The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-06-24
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


fall of an eroplane at Quincy, Mass.
Robert Lansing was appointed Tuesday
Secretary of State to succeed WI. Bryan.
Sioux City, Iowa, June 18.-The temper
ture dropped to 43 here to-day, the coolest
on June 18th, since 1889.
An Owenshoro, KY, firm has been offer
ed contract to manufacture o,OOO,OOO
Mauser rifles for the Allies.
New York, June 2O.-Six persons were
drowned in nearby waters to-day, four be-
ing victims of boating accidents.
Los Angeles, CAL, June 22.-Several
deaths are reported at Calexico, town on
the Mexican boundary line, as result of
an earthquake.
Fred Shaver, who shot his father and
stepmother dead in jamestown, N. Y, and
wounded policeman, who has since died,
held police at bay until shot dead.
Philadelphia, Pa, June 2O-Besides the
seven drownings reported from Atlantic
City four Philadelphians were drowned
while bathing at various places to-day.
Congressman Thomas of Kentucky will
introduce bill at the next Congress for
the purchase of the Mammoth Cave in that
State by the Government as national park
for 81 100000.
closing session of the Illinois Legislature
last Friday was the signing of waterway
bill which will provide direct channel
from the Lakes to the Gulf.
| Sections of Mississippi and Arkansas
were swept late Tuesday by a severe wind
and rain storm. Standing corn and cot
ton throughout the section was seriously
damaged At Wabash, Ark, near Helena,
number of HOUSES and a hotel were un-
rooted by the wind.
London, June 23.-The- Russians have
lost Lemberg. They occupied the Galician
capital early in September, and held it un-
til Tuesday, when the combined Austro-
German forces compelled them to retreat
from the city, which is only sixty odd miles
due west from the Russian frontier.
That the United States has been defraud
ed of 100000 by manufacturers of col
ored oleomargarine, who failed to pay the
1O-cent tax, was announced few days
ago by Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo.
An investigation, reaching as far back as
1902, has just been completed by the Com
missioner Of Internal Revenue.
A terrific wind and rainstorm passed
over sections of Kentucky and Indiana
Tuesday morning. Several persons were
killed by lightning and many more injured.
The property loss in the way. of animals
killed, crops ruined and buildings either
demolished or damaged will reach into
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Washington, June 14.-The fifty-year-
old State debt controversy between Vir-
GINA and West Virginia was finally adju-
Dictated to-day when the Supreme Court of
the United States held that West Virginia
shall pay 1893, 929.50 as her share of
principal and interest Of Virginia's ante
{ bellum Indebtedness. Of this amount 81, =
215, 1922. % represents West Virginia share
] of the principal as of January l, 1861, and
t s., 178, 307.22 is interest on this sum for
; fifty -four years and six months. If West
Virginia does not pay over the amount by
t July 1st next, the State must pay5 per cent
, interest on the total of S12 1898, 929.50 until
it is paid.
S Kansas City, June 18.-Reports reached
e here to-day of loss of fourteen lives and
t great destruction of property during the
: high wind and heavy rainsorm over Mis-
Y souri, last night. Yesterdays rains over
t northern Oklahoma, all of Kansas, Mis-
i souri,, Iowa and Eastern Nebraska, were
K the heaviest in years. Near Lamonte, Mo-,
e high winds unroofed houses and levelled
b small buildings. At St. Joseph, Mo-, much
t damage was done by flooding of cellars
8 following a two-inch precipitation. A tor
g nado at Fort Scott, Kan, unroofed score
: of small houses. Forty box cars were
blown from the railroad track. Many
it trees, telephone and telegraph poles are
y lying on the ground to-day. Stock was
d killed in large numbers.
. Leo M. Frank, whose death sentence fol
e the murder of Mary Phagan in Atlanta
. was committed to life Imprisonment by
It Gov. Slaton, began serving his term at thu
: Georgia State prison farm in Milledgevills
r Monday. Soon after officials had secretly
: taken Frank from Atlanta, the Governor
: issued a long statement justifying hi
: course. With 700 men and boys clamorine
r. to get into his front gates, which had beer
|, barricaded by barbed wire entantangle
Vt ments, and threatening to overpower tn,
e twenty county policemen, armed with rio
: guns, Gov. Slaton called upon the militi;
late Monday night to protect his home
Upon arrival of four companies of Stat'
guardsmen, which had been held unde
arms and rushed to the Governors countr,
home in automobiles, he proclaimed mar
a tial law in district surrounding his home
e The crowd dispersed, and there was nj
s firing. Monday night at Newman Slato1
8 and Frank were hanged in efigy and tn.
e images cut down, set on fire and dragged
blazing through the streets. At Marietta
# a fe-sized dummy, bearing the inscrip
r ton ''John M. Slaton, Georgia's traitor