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A MANIAC.
a Man Who Tried to Kill All the Inmates
of House.

oil n House.
SAN Francisco, January 4th-Deputy
| Sheriff Casaday of San Joaquin county ar.
rived in this city last night from San Quen.
tin with prisoner, William Beckett, who
after being examined by the Commission.
ers in Lunsey, will probably be sent 10 an
insane asylum.
Beckett, on January l, 1885, ran amuck
| in the rooms of his brother. in-law, named
| Archer, at Fifth and Perry streets. He
had been making a number of calls, and
when he arrived at bis sisters he was con-
siderably intoxicated. Drawing a pistol
suddenly, he took shot at Archer, but
missed him without waiting to see what
effect had been accomplished by his bullet.
Beckett ran down stairs into a saloon aud
began firing Unfortunately at the visit
ors Steve Handy was shot in the eve and
?. Rourk in the breast
Beckett fired a shot at Tom Clishman,
but missed him. He then ran up stairs
again and waited until officer Stanton ar
rived. AS the officer entered the door he
fred a shot at him. which luckily missed
the mark. Stanton bravely rushed in and
disarmed Beckett, who WAS afterwsrd
locked up on three charges of assault to
murder.
While at the City Prison, awaiting an ex-
animation, Beckett became, or pretended
TO become. insane, and one day struck Ser
geant Cohen frightful blow in the nose,
causing that organ to bleed profusely. He
was overpowered, but struggled like mad
man.
a few days later he again became violent,
while in cell number two of the Hole in
the Wall, and assaulted his cell-mate. tore
up the mattresses, etc. Sergeant Lind
heimer, while experimenting his removal
TO a cot, where he was strapped down, at
tracted the attention of the maniac, who
made wild rush at him. The Sergeant
promptly knocked him down with his cane.
On June LIST he was sentenced to seven
years in San Quentin. He has been vio-
lent nearly all the time since his lmprison-
|
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A FANGLEsS ADDER.
a Boston Irishmaus Poor Opinion of
Captain O'shea.

BosToN, January 4th.-The news from
London of Captain O'Shea making Mr..
Parnell a CO respondent in the divorce pro-
ceeding against Mrs. 0'Shea has raised q
storm of indignation among the Irish
leaders sympathizers in Boston, whose
unanimous opinion is that O'Shea's actions
are insligated by the Tory enemies of Ire
land. Among the leading Irishmen here
who freely spoke on the subject was John
Boyle O'Reilly, and from his intimacy with
Parnell and his private life his remarks are
of special interest.
Said Reilly: Captain O'Shea is g fang
less adder. The Tories brought him for
Commission, but his venom had no hold
and his evidence fell fiat. If he had any
arrow in his culver to infiict injury on Par
nell he would have found it long ago. Mr..
Parnell has been on terms of the greatest
intimacy with the O'Shea family for many
years, and his relations with Mrs. 0'Shea
were those almost of brother and sister. 1t
will come to light, if this trial proceeds,
that Parnell had a great affection in the
loss of the lady who was to have become
his wife. She was the sister of Captain
0'Shea. When she died his old and close
relations with the family naturally con-
tinued. He lived in O'Shea's house, and
was seen everywhere in the company OF
both husband and wife. There was no
question of marital infidelity until politi-
cal quarrel came, when O'Shea deserted
| his party and voted against home rule. II
| is too late now, years after the rupture, to
| bring forward Parnells old intimacy as g
proof of dishOnOrable relations"
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COwARDLY ASSASSIN.
He Murders His Wife and Their Innocent
Rahe


New YORK, January 4th.-In Brooklyn
to day discovery was made that Louis NJ 4.
Franken. an Anarchist, had choked his
child to death, poisoned and then shot his
wife, and when discovered made retribu-
ton certain and killed himself.
For two days and nights he had eaten
and slept alongside the decomposing bodies
of his wife and child. This morning q
man went to the shanty to get his washing
the dead woman being a lsundress, but
could not get response to his knock.
He notified the police, and an officer
raised front window and climbed in. As
he did so the maniac, with matted hair and
beard, bounded from the rear room and,
pointing revolver at the officer, told him
to get out. The policeman retreated, but,
hearing a pistol shot a moment later, re-
turned, and in shanty made the terrible
discovery noted above.
The child had been strangled to death
with rope. The interior of the shanty
gave evidence that Mrs. Franken was neat
housekeeper. Over the mantel hung the
photograph of the Anarchists executed in
Chicago, and pictures of other Anarchists
painted by Franken were about the room.
Mrs. Franken sympathized with her hus-
band, and when be had said the entire fam
ily would be better off dead than alive she
agreed with him.
She suggested that he poison her, and
with this end in view Franken purchased
the paris green.
He tells this in one of the letters he left.
In it he also says he is insane, driven by
poverty and the prospect of never being
able to better his condition. On Tuesday
his wife cleaned up the house and then
drank the dose of paris green.
When she began to suffer, rolling on the
bed in intense agony, she begged piteously
for relief, and Franken put bullet in her
brain. Then the child was called into the
same room. and holding the innocent in
his arms he drew clothes-line about its
neck, pulled it taut and kept it so. While
watching the poor child's feeble struggles,
tighter and tighter was the rope drawn
until it cut into the yielding flesh, when
the father tied it, and laid the dead baby
beside its mother.
Then Franken's cowardice manifested
itself, and he did not kill himself Since
Tuesday ne had cooked his own meals and
lived along with death, only killing him
self when he was about to fall into the
hands of the law. The letters which he
left, and which are referred to above, were
addressed to ]. c. Scott, 10 California stleet,
San Francisco, Henry w. Faust, 604 Har-
rison street, San Francisco, and Coroner
Lindsay. OF the Coroner he requested that
the bodies be cremated
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They Both Want Austria-The Latte
Should Set Up Republic.

They Both Want Austria-The Latter
Should Set Up a Republic.
Copyrighted, 1889, by the New York Associated
Press.l
BERLIN, January 4th.-The State Council
is convened for Wednesday next. Bis
msrck, though still i'll from the recurrence
OF neuralgia, is certain to be present.
The re assembling of tbs Rsichstsg for
the last eyenlful Gays before is dissolution
and the re-openifg OF the Laudtsg compels
this general Ministerial meeting.
Leading questions Before be Reiehstag
will be the increase OF military credits and
the Socialist bill Bis marks long-ex-
pected declaration on foreign policy will
probably be made during the debate on
military credits.
The attitude of the Government on the
Socialist bill is irfex.bie. The wear opens
with universal peace, the National Zeitung
declaring that external tranquility IS guar
| anteed, while Internal tranquility depends
entirely on the character of the next
Reichstag. Yet despite this lovely pros.
pect of peace abroad and at home upon de-
| fined conditions the Foreign ONCE itself
was never so pervaded by a sense of inse-
| curity of the continuance of the triple alli-
ance. Bismarck's refusal to support Aus
trias policy in Bulgaria is great source of
irritation and suspicion, and Crispi's per-
sistent intriguing for the cession of Tren-
tino is another. Progress of negotiations
for meeting of Emperor William and the
Car on the Polish frontier in April inten-
sites official anxiety and watchfuiness in
Austria.
In diplomatic circles there is lively dis
cussion on the prospect of renewal of the
German entente with Russia, as Bismarck
continues to find want of homogenity in
the Austrian Empire, growing out of dis
cord between its various natiOnalities and
the obstacle good politics, and sees how
greatly these reduce the value of the Aus
trian alliance.
1t is said he contemplates a radical
change of basis in his policy. His applica-
ton of theory being that all German
speaking people under German flag, would
be at the expense of Austria and the ex-
pense of Russia, but for Russia there would
be some compensation.
This policy, in fact, would wipe out Aus
tria, as that Empire now stands, for Ger
many would take the Austro- German
Duchies. and while Germany would also
get the German Baltic provinces now held
by Russia, Russia would get an equivalent
in Galieia and Bakowing and would be
given a free hand in Roumania and the
Balkan countries.
A German conference opened in Vienna
to-day. This is watched here as having an
indirect yet important bearing upon the
international relations
The Silesian Mines Society has petitioned
the Emperor to appoint commission to
inquire into their condition. They declare
1t is hopeless; that their miseIies can be in
no way alleviated unless he intervenes.
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MYSTERIOUS DEATH.
The Case of George j. Boil is Puzzlin
the Physicians.

The Case of George j. Boil is Pulling
the Physicians.
SAN FRANCISCO, January 4th - This
morning at 4 o'clock George J. Bell died ct
the City and County Hospital On Christ
mas Eve officer Broderick found Bell lyirg
in condition of stupor and removed him
to the Southern Station, believing him to
be drunk. He was soon aflerward taken
to the hospital.
The mans condition puzzled the physi-
clans in charge greatly. They at first
thought the case was simply one of too
much liquor, but that theory was weakened
by Bells continuing state of stupor, and it
was then believed that he had been given
some kind of drug.
At noon on the 26th he recovered his
senses sufficiently to say that his name was
George J. Bell, and that be had been en-
ployed as steward on the George W. Elder,
a steamer running from here to Portland.
Since going to the County Hospital Bell
had not fully attained TO a clear state of
mind, and when he died early this morn.
ing bis brain was very much clouded.
a post-mortem will probably determine
the cause of death, which as yet is a puz-
zle. Detective Hogan, who investigated
the case, learned that Bell was very hard
drinker, and discovered several saloons
where he had imbibed. No suspicious cir
cumstances were found. Bell wss 80 years
of age and a native OF Ireland.
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establishing the minimum rates of wages
at So 30 per day of ten hours, or s. % per
day of nine hours, would not be maintained
after January LIST.
This was believed by the members of the
Molders' Union to be the first step toward
a reduction, and their fears have been JUS
tilted. The first blow against the Union
rates has been struck at the City Iron
Works, where the hours have been reduced
to nine per day and the wages to So 10 per
day, or ten cents less than the Union rates.
A meeting of the Union was held last
evening to consider the reduction, and after
| a protrscted debate the men employed at
| the City Iron Works were instructed to de-
| mand the Union rate. They will report
the result of their demands at meeting of
! the Executive Committee OF the Union to
be hello tonight, which will decide what
action shall be taken.
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GOODS IN BOND.
Regulations Promulgated by the Domin-
ion Government

OTTAWA, January 4th.-The Customs De-
partment has made the following regula-
tons regarding the transfer in bond of
Canadian goods from ports on Puget Sound
by American steamers to porls in British
Columbia. The Northern Pacific must ap-
ply for the appointment Of Canadian Gus
toms officers TO be stationed at all points
west Of Duluth SIS that railway may wish,
to break The Canadian seals at the transfer
of Canadian goods from vessel to car or car
to car. 1t must also guarantee the payment
of the officers travelling expenses and a sal
airy of So daily. If The officers services
shall be required before o'clock in the
morning or after 6 O'Clock in the evening,
lie shall be entitled to so cents hourly ex-
ira. Officers will be paid their salaries at
Ottawa, and the railway company will re-
fund the amounts to the Dominion Treas
ury Department monthly.
The regulations are almost identical with
those enforced by the United States in sim
liar cases.
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AIDED RAILROADS.
Can They Sell Certain Bonds and Rein
vest the Proceeds?

vest the ffOCeeuSs
WASHINGTON, January 4th-Attorney-
General Miller and Secretary Window gave
hearing at the Department of Justice yes
terday afternoon to Judge Wilson, of this
city, and Judge Storey, of Boston, repre-
senting the Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany, in support of their petition to the
Secretary of the Treasury for the sale of the
United States bonds now in the sinking
fund of that company, and the reinvest-
ment of the proceeds in other bonds pay
ing higher rates of interest.
The question has been pending for sew
ersl months, and in October last Secretary
Window asked the Attorney General for
an opinion as to whether Section 8 of the
Act of March 3, 1887, entitled An Act
authorizing the investigation of the books,
accounts and methods of railroads which
have received aid from the United States"
authorizes the sale of the United States
bonds now in the sinking fund of these
companies and the reinyestment of the
proceeds in other bonds and also as to
whether the sinking fund of these compa-
MES can be invested in first mortgage bond
of any of the roads that have received aid
from the Government in bonds.
The same question arose soon after the
passage of the Act of March 3, 1887, and
Attorney General Garland in the same
month gave an opinion that Section did
not authorize the sale of bonds then in the
sinking fund and the reinvestment of the
proceeds, but only authorizes the invest
ment of the moneys at the date of the ac-
ton in the sinking fund. and which might
thereafter be paid into said fund.
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THE FREE ZONE.
Senator Reagan Has Rod in Pickle for
Our Sister Republic.

Senator Reagan Has Rod in Pickle for
Our Sister Republic.
WASHINGTON, January 4th. = Senator
Resgan is preparing bill TO introduce in
the Senate on Monday which is likely to
create as much disturbance in our relations
with Mexico as Secretary WINDOWS recent
decision on the importation of lead ore.
Mr.. Reagan's bill authorize the Secretary
of the Treasury to suspend the law which
allows the transportation of goods bound
from Europe to Mexico in bond through
the United States until the Government OF
Mexico shall abolish what is known as
the IONA libre, or free zone, along the bor-
der.
Under the laws of our sister republic
there is strip of country along the Rio
Grande, abutting upon the United States,
into which goods may be imported without
the payment of duties, and it has become q
smugglers' resort, much to the disadvantage
of honest traders ON this side of the bound
airy.
A merchant can purchase his goods in
Europe, have them shipped in bond from
New York TO Paso del Norte, Piedras Ne
gras, Laredo and other cities on the Mexi-
can side of the line, and there have them
delivered without the payment of any duty.
Then, by watching his chance, he can
smuggle these goods back into the United
States by carts or wagons or on pack mules
and undersell the honest dealers, who have
paid the regular Custom house charges.
This free zone has been the subject of
volume upon volume of diplomatic CORE
spondsnce, and the prevailing opinion is
that the Mexican Government would be
quite as glad as we to have it abolished,
for it is the means of losing millions of
dollars to its Treasury IN customs taxes
every year, but the fact is that the SNUG
glers are so strong and so rich on the Rio
GraDde, and so many men of powerful in
fiuence are involved with them, that Presi-
dent Disz fears a revolution will follow
and that the northern tier of States included
within the free belt would be likely to at
tempt secession if their merchants were
compelled to pay duties on imported goods.
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suspicioned of Murder.

TACOMA (Wash.l, January 4th.-Henry
Miller was to-day bound over by the Coro-
ner's jury for the murder of the stranger
in the Union House few days ago. Miller
positively refuses to talk about the case
until he has consulted lawyer.
In response to a question, Miller said
he came from San Francisco last Septe1-
Der. He had remained in San Francisco
only a week, having come there from Ell
Paso. Texas. Hewas living with a woman
in Ell Psso, Texas, before he went TO San
Francisco.
She packed his trunk for him when he
left Ell Paso and put a lot OF her own
clothes in by mistake. That is how the
female clothes happened TO be found in his
room. There is still no clue to the iden-
tity Of the murdered man.
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four companions left here Tuesday in a
fishing boat, and while on the way back to
this city and in the vicinity of Point b.
nita q squall struck the craft and she was
capsized. His four companions were
drowned, but by miracle he was thrown
upon the rock and managed to remain
there until rescued.
The nsues of Nicholas companions are
given as Nick, Mike and Pexcis, three
Greek fishermen, and another one named
George Michael
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EAST OF TIE ROCKIES.
Fifty Persons Fatally Poisoned With
TriChina.
INFLUENZA STILL PREVALENT.
A Woman Murderess = Married
Through Trickery-Tne Regular
Batch of Murders.
EmEcIAt DISPATCHES TO THE REooRD-uEsoN.l
EAST OF TIE ROCKIES.
oHIo,s SENATOR.

Brice Seems to Have the Inside Track
Talk of n Bolt.
COLUMBUS, January 4th.-The Senatorial
contest was in great measure covered to.
day by legislative caclses for the selection
of officers of both branches 1t is claimed
quite generally that TIE caucus nomination;
are in the interest OF Brice for Senator tc
the extent that his friends recognized the
candidates themselves, making no claim:
further than that the Brioe men profes;
themselves satisfied with the situation anc
are not aggressive toward the other can
didates.
Some prominence is being given the non
resident theory against Brice, and there i:
some talk of a bolt from the caucus in cast
Brice is nominated, but the reports cannot
be traced to any reliable source.
LATER.-Private dispatches received to
night from Columbus indicate that Colnir
S. Brice is being hit pretty hard, and he
may decide to throw his forces to a dark
horse to prevent the election of any of his
opponents
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RESCUED FROM DEATH.
Heroic Work of Allen Kelly and ii. r.
Haxton.

SAN Francisco. January 4th.-As the
steam tug Monarch was on her way out of
the harbor last night to render assistance
10 the disabled steamer State of California,
Captain Harvey, of the tug, heard cries for
assistance coming from half-naked man
on & rock near Point Bonita.
As the water was too rough to admit of
a neas approach, the tug returned and re-
ported the matter at the Preside. Word
was ct once sent to the Merchants Ex-
change and to the Life-Saying Station, but
no boat was launched, it being claimed
that the water was too rough.
The tug Sea Queen was dispatched TO the
aid of the man, and with much difficulty
he was rescued and brought to this city.
To Allen Kelly and II. Z. Haxton is due
the credit of the rescue. Haxton jumped
overheard with line and swan TO the base
of the rock.
The rescued man proved to be Anton .
Nicholas, Russian fshermau- He and
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JOHN d. LEES SON.
He is Arrested for the Canyon Diablo
Train Robbery.

PRESCOTT "a. T }, January 4th.-James
Lee, son of John D. Lee of Mountain
Meadow Mormon massacre fame, was
lodged in Jail here, charged with compli.
city in the Canyon Diablo train robbery
last April. Warrants have for some time
been out for the arrest of him and his
brother, but they have heretofore success.
fully eluded the officers, and the brother is
still at large. at the time of the robbery
they were running what is known as Lees
ferry, on the Colorado river, where the
principals in the train robbery are alleged
to have received fresh horses. An effort
was also made to throw Sheriff ONeil and
posse off the robbers trail at some point in
their precinct.
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FOR HUMANIrY's SAKE.
The Governor of Washington is Every
Inch a Man.


Inch Man.
OLYMPIA (Wash.), January 4th-An un-
precedented event in the history of this
State took place to-day, a pardon being
issued by the Governor without his having
been petitioned to dose. Last July Minnie
Allen was sentenced at Tacoma to four
years Imprisonment in the penitentiary
for burglary. Governor Ferry was notified
by the Warden about four days ago that
the woman would probably be confined in
about two weeks.
On learning of this fact the Governor de-
cided to pardon her "for humanity's sake,
as he stated to the reporter, as be did not
believe in visiting the sins of parents upon
their children. and thought it unjust that
the unborn child should be compelled to
bear through life the stigma of having been
born in penal institution. He therefore
pardoned the woman.
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unable to get any satisfaction from the
local or State authorities.
CaIifornia,s Gold curn1us

CALIFORNIA; Gold Surplus.
WASHINGTON, January 4th.-Treasurer
Huston has decided not to transfer the
surplus amount of gold at San Francisco
to New York by rail or messenger. On
the contrary, he will conduct the transfer
through the books of the office. An East
ern man having to pay gold in San Fran
cisco can deposit it in the New York Sub
Treasury; then the San Francisco Sub
Treasurer will be advised by telegraph to
pay the corresponding amount. This
saves the cost OF transportation, etc.
Americans to Blame.
WASHINGTON, January 4th-Notwith-
standing Secretary Tracy's telegram to Mr.
Blaine, offering to send men-of-war 10
Colombia to prevent the seizure of Ameri-
can vessels there, it is stated by an official
of the State Department that at present the
offer will not be accepted and nothing be
done until full report is received from
the Consul at Carthsgenia. In fact, it is
thought that the owners are to blame for
the detention of their vessels, because they
will not clear for home from customs ports.
An Official Retired.
WASHINGTON, January 4lh.-The Navy
Department is informed that Commander
John MCGOWAN, Jr., commanding the
United States steamer Swatara, on the
Asiatic station, has been condemned by the
Medical Board of Survey. No one has YET
been selected to succeed him III command
of the vessel.
Maritime Delegates.
WAsHINGIoE, January 4th.-The dele
gates 10 me recent Maritime Conference
accompanied by Pan. American delegate;
and number of public officials, went tC
Norfolk on the United Sta.es steamer Dis
patch to-day to inspect the lighthouse sys
TEN in that neghhorhood.
Judge Brewer.
WASHINGTON, January 4tk. - Judge
Brewer, the newly-appointed Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court, to-day
handed into the Department his resigna
ton as Circuit Judge He afterwards called
at the White House and paid his respect;
to the President.