The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-03-26
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Fire and water caused loss of $3.50, 900
at Tuscaloosa, Ala, on the 18th instant.
Robbers are said to have obtained SIC, 900
after forcing open the vault of a bank at
Gallatin, Tenn.
A torpedo boat cut down a passenger
steamer near Venice last Thursday, and
fifty persons we're drowned.
Three billion and five hundred million
bananas-forty for each person-were con-
sumed in the United States last year.
Two men under arrest at Atlanta have
been identified as the men who robbed the
@. and C. at Birmingham and got $40, O0O
Three persons were burned to death and
two seriously injured in a fire that followed
gas explosion Friday at Ardmore, Okla.
Cattle dealers of Hazlehurst, Miss, ship
ped nine carloads of milk cows and young
beeves to the ST. Louis markets Saturday.
The city of Philadelphia has offered
$1,000 reward for the finding of Warren
McCarrick, an eight year. old boy, believed
to have been kidnapped.
Sidney, New South Wales, March o.
Natives in the north of Malokula Island. of
the New Hebrides group, have murdered
and eaten native teachers from the Walal
Island Mission Station.
1t is said that 100000 canaries are kept
in Paris apartments, and that it costs ST.
900 day to supply them with chickweed
alone. They also consume large quantities
of LETTUCE, hemp and other seeds.
Washington, March IA shipment OF
cotton seed from Egypt for planting in
Arizona, was refused admittance at Boston
to-day because the seed were infected with
pink boil worm, so the Federal Horticultu-
raj Board announced.
Beaumont, Texas, March IA lone
masked bandit who suddenly appeared
from behind pile of boxes in the express
Railroad late Wednesday afternoon, Gov.
cred the express messenger with pistol
then bundled him in gunny sack and es.
capped from the car near Helbig with booty
estimated at from S15, 600 to $4,000.
Pekin, March 22.-Outrages by brigand:
in Central China are assuming alarming
proportions. Several bands are ravagine
various sections of the country, ruthlessly
numbering and robbing the people ane
burning their property. The latest exploit
of the bandits was the massacre of 800 towl
folk, who were resisting their entrance int
the important market town of Hupeh.
Public sentiment against gambling OF
horse racing has extended to Switzerland
and the police authorities of Geneva OIL
Wednesday of last week prohibited tn,
drawing of the various sweepstakes on tn,
\ chief horse racing events in England. Tn
drawing was advertised for last Saturday
and S75, 900 of English money had beel
received at Geneva. The action of tn
police is blow to English betting on tn
continent.
Washington, March 2O.-The 1913 cottol
crop was the most valuable ever grown
and second largest in point of quantity
Statistics announced by the bureau of cen
sus to-day indicated it amounted to 1883,
557, 500 pounds, or IA, 767, Isl bales of lin
and Inter cotton. The total value of tn,
crop. including the value of cotton seed, i
unofficially estimated roundly at more thai
81 .000, 900, compared with 1920, 600, 900 las
year and 1896, 0OO, 900 for the previous mos
valuable crop, that of 1910 The crol
amounting to 14,127,356 equivalent 500
pound bales of lint and 639, 795 equivalen
500 pound bales of linters, was produced
by the farmers of the United States during
1913, as reported by ginners and delinter
to February 18th. These figures compar,
with Is, 706, 321 equivalent 500 pound bale.
Of lint and 6O9-594 bales of linters las
year, and Il, 692, 701 bales of lint and 557,
575 bales Of linters in 1911.