The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-01-29
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.
Ireland has had the biggest potato Gro,

George Lee Temple, an English aviator,
was killed Sunday at Herndon, England.
The revolutionary movement in Haiti is
growing stronger, according to reports
from Port au Prince.
The Confederate Reunion for 1914 will
be held in Jacksonville, Florida, April 10Th
and 3Ott and May 1st.
A bandit held up and robbed passengers
in a rear sleeper of train near jackson,
Michigan, early Friday.
Oklahoma is one of the leading, if not
the largest, producers of petroleum and it's
compounds in this country.
Two burglars confined in the Pennsyl-
vania penitentiary at Philadelphia died
from drinking hair tonic.
Russia's population is increasing at the
rate of 100000 year. It now stands at
about l4T,o0o,0M, Of WHICH 100, 100000 are
peasants:
The recoverable copper content Of the
ores produced in Arizona last year was
more than 100000 pounds day, a new
high record:
That Hindu laborers be barred from the
United States, was the accommodation OF
Secretary of Labor Wilson in letter to
Speaker Clark.
In 1918 in the United States new COM
panies incorporated with capital of
100000 or over represented total of
SO, 1871 $3.50 200.
Fort Smith, Ark, Jan. 24.-One man
was shot to death and eight others injured
in free-for- all fight at dance in South
Forth early to-day.
Seven men were shot to death and three
persons were wounded Monday of last week
from the State pententiary at Little Rock,
Ark, and were slain by guards.
Paris, Jan. 24.-The cold is so intense in
Northern France that the harbors gradually
are closing up. Temperatures ranging
from a5 to g degrees below freezing were
recorded at various points to-day, and the
inside basin of pieppe harbor Is covered
with thick ice.
Batavia, Dutch East Indies, Jan. &c.
Fifty-eig children, sixteen women and
one man were killed to-day during panic
caused by fire at a moving picture show
on plantation in the Dutch residency of
Surabaya. Most of the victims were
ira implied to death or suffocated.
A permanent winter refuge of 1000 acres
of land on the east side of Iackson's Hole,
in Wyoming, to care for $4,000 of elk, has
been arranged by the Department OF Ag-
riculture. 1t is expected that enough hay
will be raised on this tract to feed the en-
tire heard. The price of land ranged from
| S25 to $50 an acre.
Paris, Jan. 25.-The long continued cold
especially in the central districts of France,
is bringing numbers of wolves, frantic with
hunger, out of the woods. A little girl
returning from school at LaOoguille, near
! Perigueux. was devoured by wild animals,
the searching parties finding only torn
pinafore and few bones.
Santa Barbara, Cal, Jan. 26.-Louis
Jones, wealthy retired banker, and his
wife, whose home was in the millionaire
colony Of Montecite, were drowned yester-
day in flood from the mountains, caused
by a cloudburst. Half dozen houses in
this city were wrecked and nearly every
bridge in the county was washed away
Estimate of the damage ranged between
$3.50, 200 and $3.50, 900.
Pittsburg, Jan. 24.-It became known
to-day that railroads in the Pittsburg dis
trict are waging vigorous warfare against
the use Of intoxicants by their employees
The general manager of the Pittsburg and
Lake Erie, was quoted as saying that forty
trainmen had been discharged from that
railroad for breaking the antidrinking rule
Announcement was made by Buffalo and
Pittsburg Railroad officials that seventeen
trainmen had been discharged from that
service for the same reason.
Philadelphia, Jan. 24-The third student
of the University of Pennsylvania to die
from unnatural causes in the last eight
days was found dead to-day from asphy.
xiation in a gas filled room at his boarding
house. The police pronounced it case Of
suicide. Last Saturday university stu.
dent was found drowned in the Delaware
River, and Thursday student committed
suicide by shooting.
! After three years of disappointment
Pacific Coast citrus fruit growers have pro,
duced bumper crop. Estimates at pres,
ent present place the California shipment
of oranges at 40, 900 cars, more than double
that of a year ago, and more than has beer
sent East in any year since the industry
was started. The 10000 cars would aver.
age 400 boxes each, and every box would
contain between 80 and 100 oranges, max.
ing approximately billion and half
The lemon and grape fruit crops are large
in proportion, and the deciduous fruits anc
vegetables will probably break their rec.
ords.
The phrase of Mind your Ps and Qs,'
says the New Orleans Times Democrat, is
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