The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-01-11
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| PORTUGAL DIES NOT YIELD To ENGLAND'
LISBON, Jan. 2-At the opening of the
cortes the king announced that the
foreign relations of the kingdom were all
that could be desired. He reviewed the
progress made in the African colonies OF
Portugal. The king said: 'The patrl-
Otic aspirations OF Great Britain to extend
her vast possessions in Africa have been
met at several points by the liked design
! Of Portugal to maintaiH her authority
( over the regions that Portuguese were
the first to discover and open to Chris
| tianity and commerce, and where the
Portuguese authorities have exercised
Jurisdiction and influence sufficient to in
dIcate lncontestable possession. NV gov
ernment will endeavor to convince the
British government of our right, hoping
to obtain all equitable adjustment OF all
legitimate interests"
ANARCHY IN PRACTICE.
New YORK, Jan. 4.-In Brooklyn to-
day the discovery was made that Louis
NJ. FrankeI, an anarchist, had choked his
child to death, poisoned and then shot
his wife. and when discovery made retri-
button certain, killed himself. For two
days and nights he had eaten and slept
alongside of the decomposing bodies of
bis wife and child. This morning a man
went to the shanty to get his washing,
the dead woman being a laundress, but
could get no response to his knocks. He
notified the police, and an officer raised
the front window and climbed in.
As he did so, a maniac with matted
hair and beard bounded from rear
room, and, pointing a revolver at the
officer, told him to get out. The police
man retreated, but, hearing pistol shot |
a moment later, returned and in the |
snanty made the terrible discovery noted |
above.
The child had been strangled to death
with a rope. The interior of the shanty |
gave evidence that Mrs. Franken was
neat housekeeper.
Mrs. Franken sympathized with her
husband, and when he said the entire
family would be better off dead than
alive, she agreed with him. She sug-
gested that be poison her. and with this
end in view Franken purchased Paris
green. He tells this in one of the letters
he left. In 1t be also SAYS he was insane,
was driven so by poverty and the pros
pect of never being able to better his
condition.
On Tuesday the wife cleaned up the
house and then drank dose of Paris
green. When she began to suffer, rolling
on the bed in intense agony, she begged
pitiously for relief, and FIanken put a
bullet in her bialn.
Then the child was called into the room.
Holding the innocent in his arms, lie
drew clothes line about its neck and
pulled 1t taut, and kept it so while watch
ing the poor child's feeble struggles.
Tighter and tighter was the rope drawn
until 1t cut into the yielding flesh, when
the father tied it, and laid the dead babe
beside its mother.
Then Franken's cowardice manifested
itself. aud he did not kill himself Since
Tuesday he had cooked his own meals
and lived alone with the dead, only Kill
ling himself when he was about to fall
INTO the hands of the law.
The letters which he left, and which
are referred to above, we're addressed to
J. G. Scott, 10 California street, San
Francisco; Henry w. Faust, 604 Har
rlson street, San Francisco, and Coroner
Lindsay. OF the coroner he requested
that the bodies be cremated.