The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-10-07
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workmen in tunnel at Phenixville, Pa,
and killed nine men.
Deadwood, S. D., Oct. 4.-From three
to four inches of snow fell throughout the
Black Hills last night, the first general fall
of the season.
For the fourth time in twelve months, a
Louisville, KY, jury convicted Will Henry
Daniel, negro, of the murder of Henry E.
Robinson, railroad man.
The tax assessment machinery of the
various States and municipalities is costing
$50, 900 year, according to an esti-
mate of statistican of the Wisconsin Tax
Commission.
Four school children taken by a Lancas-
ter, Pa, man for an automobile ride after
school Friday were killed, with their host,
when an express train struck the automo
bile at crossing.
Col. Robert Gates, editor, railroad builder
and Il member of Gen. N. B. Forests staff
from the battle of Chckamauga until the
close Of the Civil War, died Sunday night,
near jackson, Tenn.
Every Sunday School in Kentucky is
expected to send a delegate to the golden
anniversary celebration of the Kentucky
Sunday School Association, which begins
to- day. Many of the leading Sunday
School workers and speakers of America
will be heard.
Paris, Sept. 29.-German casualties in
the recent offensive of the French and
British, including killed, wounded and
prisoners, were given officially by the
French war office to-day as in excess of the
the strength of three army corps (more
than 10000 men).
There is little prospect of reopening the
Panama Canal before November 1st. Since
the channel was blocked by side from
the east bank north of Gold Hill Septem
Der goth the movement has continued
steadily, pouring earth and rock into the
waterway while the dredges worked away
in vain effort to keep it open. Records
| showed that sixty three ships were waiting
to pass through the waterway last Friday.
and it is estimated that the number held up
on both sides of the isthmus will reach 100
before the middle of this week.
Washington, Oct. "A heavy decline
in the condition of the growing cotton crop
almost double the average decline Of the
last ten years, during September, has de-
creased the production prospects forecast
earlier in the season by almost million
bales. The Department of Agriculture to-
day estimated the crop at 10, $50, 900 equiv
alent 500 pound bales. which would be the
smallest crop since 1909. Last years pro-
duetion was IS, 135, 600 bales and the 1918
crop Il, 1861 900. Ia much of the southern
portion of the belt ginning is far advanced
and in some sections there, picking is prac-
tieally completed.
Documentary evidence of the massacre
and torture inflicted by the Turks upon the
Armenians, made public by the American
Atrocities Committee last Sunday, reveals
a condition worse than the horrors of the
last thousand years as recorded by history.
Quotations are given in the committee s
report from twenty four sources, some OF
which describe In detail instances where
Armenians have been put to death, women
violated and children slaughtered; of rob-
berry, torture and death by starvation, and
'tof terrible privations endured in long
marches to the desert regions to which the
Armenians have been exiled.