Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1895-04-20
THROUGHOUT LOUISIANA.
some People Love to be Gulled.

resent EoWleT AZ ooH, Vi hduSdS Siots
and who for six weeks rolled pretty
high in Baton Rouge. left suddenly,
and, it is alleged, left behind him an
unpaid hotel bill and numerous new
made friends, looking pretty blank at
the way they have been taken in. Nc
Ewing was of pleasing address and un-
doubted elocutionary talent, which
made him popular in society and led to
invitations to recite at several enter
tainments. A favorite pastime
was to present friends with rail-
road passes to New York,
Memphis and other points. He
had the butchers stirred up by prop
osition to supply the town with Kan
sas City beef at hours other than the
regular market hours, and claimed to
have leased ground from the railroad
company on which he would erect at
once cold storage plant. He at
tended the agricultural meeting. and
gave advice concerning the establish
ment of a pork packcry. He claimed
to be a nephew of Bill Nye, the hui
morist, and a particular friend of DIR.
ii. FL. Waters, of New Orleans.
Mr.. Marx Lehman, the local repre-
sentative of Fowler & Son, grew sus-
picious, and telegraphed the house and
got an answer that McEwing was un-
known to them. Finding he was de-
tected. McEwing departed as above re-
lated. 1t is said he has been operating
recently at Houma, La, in similar
style under the name of Williams.
Brakeman Murdered.
Joseph Giles, brakeman on the
Shreveport, Houston & East and West
Texas railroad, was missing when the
train reached the depot at Shreveport
the other evening. Giles was last seen
at Lerosen wood yard, where he
signaled the engineer to go ahead.
When near the city thesengineer blew
the whistle for brakes, but failed to
get them. The train gradually less
ened it's speed. when white man
was seen to jump from box
car and run across the country
at full speed. Believing that Giles
was on the train, no attention was
paid to the action of the tramp, who,
it was thought, had been stealing a
ride and jumped off before reaching
town. Giles absence aroused suspi-
cion, and a locomotive was sent out to
search for him. He was found near
Lerosen, about 20 feet from the track,
with pistol-shot wound in his breast.
The body was powder-burned, show
ing that the pistol had been fired at
close range. Conductor Sparks be-
lieves the man who jumped from the
train is the murderer.
SAYS HE FIRED IN sELF-DEFENsE
The tramp was arrested and lodged
in Jail at Shreveport. He gave his
name as Hayel, of Dubuque, Ia, and
says he fired in self-defense.
Northwest Louisiana Immigration.
The immigration convention held at
Shreveport was a success. Three par
ishes, Caddo, Bossier and De Soto, were
represented.
Resolutions were adopted urging
active, energetic and systematic work
in inducing home-seekers to purchase
lands in northern Louisiana, and set
ting forth the climatic and agricul-
tural advantages of that portion of the
state.
Mr.. Harrington, of Illinois, ad-
dressed the meeting, and gave practi-
cal views on the movement designed
to secure desirable home-seekers. A
letter from Prof. Desler, of Tulane
university, and vice-president of the
immigration society of New Orleans.
was read, in which he offered to help
the cause in the Shreveport section OF
the state.
Mr.. Charles Schu1er presented let
ter from the German immigration So
ciety of New Orleans, asking co-opera-
ton in establishing German settle
ments, which was read and fled by
the secretary An executive commit
tee of fifteen was appointed to further
the objects of the meeting.
Mrs. Theodore F0ntelieu.
Mrs. Theodore Fontelieu, nee Ernes-
tine Jonzoulin, aged So, died suddenly
at her residence in New Iberia, the
other morning. 1t is believed that her
death was the result of heart disease.
She was the wife of ex-Judge Theo-
dore Fontelieu, who was district judge
of what is now the nineteenth judicial
district for several consecutive terms.
Envics Louisiam,.
Says the st. Louis Republic: The
receipt of IA Handbook of Louisiana
from the immigration association OF
the Pelican state is an unpleasant re-
minder of the failure of our last gen.
eral assembly to provide for such an
organization in this state. The latest
Handbook of Missouri published is
nearly twenty years old.
Appointed by the Governor.
Gov. Foster has appointed Col. A. f.
Morphy, Of New Orleans, member OF
| the board of administrators of the
Louisiana State University and Agri
cultural and Mechanical college, vice
Charles Leeds. whose term has expired
C. ]. Ducot, of Avoyelles, member oi
| the same board, vice Henry Mccall
resigned.
| Preferred Death to Arrest.
While constable was attempting II
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