The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-06-17
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

"A
oils caused property damage estimated
at 100000.
In the twelve months ended April 3Oth,
there were 877 merchant vessels built and
officially numbered in the United States.
The gross tonnage of these ships was 49,
$50.
Butte, Montana, June ia snowstorm
which began at midnight was still raging
at noon to-day. Railway traffic was de-
layed, but no serious damage to crops Is
expected.
Fort Worth, Texas, June 1.-Two lives
have been lost and considerable damage
done by the flood waters of the Trinity
River here, which were reported again ris-
ing slowly.
The offer of the Doctors Mayo of 81 $780,
900 to establish course in graduate med
ical instruction in their hospital at Roches-
ter, Mimi, was accepted by the University
of Minnesota.
New York, June 15.-A further cut of
from 10 to 20 cents in the price of flour was
made here to-day, when good spring pat
ents were quoted at $3.50, S1.5O under the
high mark of the season.
The Arkansas rice crop will be approx
mately 100000 bushels this year. The
acreage is little in excess of 100, 900 acres.
The amount of money invested in rice
growing in Arkansas exceeds St, 100000.
Johnston City, Illinois, June 10.-John
Strando, arrested in connection with the
murder last night of Edward Chapman, a
wealthy farmer, was taken from Jail here by
mob late to-day and hanged to a rafter
of nearby ice house.
Pittsburg, June 14.-A torrential rain
storm, which swept over Western Pennsyl-
vania late yesterday, caused heavy dam
age and at least two deaths. A cloudburst
struck Woodlawn and Aliquippa, Beaver
County, and the damage there is estimated
at S1O0, 1000.
Panama, June 11.-Seveteen prisoners
who were confined in the penitentiary at
Santiago, Province of Veragua, revolted
to- day and ten of them made their escape
after killing police lieutenant and one
guard, and dangerously wounding five
other guards.
| A fifty mile wind, with occasional gusts
of greater velocity, Monday night damag-
ed light and telephone service and broke
window sash at Fort Worth, Texas. AT
Gordon, Texas, box car was lifted from
the track by the wind and several yards OF
the railroads telegraph lines destroyed.
Los Angeles, June 11.-Ten sections OF
California oil lands near the town of Nc
Kittrick, Kern County, worth S15, Zoo, OOC
were declared to have been fraudulently
patented by the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company in decision by Judge Robert S
Bean, of the United States District Court
If DRAGON filed here to.dav
Jackson, Miss, June 12.-The United
States Bureau of Estimates Crop Report
issued June 9th, forecasts Mississippi's
wheat crop on June 1st, as q, 200 bushels
as against final estimate of 1914 produc.
ton of $4,000 bushels or over 100 per CEN
increase. The forecast for oats in this
State is 3,560,000 bushels, a very Sigh
decrease.
Los Angeles, CAL, June 1.-Two mask.
ed robbers, with revolvers drawn, boarded
a Southern Pacific train en- route from Sar
Francisco to Los Angeles, at Chatswortf
at midnight last night, robbed passenger:
of $3.50 and escaped. They compelled mer
and women in the last four coaches to give
up their money and jewelry, then pulled
the signal stopping the train and fled.
Chicago, June 11.-Delegates to the con
vention of the National Hardware Lumbe
Association, which met here Thursday, de-
clared that in event of demand for a larg'
number of rifles some substitute for blacl
walnut gun stocks would have to be found
There is comparative little black walnu
left, it was said, and contractors filling
European orders are competing for that
Red gum wood, which grows abundant.
in Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana AM
, other Southern States, is said to offer
satisfactory substitute which has been &C
cepted on some European contracts. TIL
,, delegates reported also that in the last 81
days the war has produced a sudden AM
unexpected demand for ash wood, which i
: said to enter into the composition of a va
riety of war materials, and the supply o
which is confined largely to the Unite
States.
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES.