulation 1889 telephone
electric light, water power, heat, telegraph
4 street and interurban railroad companies
Augustus Octavus Bacon, United States
] Senator from Georgia for nearly nineteen
; years, died in hospital at Washington
t last Saturday after an illness Of ter
s days. Senator Bacon was born in Bryan
County, Georgia, October 90, 1889. H,
entered the Confederate Army at the be-
4 ginning of the war and served during tb,
} campaigns OF 1861 and 1852 as adiutant Q
: the Ninth Georgia Regiment in the Army
T of Northern Virginia.
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