The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-02-10
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.
Twelve thousand children are arrested
annualled in New York.
Chile and the United States practically
produce all the borax used.
A Petersburg, Va, policeman was muir
dered by negro he had arrested.
Greater London has about 1000, 900 more
persons within it's limits than Greater New
York has.
Automobile fees and fines in the State
of New York last year amounted to nearly
100000.
All the parks, gardens and available
open spaces of Vienna are to be laid out as
vegetable gardens.
Our trade with South American countries
last year increased S92, 900, 900 over that of
1912, the previous record year.
The Austrian treasury office at Vienna
has decided to follow the precedent set by
Germany and issue iron currency.
Grain prices tended lower last week,
wheat dropping to Z cents, corn to
81 cents and oats 21a to 81 cents.
Seattle, WASH, Feb. 4.-The snowstorm
that held the Northwest in its grip for four
days grew less intense Thursday night.
Flint, Mich, Feb 5.-More than thirty
persons were injured to ght in collision
of an interurban car and a railrond special.
Cases Of the plague in Russia have been
traced to the fact that the victims handled
i camels that had died of similar disease.
i France and Russia are now in direct
communication by wireless, two powerful
stations having been recently completed.
{ Pittsburg pays S40.1O a pupil yearly for
operating schools. Chicago pays S45.2o;
, Cleveland, S46 80, and Los Angeles, S71.25.
5 Claude Kitchin, majority leader of the
= House. predicted the repeal of the free
5 sugar clause of the tariff before February
s 10Th.
4 The School Board of Dallas, Texas, has
> decided to free text books for children in
g the public schools except for the higher
3 classes.
Tree planting on the sand hills of Ne
braska has been successful. Jack pines
planted there ten years ago are now fifteen
:, feet in height.
- The sugar cane crop in Cuba continues
to progress under conditions that leave
e little room for complaint on the part Of the
sugar producers there.
v The Senate, 50 to "a, last Friday passed
= the bill giving the Philippine Islands in
n dependence in from two to four years at thu
= discretion of the President.
is According to report of the director o
e the United States Bureau Of Census, 20,
'e 249, 1926 miles of telephone line were in u.s.
8. in the United States during 1912.
Chicago, Feb. 4.-Petitions were file'
d to day in eighty five townships for the sub
'e mission of the liquor question at the spring
n, election. Fifty-three of the 1902 countie
l. of Illinois now are anti saloon territory.
y Twenty towns were engulfed and sixtee
y people have been lost in the floods whc
~ have formed a rapidly widening lake i
.s Southeastern Arkansas. Motor boats res
~ cued twentysix people who had take
40 refuge in tree tops near MCGEE, Ark.
~ Kansns City, Feb. 5.-Diamonds wort
10 $1,000 and cash estimated at $500 was take
90 from the pawnshop of Max Stern, on on
Va of the principal business streets late yes
- terday after Stern had been beaten int
ri insensibility by five men who entered h
ot store ostensibly as customers. Stern We
NJ struck on the head with blackjack an
,st locked in closet. The robbers then pre-
he ceeded to ransack the store.
,is Mngus, Texas, Feb. 1.-Two person
D. were killed and third seriously injured
IN mysterious assault in the home of G.
st. Clair of this place, last night. Mr.
K St. Clair aud Mrs. Will Wilkins, visito
in were beaten to death, and st. Clair's three
e. year-oid daughter was left unconscious
re blows from steel bar which was found
er the yard, bearing blood stains. st. Cha
he returned from work early to-day and four
ke the bodies of his wife and Mrs. Wilkins ar
nd his injured child lying on the floor.
We Berne, Feb. 5.-The Swiss Governme
to has decided to establish sugar monopol
es Next week it will take over all stocks
'se sugar in the country and raise prices fro
lot the equivalent of IL cents per metr
of pound to quotations varying between
ITO and 10 cents. Considerable quantities
an American sugar have been imported in r
lr- cent months, but these shipments ha
ID. been checked by the difficulty of obtainil
ife shipping facilities. Purchases amountil
,er to 5000 car loads have been made in Au
90 tria recently.