The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-03-11
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Iowa's bee industry has value of ST.
500, 900 year.
The Minnesota Senate defeated bill for
referendum on woman suffrage.
Fire at Monroe, N. c., Friday night de-
stroyed more than 800 bales of cotton.
The number of juvenile offenders in the
New York Courts seem to be increasing.
The Delaware House of Representatives
Tuesday defeated woman suffrage % to 8.
In the first six months of the war the loss
to British shipping is estimated at over
$50, 100000.
New York State has 17,414 salaried en-
ployees, to whom are paid salaries aggre-
eating SIT 1881, 1876.
By vote of 80 to 80 woman suffrage was
defeated last Saturday by the Texas House
of Representatives.
During January the railroads of this
country ordered rails, engines and cars to
the value of 3O,OOO,O0O.
the asphalt deposits of Cuba, when de-
veloped, are expected to prove superior to
all others throughout the world.
The latest New York telephone directory
contains the names of 325, 900 subscribers.
1t has nearly a thousand pages.
The Memphis inventor of street car
fender has declined to patent it, preferring
that humanity should reap the benefit.
Four men were killed and one seriously
injured by an explosion of gunpowder last
Saturday at a powder plant at Haskell, N. J.
In Chicago nineteen women have been
tried for numbering their husbands, and
each was acquitted, during the last four
years.
Four children were killed Sunday near
Knowlsville, N. Y, when an automobile in
which they were riding was hit by an in
terurban car.
London, March 6.-Board of Trade fig
ures show Great Britain's imports increased
SIC, 075, 900 during February, while exports
decreasedS75, 425, 900.
Lincoln, Neb., March 5.-The total snow
fall for the winter here was fifty one inches,
after heavy snowfall yesterday. This
breaks all official records for one season by
five inches.
Government receipts from all sources for
the month of February were greater than
for the same month in 1914, but were still
S12, SOC, 900 under the ordinary expenses
for the month.
The anti-jug bill providing that no alco-
holic liquor of any kind shall be shipped
into or delivered in North Carolina, will be
submitted to the voters of the State at a
special election August l, 1915.
Columbus, Ind, March 4-Perry Davis
of this city marketed seventy-two hogs
here to-day which averaged $50 pounds
each in weight and some of them weighed
as much as $50 pounds each.
San Antonio. Texas, March 8.-Snow
ranging in depth from one and one-halt
inches in San Antonio, to three inches in
other sections of Southwest Texas, fell to-
day. 1t was the heaviest in nine years in
this city and the heaviest in the lower Rio
Grande country in twenty years. The
snow blanket extended over forty-twc
counties in northwest and southwest Texas,
and in eight counties snow was still falling
at late hour tonight.
Brunswick, Ga, March 6.-Five men
were killed, six others seriously wounded
and about score more slightly wounded
here to-day by Monroe Phillips, a local real
estate man and timber dealer, who ran
amuck on the principal street with an au-
tomato shotgun. Phillips himself was shot
dead by E. c. Butts, lawyer, while he
was trying to fire upon citizens who ap-
peared on the street. Phillips was thought
to have become insane because of alleged
financial reverses and developed an enmi-
ty for Harry F. Dunwoody, prominent
lawyer and politician, in whose office he
began his murderous attack After killing
Dunwoody, Bhilips went into the street
and began shooting at every one in sight
causing panic among citizens. 1t was
probably half an hour after the first shot
was fired by Phillips before he was shot
down by Attorney Butts. Later.-The
eighth victim died Tuesday.