The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-02-12
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


Southern furnaces report steody sales of
pig iron.
The area of corn harvested in the United
States in 1913 was los, 82O, 900 acres.
South Carolina and South Dakota are
the only States in which tin isproduced.
A million-do paper mill at Brokaw,
Wis, was destroyed by fire last Monday.
A negro drayman of Jackson, Miss, was
held up and robbed of S72 by white men.
W.D Cochran dropped dead in Waynes-
boro, Miss, while hitching his horse to the
buggy.
Six men were killed and several injured
Saturday in an explosion of steam mill
near Urban, Ky.
One person was killed and fourteen we're
injured in a railroad wreck at Bigefow,
Mimi, last Sunday.
A. j. Amason, drummer residing in
his wife and himself.
The United States has issued call for
the holding of the third peace conference
at the Hauge next year.
Postmaster General Burleson announces
that he does not approve of postmasters'
conventions under present conditions.
The abolition of the plea of insanity as a
defense to crime is the object of bill
introduced in the New York Legislature.
The largest double drummer shed in the
Unied States carries loads of eighty eight
adults or 100 children down the hills of
Pennington, N. H.
Nearly 100000 damage was done by
fire at Clinton. Texas. on the Sd instant.
Between $4,000 and 10000 bales of cotton
were consumed or badly damaged.
The dates for the annual reunion of the
United Confederate Veterans at Jackson
vile, Fla, have been changed from April
10Th, Both and May 1st, to May 9th, 7th
and 9Th.
Forty-o ne persons were suffocated last
Saturday in Moscow, Russia, by leaking
gas pipe. The leak was discovered by a
porter after all but few people in the
building were dead.
| Washington, Feb. 5.-A threatened loss
of 5000, 1000, 900 in hogs during the present
year from hog cholera led the Senate to-
day to agree unanimously to bill appro-
priating 100000 for the Department of
Agriculture to fight the disease.
"He spurned me and shot him and my
SELF" From the hospital cot on which she
was dying at Cleveland, Ohio, this was the
only explanation of Miss Grace McQuaide
for firing bullet into the body of ]. G.
Adler, her sweetheart of six years, at her
home early last Friday, mortally wounding
him.
AS result of the go-to- church cam
paign more than 100, 900 persons last Sun
day attended the forenoon services in the
!, Protestant churches in Boston-twice the
everage number-with an equally large
outpouring of worshippers in the cities ane
towns within fifteen miles of the State
House.
An earthquake lasting from fifteen tt
thirty seconds, ratified dishes off shelve:
, at Worcester, Mass, overturned furniture
shook dishes from tables and threw dowr
chimneys at Ogdenburg, N. Y, threw {
, woman to the floor at Burlington, VT, ant
; caused panic in foundry at Trenton, N
, j., took place last Tuesday at l 80 p. N.
: The number of persons who met acct
dental deaths in Baltimore during tn
month of January numbered twenty. Their
> were 353 accidents, not fatal. Of the sixty
nine persons who were reported missing 70
the month only seven were located. -Four
teen persons committed suicide and fifteel
t others made attempts. Forty persons fel
r from street cars. One death resulted
There were eighty nine sudden deaths.
+ Chicago, Feb. 8.-Zero weather-th
first of the year here-brought one dealt
and suffering to thousands of poor to- day
The cold wave arrived last night, and at
O'Clock this morning the thermometer reg
4 istered zero. Seventy-five fires kept tn
+ fire department moving all day. To-nigh
the department was badly crippled, man
! of its members suffering from frozen hand
q and feet. Charitable organizations ha
their hands full giving relief where tn
suffering was acute. At all the hospital
there were constant appeals for help
e Twenty-six hundred men were cared fo
o to- might in municipal lodging houses, an
as many more were turned away. TIL
bread line contained more than thousan
G men.
e Senator Overman of North Carolina ha
e introduced in the Senate bill providin
for refunding to citizens of the Souther
States the tax collected on cotton by tn
d Federal Government under the act of 1856:
"a which is different from any of those here
e tofore proposed, in that instead of author
: izing that the repayment be made to tn
+ holders of the tax receipts it provides thu
10 the taxes be returned to the individual
y who actually paid the tax, or their heir:
Or Under the Overman bill the Federal Gov
l. eminent is to accredit to each State tn