The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-02-25
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

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Five men lost their lives in fire which
destroyed hotel at Mansfield, Ore.
Eight mine workers were killed by gas
explosion in a colliery at Wilkes Barre, Pa.
The Vermont House last Thursday pass
ed referendum bill to prohit the sale of
liquor.
Robbers blew the safe in bank at
Farmersburg, Ind, Monday night and got
$500.
Mrs. l. A. Halter, whose home is short
distance from Carriere, Miss, was burned
to death Saturday afternoon.
The people of Atlanta recently prevented
theater manager from presenting Harriet
Beecher's Stoves villainous ''Uncle Tom 9
Cabin
Forty head of registered Hereford COWS
and heifers, valued at S25, 900, were burned
to death in barn fire Sunday in Shelby
County, Kentucky.
The average value of the daily shipments
of cream and butter from Macon, Noxubee
County, Miss, is $500, and Monday it
doubles this amount.
Louisville, KY, ranks thirty second in
parcel post packages handled in outgoing
mails during 1914. A total of 2,588, $50
packages were mailed.
Judge William M. Kavanaugh, president
of the Southern Baseball League, and a
former United States Senator, died sud-
denly Sunday in Little Rock, Ark.
A party of fifty masked men Sunday
night visited country church near Nor
tonville, Hopkins County, KY, and warned
disturbers Of worship that such practice
must cease.
Miss Margaret Bacon and Miss Jacoba
Bacon, sisters and residents of Mason
County, Kentucky, were killed Sunday by
an interurban car in Indianapolis, Indiana,
where they were visiting relatives.
The twenty-fifth annual reunion. of the
United Confederate Veterans will be held
in Richmond, June 1st, I'd and Sd, these
dates having been set by Gen. Bennett H.
Young, Commander in Chief of the organ
ization.
The restaurant of William Barnes at
Benton. KY, was blown up with dynamite
Sunday night by unidentified persons. On
nearby business house placard was
ing to bootleggers.''
JOnesoOrO, ARK, FeD. 2O.-JOhn II. Darr,
aged sixty five, a planter residing six miles
south of here, early to-day shot and killed
his eight-year-old daughter and his wife
and then killed himself. Darr is believed
to have suffered from an attack of tempo
rary insanity.
Kansas City, Feb. 22.-The snow storm
which descended over Kansas and Okla
homa to-day, is proving one of the most
disastrous to wire communication ever ex
perienced here. The heavy fall of snow
continued until late tonight and the tenn
perature continued to fall to freezing.
Responsive to the touch of President
Wilson's fingers on a telegraph key, the
gates of the Panama Exposition at San
Francisco swung open at noon, Pacific
Coast time, last Saturday. Forty We for
eign nations, forty three States and three
Territories are represented at the exposi-
ton.
Des Moines, Iowa, Feb. 2O.-With the
closing of all saloons in Des Moines last
Monday, and the removal of all the stocks
of liquor from the city Friday, the progress
of the ''dry' movement in Iowa, now being
fostered by proposed legislation for con-
stitutional prohibition amendment and by
the repeal of the mulct law, assumed an
aspect which causes it to be generally con-
coded that Iowa will be the seventeenth
prohibition State.