The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-02-17
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

This country is the largest consumer OF
cacao.
There are 100000 Glove trees in ZANZIBAR
on 20 900 acres.
Electricity has been used successfully in
France for ripening cheese.
North Carolina last year produced min
erals valued at So, 739, 696.
st. Paul has 100000 invested in the
manufacture of grass rugs.
A Selbyville, Del, man lay helpless in a
swamp with broken leg for three days.
Two brothers of Carroll County, Mary
land, last Friday died six hours apart of
pneumonia.
According to French statistics, only one
fourth CT the aviation accidents are due to
defects in aroplanes.
Four persons were killed and three others
severely injured when the boiler in a saw
mill near Athol, Md, blew up.
Neri Ruby, an Allegany County mer-
chant, was killed Friday when his automo-
bile upset near Cumberland, Md.
Ayoung married man of Petersburg,
Va, committed suicide when he Lost his
position at powder plant at Hopewell, Va.
A Government survey has resulted in
ranking the Yukon River in fifth place
among the great streams of North America.
Four thousand bushels of oysters were
roasted in a fire last Friday that destroyed
a number Of packing houses in Crisfield,
Md.
Europe and Africa are the only CONT
nents which have more women than men,
and the reverse was the case in Africa I'M
til within recent years.
There ere now in the United States
4,063, 092 persons native to Germany, Aus
tria and Turkey, and $685. 24 native to
the nations fighting in the opposing ALI
ance.
Morse Hall, containing Cornell Univer-
sity's valuable chemical laboratories and
chemical equipment, at Ithaca, N. Y, was
destroyed by fire last Sunday at a loss of
about S3OO,000.
Ketchikan, Alaska, Feb. 15.-At least
three lives we're lostin a severe storm which
swept Southeastern Alaska for forty eight
hours, and fears were expressed to-day for
the safety of others.
The government of Holland has such
complete oversight of that nations butter
making as practically to guarantee pure
product The annual output is in the
neighborhood of 1884, 00,0 900 pounds.
The unusual size of some game fish
caught in irrigation bitches in Washington
led to the belief that they had fattened
themselves by eating alfalfa, and an in
vestigation proved the theory correct
Philadelphia streets for several hours
last Sunday resembled vast network of
frozen canals, and for the first time in
IL rs
from one end to the other on ice skates.
London, Feb. 14.-An official proclama-
ton, calling cut the remaining single men
under the Derby plan and military service
act, was posted to-day. This enrolls all
the single men of military age, who are not
exempted.
A drug clerk was held up at the point of
a revolver last Thursday night in Lynch
burg, Va, by two men, who forced him to
turn over to them S15 from the cash regis
ter, when they backed out of the store and
disappeared.
Paris, Feb 13.-Austrian aroplanes
made raid yesterday over Ravenna and
the neighboring towns of Codigoro and
Bottrighe, in Northeastern Italy, near the
Adrltic. Fifteen persons were killed and
number wounded. Several women and
children were among the injured.
The Rev. William Godby, seventy five
years old, q Methodist minister of Howe
Valley, KY, died on the 9th. Although he
was blind, he filed the pulpit in churches
in the Elizabethtown, KY, conference for
forty years. He memorized great deal
of Scripture by hearing his wife read.
Census Bureau experts estimated last
Monday that the population of the United
States on January LIST last was 101. 208, 315
and that by July 1st it would be 102,017,-
3O2. Western States have led in growth,
Washington heading the list, with Oklaho-
ma, Nevada, North Dakota and New Mex
leo following in the order named.
Chicago, Feb. 12.-City chemists COM
pleted to-day qualitative analysis of the
soup served on Thursday night at the din
DER of welcome to Archbishop George W.
Mundein. They established that the 100
of the 800 guests who were taken i'll soon
after the dinner were poisoned by design.
Half tho number are still under the care of
physicians.
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