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si vol. xrv. AXiTOONA, PA.S MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1890. NO. 295.

i 7 A SUDDEN DEATH. WOMEN DISCUSS REPORTERS. Altoona, January 6, 1890. TWO CHILDREN KILLED. IMPOUNDING RESERYOIR.

KILLED WIFE AND CHILD. INCREASED DEATH RATE. gola, handsome 2.50, $3 co, $4.00 and $5 00. For perfection of fit and excellence of quality these Shoes are without a rival. Fine St.

Goal C. which has splendid wearing qualities, we will give you 33HOESI Never before has business ia this department been equal in importance to that begun with the New Year. The greatest existing trade in Ladies' and Children's Shoes in Altoona is done here. Because of the Great Bargains this department is continually offering we expect before another year rolls around to increase it largely. The bargains offered by us to-day have never been equaled and must command universal attention.

All the way through our Shoes are up to the highest notch in quality and style, and down to the lowest in price. You can save money by buying from us as the following list will show: Sizes from 2 to 8, in width of and Grain Shoes, $1.00, $1 25 and $1.50. Fine Dongola, all styles, prices graduating from 1 50 up to $4.00. Fine Don for $2. 75.

Fine Dull Dongola, also noted for durability, $2,75. Dongola and St. Goal Wauken-fast $3.50, $4 00 and $5.00. St. Goal Dongola Kid hand welt, a handsome Shoe for street wear, $3.00, $4.00 and $5 00.

A splendid line of Slippers and Oxfords 50c. to $2.00. In Misses' Shoes none can excel our School Shoes from 75c. to $1.50. Dougola Springs $1.25 up to $2.50.

Dongola Springs high cut, $1.50 up to $2 00. Goal and St. Goal, high cut, $1.50 to $2.00. Goal and St. Goal, tipped, $1.75 and $2 00.

A great variety of Children's Shoes in all sizes and prices from 75c. to $165., very fine Shoes hand turn $2 00. In Infants' Shoes the sizes run from 1 to 5, in width of C. and and the prices range from 35c. to $1.25.

BALTZELL BROS. Former Price 5 00 Former Price 6 00 Former Price 6 50 Former Price 10 00 Former Price 12 00 Former Price 14 00 Reduced from FIFTEEN DOLLARS and 20 00 A BIBUITIC MARK-DOWN. Owing to the mild weather we have on hand about Five Hundred more OVERCOATS than we expected, and in order to sell them regardless of the weather we have made a Gigantic Mark-down, and the prices to follow will tell A Good Serviceable Overcoat 3 50 A Little Better Overcoat 4 50 A Good Chinchilla Overcoat 5 00 A Better Grade Chimchilla Overcoat. 7 50 A Fine Kersey Overcoat- 8 50 An Extra Grade KerBey 10 00 Better Grade of every Character of Cloth from $10 to 15 00 Mr. Joseph Bennett Expires at His Residence of Heart Disease.

Yesterday evening at about twenty minutes after 7 o'clock Mr. Joseph Bennett died suddenly of heart disease at his residence, No. 1014 Bridge street. To those of his family who were present the death was a terrible shock and their grief was of the most poignant nature. The announcement of the deaj.li spread rapidly and was received with sorrow by all who knew the deceased, for he was a man who was esteemed by all being an unassuming and quite citizen with a pleasant word for every person.

Mr, Bennett had been in ill health for several months past, his illness being particularly noticable on Wednesday last. He had got somewhat better and ate his supper at the usual hour yesterday evening. Afterward he laid down on the lounge and a married daughter and her child coming in, he greeted them both pleasantly and made some -laughing remark to his grandchild. Suddenly he exclaimed, "I car.not stand this," dropped backward on the lounge and expired almost instantly. Aid was summoned but all efforts to resuscitate him were unavailing.

The vital spark had fled. Coroner Glenn, on being notified of the death, made the necessary investigation and decided that no inquest was necessary. Mr. Bennett was in the 67th year of his age, his last birthday being May 22. He was born in Philadelphia, and was a puddler by trade, an occupation which he had not followed for some years by reason of his health.

He served his country during the late war and was at one time a member of post 62, Grand Army of the Republic. He had at one time been a resident of Lancaster and also of McVeytown, Mifflin county, coming from the latter place to Altoona about twelve years ago. Since that time the Mountain City had been his home. His bereaved and sorrow stricken wife survives him and he also leaves six children who are as follows: Mrs. Mary Sliffler, of Coalport, and Mrs.

Phoebe Roselip, Mrs. Rebecca Pheasant, Sadie Nagle and Messrs. Scott and John Bennett, all of this city. The time of the funeral had not been decided on last evening. TJNDRR A SNOW-SLIDE, Seven Persons Killed and Several Houses and a Church Wrecked.

Sierra City, January 4. A fatal and destructive snow-slide occurred here yesterday by which six women and a boy were killed, two other persons maydie and several houses and the Catholic church were wrecked. The slide commenced at the Sierra Buttes Flume and swept with terrific force down the valley, carrying everything in its path before it. Stout trees were snapped off at the ground like pine sticks. Several people had narrow escapes from death, as the slide came without the slightest warning.

It is believed that a Chinaman and a little girl are still buried in the mass of snow and debris. Fears are entertained that another 6lide may cccur at any moment, and the people are in a great state of anxiety. As soon as possible after the slide yesterday a number of men began the work of digging out the unfortunates who had been caught in it, and in a few hours had taken out the bodies of Mrs. Rich, her two daughters, and a son; Miss Ryan, of Downieville, and Mrs. I.

T. Mooney, with her daughter, Miss Ethel Langton. The two last named were still breathing when removed from the snow, but efforts at resuscitation proved unavailing. The search for others is still going on, and it is feared that more than now known may have been swept out of existence in the avalanche. Death of John P.

Connellv. Two weeks ago yesterday John P. Connelly, of Tenth avenue between Eleventh and Twelfth streets, while in the discharge of his duties as a brakeman on the Pennsylvania railroad, had the fingers of his right hand crushed between the bumpers of two cars which he was coupling, and although the injuries were properly attended to at the time, blood poisoning set in, culminating in lockjaw, which caused his death shortly before 7 o'clock yesterday morning. He was a son of Mrs. Margaret Clair, and was 23 year3 of age in August last.

He had been employed as a brakeman on the Pittsburgh division for three weeks. He was a member of St. John's Catholic church, and the funeral will leave the late residence at 8.30 o'clock on Tuesday morning, to proceed to St. John's church, where services will be held at 9. Interment in St.

John's cemetery. Two Accidents. Mrs. Catharine Juniata, widow of the late Peter Empfield, met with a painful accident on Friday last. She was visiting Mrs.

McNeal, who resides near Juniata, and as she was about to return slipped and fell, breaking one of her legs in two places. On account of her advanced age she will probably be confined to her room for a number of weeks. Roy, the 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J.

M. Megahan, of 711 Lexington avenue, was the victim of a serious accident on Saturday morning. He was playing in the kitchen at his home and was walking backwards at the time when he stumbled against a bucket full of scalding hot water in which lye had also been put.preparatory to scrubbing. The contents of the bucket fell on his legs from his ankles to his waist, scalding him in a terrible manner. A physician was summoned who made the little sufferer as comfortable as possible.

Juniata Council Officers. There having been several errors in the list officers of Juniata council, No. 372, Junior Order United American Mechanics, as published Saturday morning, the following corrected list is given: Junior past councillor, McKee; councillor, C. L. Marshall; vice councillor, H.

L. Murray; financial secretary, C. E. Steele; treasurer, D. F.

Greenawalt; recording secretary, G. L. Yeager; assistant recording secretary, O. C. Galbraith; warden, W.

C. Walker; conductor, E. A. Ritchey; inner sentinel, John Noggle; outer sentinel, E. A.Beach; trustees, W.

E. McKee, D. W. Fox, O. C.

Galbraith; representative, Joeseph A. McKee. The Fquadron of Evolution. London, January 5. The American squadron of evolution has arrived at Giber-alter from Tangier.

Views of Mis. Frank Leslie, Jenny June and Other Bright Lights. New York, January 4. The Women's Press club discussed the qualities which go to make a good reporter. Jennie June put the question, and Mrs.

Frank Leslie replied, "hard work and originality," as she looked up brightly with a smile; whereat a pretty young girl over in the corner, not a year in the business, gazed on the pearls in Mrs. Leslie's ears and the bracelets on her wrists and wished half audibly that all hard work might meet with as much success and sighed. Mrs. Leslie smiled again as if in answer, and said that women made the best reporters because they had tact and knew how to ask difficult questions. Then rebellious Bab off in another corner whispered that if Bhe had known women were such superior beings she would have married one instead of a man.

This provoked a laugh from the un-regenerate and Bab, when Mrs. Croly looked inquiringly in her direction, suggested innocently that a good newspaper report ought to be like a good salad dressing, containing vinegar, but with the sharpness smoothed by the oiL Miss Mary F. Seymour thought that a reporter to make a success must keep up with the march of the times, to which Mrs. Croly rejoined that rebellion against the times was often necessary to self-retpect, for the times moved just at present in sensation and vicious directions. An interview, she said, was an abomination, like nothing so much as a lot of knots in a rope; when you had been at the labor of untying you had the rope for your pains.

Some one made the familiar remark that women were more conscientious in their work than men. Bab with difficulty restrained herself, and Margaret Manton said that women reporters often let their sympa-ties run away with them, instancing a murder trial in which a woman's report gave a wholly diflerent color to a case from that presented in other newspapers. The question was raised of the value of reporting as a training for literary work, and the prevailing opinion seemed to be that the blue pencil made it impossible to learn much beyond colorless brevity. "That's the first requisite of success," said a magazine editor, "to conquer the vice of expansion." "Yes," pouted the same little girl under her breath who had admired Mrs. Leslie's jewelry, "but we're the horny-handed daughters of toil over in this corner; we write on space, and if we don't expand where'll we get any butter, let alone the jam "We can't really collect ourselves," said Mrs.

Croly, as the informal chat ended, "until we have some tea." "Do you know," said Bab, as the night swallowed her up, "I believe in men." For Preaching- to Negroes. Washington, January 5. Sir Julian Paunceforte, the British minister, has received a petition from Rev. T. M.

Joiner, of Holly Springs, N. for redress for injuries received by himself and wife at the hands of a mob at Holly Springs last month. He states that he is a British subject, that he and his wife were giving religious and other instruction to the negroes at Holly Springs, which fact, he says, so incensed some of his neighbors that they broke into his house and assaulted and maltreated both himself and his wife. The crowd was masked and many of their number were armed with guns and pistols. He says he had previously been warned to leave the place, but had refused to do so.

When the mob appeared at the house they discharged a volley of bullets into the room where he and his wife were sitting, wounding him in the left arm above the and also in the left hand. Mrs. Joiner received three flesh wounds in the scalp and was knocked down by one of the men with his fist. Mr. Joiner says he appealed for redress first to the local authorities and next to the state authorities, but received no satisfaction.

He then came to Washington with his wife to lay the matter before the British minister. The latter is now investigating the case, and expects to bring it to the attention of the secretary of state as soon as he has received the proper evidence. Mr. Joiner has been preaching in North Carolina since 18G2, The Railroad Strike. Evansville, Jantaary 5.

The committee from Terre Haute went in conference with Mr. Mackey at 8 p. last night and remained until midnight. Mackey conceded that thedischarged men should be put on the rolls of company without pay until their cases can be investigated. The demand of the committee that Master of Transportation Hurd be suspended and investigated by a committee to be appointed by the strikers and Mr, Mackey was not acceded to and the conference adjourned.

The situation now is the same as before the conference commenced. Later. At 10 to-night an agreement was reached and the men will return to work in the morning. The details of the compromise are not known further than that Master of Transportation nurd will be retained in his position. Epidemic of Black Tongue F6ver.

Parkersburg, W. January 4. An epidemic of what is said to be the black tongue fever is raging in Monongalia county, this state. It was first discovered in the family of Thomas Burns, a few miles from Morgantown. Four of the family died with it in one week.

The people of the neighborhood are very much alarmed, and the authorities of Morgantown have sent provisions for the balance of Burns' family, with order to remove them and burn the residence to prevent the spread of the disease. Couldn't Celebrate Mass. -Trenton, N. January 5. Owing to the prostration of several members of the choir connected with the Church of the Sacred Heart, it was impossible to celebrate high mass to-day.

With the exception of the hottest weeks in summer high mass has not been omitted in years before. A $100,000 Fire. San Francisco, January 5. Wardner, one of the principal mining towns in Cacur Dalene, district of Idaho, was visited by a disastrous fire yesterday. Twenty-five house were destroyed, including six three-story buildings.

Loss estimated at $100,000. They Were Murdered by Their Brutal Grandfather. Haverhill, N. January 5. About 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon there occurred at Centre Haverhill, about four miles from this place, a murder which, for brutality and atrociousness, is unparalleled by anything that has ever occurred in this vicinity.

It consisted in the fiendish act of an old man 80 years of age, who id Hie ted blows with a hammer upon the skull of an innocent boy 5 years old, and pounded and stabbed a 10 year-old girl, resulting in the almost instant death of the boy and in fatal injuries to the girl. Stephen La Tlant, a Frenchman, whose home is in Benton, was spending a few days with his son's family at Centre Haverhill. Yesterday his son, accompanied by the mother of the children, went to Warren, leaving La Plant and wife in chargeof their four children. The two eldest went skating, leaving the others alone with their grandparents. There was some dispute in regard to the children, and La Plant left the room in a rage.

He soon returned with a hammer in his hand, with which he dealt the boy several terrible blows on the skull, scattering the blood upon the ceiling and floor. The girl attempted to interfere, when the old man turned upon her and drawing a knife cut her several times and also dealt her heavy blows with the hammer until she fell to the floor insensible. At this point a passer by was attracted by the noise and La Plant was seized while in the act of murderously assaulting bis wife whose life, doubtless, he would also have taken. Officer Weeden was summoned and had the murderer in jail here at 8 o'clock. La Plant talks freely and says he meant to kill the children.

He was addicted to the use of liquor and in all probability was under its influence when the crime was committed. The Mysterious Kniffen. Murder. Trenton, N. January 5.

Coroner Bower has subpoenaed about two dozen witnesses for the inquest which will begin in the Kniffen murder case to-morrow morning. The inquest will be adjourned from Monday to Wednesday owing to Mrs. Knif-fen's funeral on Tuesday, and will then go on for the rest of the week. Dr. Kniffen, husband of the daad woman, and Miss Parcel), who was found apparently unconscious alongside of Mrs.

Kniffen's corpse, are on the list of witnesses, but the counsel declined to-day to say whether or not he would allow them to go on the stand. Under the law they are it required to answer any questions tending to criminate jthem. The coroner says he has witnesses who will swear they saw Dr. Kniffen and Miss Purcell frequently together on the streets and to other circumstances tending to show unusual friendly relations. There were no new developments to-day, as to the murder, and no arrrests have yet been decided on.

Held on to the Brake Rigging. Columbia, January 4. One of the most thrilling experiences in the annals of railroading on the Philadelphia division of the Pennsylvania railroad was that of James Farling yesterday. While at a standstill at Glen Lock, Farling went under his train to fix the brake rigging. The train started and the brakeman, unable to get out, bad presence of mind to take hold of the brake-beam, near the axle of the wheels.

There he hung in a cramped position for fully a mile, when he was noticed by a track laborer who signalled the train to stop. When taken out, his knit jacket was worn through at the breast, from the revolving of the axle upon which he was lying. The man escaped serious injury. A Tunnel Oaves In. New York, January 5.

The side of the North River tunnel caved in this morning on the Jersey side, causing the twenty-five workmen to fly for their lives to the air lock. One of them, named Christopher Nelson, was caught in the door of the lock by the pressure of air and mud and was jammed against the side of the lock, breaking both legs and arms, cutting off his right hand and badly crushing his body. Several others were slightly injured, by being knocked down and trampled on. Nelson's injuries were pronounced fatal. Finest In the World.

Chicago, January 4 Chicago is to have the finest Masonic temple in the word. It is to be erected in the northeast corner of State and Randolph streets in the very near future, if the negotiations now pending do not miscarry. The cost of the building will be $2,500,000. The intention is to build a towering structure of unique design that" will far overtop any of the tall buildings in the vicinity. The lower floors will be constructed with a view to leasing them for a huge European hotel.

Burned to Death. Paduch, January 4. Four loggers, two of them brothers, named Dyer, and the others named Cotton and Somers, were burned to death Thursday night at Beebe's camp, seventy-five miles from here up the Tennessee. It is thought they were all intoxicated, and that their cabin caught fire from the chimney. FireSin a Hospital.

Tacoma, January 5 Fire broke out in the Fannie Paddock hospital this afternoon. The building was crowded with patients, who were carried out into the snow and saved. It is thought the sudden change and excitement will be fatal to a number. The fire was extinguished. Floods Reported In Queensland.

London, January 5. Floods are reported in the northwest portion of Queensland. A part of the town of Normantor is submerbed, the water in many places being twenty feet deep. All the adjacent territory is under water. Snowing In Halifax.

Halifax, January 5. The heaviest snow storm of the winter set in this afternoon. There is half a foot of snow on the ground to-night, and it is still falling. An Aged Man Dead. Nyack, N.

January 5 Commodore William Voorheis, one of Rockland's most noted citizens, died last night, aged 70 years THE SURVEY FOB A NEW BASIN NEAR THE POINT. The Provisions of a Resolution Lately Passed by Coun-cils Darned Oat and a Map of the Proposed Additional Reservoir Has Been Prepared by City Engineer Linton. Interesting Figures. CAPACITY WOULD BE 362,706,000 GALLONS. And With the Old.

Reservoir a High and Low Service Would be Obtained for Altoona Thus Obviating Trouble. The Ipresent capacity of the Kittanning Point reservoir ia estimated at from 65,000,000 gallons and it covers an area of 12.62 acres of land, Altoona is growing rapidly and while the supply of water may be sufficient at present the time is not far distant when it must of necessity be increased. Some months ago a resolution was passed by councils that the feasa-bility of erecting an additional storage reservoir be inquired This was done at the suggestion of the members of the board of water commissioners. City Engineer Linton has therefore made a map of a proposed impounding reservoir, the back flow line of which would be about 1,300 feet east of the breast of the present Kittamng Point reservoir. This new basin for holding water would be about 2,300 feet long and 900 feet wide at the breast, which if built to the height of fifty-five feet would give a storage capacity of 362,706,000 gallons.

It would cover an area of 43.71 acres of land, or 31.09 acres more than the present one. When finished it would furnish, the supply for the low pressure system of feeding, while the older reservoir would be the base of supply for the high, pressure. Keeping in mind the plan of Hydraulic Engineer C. W. Knight for the carrying of water through the( city, which plan was adopted several years ago by councils, the water commissioners have, whenever and wherever new mains are put down, followed said plan as nearly as practicable.

Thus there has been a gradual approach to what must inevitably follow so long as the Kittanning Point streams are the source of the water supply. This inevitably ending is a high, and low pressure separate feeding mains for the high and low portions of the city. Assuming, therefore, that this result had been attained, the situation in brief would be as follows: The 12-inch main would be extended up Twenty-fourth strett to Third avenue, thence to Fifteenth street, and from there out Second avenue to the Prospect Hill basin. There are now two mains leading from Prospect reservoir down Twelfth street to Ninth avenue, but the old 12-inch line runs on across the city on this street as far as Eighteenth avenue. This main would run free of connections from Prospect to between Fourteenth and Fifteenth avenues, and from there feed east and west; the other 12-inch main would be cut off between Fourth and Fifth avenues, and it also would feed east and west.

By this means houses on the high ground would receive their service totally independent of the lower parts of the city. This, with the various cross mains on the streets above Fifth avenue on the east side and above Fourteenth avenue on the west side, would comprise what would be known as the high service. As to the lower part of the city. Sixth avenue will in all probability be paved during the coming season. Before this is done an additional step to further the low service plan would be taken by putting down a 12-inch main on this avenue from Sixteenth to Fourth street, or if not that distance, then as far as the paving may be done.

At Seventeenth street this main would connect to the 16-inch one recently put down. Following out the plan a new line of pipe (size to be determined upon) would be brought in Broad street and coupled to the 16 -inch main at Seventeenth street and Margaret avenue. Finished as this last named line is to Eleventh avenue, connection has been made to the 12-inch main on that thoroughfare and will also be made to those on Twelfth and Thirteenth completing the low service in that locality. The 12 inch main now laid on Chestnut avenue would be continued up Ninth street to Howard avenue, coupling to the different cross mains, andwith crosaings'from the 12-inch main on Sixth avenue at Ninth and Fourth streets, the low service plan would be completed. Death of John Repetto.

The sudden death, from pneumonia, of Mr. John A. Repetto, an Italian, on Saturday afternoon last, cauEed general surprise and sorrow among his many friends in Altoona. He had been in delicate health for the past two months, but his disease had not been considered dangerous and gave little alarm to his immediate family and relatives. On Monday last, however, a radical change took place in his condition, from which he was compelled to take his bed.

He gradually grew worse until death relieved his sufferings. Mr. Repetto was born in Philadelphia and was about 30 years of age. He came to Altoona a little over a year ago and embarked in the fruit business at No. 1008 Bridge street, where he built up a good trade.

He was a man of powerful physique, genial in his manners, and one who made a friend of whomever he met. He leaves a wife, mother, two sisters and one brother residing in this city and another sister who lives in Philadelphia. Mr. John DeBarber, the Eleventh avenue fruit dealer, is a brother-in-law of the deceased. The funeral will take place to-morrow at 8 o'clock and proceed from his late residence on Bridge street to St.

John's Catholic church, where the funeral services will be held. The friends of the family are invited to attend. The interment will be made in St John's cemetery. The Fatal Trichinosis. Brownsdale, January 5.

A party of sixty persons gathered at the home of Henry Bernstein last night and sat down to a supper. Among the meats served was sausage. Forty-five of the guests who partook of the sausage were taken with violent fits of vomiting shortly after eating it, and fell pell-mell upon the floor. Mrs. Henry Sheik died this morning, and twenty of the other victims of the trichinosis are so low that but slight hope of their recovery is entertained.

THE HUSBAND THEN TOOK HIS OWN LIFE. A Triple Tragedy is New York in Which Sven Martin Frannken, a Swedish Saddler, Was the Central Figure Just When the Mur- ders Were Committed is Not Positively Known. THE MURDERIR THOUGHT TO Bt 1NSANI. Bodies of Mother and Daughter Badly Decomposed And Across Them Lay the Corpse of the Murderer and Suicide. New York, January 5.

Sven Martin Fraunken, a Swedirti saddler, who for a long time had permitted his German wife to support him by doing laundry work, killed her and his three-year-old daughter some time between Jan. 1 and yesterday, and concluded his series of crimes by killing himself as the police were about to discover the bodies of his victims. Edwcrd Katzenstein of 101 Ewen street, for whom Mrs- Fraunken had done some washing, went to the one-story frame shanty in the rear of 180 Maujer street, Greenpoint, where the Fraunken family lived, yesterday morning, and, learning that none of them had been seen since January 1, informed the police of tha Sixth precinct. A roundsman and two patrolmen went out to the place, and one of them, Patrolman Lehr, entered the house by means of the front window. He found no one in the outer of the two rooms, used as a kitchen and living apartment, but upon entering the sleeping room he saw Fraunken sittipg on the side of the bed.

As the policeman appeared Fraunken leveled a revolver at him and said: "I have got to go now." The policeman retreated, and as he did so Fraunken shot himself through the heart, dying from the wound before the ambulance surgeon, who was summoned, could assist him. Mrs. Fraunken's body was found upon the bed in the inner room, showing signs of death by poisoning and suffocation. The body was so bady decomposed that it was scarcely recognizable. Beside it lay the body of the little girl, her death having been caused by suffocation.

The body of the suicide and murderer was lying across them. The three bodies were removed to an undertaking establishment by' order of the coroner, a jury was impanneled and the inquest was adjourned until early this week. A wallet filled with papers was found, in which were letters addressed to the Coroner, D. Hulzelman, 180 Maujer street, Fraunken's landlord; Frank R. Traulkingham, 140 Naussau street, this city, a former friend; the United States Cremation Company, giving directions that the body should be burned, and to J.

C. Scott, 19 California street San Francisco, a half brother of the murderer. The letters, in disjointed sentences, indicated that Fraunken had long been insane, and had determined to kill his wife and child and himself because of his inability to secure a comfortable living. In his letter to the Coroner he asked that there should be no autopsy and that the cremation company should take chargeof the bodies. In the room where the police found his victims was discovered a tin box containing Jthe ashes of one of his children who died about two years ago.

Fraunken was found about a year ago wandering with his little daughter about the Jamaica woods, the little one being almost dead from privation and exposure when ehe was discovered. Fraunken was inclined to be an anarchist and frequently stormed about the wrongs which society had done to him- He several times assured his friends that he intended to kill his family and himself, but he was not regarded, as his threats were believed to be the ravings of a harmless maniac. Black Tomahawk On His Ear. Pierre, S. January 5.

A new complication has arisen in the Fort Pierre matter as to the right of possession to the Mile Square. Yesterday a full-blooded Sioux Indian named Black Tomahawk, under the advice of H. E. Dewey, an attorney of this city, commenced the erection of a house on land at Fort Pierre, 320 acres of the choicest part of which he will take under the severalty act of congress. Lieutenant Poor, in command of the troops stationed here to preserve the peace, stated that he could not prevent Black Tomahawk from putting up a building or hiring carpenters to do the work, and that the Indian seemed to have the best of the right of possession over several hundred whites now occupying the Mile Square.

Black Tomahawk will enforce his claim if need be with the aid of the Indian police at the agency. Between Fort Pierre residents, South Pierre boodlers, the Northwestern railway, and the Indians, all struggling for the possession of the Mile Square, the matter bids fair to soon result in a great excitement if not bloodshed. Notice to Subscribers. Newspaper carriers are no more proof against illness than the rest of the human family. The Tribune is experiencing at present the truth of this assertion and if any subscribers have trouble in receiving the Tribune they will know that any shortcomings are due to the fact that a number of the regular carriers are ill.

The following have been reported sick: On the west side of the city on routes from Seventh to Fourteenth streets. On the east side, on all routes below Sixth avenue; carrier from Sixteenth to Twentieth street, and railroad to Ninth avenue; also Seventh ward carriers. Murders to be Investigated. Austin, Texas, January 5. Governor Ross has offered a reward of each for the arrest and conviction of the parties engaged in the killing of the two negroes in Angelia county on December 26.

The governor has an official report of the affair which he believes was a brutal murder for the gratification of a base and unmanly prejudice against a comparatively helpless portion of the population, and he is determined to use all constitutional means at his disposal to teet the potency of the laws to give security to the persons and property of all classes alike. OVER 1,200 IN NEW YORK CIXY LAST WEEK. Of This Number 298 Were from Pneumonia Eleven Cases in Which kflaenzi Was Directly Complicated With Other Diseases The Police Force Has 302 Members on the List SIMILAR INTELLIGENCE COMES FROM BOSTON. More Funerals Last Week Than During any Other Week in the City's History La Grippe Still Epidemic. Niv York, January.

5. During the tewenty-four hours ending at noon yesterday there were reported 234 of which 61 were from pneumonia and 11 from influenza complicated with pneumonia, bronchitis, and other diseases. The total number of deaths during the week was 1,202, which is the largest number reported in any one week, except during the extreme summer heat. The death rate was 39.31 per 1,000 in an estimated population of 1,595,547. Of the deaths, 731 occurred in tenement houses, nd 242 in public institutions.

There were 298 deaths from pneumonia. The figures show an increase of 440 deaths over the number reported during the preceding week and 412 over the average number of deaths during the corresponding week for the past five, years. The great increase in the mortality is due to pneumonia, consumption, bronchitis and other pulmonary diseases, and diseases of "the heart and kidneys. The following esses of death in which influenza is given as the principal cause were reported yesterday at the bureau of vital statistics: Reynolds Moore, at 45 East Thirty-third street; Hebe McEntee, at 904 Sixth avenue; Catharine Heumann, at 2186 Sixth avenue; Thomas Gallagher, at 150 Leonard street; Patrick Devlin, at 411 Cherry street; James Kerr, at 340 East Sixtieth street; Dennis O'Brien, at 268 West Forty-third street; Robert 823 Seventh avenue; Enrico Castelli, at 38 Baxter street. There are 362 members of the police force on the sick list, including one captain, six sergeants, thirteen roundsmen, 334 patrolmen, and eight doormen.

The only death reported -yesterday was Patrolman John II Carr, of the First precinct, from pneumonia. The Death Rate in Boston. Boston, January 5. Last week has seen more funerals in Boston than any week in the history of the city. There have been 343 deaths, which is nearly one hundred more than ever occurred in a single week before.

On the accepted basis of population this shows a death rate of 43, which is positively alarming. Only twenty eight of the deaths were due to what the physicians call preventable causes. The remarkable number of 10.8 are ascribed to pneumonia, most of which are results of "la grippe" and the frequent changes of weather. In the first week of 1889 there were but twenty-nine deaths from pneumonia. Bronchitis scored nineteen victims, as against six in the corresponding week of last year.

Last week the male decedents greatly outnumbered the females; this week the difference between the sexes is but fourteen. Most of the deaths are among adults, there being, for instance, but thirty-six deaths of children under lyear, which is about an average num ber for this season of the year, as is shown by comparison with the recprds of the first week of 1889, when there were twenty-nine deaths of children under 1 year. A Plucky Woman. Bordentown, January 5. An unknown negro assaulted Mrs.

Henry Harker, a farmer's wife, at her house a few miles from Mt. Holly, yesterday. Harker had left home at an early hour, expecting to be absent all day. Mrs. Harker heard a knock at the rear door and as she stepped into an adjoining room she was confronted by a burly negro of villainous countenance.

On demanding his business, he replied that Harker had sent him there to do some work. Mrs. Harker became suspicious of him, and ordered him to leave the house, but he refused to go. He demanded his breakfast and said he was willing to cut wood in payment for the meal Mrs. Harker anticipated danger if she refused, and set to work to prepare the food.

The negro watched her all the time, and as she attempted to leave the room he sprang toward her. Mrs. Harker then seized a heavy iron poker and dealt him several blows, but a blow from the negro's fist sent her reeling. He followed up his attack by a terrific kick, but the woman still fought him wildly. Mrs.

Harker finally began to scream, which alarmed the negro and he began to threaten to kill her if she did not desist. She continued to make an outcry, however, and the negro, fearing capture.fied from the house and made his escape. A Snow Blockade Raised. Sacramento, January 5. One of the greatest snow blockades ever known on the Sierra Nevada mountains has been raised by the railroad company's force and rotary snow plow.

The plow left Blue canyon yesterday evening, where it had been stalled for twenty-four hours, and proceeded toward Colfax, California, from Emigrant gap. The west bound overland trains were able to follow behind the plow to Colfax, and from the latter point the plow will return and clear the track to Cascade, which will free the snow bound train laying at Summit. Nothing will then stand in the way of the four east bound trains held at The first of the released east bound trains is expected to arrive at Sacramento some time tomorrow. The other will follow as soon as possible. Congress Will Assemble To-Day.

Washington, January 5. Congress will re assemble to-morrow, after the holiday recess of two weeks. Several members of each house, who remained in the city during the recess, are suffering from the grip and will not be present. A number of others, who are at their homes out of town, are also sufferers, so that the list of absentees will be unusually large, but not so great as to interfere with the prosecution of business in either branch. Cold weather is bound to come it may be a little late, come it surely will, so you had better prepare yourself now, with an Overcoat at a price which you may never again have an opportunity to purchase.

An overstock forces us to sell these goods at and below cost. D. G-AN MAN'S, THE LARGEST CL0TIIER, HATTER AHD FURHISHKB, 1118 11th AltQQM. SLIPPERS, SLIPPERS, SLIPPERS. Present your Mother, Sister, Husband, Brother, Son, Beau, Sweetheart or Friend with a Pair of Exquisitely-Embroidered Slippers.

Nothing nicer for a Holiday Present. After Ehe days work is done and the Men and Women folks with the Children are about the domestic fireside enjoying the peace and pleasure of home, what is at once so picturesque and comfortable as pair of SLIPPERS. We have them in all sizes, all materials, all colors, all styles and shapes, th'e Completest and Most Beautiful line and at Prices Lower than any one else in the city. Not alone in SLIPPERS do we lead the trade, but in everything in the shape of FOOTWEAR for both sexes and all ages, and we are as far ahead in assortment as we are Lower in Prices than all other dealers. XX JEL Sprankle, PALACE SHOE STORE, Cor.

nth Ave 16th St. ANDY GAMBLE'S GENERAL STORE. You can get anything you want at fair prices. Dry Goods, Shoes and Slippers, Groceries and Provisions. We make a spscial effort in Vegetables, Fresh Butter and Eggs and Dressed Poultry, And such Goods as you have trouble to get Fresh and Good elsewhere.

Take a' look in the SHOW WINDOW, and then come In and see. ANDY GAMBLE, Corner of Seventh Avenue and Twelfth Street, Altoona, Pa. WE never kneiv a time when so many Dress Goods could be bought for so little money as now. Our prices are down to the lowest notch. You want to see the Dress Goods iv are selling at 20 and 25 cents, and finer goods at prices that will interest you if you want Dress Goods.

JOJIJV A SPRANKLF Cor. Eleventh Avenue and Ninth Altoona, Penn'a..