The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-02-26
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.
Three snowstorms at Boston last week
totaled fifteen inches.
The death rate per thousand in rural
New York is higher than in New York City.
The equatorial African possessions OF
France are equal in size to her own area.
The SEVENTEEN Dreadnaught for the
German navy was launched at Kiel last
Saturday.
Three men were killed when bandits held
up railroad train last Friday at Samish,
Washington.
The Leipsic railroad station is the largest
in Europe. 1t cost S35, 900, 900, and has
thirty-six platforms.
Damage estimated at S192, 900 was done
by forest fires last year, says the report of
the Chief Forester of the United States.
Because he preferred death to facing
charges made by several small girls,
wealthy New York druggist committed
suicide.
Five of the six children of Joseph Smart
we're burned to death when their house at
Eagle Lake, Me-, was destroyed by fire
Saturday morning.
Three lifesavers were drowned when they
went out from Frethard, Ireland, to rescue
crew OF bark driven on the rocks near
the Saltee Islands Friday night.
John Kidwell was arrested at Hannibal,
Mo-, last Saturday after he had confessed
to the murder of a family of three at Well
lington, Kansas, October Is, 1912.
| Ten barrels, containing about 300 rab-
bits, perhaps the largest amount ever got
ten together in Mississippi at one time,
were shipped from Newton last Friday.
Seven men were instantly killed, many
workmen seriously injured and several
buildings destroyed last Friday by the ex-
plosion of a powder plant at Aedeer, Scot
land.
Representative Lewis of Maryland last
Friday denounced the proposed Senate
amendment to the Parcel Post Act as be-
ing worth S50, 600, 900 to the express COM
panies.
/ Col. J. Wilcox Brown died last Saturday
at Elsham, Va, aged eighty years. AS a
he aided in the direction of the Confeder-
ate forces in the field.
1 The Temperance Board of the Presby-
terian Church has appropriated $4,000 to
! aid the prohibition forces in California,
Colorado, Washington and Oregon, where
elections will be held this fall.
Richard Coke Weightman, one of the
oldest and most widely known newspaper
men of the United States, and for many
!, years an editorial writer on the New Or
leans Picayune and other papers in that
city, died at Washington City on the 18th
instant. He served through the war in the
t Confederate Army.
The Rev. John P. Hyde of Winchester
Va, Grand Chaplain Of the United Con.
federate Veterans, member of the Balti-
more Conference, M. E. Church, South
and for nearly fifty years Heading educa.
tor and high Mason, died Wednesday O
t last week at Clarksburg, W. Va, agee
seventy eight years.
Birmingham, Ala, Feb. 20.-The Queer
and passenger train from Cincinnati Il
: New Orleans was held up by three masked
+ men near Trussville, Ala, fourteen miles
n from here, Thursday night shortly after
: o'clock. The men boarded the engine ane
: forced the engineer to cut off the baggage
r and express cars from the remainder of thu
e train and then proceed south. The robbers
r secured four sacks of registered mail, sale
s to have contained over $4,000.
$ Washington, Feb. 21.-Attorney Genera
q McReynolds received word to day that tn,
Government had won the test case in tn,
Eastern District of Arkansas, involving
r title to more than 100, 900 acres of valuable
timber and agricultural lands in the north
o eastern part of that State. He announcet
0 that in consequence of controversy tn,
}, Government would probably recover dam
n ages of nearly 81 900, 900 for timber takel
Q from such lands. Many similar suits ar
: pending.
! The Hague, Holland, Feb. Ala schem
= which was first foreshadowed in 1849 viii
); shortly come before the Dutch Parliament
:. In her speech from the throne on Septem
!, !. Der 18th last Queen Wilhelmina announce,
= that bill would be introduced for tn
= draining fthe Zuyder Zee and the forma
= ton of a new province of Holland. Thi
:. proposal involves the reclamation of 81
: square miles of the Zuyder Zee and tn
: conversion of the remaining 557 squar
), miles into fresh water lake. The cost
estimated at SIS, 750, 900 exclusive of inter
est, and the time required at thirty tire
years.
Washington, Feb. 21.-Forty- three an
= half million dollars increase in American