The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-06-18
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Lightning killed six persons in London
last Sunday.
There were three deaths from heat in
Pittsburg, Pa, on the 9th.
Of Chile's 1877 ZOO, 900 acres of land, only
about 100000 are suitable for cultiva-
ton.
Heat records for June were broken last
Friday at Atlanta, Chattanooga and Mont
gomery.
Thirteen persons died from extreme heat
IN Detroit during the heat wave from June
9th to 10th.
The 10th anniversary of Translyvania
University, Lexington, KY, was held last
Thursday.
The Texas wool growers received $780,
GOO for the years clip The prices aver
aged 1873 cents per pound.
The surplus in the treasury for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1914, will fall about
100000 below that of the preceding
year.
James Turner, prosperous farmer of
near Ripley, Miss, married and seemed to
be living happy life, committed suicide
last Monday.
Although cut short by the drouth, it is
reported that the strawberry crop of War
rem County, Kentucky, will be worth S65-
OCO to the growers.
Mount Lasson, in California, was Quiet
Monday night after Sundays activity when
smoke, steam, ashes and stones were hurl-
ed from its newly created craters.
Four girls, ranging in age from eighteen
to nine, cut and bruised and bruised and
bearing evidence of foul play, were found
dead in creek near Sapulpa, Okla.
Severalpersons were Frustrated by light
ming shock during storm that passed over
Evansville, Indiana, Saturday night, when
property damage amounting to 100000
was done.
the United States through the second
day night at hospital in Chicago after an
illness of several months.
The New Orleans Times Picayune of
Monday says the cotton crop is an exceed
ingy spotted one and much of it has so
late start that only perfect season can
enable it to escape the weevil or the frost.
A bulletin issued last Saturday by the
Health Commissioner of Baltimore states
that 2O6 persons died in that city last week.
For the same week of 1918 there were 161
deaths in that city. There were 247 births
during last week.
Miss Emily Fuller, twenty -one years old,
patient at the city hospital in st. Louis
suffering from paralysis, was told by doc
tors she must quit using face powder
which has been her favorite brand, if she
wants to get we'll. An analysis of the
powder showed that it contained lead.
Shreveport, June 1O.-T. E. Roper, fifty
five years of age, and carpenter by pro-
fession, was overcome by excessive heat
here to-day, and died less than five min
utes after being stricken. Roper was at
work on the roof of one of Shreveport's
residences. The thermometer registered
50 degrees in the shade here to-day.
Paris, June 1.-TWO and one-half inches
OF snow and hail fell in one section of Paris
last night, and the spectacle was witnessed
OF horses struggling through the snow on
June day in avenue Des Camps Elysees.
The temperature was 40 degrees fahrenheit,
and here and there quantities of the snow
lay Throughout the nightwhere it had drifted.
New York, June 12.-This is the hottest
June II in New York city thirty -four years.
The mercury registered 81 at 2 o'clock this
afternoon. AS early ass o'clock in the
morning the mercury stood at 90 degrees.
In Greater New York four deaths occurred
during the day as result of the heat, and
there were more than score of cases of
prostration reported. So hot was the wea-
Their in the streets that number of con-
tractors on street work called off work for
several hours. One large department store
closed at O'Clock this afternoon, excusing
Its employees for the remainder of the day.