The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-02-03
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


States in amount per capita expended on
its public schools.
Three children were drowned yesterday
near Bonham, Texas.
London, Feb. l., $3.50 p. m.-Fifty -four
persons were killed and sixty seven injured
in last nights Zepperlin raid.
A mob Of 400 white men last Thursday
night lynched negro accused of attacking
white woman near Willston, Florida.
Ten persons were killed and four seri-
ously burned last Tuesday by the explosion
of the boilers of towboat at Huntington,
West Virginia.
Asheville, N. c., Jan. 30.-Clyde Will
liams was pinned beneath an overturned
automobile in creek near here early this
morning and drowned.
The United States Supreme Court last
week handed down decision to the effect
that the federal law taxing all incomes
above $1,000 is constitutional.
Louis D. Brandeis of Boston was APP
pointed to the United States Supreme Court
last Friday by President Wilson to succeed
the late Justice Lamar of Georgia.
The Government report of farm stock on
hand in Kentucky January 1st shows a
decrease of II 900 horses and mules since
January 1, 1914, due to the demands of war;
Duluth, Mimi, Jan. 29.-Since January
list, thirty-one inches of snow has fallen,
breaking all records. 1t has been showing
steadily for three days here and the street
car system is tied up.
Capt. James E. Blair died in Richmond,
Va, January Goth. He was member of
Company C Of the Nineteenth Virginia
Regiment, being elected captain, and sur
rendered at Appomattox.
High pressure and cold weather extended
Tuesday from California to the Ohio valley,
minimum temperature Of % degrees below
zero WIS recorded in Northern Montana.
In appealing to the English people for
thrift and economy in helping posterity to
bear the burdens Of the present war, Sir
Herbert l.. Samuel declared the national
income was only $4,000 100000 year,
while the war is costing about 81 800, OO0,-
900.
Preliminary estimates of the total yield
of petroleum for 1915 indicate slight in
crease over the record breaking yield in
1914. This condition does not agree with
the currently reported reason for the ex-
ceptionally high prices now prevailing for
motor fuel.
Annapolis, Md, Feb. 1T was under
stood on reliable authority here to day that
22O nlldshipmen or about one-fourth of the
entire membership Of the Naval Academy
will be asked to resign soon, because of
their failure to pass the half yearly exam
ination. The number of failures in each
class is said to be as follows: First, or
graduating class, 20; second, 60; third, 60;
fourth, so.
| Twenty four persons were killed and
twenty-seven injured when a Zepperln
airship last Saturday night dropped some
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the City of Paris. The attack was launched
under cover of a fog, and the raider es-
capped despite the fact that large number
Of French aircraft endeavored to find it.
Some of the bombs weighed about 900
pounds, and in exploding caused consider
able material damage.
Washington, Jan. 27.-Temperature ex-
tremes never before equaled in the forty
five years history of the weather bureau
were recorded o-day by Government fore
casters. While the East and South were
treated to summer skies the Northwest felt
one OF the coolest snaps of the winter.
Tampa, Florida, with a temperature of 80,
was ia degrees warmer than Havre,
Montana, the coolest town in the country.
at 81 degrees below Zero. The hot and cold
waves both broke January records in MANY
parts Of the country.
London, Jan. 28.-'I think that for US
the war is only beginning," said David
Lloyd George, Minister of Munitions, in
an interview to-day, "but am absolutely
confident Of victory, because, although we
all have made mistakes in the past, Eng
land and her Allies are now taking counsel
together and will be stronger, because they
are united. BY next spring we shall have
for the first time more munitions than the
enemy and our superiority in men is I'M
questioned. Besides this Germany's finan-
cial position is growing worse daily"
| New York, Jan. 24.-"Statistics show
that one out of every five families in this
country must furnish a son to become a
drunkard, the Rev. DR.. Reisner stated
last night in his sermon at Grace Methodist
Church. by actual experiment it has
been shown that when healthy animal is
merely given the fumes of alcohol the
offspring is puny and deformed Local
option in New York City is no longer a
tanatcal measure. Kansas, without sa-
looms, has one insane person in $40. New
York, with saloons, has one insane person
| in 26O.''
Gems Of Thought.
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