The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-01-27
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

St. Louis is the greatest fur market in
the world.
The State of Michigan claims thirty
three large manufacturers of motor cars.
1t is estimated that the flood damage in
the Yuma Valley of Arizona will reach
100000.
Washington, Jan. 22.-Resources of the
federal reserve banks increased nearly
100000 during the past week.
Three million dollars have been spent to
bring the power Of waterfall ninety miles
to Bombay for electric light and power
purposes.
The Young Mems Christian Association
announces the value of its property in this
country at S1OO,O0O,O0O. The association
owns 1859 buildings.
Two children burned to death in Chicago
Sunday because firemen could not get into
their rooms owing to iron bars put across
the window for protection against burglars.
According torecent government statistics
50 per cent Of the American people are liv-
ing from day to day on their wages and
loss of employment would mean pauperism
for all but 2 per cent of US.
New York, Jan. 23.-John Cuneo, a
bootblack, was found dead in his room to-
night In his clothes were bank books
showing he had saved more than So, 800.
| His death was due to insufficient nourish-
ment.
Fifteen sugar beet factories in Michigan
are expected to produce 100000 tons of
sugar this year and the State will possibly
be third in the race compared with the rest
of the beet-sugar producing States in the
Union.
Many farms and villages in Northern
| Illinois were inundated last week with great
property loss and considerable damage and
loss of life was reported from Kansas, Ok
lahoma, Arazona and elsewhere as re-
suit Of rains and congested ice.
Seattle, WASH, Jan. 22.-Six persons
ore believed to have been killed and fifteen
injured early to-day when the westbound
Great Northern was struck by an avalanche
on the west slope Of theI Cascade Mountains,
. and two cars carried down the mountain
side.
During the year 1915 254 lives were
crushed out upon the streets of Chicago
and the highways and byways Of Cook
County, Illinois, by motor vehicles. Sixty
five per cent of the lives lost were due to
the carelessness of the unfortunate victims
who met violent death.
Philadelphia, Pa, Jan. 22.-The mystery
lsurrouding the disappearance of $4,000
worth of sacred ornaments from the fash
ionable St. Marks Episcopal Church here
was cleared up to-day when the police
found all the missing articles in the home
of George F. Davis, seventeen years old
a choir boy.
Texarkana, Texas, Jan. paw. j. May
field, aged about fifty, was taken from the
Jail at New Boston, Texas, shortly before
midnight and lynched by twenty five
masked men. Mayfield was held in jai
charged with the killing of his father
mother and brother recently with an ak
! In court there to-day the man had beer
granted a change of venue in each case or
the pleadings Of his counsel. He was placed
on trial recently for the murder of his
, mother, mistrial resulting. Ten member:
of the jury were for hanging and two hello
for verdict Of nanslaughter.
Washington, Jan. 24.-The ninth cottor
ginning report of the season, compiled
{ from reports of Census Bureau cores
, pondents and agents throughout the cottor
belt and issued to-day, announced tina
!, 10, 1862 bales of cotton, counting roune
a as half bales, of the growth of 1915, has
+ been ginned prior to January 18th. Tha
+ compares with 14,915,S50 bales, or 93.S Pc
a cent Of the entire crop ginned prior to Jan
:. uary 18th last year, IS 1852, 036 bales, o
. 97.1 per cent in 1918, and 13,088, $3.50 bales
o or $40 per cent in 1912. The average
. qquantity of cotton gnned prior to Januar!
+ 10Th in the last ten years was 1921 49,
y bales or 95.5 per cent Of the crop.