The morning call., 1892-02-17
CITY ITEMS IN BRIEF.

Judge Hebbard has divorced Eliza from
Joseph Jones on account of his desertiOn.
They were married in England fOrty-seven
years ago.
Seats for the opera Of "Bluf King Hal"
will be sold by auction at the Grand Opera
House at noon to-day. Mr.. Walter NewhaH
will be the auctioneer.
The appraisers of the estate OF the late
Judge Lorenzo Sawyer have filed their re-
port showing that the total value OF his
property is $780, 300 40.
r. II. McColgan has brought suit in the
Superior Court 10 fOreclose mortgage for
$1,000 upon the property Of Smaller NJ.
Scott, on Nineteenth street. near Valenciq.
Captain T. c. Phillips OF Tulare City is
the latest claimant TO the millions left by
Thomas Blythe. He has at this late day
written a letter on the subject TO Judge
Coffey.
At meeting of the California Electrical
Society on Monday a Tesolut ON was passed
inviting the National Electric Lighting AS
ISOLATION to hold its annual meeting in this
city in February, 1898.
Sarah Adams will was filed for probate
yesterday. She bequeathed $1,000 of her
estate to the Protestant Episcopal Old
Ladies' Home and the residue, which is
valued at $500. to her three brothers.
John Slyerman, while intoxicated, fell
down a stairway at residence on ScGtt
street 4ESttiudN hllGInubU anu IHCtiNHu liA-
ternal injuries that may result in his deathA
lie was taken t. the City aud County Hos
ptal.
George d. Collins. the attorney for Mrs.
Richard III. Sav0Ty, who claims TO have
rescued her from incarceration in an
asylum, has sued her husba I'd to determine
his adverse claims TO money drawn from the
bank at her request.
Second Mate Peter Baaman of the
schooner w. f. Jewett was sent to the Ma
rine Hospital Yesterday morning with his
hand badly smashed. the result OF having
it caught between two pieces of timber
while unloading the vessel.
Frederick FesSler was working in plan
ing-mIll on Dolores street, near Market yes
teTday, and fell down an elevator shaft a
few feet. spraining his ankle and breaking
his collar-bOne. He was taken 10 the City
and County Hospital for repairs.
A Coroner's jury last night returned
verdict OF accidental death in the case OF
Peter White, who was shot in n Fourth
street saloon on the 18th inst, and died two
days later Stephen Regan. who fired the
fatal shot, was exonerated by the jury.
f. Melville F0rsythe, the plumber, who
was accused OF bigamy in marrying Eleanor
L. Sorenson, domestic, was examined yes
terday. 1t was shown that the woman with
whom he lived before his marriage was not
his wife, and Judge Xix dismissed the
charge.
-Four old and experienced Comstock min
ers left on the Panama steamer last Monday
en- route to Lima. Peru, to take charge of
Grace IL Co.'S silver mines near that place.
Their names are: John Niles. Frank
Smith, John McKennon and John McCar-
thy.
Judge Lawler yesterday refused Leonora
Kathe divorce, on the ground that her
complaint was defective. Ii stated that she
had been a resident of the State but six
months, when the fact is she had always
lived here. Mrs. Kathe charges her hus-
band with desertion.
A relief fund for the famine-stricken
peasants Of Russia has been started in this
city by f. w. Ludovice Of the Matthias
GRAY Co. The Nevada Bank will net as
treasurer, and will remit the subscriptions
weekly to Nine. Olga Navikoff. Russian
nobIewOman. who will distribute the funds.
H. Jurgens and G. Drew engaged last
night in a fight in a clearinghouse at 40
Fourth street, and Jurgens gave Drew
most unmerciful drubblng. He kicked him
about the head several times, injuTing him
so severely that he had be taken 10 the Re-
eeiving Hospital. Jurgens was arrested
and charged with battery.