Show MORE TO THE LIST A Brooklyn Anarchist Murders hIs Wife and Chllfl and Atter wards SuicIdes THE TRENTON N J MYSTERY SOLVED A Lunatics Awful Crime ShotUn Doable JlnnJer by a Frenchman APPROACHING SESSION OFTHE CANADIAN PARLIAMENT Letter 4 of J ITiltrs Bootb his Murderer of Pretideiit Lincoln lIT Telegraph to the Ezwel WJIOIKSAIK KILLING An AnnrebUt of llrookljn the Irrpclrnlor orihr lt d NEW YORK Jan 4ln Brook lyn today the dlm vcry was mode m1e that Louis M Franken thlt Lui Frnken an anar clust had choked his child death poisoned and then shot his wife and when discovered to mak rctribu tlon certain killed himself l For two days and 1 nights he had eaten and slept alongside of the dream beIng todies of his wife and child This evening a man went to the shanty to get his washing the dead woman being a laundress but could not get a response to his knocks He notified the police and an officer raised the front window and climbed in As he did so the maniac with matted hair and beard bounded r from the rear room and presenting a revolver at the officer told him to get out The police retreated but hearing n pistol shotamomentlater entered and made the terrible discovery dis-covery noled above The child had been strangled to death with a rope The Interior of the shanty gave evidence that Ir Franken was a neat housekeeper Over the mantle hung photographs of hoe anarchists executed In Chicago Chi-cago and pictures of other anarchists chists painted by Frankcn about the room te rmJIl 31 RS FRAXICKf I yniiatliizedwlth her husbindand when he said tho entire family would be better olTdeod than olive she agreed with him She suggested suggest-ed 1 that he poison her and with this end in view Franken purchased Paris green Hu tells this prne hu letters helen In Ithual ofnj She S-he was inane driven so by poverty stud the prospect of never being able to better his condition On Tuesday he wife cleaned up the hou e and then drank the dose of Paris green When she began to sutler rung on the b in intense agony she begged plteously for relief and PranKen put a bullet in her brain Then the child D called into the room Holding tho innocent Ins in-s arms he drew aclothes Hoe about Li neck and pulled ltO tight and kept chlldd It to while watchlngthe poor childs struggles Tighter and tighter was he rope drawn until I cut Into the yielding flesh when the father tied I and laid the dead babe BESIDE IT MOTHER Then Frankens cowardice mani tested itself and he did not kill himself him-self Since Tuesday he bad cooked r 1 his own meals and lived alone with I death only killing himself when he was about to fall into the hands of the law The letters which he len and which referred to the above were addressed to J C Scott 19 California Califor-nia Street San Francisco Henry W Faust C9J Harrison Street San Francisco and Conner Lindsay 3f the coroner he requested that the bodies b cremated A Lunatics Crimp MoNTREAL Jan 4 Thomas Williams a bricklayer night before last kissed nnd fondled his children ilayed beside their bed and then cut his wifes throat and his own with a razor both dying lIe was insane The TablM Turned TKEXTOX NJ Jan 4The mytery surrounding the murder of mwr Iruudlng mure MrsKniflen has not jet cleared up Miss Emma Purcell the pretty young typewriter I however practically tpwritr tically n prisonerand gravesusplcion tCly rests upon her The yollje hare altogether alto-gether dropped the burglary theory thas been learned thatMIss Purcell was not unconscious when she was found and the conclusion has been Mrs Knifiens death reached that r Knllenl deth was caused by n powerful anaesthetic administered a heavy dose nnd not by strangulation Miss Purcell will hove n hard time to prove she is as innocent as she claims but a motive is lacking except it ba found In the rumor that there exi ted between be-tween Mis Purcell and DrKniffen a awful relationship which wIt un noodlen M Lonl ST LOTUS Jan 4The foetDit palch tonight prints a sensational Xieae of alleged boodllnR in occur lag the franchise for the Merchants Terminal Company claiming that one member of the city council received re-ceived 2200 in rash nnd another lock In the company for support of suppr he measure I begins t look a though the grand jury will be complied com-plied by public opinion to make a ircbing inquiry into the many chargisof boodling recently prtfer nl 1 against the St Louis city legislature legis-lature ltJn orders by in Frenchman HAVEKHIIJ 2f H Jan 4 J Steven La Plante a Frenchman whoo home h in Benton has been pending a few days with his son ind farmlly at Center Haverhlll Today his son and wife went to nr ToY Nn La Plante and wife in rnJ charge of the children There were ourcliildren the two eldest going kating leaving the other two nt borne I Some dispute arose In rr jard to them when L 1lanto picked up a hammer nnd crushed a Ittle boys skull killing him in IIUo tantly La Plante then cut the girl with a knife and also dealt her 1111 wih Mows with the hammer fatally wounding her At this point passersby were attracted bJ pint and la PJante was seized te the act murderously assaulting his wife whose life doubtless he would also have taken La Plante was addicted to liquor and In all probability was under its Influence prlblty Wl when the crimes were committed The murderer I In jail I vrontIlo ST PAUL Jan Archbishop Ireland was Interviewed here today upon the subject of his reported li J coming investure with a cardinals hat and appointment as Papal delegate nonw lnb IS gate of the United States He smiled and said the tlory was without with-out foundation He would know I I any more cardinals were to b co created and had heard nothing of It Touching oh the Papal delegate It 01 lpl qUestion herald tho Rdvisnbllltycf CICIttoB tqv liRn bfl1s H VM ccusld ens U t th VAtlcea tttia tits ego aff ft 11 i It tI S tllt I1t4lti titW The Drink SIIUNGFIELD Mo Jan 4John Hayes I letter carrier today was walking down the street with l cousin Mike Hayes and brushed against two negroes The negroes blat by pushing the Hayes bys ping Mike Hayes who was intoxicated drew I revolver volver and fired three shots One mortally wounded ono of tho negroes ne-groes and another fatally Injure John Hayes Mike has been arrested rte FInd hkntrn AMSTERDAM Jan 4In the bloat ing races today the mile race wn won by lhe LId The twomile race was won by Norsegcn the Norwegian tme 300 Tbp Dominion Parliament OTTAWA Jan 4The session of parliament which opens on the 16th lust It I understood will b I lively one A resolution will b in traduced to abolish French MUle official Northwest language In the CanadIan Orangemen will seek to secure incorporation in-corporation but will have tocwun on the opposition of all Roman Catholic members of parliament I The house will at an early date consider the fishery question and will probably map out the future policy of the government In regard 11 tJ hi mj to American fishing In Canadian waters There was a disposition to covert to the treaty of ISiS but Sir Charles Tupper objected to such a course This may result Int modification t modi-fication of the governments pr p e policy Sir Charles seeks to pursue 1 conciliatory policy In view of the unsettled state of the Behrlpg Sea question and the Involved British interests which n largelj California rionerr CHICAGO Jan 4The officers of the California Pioneers Society met today and completed r arrangements fora reunion and banquet on Jan ISth The call D issued for every pioneer who could reach Chicago to lie present on that date and brIng hIs reminiscences with him Al w ho were at a tins prior to ISIS residents sidents of California are eligible to membership memb hlp ° Cnlnroe Chrni lAbor CHICAGO Jan 4A coroners jury today held an Inquest into the cause of the death of a Chinaman He was attended by Dr Xam a Chinese physician who rsstucloetf l a certificate of death from conump ton This ccltificate a rejectei liy the board of health because he Ions no license from the State Medical Medic-al Board The coronersjury today not only found the cau u of death but recommended r that Dr Knra be held to await the action of the grand jury for practicing medicine without with-out a licence As Nan cannot get a licence he I in a corner He claims he has a better record than many of his white medical brethren breth-ren and that they are banded together to-gether in opposition to Chinese felon lienp labor In the medical pr XriTHpnprr Libel OMAHA Jan 4The Republican this morning contained au article signed by Paul Vandervcrt makint ft certain charges against Edward iloewntcT of the Omaha Bee The latter wore out n arrant for Van dervort and J S Wilcox ofthe ikpvUicaos on a charge of criminal libel Bail was promptly furnished and a hearing r7 January OIls Lincoln Anwli RICHMOND Va Jan 4 The Dispatch will publish tomorrow a letter written ty J Wilkes Booth the day be ossassinatcfl President Lincoln In it he says Right or wrong God judge not man for b ray mole good or bad of one thing I am sure the lasting condemnation of the North I love peace more ban life He discussed secession and singularly enough hoe race iroblcm regarding which he sajs This country was formed for the white man not for Uie black Hu signs himself A Coufederatedolng duty on l own responsibility llrmnln to nsn HELENA Mont Jan 4Tloo democratic Legislature met In Joint session at non ThltJ wer prent being six short of a quorum and they adjourned till Monday noon The democrats claim they will jet senators heal their differences and elect two lonn Fir Dra MOISES Jan 4The city of Boone I on fire The blaze orlgl nat in the Metropolitan block and Is spreading rapidly The loss at 130 was estimated at roat Join tbf Hajorlljr HELENA Mont Jan 4General E B Greene exsurveyorjwneral of Montana formerly of Louisiana where he held ma important wher hed many Imprnt po itlons in the engineer service p that States railwaydled her today after a short illness of Blights disease e Black Clondi Over Africa LONDON Jan 4Tho government govern-ment has received Intelligence of Johnson the British Consul atM at-M = bque who I traveling through the interior of Africa and who is charged by the Portuguese papers with having Intrigued with fin te against the Portuguese In the territory along the bhire river Johnson has pacified Kar angeraud subsidized Kotakotaand ha by treaty secured Western Ny anza to tho Britl h The Portu gueso have reached Katunzas where the remaining Makolokos rusting to British protection reused re-used t surrender the British flags hat had been presented to them when called upon to do so by the Portuguese The commander of the Portuguese thereupon again searched search-ed the steamers and compelled them I to lower their ensigns Fighting Vfrica is believed to b certain |