The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-08-05
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.
Lake Superior was visited by snow
storm early last Tuesday.
Lake Ontario was whipped last Tuesday
by the worst gale in twelve years.
There were 22,000,000 persons enrolled
in educational institutions in the United
States in 1914.
Fall weather was experienced at Kansas
City last Tuesday when the thermometer
fell to So degrees.
1t is estimated that 200 Americans have
been killed in the Mexican revolutions since
the fall Of Porfirio Diaz.
Property damage estimated at 100000
was caused in Peoria, H., and vicinity last
Monday night by cloudburst.
Sioux City, August 3.-The temperature
here to-day dropped to 81 degrees. Win
ter overcoats were worn and fires started.
Three girls and a young man were drown
ed last Sunday at Fenton's Beach, across
the Delaware River from Wilmington, Del.
Growing grain, railroads and highways
in Eastern Wyoming and Western Nebras-
ka suffered heavily from a disastrous storm
late Saturday and Sunday.
Eight men were killed and twelve injured
last Friday at a coal mine near Elizabeth,
Pa, when cable hauling twelve cars up
a steep incline broke.
Galveston, Texas, July 31.-Cotton re-
ceipts here for the 1914-15 season, which
closed to-day, were 4,O32,622 bales, the
largest figure ever reported.
Erie, Pa, August 4.-Erie had listed
ltwenty-seven dead tonight in the mile
long wreckage strewn path through the
heart of the city, swept by last nights
flood.
Philadelphia, August 3.-Two men were
killed and three others were injured in an
explosion to-day in the experimental de-
partment Of the United States Arsenal in
that city. Experiments were being made
with high power explosive shell.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, August 4.-The
most daring robbery in the history of the
State occurred early to-day when N. L..
Perrin, paying teller of the Cedar Rapids
National Bank. was forced to deliver $751;
400 of the banks funds to lone bandit,
at the point of a gun.
Philadelphia, August With an official
temperature of Sc to-day surpassed Phil
adelphia's highest record for any August
1st in the history of the local weather bu-
reau. There were eight deaths reported
as due to the heat and relief did not come
to the city until the late afternoon when a
thunderstorm caused drop of Is degrees.
Washington, Augusta .-This years cot
ton crop will be approximately II $40, 037,
equivalent 500-pound bales, compared with
Is, 1874, $50 bales last year. That estimate,
| unofficially calculated, is based on the Gov
ernment's condition report, issued to-day,
and official figures of acres and normal
yield. Whether the crop will be greater or
less depends upon growing conditions from
now until picking time.
Erie, Pa, August 3.-Twenty five lives
were lost, as estimated by the police; mil
lions of dollars in property damaged, and
the city in total darkness tonight, is the
result of. a cloudburst shortly after 6
o'clock, which inundated large section of
the city. Every store in State Street, the
main business street of the city, is flooded,
and at least fifty houses are reported wash
ed away. The Jarecki manufacturing plant
has been washed away and twenty auto
mobiles that were in the garages went with
them.
Paducah, KY, July 29.-When 10000
volunteer workers engaged in construction
of highway between Paducah and Mem
phis put down their picks and shoyels to-
night they had completed in its most i'm
portant details the entire roadway over it's
length of $50 miles. Finishing touches
will be put to that part of the road extend
ing from Paducah to the Kentucky State
line Tomorrow. Congressman, judges and
city and county officials were among the
most active of the workers. Dinner was
served by the women of cities and towns
along the route.