The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1889-03-22
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FOREIGN.


of the North German Lloyd steamship
line, is dead.
General Salamanca, new Captain
General of Cuba, arrived at Havana
from Spain on the 18th inst.
Count Won Berehem, German Under
Secretary Of State, will represent his
government in the coming Berlin
conference concerning Samoa
Tho Due d Aumale, 10 an interview
with President Carnot, warmly
thanked the president for resembling
the decree of exile against him
A quarrel has arisen between Ba-
varian Princes and Generals, and
several Of the latter have been dis.
missed from the Bayarian service.
The Car of Russia will visit Emperor
William, of Germany, at Berlin, in
April. The imperial programme has
been filled until the second week Of
April
The official statement that the
Samoan Conference is expected to
open shortly is doubted owing to the
continued illness of Mr.. Pondleton,
who represents America.
A deputation from Boulogne has
visited Gen. Boulanger and presented
him with a sword of honor. The
government has forbidden any similar
demonstrations in the future.
A council of the Nationalist mem
bers of the British Parliament and
their legal advisers will shortly bo
held to consider their line of defense
before the Parnell commission,
Deputies Laguerre, Laissant and
Turquot, before the French Chamber
of Deputies denied that the Patriotic
League was a secret society. They
affirmed their adherence to the Repub-
lio.
Henry George, who has been in
England since the 10th inst, is de-
livoring addresses on hls land and tax
theories, He had an enthusiastic
meeting at CamberweII on the 18th
inst.
The Ministry of New South Wales
has been defeated on the question Of
protection and has resigned. Sir Henry
Parks will form free trade Cabinet.
Sir Henry was the Prime Minister of
the last Cabinet.
In consequence of the arrest, at
Shanghai, Of a Ohinaman by police,
6,0OO rioters assembled there and
burned down the English consulate
aud attacked the American consulate,
doing great damage.
DR.. Dillon, who, in January, eIoped
from Nice with Miss Ida Wilcox, an
American, has been sentenced by
Nice court to eight months imprison-
ment for appropriating check, which
Miss Wilcox took from her mother.
The latest news from the Hague is
that the death of the King of Hol-
land is imminent. There are acute
symptoms of blood poisoning. The
king is experiencing terrible suffering,
and what cessation from pain is OBJ
tanned is due to the use of morphia.
The Spanish government has re-
coived dispatches announcing the loss
of the steamer Remus, which had
Spanish military expedition on board.
The vessel was wrecked off the Philip
pine islands. Forty-two persons were
drowned and 1871 were saved.
Sir Julien Paunoeforte, the new
British minister to the United States,
will start for Washington about the
end of this month. After a short stay
he will return to London for the sum
mer. ln the autumn he will take his
family to Washington for permanent
residence.
A DoubIin dispatch says troops have
secured the Gweondore district in
search of the persons concerned in
the murder of Police Inspector Martin,
but without any success. The same
dispatch says Father Coen, of Wood
ford, the famous agitator of the land
question, is dead,
A Berlin dispatch says that Herr
SteubeI goes as a special commissioner
to restore order in Samoa, aud that
he will have control of the German
squadron in Samoan waters, He is
reported to be an able diplomat. The
American accounts of the terms of the
sFmistice arranged by Herr Knappe
and Mataafa are not believed in Ber.
lin.
| lie Temps states that the magis-
trates who are conducting the inquiry
into the affairs OF the Patriotic League
have found documents proving that
| the league was engaged in a scheme
to mobilize it's members The French
government, the Temps says, Intends
to crimipallY prosecute the chiefs Of
| the league for conspiracy against the
State,
The appeal Of the Panama Canal
| Go. against the decision Of the French
Tribunal Of Commerce, was again be.
fore the French Court Of Appeals on
| the 9th inst. Among the projects
discussed was q proposal that every
shareholder contribute 1875 francs per
| share for the cnmnletibh Of the canal