The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-02-05
yEaaeEsr E.sa II.

/ Dnf1eid and AbrHm Martfn, two gay
young sports living near Sheffield,
aged nineteen and twenty years re-
spectively, together with two sisters
named Fanny and Ida Wells, who are
engaged in dressmaking in Princeton,
and are eighteen and twenty years of
age, left Princeton in a sleigh TO go to
Joseph Stowell's, the grandfather of
The girls The young men, before
leaving town supplied themselves with
n quart of whisky, of which the whole
party partook. When near what is
known as the red school house, about
\ twelve miles northwest of this place,
Dufield, who was in the front seat
with Fannie, sought to enliven the
ride by firing couple of shots from
his revolver, and having done so re-
placed his pistol in his pocket. Martin
then produced two revolvers and
handed one to his seat mate, Ida, and
both commenced firing rapidly. One
of the shots struck Fannie above the
right ear, killing her instantly. An
other inflicted serious scalp wound
on Duffield.
Dallas, Texas, Jan. 31.-Two
Germans, named August Klopp, a
butcher, and Antoine Gottleich, soap.
maker, had a difficulty near the fair
grounds late yesterday evening about
Gottleicli's daughter, aged eighteen,
leaving her home on account of the
brutal treatlnent OF her father, and
taking refuge with Klopp's family.
Gottleieh being drunk, went to the
house Of Klopp and ran the family
away from home. lie returned again,
as he said, to take his daughter home.
Klopp warned him not to come in his
yard, but paying no heed to the warn
ing be proceeded inside the yard,
when klopp shot him dead with a
rifle. Klopp surrendered to the au-
thoEities.
Rockdale, Texas, Jan 3l.-Night
before last serious difficulty occurred
near here between Nose Pemborton
aud Lee Turner, which resulted ia the
latter being cut III the abdomen with
u pocket knife. lie cannot possibly
recover. Notwithstanding several
friends of the wounded man were
present, no efforts to capture tho
murderer were made, and he escaped.
The provpcatieu MAS .bnd whisky
Houston Post.
Lwitz City, January sa--Rcuben'
Justus, an old and quite prominent
citizen Of Wortliington, this county.
was drowned in shallow stream near
this place. lie .started TO walkt
Worth:ngton on the railroad. 1t is
thought lie was STOPPING to drink
from a ditch, and fell with his head
in the water, and being intoxicated,
had not the proper use Of Ihimself, and
drowned.
When fonpd last night he was
frozen in kneeling position, with
his head in six inches of water and
frozen fast in the ice. He was recently
"a leader in the temperance movement
in Worthington, but broke his pledge
and returned to his old habita. he
was at ono time man of wealth and
prominence. Cincinnati Tiaicssstar.
Dallas, Texas, January 2T.--Abe
Hooper, ,colorod, while intp2icated'
knocked llisscn senseess witha poker.
When demonstrated with he began
kicking the hoy, inaicting wosinas
which will probably provo FATAL
Galveston News
Chattanooga, January f7.--Janes
Gadlis white, aged tweutyrone years
killed his mother, Dicey iGaddis' on
Tuesday night. Tieyl,ad been drink
ing together during the day, and at
supper quarrelled, when lGaddis struck
his mother q blow with a poker, with
which he knocked her over q hign
trunk. An falling she received injuries
which caused her death ip . lev
minutes. The mnrdeser was arrested
"A colored man, Reuben Jones ~
name, employed as cook on the steam.
boat Tcnsas, lying at the head q
iCrossmap. street, while drunk llast
evening att O'Clock, fell from shs
boiler deck and was fatally injured
He was sent to the Charity Hospital
lN. @. Times.
Pony DAVIS and Manuel SPane'
coIorcd and drunk, amused themselves
last Sunday morning, near LaAs
Charles, lbg swapping at each 0'ps'
whatthey Thought we're empty m''s'
kets. While in the height OF spee
a lam