The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-01-01
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

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of coconuts to the United States.
Seventy five per cent of the worlds cork
is produced in Spain and Portugal.
John Ritty, inventor of the cash regis
ter, died last Monday at Dayton, Ohio.
Thirty thousand persons are in danger
of starvation or freezing to death in AL
bania.
1t is estimated that the Uruguay wool
crop of 1913 will reach value of $780,
100000.
More than 80 per cent of the sheep of
this country are on the large ranches of
the West.
In the last year Iowa produced 96,953,
1873 pounds of butter, which was sold for
s2s, 2S5 ,240.
In year Z, TOT 100000 cigars and H.
600, 900, 900 cigarettes were smoked in the
United States.
Fifteen hunters lost their lives during
the recent season in pursuit OF game in
the State of Maine.
Christmas dinners were given to nearly
100, 900 poor persons in New York City by
charitable organizations.
Two men were killed and six were hurt
last thursday WDeu d w dOdou Guy Hc GA
ploded near Buffalo, ny
Lime was one of the earliest materials
used to improve soil, being metioned in the
writing of Plato and Pliny.
Practically all the corncob pipes used
in America are produced by six factories,
all of which are in Missouri.
The Southern Pacific Railroad last Mon
day settled its back tax suits in Kentucky
by the payment of S3O6,077.
Fourteen persons were killed last Thurs
day in the province Of Naples by the ex-
plosion of firework factory.
In riot of hundreds of hungry and
unemployed men last Thursday in Los
Angeles, CAL, one man was killed.
The highest death-rate in the world is at
Cochabamba, Bolivia, where each year
seventy five in every thousand die.
There will be no lack of winter weather
anywhere in the United States, if Weather
Bureau experts read the signs Alright.
Two lives were lost and damage exceed
ing S1,250,OO0 done recently when fire
destroyed the dockyard at Portsmouth,
England.
Mrs. Adlal E. Stevenson, wife of former
Vice President Stevenson, and native of
Kentucky, died last Thursday in Bloom
ington, Ill.
Five hundred personslost their lives in
recent vocanic eruptions in the New Heb
rides group of Islands, off the west coast
of Scotland.
James Campbell, negro in New Or
leans, stole full barrel of whisky to cele-
brate Christmas and was arrested while
rolling it home.
The dreadnaught battleships now in
commission or building have cost the
Powers five times as much as the cost of
the Panama Canal.
A study of the vote of New York City
shows that Tammany has an army Of $780,,
| 900 voters who stand by it in spite of all
scandal and exposure.
| Saratova, Russia, Dec. 31.-Fourteen
persons have been frozen to death in a
severe snow storm in the Petrovsk district.
Many others are missing.
| According to the Geological Survey there
is good reason to believe that Louisiana is
underlaid by one of the greatest natural
gas fields in the United States. 49,
Ten billion dollars worth of produce and
over S., 900, 900, 900 of cash constitute the
income of American farmers for 1918 de-
spite drouths and other setbacks.
Seventy persons, mostly children, were
killed at Christmas celebration at Calmut,
Michigan, because of needless panic
caused by false alarm of fire.
For four years West Virginia has led the
States in the amount of natural gas pro-
duced and supplied the consumption, most
of it being piped to adjoining States.
Guatemala is about as large as Louisi-
ana. The planters are the most influential
element and they sell their products for
gold and pay their labor in deprecated
currency.
/ Mill consumption of cotton in the United
States for 1913 was the largest in the his
tory of the country, as was the value of
domestic cotton goods manufactures, &C.
cording to the Census Bureau.
The Quaker Oats Company, its directors
and the directors of the Great Western
Fuel Company were made defendants in a
suit for S10,000,000 damages filed in
Chicago Monday by receivers for the Co.
real Company.
Columbus, Miss, Dec. 25.-It was snow
ing over large part of Northwestern
Mississippi to-day, according to reports
received here. Snow began to fall here
shortly after midnight and continued to-
day. 1t came after a heavy rain. The
thermometer registered thirty two degrees
here this morning, which is unusual for
this section.
Berlin, Dec. 31.-The German capital is
covered with fourteen inches of snow to-