The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-01-22

Hampstead, 1exas, Jan- l3.---A rail-
way laborcr passed through town on
the railroad track, bought bottle Of
whisky, got drunk, lay down in the
snrburbs and next morning was found
frozen to death.
Death from intenrpeance and irrer-
ular mode of living was the verdict
returned yesterday by Coroner Rem
ding's inquest on the body of Frank
Seeger, an inmate of the Dayton Sol
,dier's Home, and aged So years. lie
had been stopping at 81 Ochler street
on furlough, and had been drinking
to excess.
.sDeath from congestion of the brain
and lungs, caused by intemperance,"
was the verdict rendered last night BY
Coroner Rendings in the case of Der
nard Knuhe, who dropped dead in a
saloon at No. l24 Abigail street. Gin
cinnati Times-Star.
Marion, Ind, january 6.-News Of
a horrible occurrence reached here to
day from the Indian reservation.
twelve miles northwest of Marion.
William Marshall and wife, MAN In
dams, got drunk Christmas, and CON
tinued in that condition until last Fri
day when a neighbor named Hale, liy-
ing near by, discovered Marshale's
house on fire. Hurrying over he found
Marshall sitting in a chair over the
smouldering enibers in the fire place
while the easement surrounding it was
burning, and a partition, twelve feet
away, was also on fire.
Although horribly burned, Marshall
was sitting erect in his chair without
betraying the slightest pain or excite
ment. Hale put out the fire without
any assistance, and .excitedly asked
Marshall about his wife. Marshall re-
piled that he and Ills wife had been
qnarreling, when her clothes caught
fire from the Fireplace. After vainlE
endeavoring to extinguish it., she rar
out of the house, and lie sat down,
exhausted.
Hale hurried ont of dhe honse, and
found the poor woman lying in the
snow, with every thread Of clothing.
burned off Of her, and her body char
red and smoking. She died in a little
while. Up to a short time before heu
death she sang aud talked necessarily,
when she returned 10 consciousness.
but could recollect nothing Of how she
caught fire. MarshalPs shirt and coat
We're burned through to hishreast, and
His condition is critical.--Speeial to,
Cincinnati Times Star.
Richland Beacon: Last Saturday
evening, at Girard, while under the iu-
fluence Of liquor, Ed. MyricL, offended
Henry Eddings in such a manner as 10
So enrage him that he cut him Very Sc
verely with a knife, through we hope
he was not fatally hurt. The affair is
deeply regretted blythe friends ofboth.
I. N. Lynch, a drunken brute, With
out piovoeation shot and killed a de-
fenseicss negro near Arkadelphia,
Ark, on the llth. Houston lost
Marysille, No., Jan. William
A. Pierce, who had been engaged for
the past eight years as a miller, in this
county, was found dead IN his bed at
a hotel in Quitman, twelve miles from
this city, yesterday. lie died from
dissipation.
New York, Jan. l7.-Thos. Rooney,
an old street-sweeper, was found dead
in his room on Christmas, and it WAS
supposed he had committed suicide,
and SO the Coroner's jury found.
Yesterday his family testified before
the Coroner that he had been murder
I'd by his son Felix, an exrconvict,
during a drunken row. A warrant
has been issued for the arrest of Roo
nex, and officers are now on the search.
Donison, Texas, January lo.-News
reaches here to-day from Delaware
Bend, Of another fatal sllootingscrape
at thar place. Last Sunday evening .
man named Noah Bowling, Of Pilot
Point, while intoxicated, attacked 2
man named Burnett, with q pistol.
Burnett returned the fire, shooting
Bowling through the head, causing IN
slant death.
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