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ACROSS LONG BRIDGE.
Items OF Interest From the Southern
Suburb.

Items OF Interest From the Southern
Suburb.
Affairs were exceedingly quiet in South
San Francisco yesterday. A semi-demented
woman named Hannah Donovan, who Yves
some time ago nurse at the Napa Asylum,
but who is now peddler. was walking
around telling the inhabitants of troubles
she had had with State and municipal off,
Gals. Miss Donovan has several punches
of green and black ribbon pinned on her
dress, the green, she says, representing the
green fields of California, aud the black is
out of respect to the memory of John F.
Swift. the lately deceased Minister to
Japan, who, she claims, was an old personal
friend. The woman is madly in love with
Eugene Crummey, driver of the Engine
Company located at South San Francisco,
and would talk him to death IL he did not
skip out when she approaches.
At the Union Hotel, on the POtrero at
present is staying Terrence Lynch, we'll
known heavyweight slogger from Sydney,
Australia. He now weighs 223 pounds, but
can train down TO $780, Since his arrival he
has had several bouts in the athletic clubs,
and Frank McManus is willing to back him
for $1,000 against the winner or the Jackson
COroett fight.
The South San Francisco Brewery now
belongs TO the brewery syndicate, and Mr..
is Superintendent. c. III. Koehncke is
Manager Eleven men are employed at the
brewery which turns out on an average
from 1890 to 1900 barrels of beer per month.
Frank Sweeney, the fireman at the rolling
mills, who fell from window in the third
story of the Union Hotel at the Potrero on
Sunday night and was badly bruised, is rap
idly recovering.
Owing TO the hot weather yesterday not
much killing of cattle took place in Butcher
town. and none at all alter $3.50 O'Clock in
the morning.
Dr.. Todd says that the grippe, which has
been very prevalent In South San Fran
cisco, is now decreasing. None of the
cases so far have proven fatal.
Since the completion of the coast-defense
vessel Monterey number of workmen,
fangers, etc, have been discharged from
the Union Iron Works.
The Pacific UndertakerS have opened a
branch in South San francisco, with Henry
w. Gantner, one of the Directors, in charge.
A dramatic entertainment will be given in
the Opera House at the Potrero tomorrow
night
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wHEAT sPEcuLArIoNs.

The uncertainty of wheat speculations
may be realized from what is published
concerning Hutchinson's disappearance.
This person had been a heavy operator in
the Chicago Grain Exchange and had beea
thought to have been eminently successful.
A few years ago. when it was reported that
San Francisco operators had lost money in
Chicago, Hutchinson was said to have made
large sums of money. Now comes the news
that Hutchinson has disappeared, after losing
within the last fourteen months not less
than 81, 100000. One report says he is insane
Speculations in grain in San Francisco have
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D. R. Locke, Petroleum V. Nasty editor Toledo
Blade) writes;
had forefnger OF my right hand one OF
those pleas ant pets. "run-rouGd." The finger be-
came infamed to a degree unbearabie and swollen
to nearly twice its natural size. friend gave me
HENR8'S CARBoLIC SALYE, and in twenty
minutes the pain had so much subsidized to give
fair nights rest, which / had not had before
for a week. The Inflammation left the finger IN a
day. consider it a most valuable article for the
household.
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WEATHLR FREaICTIoNs.
SIGNAL SERVICE U. s. ARMY, \
49, .--rs.r- s.r 80

a
San FRANCISCO, April SO. 1873 p. NJ
syl,ops for the Past Twentv-four Hours.
The barometer has fallen IN all districts and the
storm Of this morning is approaching slowly of
Vancouver Island. The barometer is highest at
olympia and Fort Candy (30.30), aud lowest at
Yuma (2e.7S). The Winds are generally north 10
east in Western oregon and Western Washington.
and north 10 west elsewhere. The force is gener-
illy light TO fresh. The temperature has risen in
en- districts excerpt the extreme southern portion OF
California and Southern Arizona, where there has
been q light fall II Is decidedly above the normal
"a all districts. especially in Northern California
and Nevada. where the excess ranges from to p
degrees Light rains have fallen in western Wash
ipcton; elsewhere fair weather has prevailed
olympia, 90 OF inch.
Forecast Till p. NJ. Friday.
For Northern CaliFoTnia-FaIr weather; westerly
winds nearly stationary temperature, except cooler
along the coast ans al Red Bluff
For Southern CalifoTnia-Fair weather; winds
generally westerly; nearly stationary temperature,
except slightly warmer along Uhe coast.
OF oregon and Neutrality-suspicious. weather, except
light rains in Washington; variable winds; cooler
in the western portion; nearly stationary tempera-
ture in the eastern portion. JOHN P. FISLEY,
Lieutenant Nineteenth Infantry, in charge
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Naval Intfinra-

Commander George c. Reiter, who was
connected With the Barrundia affair, has
been ordered to command the Thetis, re-
lieying Commander Charles II. Stockton,
who has been granted two months leave.
The Marine Corps Clothing Board has
added brown fatigue suit with leggings
and hat to the equipment, and substituted a
black helmet for the shake with ponpon.
Commander c. S. Cation has been ordered
to command the Mohican, now at Mare
Island.
Now 1t is reported again that the Charles
ton will probably go to Samoa.
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Military Orders.

First Lieutenant Lewis II. Strother, First
Infantry, has been assigned temporarily TO
the command of and duty OF recruiting Com
pany /, First Infantry, by the enlistment of
Indians at Fort Bidwell, Cal.
Second Lieutenant Dwight E. Holley,
First Infantry, has been relieved from duty
at Benicia Barracks and ordered to rejoin
his company at Angel Island.
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nIore OF nTulholIand.

George Mulholland. the Australian slog-
ger, is again in trouble. Early yesterday
morning he was taken 10 the Receiving Hos
pital to be treated for three deep scalp
wounds, and after his wounds we're dressed
he was locked up for drunkenness. He
says that he was robbed of $50 in Kearny-
street saloon and then beaten. He was re-
Gently arrested for disturbing the peace and
now declares that he will depart for the an
tipodes ON the next steamer.
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Fired Three sbote

W. Ii. Castree was arrested Yesterday
morning on charge of an assault with in
tent to commit murder. e. J. Maloney as
serts that be fired three shots at him during
a quarrel over the possession of a saloon, at
the corner of Turk and Taylor streets. On
Wednesday Castree tried TO force bis claim
to the saloon, and afterward caused the ar
rest Of I. r. Sullivan for forcibly ejecting
him.
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nAIlY GAIL GneludIng Sundaysl, S6 peryear by
81. postpaid: Is cents per week, or IS cents per
calendar month through carriers. DAILY CALI
FIVE copies. three months, SIS 25. SUNDAY Gait
sixteen pages). 81 90 per year, postpaid. SUNDAY
CALL and W EEkLY CALL 81 90 per year, post
Is.o. WEEKLY CALL eight psgesl, 81 20 per year.
Ioall ala. Cubs Of ten sent % one aadressl eIo
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rrrNontgomery street, near Clay. open until II
o'clock p. n. BRANCH OFFICES; 10 Market
street near Kearny. open until y O'Clock midnight;
SIS Hayes street, open until $50 O'Clock; COB
IaTkin street, epeH until 80 O'Clock 25ls Mission
street. open untii O'Clock p N. and lie Ninth
LtlEnt- ...crl -atil .2n l. u
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The signal Service

General A. w. Greedy, Chief OF the Signal
Service Bureau, United States War Depart
ment, has issued an order by which Mon
tana, Utah and Colorado Signal Service sta
tons will hereafter report direct to San
Francisco instead of to St. Louis, and the
St Louis Office viii report the observations
at certain stations in the Missouri and
Mississippi valleys TO San Francisco at the
same time.
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heretofore proved injurious to California.
At times wheat has been advanced in price
in this way so that it could not be sold and
freighted for the time being to European
marketS
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Auction SALES TODAY.

FURNITURE.-By VIM ButterheId, NJ zz5V BUSH
t.. at y O'Clock.
IUBNlrrBE.-By Geo. F. Lamson. at 2l17 Bush
e.. at / O'Clock
FURNIrrRE-By E S. Spear & Co, at 1924 Ellis
4 at 10 O'Clock
REcFTvER's sA1r.-By J. J. Bauer, at 50 Ellis St.
AZ ! NJ
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NAY, 1891.
FRIDAY
MAY l. 1891
NoTTGEI

Auy Of oow patrons agho fail to .tiSd THE
MORNING CALL for sale By troia-boys
,riU confer JoUor by notifying this office o.
MeJGct, uolRinq the date and train
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A valuable Estate.

Margaret and George Carroll have petit.
toned the Superior Court for letters of ad.
mnistration on the estate Of John Carroll
which is valued at S600,0 Carroll settled
here in 1S49 as a wholesale liquor-dealer
His son, Richard, was killed by John
Chenoweth, Market-slreet saloon keeper,
several months ago. The estate is be-
queathed to the petitioners and to the heir:
Of the late Richard L. Carroll.
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HFs' " IHsfUW ; ooOVhIHS syrup
Has been used over nifty years by millions OF moth
for their children while teething. with perfect
II Soothes the child, softens the gums, al
lays pain, cures wind collie regulates the bowels and
Is the best remedy for diarrhea whether arising
from teething other For sale by drug
gists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask
for Mrs. WiRsiow'S Soothing Syrup. Twenty-Five
cents bottle.
BEAcmAM's Pills cure sex neadache
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spend This Summer at Coronado.

1t is the rendezvous for persons who desire rest
and comfort. There is excessive heat and no
fOgs there Plenty outdoor sports and indoor pleas
ures. ROund-trip tickets including fifteen days
board at the hotel, 500. BY rail. 6l3 Market;
steamer 4 New Montgomery street Terms for the
pamphlets, etc., to be got at the Coronado
agency.
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Cnres the PiIes Too.

Edouard Reintard of New York writes:
1t gives great pleasure to say that a angle box
Of HENRY'S CARBoLIC SALVE effected a COM
plete cure OF Piles. with which had been troubled
for year, and which nothing else that I used
wouid curA
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SUHDAY-ScHooL PICNIC. = Tomorrow the
Sunday-schools OF Plymouth Congre gatIonal
and English Lutheran churches will hold their
annual picnic at Forest Grove. The train leaves
foot Of Market street az 9:15 A. n, via the Mar.
rOW.gauge RAILROAD.
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"BE sure you are right" When you buy your
spring medicine do not be induced TO take some
thing you do not want but insist on having
Hoods SarsaparIlla 1t is the best.
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His Betrnthed,s Estate,

Paul d. Madden has applied to the Su.
perior Court to be appointed guardian OF
the person and estate of his betrOthed
Jeanne Touehard, recently committed to
the Napa asylum.
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- MoRNING GALL
PrpLTCATTON OFFICE

Pas a larger circulation than any other
neVspsp per published in San Francisco.
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GAN FRANCISCO. MAY 1, la9I-DISsOLUTIoT
~ Of Copartnership = Tne copartnershlp hereto
lore existing between JOHN PUVOGEL and
HENRY BENERSEN has been dissolved, JOHN
PUVOGEL having Withdrawn from said firm. The
business hereafter viii be conducted by HENRY
BEVERSEN and JULIUS FALTIN3S at the old
place. n f. corner Fourth and freedom sts. In this
city. All the Indebtedness OF the old firm will be
paid Dy the new nTm and all bills due to the former
firm are now payable TO the new firm of H. BEyER-
SEN 81 FALIlNGS. JOHN PUVOGEL,
myl 5t% HENRY BEYERSEy,
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R5S Yerba Buena Lodge Of Per- s.srs
Dc lection, No. 6-Stated meeting THIS ~
(FRIDAY) EVENING, May LIST, at 1880 ~
irs GEO. ] HoRE- SEC sElslaS
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Mole st. Nicholas, which the Government tried
TO secure from the haytlans for naval station.
is commOdi0us baTbor on The northwest coast
Of the island, well sheltered from prevailing
winds. and has the further advantage OF being
connected with this country by submarine ca
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CERTIFICATE OF PARTNERSHIP-WE GER
~ tify that we constitute partnership, transact
Ing business in this State. Its principal place OF
business Is San Francisco. California Its name ia
ii. bEVERSEN s. J. FALTINGS The full names
and respective places OF residence OF all IT'S mam-
Ders are signed hereto
Dated san Francisco, May I, 1891
HENRY BEYERSES, San Francisco
IT. JULIUS FALTINGS. San Francisco
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sIrUATToNs-coNrINUEp.

MANAGER OF MAIL ORDER DEPARTMENT,
1u or other responsible position. desired by young
man having IL years experience in WaiIamaker's
great Philadelphia store. Address Department,
Box 1853, CALL Branch once. APPS 6t*
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-13
Wonderful Things About Trees.

Baron Munchausen or Sir John Maunde-
vile never fathered any queerer stories
than those recently collected about trees.
Here are few things with which the mon
archs of the forest have been credited Of
late: One tree Of the Mariposa grove in
California is 90 feet N circumference;
through another a roadway "a feet long, 10
rect wide and 10 feet high has been cut, yet
the tree is still vigorous and growing.
Columbia county, Ga, has a quivering
tree. every twig and limb of which, how
ever large, is constantly trembling as if in
fear.
A white mulberry of Newton, \. c., con-
stantly emits puffs resembling smoke,
which issue from every part OF the tree.
A tree of New Zealand catches birds in a
sticky fluid given off by its seed vessels.
The calabash tree of the West Indies mas
a fruit, often twelve inches in diameter,
with a bard shell that is made into dishes
Of various kinds, and may even be used
over fire for boiling water. A tree Of the
Nubian forests grows ready made whistles,
gals left By insects having holes through
which the wind blows with startling CT
feet The vegetable wax tree Of Japan
bears berries from which fine candles are
made. The singing tree of Queensland Is
dangerous 70 the touch. but leaves no
mark. though the pain is maddening, and
the part stung is tender for months when
wet.
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MARY METZROFF.


variety stage of an unssvory theatre.
Friendless, homeless and in rags, she was
taken in charge by the good Samaritans of
mission They fed and clothed her, and
she professed penitence and a desire for
w. Newland were aroused, and she re-
ceived the girl into her employ.
Not three hours after entering this hos
pitable refuge Mamie Starr procured some
money from member of the family on the
plea that she was suffering from the tooth
ache and desired TO purchase a remedy.
Instead she bought poison, which she
mixed with corn and placed on the table
among other eatables prepared for the
evening meal. The entire family, with
the exception of herself, partook of the
dish. All were taken violently i'll, and Mr..
and Mrs. Newland died The Starr girl
fled, but soon fell into the hands of the
police, and thereupon made confession.
AS stated above, the jury, with that le
niency SO often shown by men 70 women,
has decided that life imprisonment and
not execution will be sufficient punish
ment for her terrible crime.
Another young murderess is Mary Metz
rolf, now in Jail at Baltimore. She is but
10 years of age, yet only last August she
dosed the family coffee with arsenic, and
thereby killed her brother and female
boarder. When arrested she said she did
it for fun, and did not intend to injure
any ene," and when brought up for trial
she promptly entered a plea of guilty, say
ing: II would be telling lie if | said
didn't do it. / suppose the devil must
have Geen sround that morning" Under
her plea of guilty it would be necessary to
sentence her to death, but feeling exists
that she is not mentally responsible, and
fer that reason she is TO be given new
trial, which will probably result in her inn
prisonment for life.
Al these cases present remarkable feat
ures worthy the attention of a student OF
human alterations TO a certain extent
the Mab5itt woman's deed, or rather con-
sent thereto can be ascribed to a desire to
avoid lifelong disgrace The Piercy WON
al, by her own account, succumbed TO a
wild passion of jealousy, but the acts of
the Starr and Metzroff girls can be predi
Gated upon no supposition save that Of in
sanity, or that quaint old reasoning which
obtained in Puritan days that they were
''instigated by the devil"
CEPHAS DE VERDE.
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cutor it would appear that they resolved
upon the latter course, not, however, with
out some objection from he unfortunate
mother, who naturally felt some sparks of
maternal love for the little infant that
twined its tiny arms about her neck. But
the brothers overruied any scruples she
might have felt, and taking the baby from
her arms carried it TO a creek near the
roadway, strangled it to death, and threw
the corpse in the icy stream.
Then they continued their homeward
journey, and were warmly welcomed by
their parents, who thought they had been
on a visit TO friends. They considered
themselves safe. If the mother mourned
she mourned in secret, and as for the
brothers, they rejoiced in the belief that
the blot on their sisters honor would never
become known. But the turbulent little
creek gave up its dead, the officers of the
law instituted an inquiry; step by step the
terrible details were traced out, and now
the brothers and the sister lie in Jail
charged with infanticide.
Even in this desperate strait it is said the
two young men remain loyal TO their er-
ring sister, and will claim on trial that they
committed the crime without her knowl-
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MAMIE sTAER.

edge or consent. Opposed, however. to
this will be the confession already made 70
the authorities by the unhappy girl.
Frigbtful as is the tragedy In which Miss
Mabbitt is involved, 1t is more than paral-
leled for bloodthirstiness by the double
murder which recently sent Mary Eleanor
Piercy to her doom at London. For some
time this woman had been on more than
friendly terms with a married man named
Hogg. She was frequent visitor at his
house, and professed great regard for Mrs
Hogg. who had no suspicion OF her hus-
band frailty.
The Piercy woman, however, hated the
wife whom she had supplanted with a
deadly hatred. One Gay few weeks ago
Mrs Hogg received an invitation 70 take
tea with her. She accepted, and was last
seen alive when wheeling baby carriage
containing her ls-months-old child TO TIRE
door OF Miss PIeEcys lOoR1ngs- That same
night resident of a suburb three miles
sway discovered in the brushwood on
the side of the road the corpse Of a
woman, whose head was so nearly severed
from the body that only a strip Of flesh
kept it attached to the trunk The skull
was fractured. and there were several
bruises about tie breast.
An hour later. in = field Still more dis
tant, gypsy found the body Of an infant,
and between the two points where these
victims Of violence were discovered Do
licemsn came across baby carnage con-
tanning a wooden rug and some linen sa1u-
rated with blood TIE woEasn WAS identi-
fed bT marks mon her clothing ~ MIA
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crime For two of them no possible excuse
can be advanced except that OF insanity;
the other two were the victims of their own
shameful and unbridled passions.
The most culpable of the four would ap-
pear to be the only one in the group here
presented who is not an actual murderess,
but who is now under arrest charged with
consenting to the destruction of her own
child. She is an Indiana girl, by name
Minnie May Mdbbitt. Twelve months
ago neighbours son Won her affections,
but failed to keep MS promise of marriage.
A few weeks since a child was born to her.
She was stopping in town some distance
from her home and living under an as
sumed name. Her only confdants were
her two brothers.
As soon as she was able to be moved they
procured carriage, and started with their
sister and her babe for the family home, a
score of miles away. Their good old par
ents had not even a suspicion of their
daughters disgrace, and the terrible ques-
ton arose en- route as to what should be
done. Should they continue the jour
ney homeward and reveal all, or should
they conceal the girls shame by COM
hitting a crime? From the evidence
now in the hands of the public prose
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Hogg, and the Scotland Yard detectives
twelve hours afterward arrested Eleanor
Piercy. Her apartments looked like a
slaughter house. There must have been a
frightful struggle, for walls, ceiling and
furniture were spattered with gore, while
the poker was covered with blood and
matted hair. In addition to all these
frightful evidences of guilt tine murderess
furnished another one herself, for when
arrested she wore the wedding ring of her
victim
While in Jail she confessed, gave the
awful details of the killing of Mrs. Hogg,
and told how she had dou bled up the body,
placed it in the baby carriage and removed
it to the spot where it was found. Re-
turning home she had strangled the infant,
and in the same vehicle conveyed it TO the
neighborhood of gypsy camp. The de-
Tense was insanity, but this the jury re-
fused to entertain. Sentence of death fol-
lowed, and both the home secretary and
the queen have declined TO interfere with
its execution
Sensational crimes have been no novelty
of late years in the city of Chicago. Mis-
guided rage may account for the Haymar-
ket bomb throwing or the killing OF DR..
Cronin, but absolutely no excuse appears
for the deed committed by Mamie Starr,
and for which she is now under sentence
of life imprisonment. This girl, not yet
is years of age, had drifted from a country
home to the sluns of the city. So far as
known her only efforts at decent living in
Guided brief period as a domestic servant
and a still briefer engagement on the
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Commencing Sunday. July i3.isso. tbs
Missouri Pacific railway will run through
sleeping cars from 81 Louis via PieasaBs
HILL Rich Hill. Fort scott and wichita %
Geueseo ard from thence 10 Pueblo. Colo
RADIO Springs and Denver. This chHngs
was made on account o. q great many pep
pie from the east going % Colorado being
dseirous q going via wichita. The train
viii stop here two hours, giving All
chance n vless the Perks Prinos-s" snd
sfiI. isDd passengers IN Colorado sans
tine - II they had cone va Kansas City
= slso givss the citizens q wichita SLEEP
INK car service from here 70 Colorado. r.
turning, Il gives M through sleeping fsr
servics wichita to-t Louis. and gives tbs
Colorado people etanoe % 70 ssst va
Wichita This change viii undoubtedly
u appreciated ~ he travelling public AID
especially ~ The citizens q wichita II
ron ara going east or west 70 va tie pop
ulsr new through route. Through chair
ard slesping car serElcr New roists ms
onrnpis:sd betwsen Fort hcost ard Eich
Hill gD~s through the finest mineral al
agricultural country IN The wszt Don
so.gst the new shor- h1s % - Louis %
Colorado.
City tlek., ossos, 10 North Main siross.
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