The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-03-23
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Four children were burned to death last
Friday in their home at Saginaw, Mich.
More than 900 persons attended the
State farmers Institutes which have just
closed the season in Pennsylvania.
The death rate in Baltimore last week
exceeded the birth rate, 260 persons having
died and 262 births being reported.
A farmer and his children were burned
to death early Friday morning in their
home at CIaysville, West Virginia.
London, March 21.-Great Britain's an
nual income has increased by l 900, OOO, 600
pounds stirling since the beginning Of the
war.
One woman was killed and thirteen other
persons were seriously injured last Sunday
night by railroad accident near Green's
| borO, N. G..
Washington, March 17.-Cotton seed
crushed from the 1915 crop, the census
bureau announced to-day, was 4,132, 466
tons, compared with 5,779, 665 from the 1914
crop, and 4,767, 1902 from the 1918 crop.
London, March 19.-Nine persons were
killed and thirty-one injured in raid Of
four German seaplanes over the east coast
of Kent to day. A British airman brought
down one raider over the sea, the German
observer being killed.
jackson, Miss, March 1.-THE peni
Tertiary board of trustees announces that
the State has sold the last bale Of its 1915
crop of cotton, 1869 bales going at an aver
age of 11.42, and bringing into the State
Treasury about S145, 900.
Lees Summit, Mo-, March Cole Younger,
famous outlaw Of border days, but of late
years devout church attendant and model
citizen, died at his home here to- night af-
ter a lingering illness. He was seventy
two years old and unmarried.
One span and part of the north
abutuent of the Cincinnati Southern steel
bridge, five miles north Of Chattanooga,
) crashed into the Tennessee River Friday
night, carrying with it ten loaded cars Of
a Queen and Crescent freight train.
, Earl Best OF Dota, Independence County,
: Arkansas, won the first prize, $3.50 schoI-
, arship at any agricultural school in the
State, as the champion boy corn grower in
. the State. His crop last year totaled III
: bushels on one acre, at cost of 331s cents
J per bushel.
Santa Fe, N. NJ, March 17.-Wiliam T.
,, Thornton, aged seventy three, appointed
OF New Mexico from 1898 to 1897 died last
night. He was native of Columbus, Ca,
and served in the Confederate Army during
the Civil War.
Texarkana, Texas, March 19.-Bowie
7 County, Texas, has voted at local option
! election to remain dry, returns showing a
i, majority of 1873 votes for prohibition. The
county has been in the dry column for four
years. In Texarkana, the largest town,
prohibition won by majority of six votes.
Utica, Miss, March 17-Mrs. Allie
Leach, aged forty years, mother of nine
2 children, wife of Henry Leach, a farmer
a near Cayuga, committed suicide when left
. alone at her home by hanging herself with
pIowline, attached to the ceiling. She
tied the rope around her neck and jumped
! off the kithen table.
r Calhoun, KY, March 17.-Dr. w. P.
/ Miller, seventy-one years old, died sud
denly OF heart disease this morning. He
3 was a Confederate soldier and one of the
] best known physicians in this county. He
was also a Mason and served as the first
, master of the local lodge. He had occu-
. pied that chair six additional times.
, Kansas City, March 21.-Record higl,
temperatures and unusual barometric read
l ings combined with wind and dust storms
, prevailed throughout Kansas, Oklahoma
and the Texas Panhandle to- day. A forty
l mile wind at Abeline, Kansas, tore limbs
from trees and moved buildings from their
foundations. Fort Worth, Texas, recorded
the highest temperatures with an even 100
degrees. Abeline, Texas, SO degrees.
Indianapolis, Ind, March 20.-Thomas
Taggart, Democratic National Committee
man, was appointed United States Senator
to fill the vacancy caused by the death OF
, Senator Shively by Gov. Ralston to-day
The new Senator has been prominent in
politics in Indiana for twenty five years
and has maintained the leadership of the
Democratic party in Indiana practically all
of that time. The only offices he has ever
held were auditor of this county for two
terms and three times mayor of Indianap-