The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-12-17
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


sively in China.
Ninety six deaths occurred in Mobile
during the month of November.
Forty eight hunters we're killed this fall
in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.
In the last eight years the diamond field
in Arkansas has yielded / 1916 diamonds.
There is said to be about thousand
varieties of rice growing in the Philippines.
More than a million leather hides are
used each year in upholstering automo-
biles.
Fire in the heart of the business district
of Atlanta, Ca, Tuesday, caused 100000
damage.
Women working in cotton mills at Shan
ghai, China, toll twelve hours day for
IA cents.
Fifty-eight fires, involving $3.50, 900 loss,
were recorded in Mobile during the month
of November.
| The timber industry represents 81 per
cent of the annual production of wealth in
British Columbia.
A free lodging house in Honja ward,
Tokyo, Japan, has sheltered 885,OOO per-
sons in eleven years.
|
nations whose members of parliament
serve without pay.
Last year 14,916 vessels passed through
the 500 Canal on the Great Lakes, while
only $500 vessels used the Suez Canal.
A natural gas explosion Monday night
at Cleveland, Ohio, killed seven persons,
seriously wounded eight and wrecked the
building.
Owing to the shortage of the Australian
wheat harvest, the Government of the COM
monwealth has suspended the import duty
on wheat.
Washington, Dec. 15.-Principal farm
crops produced in 1914 are worth $685.
$4,000, the Department of Agriculture
announced to-day.
i Magnolia, Miss, Dec. 12.-Cotton seed
has been selling here at S22 per ton, and
the streets have been crowded with the
wagons of cotton farmers.
Paul Parnell, a fourteen-year-old boy
) living near Newbern, is the prize corn
raiser of Dyer County, Tennessee. His
yield is 104 bushels to the acre.
( The American merchant marine has
TENDER 3rd, according to an announcement
The United States Government experts
estimate the annual loss by insect ravages
| as follows: Cereals, $500, 600. 900; vegeta-
bles, S53, 100000: fruit, S27, 0O0,O 900.
Boxmakers in the United States use more
than four and a-half billion board feet OF
lumber each year, or more than one-tenth
|, of the entire lumber cut of the country.
Meat inspectors in Berlin are employing
, the moving picture camera in their work,
enlarged photographs showing micro
organisms in motion if the meat is diseas-
ed:
: Fire early Saturday in the business Sec
ton of Birmingham, Ala, caused an ap-
proximate loss of S50O,000. and threw out
!, Of employment $50 persons, a majority of
: them shop girls.
OF two million sheep annually grazed in
1 the State of Utah, more than million are
Y on the national forests, or including lambs
). which are fattening for market on the forest
i ranges, over million and three-quarters.
o Thomas Messenger, sixteen years old
!, died Saturday at Wabash, Indiana, as the
: result of eating raw pork. The boy
mother, two sisters and two brothers were
made dangerously ill by eating the meat
: The Women's Civic League of Eding-
i burg, N. D., casting about for means Of
9 raising money for club expenses, hit on the
= potato raising scheme. They planted ar
acre, from which they have now harvested
$40 bushels. The crop will net about $50
: or more than sufficient to meet club ex-
Q penses of the year.
e Macon, Ca, Dec. 13.-Four brothers
}, members of the Boys Corn Club of Geor.
: gia, this year raised 815 bushels of corn or
four acres of land. Luther Alfred, one o.
: the brothers, won the first prize at the State
Fair here. He produced 227 bushels or
one acre. Clarence Alfred raised 22(
>. bushels, Elmer 2O1, and Arthur 1877.
n More than S53,OOO,OOO is estimated fol
: improvements and maintenance of the ma.
n TONS waterways and harbors during thu
fiscal year of 1916, which begins July
> 1915. The Mississippi River estimate il
$50, 800 900; the Ohio River So, 1884 900; thu
n Tennessee, more than $4,000, OOS; the Mis-
y souri,, So, 500,000; the Cumberland Rive
i (above Nashville), $1,000; below Nash
vile, 81 ,005, 900.