The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1894-12-07
IrEMs on aENERAL INTEREsT.


The ffty-fourth congress convened on
Monday, December 81.
Ex-President Peixoto, Of Brazil, will
soon visit the United states.
w. r. Walters, the hotel art collector
and philanthroplst, died ~ Baltimorc
last week.
An appropriation Of s50,OoO for the
Alglers dry dock viii be ask ed for at this
session Of congress.
Al Rio lie Janeiro, President Mofars
has issued decree granting amnesty 70
all political offenders.
1t is estimated that this years crop ot
cotton viii be 0,os5, $40 bales and thato Of
rice ,5oO,0 900 barrels.
Several persons were injured last Sat-
urday by the explosion Of o water-heater
In o barber shop in Chicago,
China is suing for peace aud will
pledge the customs receipts to secure the
payment Of Japans indemnity,
Chief IIazen ofthe treasury department.
secret service says coanterfeiting Is on
the increase and more difficult to detect.
The coroner's jury exonerated Fitz-
simmons who killed his sparFing partner,
Con Riordan, at syracuse, n, Y, on Nov,
10.
Indian police receive $40 per month";
and must pay their own expenses, be-
sides facing death all the time, n the
pursuit Of desperadoes.
The seventh national convention Of
the boys and Girls National Home and
Employment Association win convene N
st, Louis on December II,
II, l., Winter, who has been sentenced
in London to years imprisonment for
perjury 10 1880 was formerly organist IN
the Episcopal church. AZ Denver.
On the grounds that the company 10
operating lottery, all matter Of tho
Equitable, Loan q Security Co, of At
lanta, Gu, win be excluded from the
mails.
The United States fish commission has
decided not to give away any more gold
fish. As IN everything else, an abuse
was made of the generosity of the goY-
ernment,
Goodloe Conmbs has been sentenced at
Stanton, KY, to the penitentiary for life
on lhe charge Of being accessory 70 the
murder Of lohnA, Rose, in Powell county,
five years ago.
In cave, near the city Of Mexico
were found the bodies Of thirty persons
IN an advanced state Of decomposition
They had all mysteriously Disappeared
at various intervals,
The tails Of the horses IN the white
house stables, are trimmed aud not
doeked, as had been charged President
Cleveland is opposed to docking as being
both unnecessary and cruel,
Since an expose Of the irightfal butch
cries Ny the Turks of the Armeniaus, the
Turkish government suppgesses all Eng
liah, French, Russian aud Greek papers
containing articles Of the massaere'
The Roston Daily Tfarellei has passed
into tho hands o. II X, Taylor 4 prom
inent lawyer Of Youngstown, Ohio, ane
Colonel Charles y, HasbTook, Of New
York, Colonel Hasbrook was until re-
Gently the publisher q tho New AoFl
aarcrilser.
A San F'rancisco telegram sassi =
/ the II rms pf ii.p eomPromis, IN the Sen
san ciyll case ne governments ioregee
al ia claims fpF damages, apa tAs a.
: rada Hank and llenrY Pierce, the eapl
Z tslisi, will be 4he TO collect some9lan
I like gsso,Q lpm ibe United States.
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