The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-03-25
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

California produces more petroleum than
any other State.
The Brazilian cotton crop is increasing
in quantity and quality.
North Carolina last year produced min
erals valued at So, 739, 1896.
The most powerful wireless station in the
world has been built in Italy.
Three prisoners overpowered the jailer
at Magnolia, Miss, and escaped.
America now produces 2OO,00O,OOO gall
Ions of cottonseed oil every year.
Joseph Rogers and farm hand were
to death in fire near Waynsboro, Miss.
The humane CD Germans have forbid
den immigration from suffering Belgium.
A new search-light used in the United
States Navy has range of hundred miles.
The people of Vermont will choose be-
tween Statewide prohibition and local OPP
ton in 1915.
Jamaica annually furnishes from 8,000,-
600 to 5000, 900 punches of bananas to the
United States.
A bale of cotton is used in making the
smokeless powder for one shot from fif-
teen-inch shell.
Paris has issued map showing where,
within its limits, the tango may and may.
and may not be danced.
A gain of S62,OOO,O0O over the same
month Of 1914 was shown in the export of
manufactures in January of this year.
Fifty-six miners were killed Monday in a
snow avalanche that wiped out the bunk
houses Of coal mine at Howe Sound,
British Columbia.
Rome, March Alderman and Austrian
subjects who reside in Italy have been ad-
vised by their respective consuls to leave
the country as quickly as possible.
Meridian, Miss, March 20.-Three inches
of snow fell in this section last night. 1t
melted within short time and it is not be-
lived that crops were damaged to any great
extent.
Snow to the depth of twelve inches fell
Sunday night and Monday morning at
Hazard and Winchester, KY. Jackson, in
Eastern Kentucky, was covered with six
inches of snow.
Foreign trade Of France suffered de-
crease of S126, 100000 a month during the
first two months of this year, as compared
: with the same period in 1914, according tc
statistics prepared in Paris. The decrease
=, was equally divided between imports anc
exports.
Algeciras, Spain, March 21.-Four sail
ing vessels, with Spanish dock laborers or
board, have been lost in a furious storm
!. 1t is estimated that 800 persons on boart
:, the vessels were drowned. One hundred
!. vessels of various nationalities have taker
. refuge from the storm in Agericas Bay.
+ Washington, March 20.-The creates
cotton crop ever produced in the United
States was grown in 1914. Census bureau
statistics: issued to-day, giving final gin
ming figures, officially place the 1914 crol
!, as record, with Is, 102, 143 bales of 5O
pounds each. That is 409.442 equivalen
: 5CO- pound bales, or 204, 721 900 pound
e more than produced in the great crop O
1911. In addition to the great productio
of lint cotton record quantity of linte
O cotton, which is extensively used in tn
!, manufacture of military explosives, Wa
:. obtained This cotton, delinted from tn
9 seeds at oil mills, amounted to 395, 1872 90
pounds and brought the total 1914 crop
T. 6,S93 6O4 equivalent 500-pound bales, c
e S,446, 1903 800 pounds. While the crop wa
(. record one, the only States to make ne
records in production were Alabama, Lou
isiana and Oklahoma. The other cotto
'e States all came close to their records.