The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-02-05
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

The population of Texas is something
more than 100000.
Sixty cases of smallpox were reported at
Tampico, Mexico, Saturday.
The national subscription for the French
aerial war fleet amounts to 81. 2O0,OOO.
The exports of rubber from Netherlands
India and Java showed large increase in
1912.
Hereafter public school teachers in Wis
consin are not to be paid less than $40
month.
Secretary Daniels declares he is con-
WINGED that worldwide armor plate trust
exists.
The olive crop of Smyrna was failure
in 1918, the outlook for the coming season
is good.
The tin production of the world for 1913
has been estimated at 100000 tons; about
1900 tons more than in 1912.
Eighteen men were drowned Sunday
when the German bark Hera struck rock
near Falmouth, England, and sank.
At an art auction in New York Saturday
&c. 200 was paid for Chinese vase of the
seventeenth century only IL inches high.
Strawberries are now being picked for
the market in San Angelo, Texas. This lie
ahead of previous by seasons several
weeks.
Legislation providing for Federal owner
ship of telephone lines will not be pushed
until the next session of Congress, it is
stated.
Wayne Plymale shot and killed Greene
Charles at Pikeville, KY, Monday after
l.
the house.
Mistletoe is imported into England from
France. One railroad in 1912 handled
!, 800, 900 branches, weighing $50 tons and
worth 100000.
The total resources of Kentucky national
banks were about 81 ,O00, 900 more January
18th than at the time of the last previous
report, October Is, 1918.
Leslie Edwards died of exposure when
an automobile in which he was riding over
turned Sunday night near Lexington, KY,
pinning him in brook.
Ten business houses and one dwelling,
approximately one-half the business Sec
ton of huntsville, W. Va, was destroyed
by fire Sunday morning.
The cotton crop of India is increasing.
The production last year of 4, 800, 900 bales
of 400 pounds promises to be enlarged to
4,928,OO0 bales this year.
Nine less cattle, seven less sheep and
three less hogs per 100 people are in the
United States than in 1910, the Agricul-
tural Department reports.
Twenty-one thoroughbred horses were
lost in fire which destroyed big racing
| or hlo mann ipoolp Mass lont Go a., :,
night, causing 100000 loss.
Germany produced 85,74O, 492 pounds oil
tobacco during the fiscal year ending June
80, 1918, The estimated value of the CROP
was S., 286, 1881, not including the tax.
The mineral production of British Colum
bia was valued at S29, 969, 1928. Copper
coal and gold were the leading products
aggregating nearly $50 900, 900 Of the total
William Helfinch, a wealthy lumber
dealer Of Evansville, Ind, dropped dead a
Miami, Fla, last Sunday of apoplexy. HI
was entering local church when stricken
Official figures show there are in thu
United States Navy approximately $4,000
men, and it is gratifying to learn that O
citizens.
A deputy marshal at Muskogee, Okla.
found two cases of canned goods in base
ment, one labeled '.baking powder" ane
the other "pork and BEANS" all loaded
with booze.
Harry w. Goss of Union City, Pa, las
Saturday shot and seriously wounded hi
wife, killed Mrs. Field, and then killet
himself, on account of an action of divorc,
brought by his wife.
Four students of Bethel Female Colleg,
at Hopkinsville, KY, were made CRITICAL,
ill when they mistook wood alcohol 70
} flavoring extract and mixed it in welsl
rarebit which they ate.
Lionel Lawrence, who had the distinc
ton of having been married eleven times
died Monday of apoplexy in New York
The funeral services were attended by sew
eral of his former wives.
Mrs. w. T. Miller and her two children
were killed at Samburg, Tenn, Monda,
; when the horses attached to the wagon il
which they were riding became unmanage
able and overturned the conveyance.
On account of the presence of ninet
cases of smallpox at Northeast, Pa, fifty
five houses last Sunday we're ordered unde
> quarantine and the vaccination of all tn
inhabitants of the township in which North
} east is situated was begun.
In the same dwelling where he was born
Thomas B. Todd of North Point, Md
former president of the Baltimore Count
3 School Board, celebrated his eightiet
hirthdav last Mopdov uo no q lived IN ~