The Bossier banner., 1922-11-30

day when Wabash passenger train
was derailed at Nillard, Mo.
The q. s. Department OF Commerce
announces that the farm Population of
the United States is now 31,614, ,269.
According to the United States Cen
sus Bureau, 1O,16S persons were killed
by the automobile during the year of
1921.
A news dispatch from Denver, Colo,
says that more than 100 persons have
died in that city of small pox within
the past few weeks.
W. 7. Glenn, well known attorney of
Hugo. Okla, died as result IF injuries
incurred in an automobile accident
near that place Monday evening.
Two men were killed and third
painfully injured when fast Great
Northern freight train ran into an
open switch near Andover, Mimi, Sun
day.
NJ. j. Piercy, of FL Dorado, Ark, shot
and killed Mrs. Bonnie Harold and Sc
riously wounded her husband, Chris
Harold, also of Ell Dorado, one day last
week
World production of petroleum dur
ing the years 1857 to 1921, inclusive,
aggregated 9,511 ,997, 900 barrels of AZ
gallons each, according to federal sta
tistics.
Max w. Hensel. manager of the Corn
Exchange Bank, of New York, has con-
fessed that he has stolen more than
| $4,000 from the bank during the past
| ten years.
Seven persons We're killed and thir-
teen injured in the explosion in Mine
No. 4 of the Albuquerque-C Cerrillos Coal
Company at Madrid, n. NJ, last Satur-
day afternoon.
The Commerce Department reports
! that meat exports aggregated $11 ,OOO,
| 600 during the month of October and
| the grain exports totalled $44,S97 900
! for the same month.
The Department of Commerce, at
Washington, d. c., announces that
| there were 37,12S,659 cotton spinning
| spindles in place in the United States
on October 31st last.
| Fifteen eonvicts, four of them serv-
ing life sentences, made their escape
from the Marquette (Mich.) prison
late Sunday afternoon. Two Of them
were later captured.
Call for women's conference on in
dustrial problems, to be held in Wash
| ington, d. c.. January 18th, 10Th and
18th, was issued last Saturday by the
| Department Of Labor.
4 Monday morning a skeleton of man
was found in thicket near Camden,
Ark. The skeleton was identified as
| that of Pat Stevens, sixty years old,
who disappeared last July.
The explosion of five kegs of powder
one day fast week in the Cherokee,
(Kansas) Coal Company mine, resulted
in injuries to fourteen men, six Of
whom were seriously burned.
Two men are dead and third is ex-
| pected to die as the result of the ex-
plosion of the locomotive boiler Of a
fast New York Central freight train
| near TarrytOwn, n. Y, some days ago.
/ Felix Wilson, Mayor Of Nashville,
Tenn, was ousted by the council of
that city one day last week, as a cul-
animation of a bitter controversy over
police and board Of education appoint
ments.
1t is estimated that 1;3,5OO,OOO auto
mobiles will be registered on January
i, 1923. compared with 1O,5OO,O0 this
year. The average annual gasoline con-
sumption of each car is figured at 400
gallons.
provement program by the Cotton Belt
Railroad, to increase freight efficiency
in the Southwest, was made at the gen
eral Office of the road, in st. Louis, Mo.
one day last week.
The Navy Department will shortly
begin making complete map of parts
of the Pacific Ocean off the western
coast of North America, according tc
an announcement made Sunday by Sec
retary of the Navy Denly.
Gross crude oil stocks held in pipe
line and tank farm storage in the Unit
ed States increased 1.613,OOO barrels
, during the month of October, accord
ing to the weekly summary Of tht
American Petroleum Institute.
Charles Cox. fireman on the Texa:
and Pacific Sunshine Special No. wa!
, killed when the train was wrecked al
, Macks, Texas, Friday night of las
week Five cars were derailed but NJ
, passengers We're injured, according t
| reports.
L. Nj. Childers of Upton, Okla, wa
!, killed and Hutchins Stevens, also o
: Upton, was seriously injured as the re
!, suit of the car in which they were rid
ing being struck by Missouri. Kansa
f and Texas passenger train Tuesday af
+ ternoon.
The trial jury in the case Of Arthu
= G. Burch. on trial in Los Angeles, Calf
: for the third time for the murder Q
j. Belton Kennedy. to-day made a mis-
: trial of the case The vote Of the jury
1 after sitting on the case thirty hours
!. was seven to five for acquittal.
!. w. A. Mckenzie, of Smackoyer, Ark