The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-06-01
Late News Paragraphs.

War business has made New
York the worlds busiest port, ex-
ceeding London by $1,000, 900
for the year.
Col. John S. Mosby, a famous
Confederate raider during the
Civil War, died in Washington
last Tuesday, after a long illness.
Four men met their deaths dur
ing a heavy rain and electrical
storm which passed over Louis
Vile, KY, just at nightfall Mon
day.
The situation in Mexico, in
stead of growing better, seems to
be growing worse. Peace is i'm
possible in this unfortunate land
of murder, arson and robbery.
Gen. Joseph Simeon Gallieni,
adored by France as "the savior
or Paris because of his great
part in the battle Of the Marine,
died last Saturday at Versailles.
After fightlasting three weeks
the Senate last Monday passed
the Rivers and Harbors Appro-
priation Bill, carrying approx
mateIy S43,000,O0O, by vote of
35 to 80.
Eighteen persons we're killed
and q score wounded III an arO-
plane raid on Bari. on the Italian
Adratic coast, last Friday. The
victims were largely women and
children.
Washington, May 28.-Half a
billion dollars will be the govern
ment's internal revenue toll for
the fiscal year ending June Both
next. This sum will be made up
substantially as follows: Taxes
on whisky, beer, cigars, cigarettes
and tobacco, 1903, 100000; taxes
on the incomes Of individuals and
corporations, Si15, 100000; emer-
gency tax collections, S83, 900, 600.
James Jerome Hill. railroad
builder, capitalist and most widely
known figure in the Northwest,
died of blood poisoning, as the
result of an operation, in St. Paul,
Mimi, last Tuesday morning. He
was born in Ontario, Canada in
1888; came Of poor Irish and
Scotch farmer stock, and by his
own genius he rose to the top o!
| the ladder, became one Of the
mentors of the world and amassed
a fortune of s200,O0O,0O0.
Washington, May 26.-T h {
United States, denouncing inter
ference with neutral mails, has in.
formed Great Britain and France
that it can no longer tolerate the
wrongs which American citizens
have suffered and continue to suf'
fer through the ''lawless practice
those governments have INDUCED
, in and that only radical change
in policy, restoring the United
States to its full rights as a neutra
, power, will be satisfactory.
The naval appropriation bill
reported to the House recently
= carries total Of S241, 100000. Z
total Of 500, 1858, 1878 is provided TO
, new ships, including five BATH
, cruisers, and to continue ship
q now building. Among other item
the bill provides 100000 to repai
< and reconstruct certain publ
: works at the New Orleans nava
g station, damaged by hurrican
\ last September. The report 0
@ experts to Congress says: 9th
consensus of expert naval opin
ion seems to be that in the case Q
a naval engagement between tn
q United States and a foreign fo
Il the most probable theater Of wa
would be the Caribbean Sea-"
: Spare your crocodile tears owe
: "England's heartless blockade,
e and take backward glance int
n the early sixties, when the bruts
O North had its bloody hands on tn
W throat of the Southern Confede
}. racy, and with the whole cowardl
world looking on, was blockadin
a and starving the men and wome
h of the Southern Confederacy. o.
,s take a glance at France in tn
IS early seventies, when the sabre
+ rafting, land grabbing, indemni
n ty-waging German nation wa
y starving Paris into submission
IS The Bully of Europe made a mis-
+ calculation this time when he lie
slip his we'll trained dogs of wal
He should now be forced to "tak
his medicine" until he is so thor
: oughly purged OF his bloodthirsty
" ness that he will allow the worl
= to rest in peace-for a few year:
!, at least.
10 Prof. Keeney wants just onl
{. S120,000 for his little Industri;
Institute at Ruston, but there ar
5 seven reasons why he can't get i
: the first one is that the State hs
st not got the honeywell, neve
!. mind hont tho othop roocopo