The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1888-02-17
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The production Of anthracite coal
last week waa 447 4o4 toms
i boiler explosion killed Williaml
Cobb al Fairfax, Ills., recently.
Two saw mills burned recently on
Puget Sound, w. T., yahied d s25o,
600.
]. Il. Oglesby, president Of tho
Louisiana National Bank, died on The
I'd inst.
Juvenile crime ID England has de-
creased % per cent. during the hast
fifteen years.
A stable with thirty horses was
burned at Leavenwoftb, Kansas, on
Tuesday last.
Two car loads Of potatoes, corn and
food were aent 10 the Kansas Sufferers,
from Pierre, D. Z.
Frederick Brown, Of Quincy, Ills,
ended spree last week by taking |
morphine and dying.
The shifting down Of SO many fur
naces ID Pennsylvania for want Of coal
has caused much misery.
a local Suffrage association was
formed at Elgia, his. last week, with
Mrs. S. n. Becker as president.
Homer 4. Harmon, the favorite mn
Gle Of President Clevelandls wife,
died at Boston, Mass, last week.
The Rev. Joseph Cook lectured on
temperance TO crowded honse in the
Peoples church at Boston last week.
a home market club was organized
recently in Chicago. 1t has for its
object the fosteringaof home indus
tries. n
| A father and son we're killed by a
train in New Jersey last week while
they were shoveling snow from the
track. 1
4 The MERGED canal in California,
twenty.seyen miles long, and bniit to
irrigato over ESQ, 600 acres, WAS form
ally opened last week.
4 Henry Teirney, a TO.year-old miser
living at Lincoln, Ills, was found dead
in his bed last week, leaving behind
him s25, 900 worth of property.
Twenty.six counties in Iowa have
luo corn for sale. seven are abuYlng
corn, and 5forty-seren can spare an
average of IS per cent. Of the crop.
Lansing, Michigan, gave amajority
of 800 for prohibition, at the local
option election on Tuesday of last week.
The county gave a majority of 5000.
Cyrus S. 0berley, brother of Civil
) Service Commissioner 0berley, died
? last Wednesday morning at Houston,
Texas. He was q well known journal
list.
The remoastrance against woman
; suffrage in Washington Territory was
; ; signed by E1l2 women, but the petl-
7 ton of The snffragists was over mile
Z long.
: Tbetreaty between Germany and
Italy stipulates that if France attacks
either country, the other shall send 81
y army Of 100000 men to The Frenef
" frontier.
" In Wisconsin seventeen counties
o lbaye no corn for sale, eight counties
n ale buying Germ and three countie
le can spare an average Of Is per cent
IN Of the crop.
A war Of freight rates between Chi
IN eago and the Northwest gained head
IN way during the week, one read NEE
~ ing another in reductions on eyafiou
Of classes 10 various points.
be A French anti-tobacco society offeI
~ q prize Of $500 on an essay on Il
]. 70 effects of smoking on the health q
W literary men and its probable ultimai
~ results on French literature.
Believing collision imminent,
attn Juuetion, Ills, on Tuesday night
o. last week, the engineer, fireman and
,ef- stoekman Jumped from the cab o.
ihg freight tram. The two latter we
eat killed.
~ Fifty-three counties in illinois 4
~ port no corn for sale, tEenty-t1
III counties report that the farmers the
~ ~ are buying corn and thirty-four col
-, ties report small per cent. TO sp'
for market.
leai Sam Small is about to return TO
ing early profession, journalism. He i
hal soon start a prohibition paper
9g' Washington and viii match bis !
the and wisdom against The National
q gan Of the liquor dealers.
IN The American aud California Sug
,to Refining Companies, Of San Francisi
M are fighting each other and priC
IF have been reduced one and quar-
II cents per pound, with prospects Of
on still greater reduction.
he Tbegrowth 81 the cotton and wool
'or industry 10 the South in sew
years d shoWniby the following 4
i. ures Increase Of mills, 81 per cen
!, Increase Of spindles, lIB per cent, al
II increase Of looms, 12g per cent.
". Several cedar camps near Prenti
re Bay, Michigan, arc said 70 have clos
sre On account Of snow, throwing out
tn employment 800 men, who are III 50
sar piled with provisions, and win suf
We il they do not find work orrelief SOC
~ AT jackson, Miss, on Wednesd
let Of last week. The House Of RepIesei
q, aiiges reported B memorial u OK
81 gness, protesting against the paasa
vi of tho senate Bill proposing to /
~ cotton seed oil, and prevent its
w " D Substitute for bog lara.
ei Rive sears AGO Tho 5,yem.old son
Capt ~ piakinsen, Of Ceamt
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