The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-07-01
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and has an annual income of $4,000
The Chinese of San Francisco have
forwarded $500 for the benefit Of thu
Iowa sufferers.
Henry Ward Beecher, in his ser
mon last Sunday, endorsed the freight
handlers strike.
England is preparing for an emer'
gency and putting her army and navy
in first-class trim.
-Four hundred and fifty freight,
handlers at Boston struck Wednesday
for increased wages.
| The building proposed to be erected
at Washington for the national library
will cost s6,oOO,00O.
Farmers of Butler county, Ohio, are
damaged to the amount of 100000
by the recent cyclone.
! Gen. Geo. Stoneman, retired Q. S.
army colonel, is CALIFORNIA; Demo
cratic nominee for governor.
Scoyille has expressed the belief that
his wife will commit suicide the day
her brother, Guiteau, is hung.
James Sebastian got in his work on
a negro burglar in New Orleans, Tues
day night. He shot him twice.
Gov. Cornell is likely to be re-nom-
mated for governor of New York by
the Republican State convention.
Robt. E. Patterson of Philadelphia,
has received the Democratic nomina-
ton for governor of Pennsylvania.
All of the bodies of the six unfor-
tunate boys drowned at New Orleans
Sunday before last have been recovered.
Twelve thousand dollars a front foot
was paid in New York City the other
day for a piece of land twenty by sixty
feet.
Galveston enjoys the distinction of
being the coolest point in Texas, &C
cording to the United States weather
reports.
Stevedores of Philadelphia have re-
fused to employ colored laborers on
the ground that they are not good
worl1men.
Gov. McEnery has offered reward
eff $500 for the arrest of the party OF
parties guilty of a murder in Lake
Providence June 8.
Henry Cole, prominent lawyer Of
Cincinnati, shot his wife, his child,
and wound up by taking his own life,
last Tuesday night.
The demands of the 800 strikers
of the St. Louis Sheetiron Rolling
mills have been aeceded to and work
will be resumed on the fifth.
The rope for Guiteau's execution is
an inch MANILA rope, and was used in
the execution of Babe Bedford on the
same gallows some years ago.
W. L. Clark, editor of the Atlanta
| (Ga.) Republican, was cowhided last
Wednesday by a man whom he lad
spoken lightly of in his paper,
Gov. Tilden may yet be the Dem,
ocratic nominee for the presidency in
1884. He is reported to be in perfect
health with as sound mind as be ever
had in his life.
An appropriation of S65,8OO has
been made by the Louisiana legisla,
ture for printing blanks and publish
ing the laws in the French language
for the next two years.
The convicts of the Pennsylvania
penitentiary struck the other day for
less work and more tobacco. Punish
ment had no effect upon them and
their demands were acceded to.
A summing up of the casualties of
the recent tornadoes in Kansas, Mis-
souri,, Iowa, Nebraska, Dakota and
Minnesota, reveals the loss of not less
than $50 lives and destruction of prop
erty to the amount of s., 500, 900.
John Miller, chief engineer of the
steamer City of New York, while on
passage from New Orleans to the
former city, kicked fireman Patrick
Walsh so badly that death ensued.
Miller is confined in the Tombs in
New York.
O. E. Owens, teller of the Third
National bank Of St. Louis, got away
with his employers for clean
100000. He is pondeFing over the
matter now in nice, clean cell, built
expressly for people who have PRO
pensity to appropriate what belongs to
Others.
In attempting the arrest Of Gus.
Mentzell, gambler, at Ration, New
Mexico, the other day, four Of the
sheriff's posse were killed. Mentzell
WAS finally captured and hung on short
notice, after which the Infatuated citi-
zens turned their attention 10 his part