The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-04-06
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Bar silver has risen sharply of late and
is now higher than it has been for years.
George Wink of Biloxi, Miss, committed
suicide by hanging.
Twenty two persons were killed by au-
tomobles in New York City streets during
March.
King George, in consequence of the war,
has donated S500,000 to the English Gov
eminent.
Three miners were killed and twenty or
more injured in an explosion in coal mine
near Bluefield, W. Va.
The United States used one-fifth of the
10000, 100000 pounds of sugar produced
in the world last year.
Citizens of Louisville, KY, will raise
ST 100000 to be devoted to the procurement
of factories for that city.
Milton Hall, of Union Bridge, Md, COM
mitted suicide last Thursday by firing a
revolver bullet into his mouth.
An aviator set new American record
! by nonstop flight from Newport News,
Va, to Washington and return.
Enemy warships or mines caused the
loss of thirty eight British ships and the
loss of 124 lives during March.
William H. Griffin of Friedrich, Md,
was crushed to death by an elevator in the
store Of which he was manager.
A patrolman and bandit were killed in a
desperate fight after the safe had been
blown in the postoffice at Rogers, Md.
Two men were killed and third injured
when a railroad motorcycle coIlided with a
work train in a tunnel near Daub, Va.
Practically inexhaustable deposits of
asphalt discovered in the Philippines two
years ago will be developed commercially
Petrograd, April 1.-The sinking of the
Russian hospital ship Portugal in the Black
Sea by a German submarine with the loss
of 115 lives, was officially announced to-
day.
Robert H. Hopkins, financial secretary
of Calvary Presbyterian Church, Balti-
more, dropped dead in the church last Sun
day, a few minutes after the close of the
services. He had been at the communion
table only short time before and was
bearing the tray of offerings when he col
lapsed. The money was sent gathering
over the floor.
Southampton, England, April 1.-Snb.
stantial evidence of the rigid enforcement
of the anti-treating law was given in this
English shipping town the other day wher
a man was fined 81 (S5) for treating his
wife to a glass of wine in public drinking
house, his wife was fined an equal amoun
and the barmad who served the drinks
was fined IS $3.50.
Isabel, Okla, April 3.-At the conclusion
of testimony at the preliminary hearing O
, Oscar Martin, a negro charged with assault
a mob Of E()n St0pmlH the
seized the prisoner and hanged him from
q back balcony of the court house here to-
day. Martin was arrested last Friday il
connection with an attack upon 13-year
), old girl at Bismark, Okla. = -,i.
London, April 2.-The Board of Trades
summary Of casualties to British shipping
reported in March, shows that nineteen
steamers and eight sailing vessels were
a sunk by enemy warshipe. Ten steamer
were sunk by mines. One steamer wa
sunk either by an enemy warship or mine
o Forty three lives were lost on steamer
sunk by warships, and eighty-one OF
9 steamers sunk by mines.
Twenty eight persons were killed ant
forty four wounded on Friday night in tn
< most spectacular air raid yet made on Eng
t land. One Zepperln was destroyed at
e O'Clock Saturday morning on the Thame
e estuary when it was fleeing to the continen
. and its crew captured. 1t was one Of TIL
). newest type Of the German air craft. ans
0 it was more than 700 feet in length. Fiv
e dirigibles in ali took part in the raid, whicl
n seems to have covered all the eastern
t counties. The raid was the twenty secon
e of the war, and the Zepperlin destroyed b.
e the British on Saturday is the the twenty
sixth lost to Germany in the war.