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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-21


Liverpool and London and Globe, Liver
pool.
North British and Mercantile, London and
EdinbuTg.
Western Assurance Co, Toronto, Canada
Southern Assurance Co. New Orleans. +
Pelican Insurance Co, New Orleans.
Shreveport Fire Insurance Co., ShFeYe
port, Ia,
Knoxville Fire Insurance Company, Knox
vile, Tenn.
The Marine Insurance Company Limited
London.
The Accident Insurance Company, North
America.
81. Paul German Insurance Co., 81. Paul
MINI.
Citizens Insurance Co., Evansville, Ind,
npY29-ly
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TOUCHED LIGHTNING.
Four-Thousand Volt Current Into
a Mans Body.
Hurled Twenty Feet After instantaneous
Death-How the Circuit Which Killed
Clarke Was Formed.

INDIANAPOLIS, May s.-The killing of
James Clarke. an employee in the cleo
tric-light works, shortly before one
o'clock yesterday morning demonstrated
the tremendous power of the current.
He was ordered to change the city
circuit to one of the commercial
wires, which is done by shifting
the wires on the switching-board.
Attached TO the end of each wire is
a wooden-handle through which the
insulated wire passes. In shifting the
currents, Clarke unlocked the city wire
with his left hand and the commercial
with his right, and as he did so one of
his fingers accidentally came in contact
with the metal at the end Of the wooden
handle on the commercial wire. This
formed a circuit, and the current passed
down Clarke's right arm, through his
body and up the left arm and out over the
city wire, 1900 volts strong. burling
him twenty feet TO the rear and killing
him instantly. The current passing
through his body supplied sixty-seven
arc lights. The deceased was aged %,
and he but recently became connected
with the works. He came here from
Worthington, and was not an electro
clan. This death is the first which has
occurred in indianapolis from the use Of
electricity.
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Red Men is a very popular and flourish
ing society here. Frequently the sound
OF revelry by night is heard in their
lOdge-room, and big chiefs from all parts
Of the land drop IN to see them and make
merry. Tho Red Men used to swarm In
q big wigwam in Uncas Hall in Water
street, but recently they moved into
new and gorgeous quarters in Austin's
block in Main street. Then the Ameri-
can Mechanics hived themselves in the
hall vacated by the Improved Rod Men
The extraordinary incident came to pass
on account of the change Of quarters
noted.
At dusk the other nighta delegation Of
local Red Men went to the west side rail-
road station to receive the biggest Red
Chiefs In Connecticut, who had come to
Norwich to inspect the Red Mems lodge
here. In the party were a commander
or two, great sannap and somebody
else, but in some way the sannap missed
the delegation. May be he got OF on
the wrong side Of the train At any
rate he camo into the heart of the city
alone and, suppOsing that the Red Men
still worshipped in their old temple, he
made break for Uncas Hall. 1t was
eight o'clock by the timepiece in the
American Mechanics's Hal, and one hun
dred knights in robes Of the order were
solemnly ranged along the sides Of the
lodge-rOom. In the center Of the open
fioor-space environed by the glittering
array Of men rose the altar, still i'm
pressive. On one side OF 1t sat the com
mander in formal and funereal dig
nifty; on the other side the vice-cOm-
mander, no less sombre Of bearing. Evil
IDENTIFY work imposingly mOmentOus and
serious was going on. II there Is So
ciety In the land that Is breathlessly
secret 1t is that Of the American Ne
/ chanics, for they are accredited with
/ anti-Catholic sentiments, and every
/ body says that entrance to their lodge
room is guarded against aliens BY word
and by spell, like the bower Of the
ladye Of Branksome-
The great sannap Of Connecticut, his
grip-sack under HIS arm, strobe up the
dimly lighted staircase to Uncas hall,
and. halting at familiar blind door,
raped thrice with his knuckles and
bQumpcQ once WIN MS bOc On the pam
els, signaling to the screened guard
within that the great sannap Of the
Nugmeg State was present. Thereupon
slide in an upper door panel was shot
smoothly aside, and first an eye and
then an ear came into the opening. The
sannap, with the freo-and-easy air and
tone that accompany self-cOnfidence,
whispered q Joss word thickly into the
ear in the opening. and ct once tho guard,
suspicious Of no mischance, threw open
tho door and admitted the great Red
Man into the Mechanics ante-rOOEa.
With case and freedom the sannap
stepped briskly to the center Of the
room, threw down his sachcl. unlocked
and opened it. and took ont and donned
the glittering and CORY regalia that
goes with the rank Of high and mighty
sannap Of Connecticut. The sannaT
was a handsome chap, and his robe was
glorious ore, but the Mechanics
guardsman innocently wondered why he
had never seen c similar one on al
American Mechanic before. All the
time the sannap cracked jokes and pratt
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LAB0R'S NAY DAY.
Opening of the Grand Struggle for
the Eight Hour Day.
Powderly and GOmpers on the Movement
Belief of the Former In a Gradual
Reduction of Hours.

SCRANTON, Pa, May To-day is tho
day set by the labor organizations
throughout the country for the eight
hour system to go into effect. General
Master Workman POwderly, of the
Knights of Labor, was asked his views
concerning the labor demonstration by
a reporter yesterday, and said: ''The
movement to secure an eight-hour day
is universal one" said Mr.. Powderly,
land We are all working steadily for it.
Within the last few years about thirty
industries employing labor have adopt
ed it. and still others have adopted
the nine-hOur system. In some in
stances wOrkmen received but eight
hours compensation, and in others they
got ten hours pay for eight hours work.
Other industries pay their workmen
ten hours compensation for nine hours
work. The plan which I recommended to
the General Assembly," continued Mr..
Powderly, was to reduce the hours of
labor one-half hour each year till an
eight-hour system could be obtained
with ten hours pay. This has been
adopted by the Union Pacific Railroad
Company, and in three years their men
will be working eight hours daily.
believe that the American Federation
of Labor is concentrating its eff
forts in favor of the carpenters just
now, and if they succeed it will be a
great gain to labor generally. The car
penters are the largestclass of mechanics
which have a membership in the FEEDER
alton. The cigarmakers are already
working on the eight-hOur system, at
least all who are members of the
Knights of Labor are. The solution Of
the whole labor problem will come when
the labor shares the profits of his tell.
As he viii be then working for himself
he can then labor eight or ten hours as
he may desire"
PITTSBURGH, May PRECEDENT Sam
uel Gompers, of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor passed through the city
yesterday en- route from New York to
Louisville to take part in the eight-hcur
demonstration which is to occur in that
city to-day. In an interview he said:
Il more firmly believe in the eight
hour work day than when l first
raised my voice and pen in its defense.
| Our Executive Council has asked every
trades organization, except the carpen-
tiers and ioiners. to stay at work and not
70 demand any concessions. The fight
for eight hours to commence tomorrow
is that of the carpenters, and other
trades must stay at work until the car
penters' demands are settled. When
this is over the miners will commence
their fghtfo eight hours, and so on until
al the trades in the American Fedora
ton have gained one of the essential
rights of She workingman. The eight
hour movement will commence tO-mor-
row in Boston and New England cities,
Now York, Buffalo, Erie, Cleveland,
Detroit, Duluth, St Paul, Minneapolis,
Kansas City, st. Louis, Louisville, In
dianapolis, Cincinnati, Philadelphia and
a host of other cities and towns. l look
for nearly every section to be success
full Chicago, which made the first
break, has or will gain the point"
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WON'T GIVE STATISTICS.

Farmers Claim That They Are Gathered
Only in the Interest OF Spectators for
Manipulating the Market.
INDIANAPOLIS, May S.-The assessors
of the various townships throughout
the State are charged with the duty of
collecting data for the State Bureau of
Statistics, on which the latter predicates
the yearly report of crops, general farm
products, etc. This year the assessors
find themselves baffied by the hostility
of the farmers, who, acting under advice
of the Alliance, withhold their state
ments, claiming they are only useful
in enabling spectators to manipulate
the market. The Alliance in Grant
County passed resolutions to this effect,
and in other counties similar action is
being taken. The farmer in withhold
ing these statements renders himself
liable to prosecution under the State
law, but it is understood the various AL
hances have pledged assistance in de-
Tense if the assessors appeal to the
courts
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SNOW STORM IN MAY.

It Is General Throughout the Northwest,
and In Some Places six Inches-FavOr-
able to Crops.
ST. PAUL. Mimi, May 5.-An unsea-
sonable snow fell here yesterday to the
depth of an inch or more. 1t soon melt
ed, however. Reports last-night indicate
that the snOw-stOrm was very general
throughout the Northwest. From La
crosse, Wis, to jamestown, n. D., the
storm extended and reached to the lake
on the north. At Fergus Falls, Mimi,
it showed for four hours, but melted
Immediately. At Mankato six inches
of snow is believed to be of
benefit to the crops. Five inches fell
at st. Peter At Albert Lea 1t showed
nearly all day, as it did at st. Cloud,
Bird Island, st. James, Redwood Falls,
Lumberton and Faribault- At James
town, N. D., it showed for twelve hours,
the fall being estimated at four inches.
This snowfall is generally regarded as
favorable TO big crops, late SHOWS in
former years having invariably been
followed by big yields.
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STRIKING wORKMEN.
Molders, Sash, Door and Blind Men. Coop
ers and Furniture Makers Walk Out.

Molders, Sash, Door and Blind Men, Coop
ers and Furniture Makers Walk Out.
CHICAGO, May 3.-The threatened
strikes in this city, which may be sa d
to have technically begun on Thursday,
when organized labor took it's holiday,
were not made apparent until yesterday
morning, when the men failed to resume
work at many of the shops. The 'Black
Road" in the vicinity Of McCormick's
reaper-works had much the same APP
pearance as it had four years ago. None
but strikers could be seen, and they had
entire possession Every man, boy and
girl employed in the Malleable Iron
works, corner of Twenty-siKth and
Rockwell streets, is out. The total num-
Der Of employees is 1900. Among them
are fifty girls employed as ''core max
ers" in the foundry. A number OF mold
ers in other foundries are out From
three to four thousand sash, door and
blind men in various factories have
walked out, and it is rumored that tho
planing-mill men Will quit this evening.
-Four hundred men In Denman & Dur
ka's furniture factory struck for eight
hours and seven hundred employees of
the Chicago Cottage Organ Factory did
the same for like cause.
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tied on, and once he asked careIessIy:
What degree are the boys working to
night7 Hunting degree, suppose, " but
the guardsman stared and said: "Heyi
dunno"
Clad In his regal red garb, which
flowed TO his feet, the great chief
stalked proudly to the inner dOO- Of the
ante-rOOm that opens into the Mechan-
les hall and raped on the panels A
slide few back, the sannap whispered
second joss word into the ear that filed
the opening, the door opened and the
Red Man marched into the hall
Then followed the oldest episode in
tho history Of American secret So
cieties. Absolute silence reigned, while
one hundred astOunded American Ne
chanics beheId a tall and majestic
stranger robed in a scarlet night-gown
that was studded with gilt moons and
tOmahawks and stars rush silently down
the clear space Of tho hall until he
halted directly before the grand com
mander Of the lodge. There, without a
word, be paused for ten seconds, then
suddenly he leaped back on his
launches with a charactcristically IN
dian gesture, threw his right hand be
hind his car as If he held tOmahawk
with which he was about 10 cleave the
commanders skull, and, bowling his
body backward. the while his stiffened
left hand stuck out IN front Of him. he
yelled in the rolling voice Of q fox
hunter calling in his pack from a mile
away:
''Thc-bCars-nre-in-the
Aghast, the ono hundred Mechanics
watched and heard the glittering
stranger. There was ono thought up
/ pormOst in every ones mind, that a
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A CALAM1ToUs soAFFoLD.
Ten BricIxIayers In Chicago Precipitated
Thirty Feet-Two of Them Fatally Hurt.

Ten BrickIayers In Chicago Precipitated
Thirty Feet-Two of Them Fatally Hurt
CHICAGO, May Ten bricklayers,
employed in putting up an ice house for
Swift & Co., at the stock yards, we're
precipitated thirty feet to the ground
yesterday afternoon by the collapse Of
scaffold. Two Of the men, Herman
kaufman and John Gregor, were fatally
hurt. Eight others were seriously in
jured Of the eight Fred Wolff had leg
broken and Fred Usofsky, John Barry,
August Meyer, Frank Roden, August
Stiller, T. J. Carpenter and Charles
Sytes were badly cut and bruised or in
jured internally. Contractor Vankirk
was severely censured by several of
those engaged at work on the building,
who claim that his attention was called
to the insecure condition of the scatfold.
He was not to be found last night.
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couFno-
corner OF
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wOnderful Division Of population.

WHEELING, w. Va. May ga re-
markable coincidence and an unprece-
denied equality of population are pub
lished here. A census Of the suburban
village OF Elm Grove was taken,
preparatory to Incorporating the place
as a town, with the following striking
result: Number of males over 81 years
of age, 14s; number Of males under 81
years of age; las; number Of females
over 10 years of age, 14s; number Of fe-
males under 16 years, las; grand total,
500. II there is a community in this
country that can show as even diyis-
ion of its population, it has not been
heard from.
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NOT BIBLE READERS
Relic OF q Buffalo Club which PFospere
During Ex-PresIdent CIevelAnd's Days,


Relic OF = Buffalo Club which PFospered
During Ex-PresIdcnt CIevelAnd's Days,
BUFFALO, May 6-Despite numerous
attempts to avert the evil end, the IA
nous City CluJ of Buffalo, is at last
thing of the past, the furniture and be-
longings of the club having been sold at
auction last week. Costly rugs, fine
pictures, bronzes, plate and poOl-room
furniture brought fair prices, but the
clubs library was sold for a mere
song. George w. Hayward bought
the club Bible which was in
excellent condition. Mr.. Hay
ward presented the Bible to the club
when it was formed, and placed in it a
ten-dollar bill just one year later Mr..
Hayward, who had retained a memoran-
DUN of the part of the book where he
had deposited the money, opened the
volume with great ceremony and found
that he had put his trust in a safe place,
for the bill was untouched. Mr.. Hay
ward bid the Bible up to 81. The City
Club was organized about twelve years
ago by Grover Cleveland and numerous
lawyers and business men.
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Our Navy Makes a Good Impression.

LONDON. May 1.-The evolutions of
U. S. vessels Of war IN the Mediterran-
can have been observed with no little
interest by tho naval authorities here,
and regular reports have been received
from British agents at the points where
the SQUADRON has sojourned- Expert
opinion is decidedly favorable to the
American navy, both as to skill in sea-
manship and effective equipment.
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THE BEARS ARE IN TIE WOOD. y

gorgeous lunatic confronted them, and
that notion inspired the surmise that
very probably the intruder had slain
both the guards, and now was prepared
to wipe out all the officers Of the anti
Catholic society. Still the knights stood
spell-bOund; no one made move % ar
rest the Wild man.
The great sannap, not having noticed
the CONSERVATION his appearance had
caused. after gazing at the grand com
mander with piercing glance for . mo-
ment, Strengthened himself with Jerk,
whirled and faced the line Of startled
Mechanics, and shouted: The grand
sachem has come TO make you
friendly call; prepare 70 receive him
The great sachem Is on the trailT'
Then he whirled ngain, and. stalking
down the arena toward the vice-cOm-
mander Of the Mechanics, halted a few
feet from that officer, drew himself up,
glared and shouted;
The great sannap has entered your
wigwam! am herer'
At this 1uncture it suddenly occurred
to the commander OF the Mechanics
what was the matter with the gyrating
intruder; he was Red Man, who, mis-
takenly, was trying to work of some
red Indian degrees on the free and indie
pendent American Mechanics. As the
sannap paused once TO get breath the
commander arose and solemnly re-
marked: II think there Is some mis-
take; guess you've got into the wrong
berth"
What" yelled the sannap.
well" replied the other, ''yOu seem
TO be a great Red Man, or something Of
the sort, while VIC arc American Nc
chanics and have nothing TO do with
bears in tho woods or that kind Of
hunting"
The sannap seemed to be petrifed for
for a moment, then he let out a war
whOop, took three sOmersaults across
tho hall, and skipped out OF the room,
the guardsmen holding open the door to
let him 90 with dispatch.
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Crusaders Arrested.

LATHRoP, Mo-. May 5.-Prosecuting
Attorney Crisp, of this city issued war
rants against all the women who took
part in the crusade in this town. A war
rant was sent to Clay County for the ar
rest of Mrs. Anna Carmichael, the wife
of the Baptist minister, and leader of
the crusade. They we're all arrested
and gave bond. The charge is malicious
destruction of propertv.
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Wnman nlnun Ia ltnrna

BRADFORD, Pa, May "A special to
the Era from Butler. Pa, says Mrs.
Same D. Edwards, aged IS years, was
blown to atoms by the explosion Of .
nitro-glycerine can there last evening.
It seems that the woman found the can
in brush pile, and mot knowing the
dangerous compound it contained, took
it home and attempted to convert the
can into something useful for the house
hold, when the explosion occurred with
the fatal result
1uE music OF 51e waters may be q
Neptune, as IS suggested by a eorrespon-
don't, but we had always supposed it to
something Of 4 6ew-wet
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BE- company's influence in Elections.

CHICAGO, May la charge Of alleged
illegal Interference with voters during
the recent aldermanio elections was
preferred to-day against General Super
intendent Sessions, of the Pullman Pal
ace Car Company. The complainant IS
E. G. Brown, who says he was discharged
from employment because he refused to
sote for an employee Of the company
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WASHINGTON, May An letter to
the Speaker of the House Of Represen-
tativss the Secretary of the Interior es-
Inmates that it viii require SIS. 500, 75a
annually to give service pension to
every survivor of the late war not now
on the rolls; s6.642,s17 annually to in
crease the pensions Of those now on the
rolls to S. a month, and So, 766, 76S to the
widows Of deceased soldiers, total an
nual exponditure Of 500. 226. $50.
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JOIN c. FREMONT's nomination to be
Major-General. U. S. A, was confirmed
by the Senate.
POsTRrASTER-GENERAL WANAAiAKER
has Endorsed Cleyeland's executive order
in regard TO interference of Office
holders in political matters.
A YOUNG child of Joseph Tacl1ner was
run over and crushed to death By an en-
CINE on the b. d o. railroad at Cairo,
w. Va
A DECISION of the Michigan Supreme
Court makes tho liquor law OF 1889 in
valid.
REV. 7. A. LANCE, Methodist mis-
sionary, was murdered by burglars in
Japan
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phllaaslpnia Rrlcklav.rs strIK..

PHILADELPHIA, May S.-There was re-
joicing among the carpenters at tho
strike headquarters yesterday morning
when it was announced that the brick
layers had come to the aid OF the strik-
ing carpenters by ordering that no
bricklayer should work upon ''scab"
frames. In some cases the bricklayers
have stopped word on this account, and
all of them will obey the order.
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vultsga Almost Deatroved

HAZLEHURsT, Wis, May 5.-This viii
lage had a narrow escape from total de-
struction Saturday. Fire started in
some lumber piles, and, driven by ter
rife wind, bore down on the village, car
rying every thing before it. Ten dwell
ings were burned before it was gotten
under control.
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A countY Treasursr.s shor.aEe.

AUGUSTA, GA, May SIT is reported
that County Treasurer J. E. Murray, Of
Aiken County, South Carolina, is short
in his cash to the amount of $4,000 or
SIS. GOO. Mr.. Murray says he does not
know what has become of the money.
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Imprisoned for insulting an American.

BERLIN, May 5.-The court at Weimer
has sentenced a rich man named
Doebereiner to nine months imprisOn-
ment for insulting an American lady,
Miss Lemmer, by sending to her anony-
nous letters accusing her of immortality.
The offender was not indicted until the
American Consul insisted that the au-
thorities should take action in the mat
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canadian strikarn win.

OTTAWA, Ont, May 5.-The strikers
here of the bricklayers, stonemasons
and carpenters is ended. They wanoed
the contractors to grant an eight-hour
day, and the contractors yielded.
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Elsct,on Of Randall's successor

HAEmsBURG, Pa, May Ex-Governor
Beaver has issued a proclamation for a
special election to be held on Tuesday,
the goth of May, for a successor to the
late Samuel J. Randall in the Third
Congressional District
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olrlabomIanz Happv.

GUTHRIE, /. T., May 3.-Then news that
the President had signed the Oklahoma
bill reached here at z o'clock last even
ing. An hour later the town was ablaze
with bonfires. Dispatches from other
points in the new Territory state that
the news was received with great rejOic-
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rna,...n fnr crlmlnal Llbel.

New York, May 1.-The grand jury
has lust handed in indictments against
Joseph Pulitzer, John A. Cockerill, JG-
Illus Chambers and james F. Graham, Of
the New York World, for criminal libel
Of ex-Judge Hilton.
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s,ars nonhsr Goes Up for Life.

SAN FRAxcIsco. May S.-Frank Will
liams, convicted in the United States
District Court Of robbing a stage near
Downieville, Cal, Of United States
mails some months ago, was sentenced
to imprisonment at Folsom for life.