The morning call., 1893-06-11
OVER IN OAKLAND.
There Are Many Divorce
Cases On.
MISS SMITH WON'T Go HOME.
A Car Porter Acquitted-A Deal in
Fruit-Mrs. Redfield Still Lingers.
Wants a Crematory.

DIVORCES GALORE. - Unhappy mar
riages abound in this city. OF late the
Superior Court has had an average OF two
divorce suits a day TO settle, while the
applications being filed have almost
doubled that number.
One Margaret Farrell has asked for
papers of absolute separation from her
husband, John Farrell, on the double
grounds of failure to provide and extreme
cruelty. The couple own real estate IN
this city, and the wife has declared
homestead on il, and wants 1t set aside fol
her sole benefit.
She and Farrell have been married
twelve years, and with this much of an
experience she has concluded that the
union was an unfortunate Dlunder from
| the beginning. Once she was driven out
of doors, so she alleges, and told to shift
| for herself. According to her story she
| has been very miserable and now she
wants a divorce.
Annie Bedell charges George S. Bedell
with extreme cruelty and applies for abso-
T lutte divorce. The defendant has made
serious counter charges and seems as
| anxious for separation as his wife.
| Yesterday morning Mrs. Bedell filed an
application in court for $50 month
action, and Judge Ogden has cited the de-
fendant to appear before him on the 10Th
| inst and show cause why this demand
| should not be complied with.
| Mrs. Susan Nj. E. Doble brings a suit for
divorce against Fer husband, Charles j.
! Doble, on the ground of desertion. The
! latter resided at Santa Cruz until recently,
when he disappeared and was next heard
of in small town in Maine. Mrs. D0ble
| had scarcely located him when he again
! dropped from sight. and now she does
not know where to find him.
Annie Hines has been granted divorce
| from Ernest +. Hines on the ground of
desertion. She resumes her maiden name
of Annie Pollard. These two eloped and
were married at San Rafael on July 4. 1891.
| 1t was bad mistake and now they are
! separated by law.
Kate Litchfed (npe jones' has brought
| suit against W. Litchheld to obtain di-
vorce on the ground of failure to provide.
| On the ground of desertion Louise Ola
varia has been granted a. divorce from
Manuel Oiavara.
MANHATToN DIsCHARGED.-The Pull.
man car potter, Edgar ManhattoD. who
was tried in the Superior Court for the
robbery OF G. j. Troy, was found not
guilty.
1t appears that in March last Troy got
on the train at Tulare in company with a
young man named Brewster. They were
on the way to San Francisco. There was
some conviviality in that particular section
of the sleeper occupied by the men. and, at
Martinez Troy claimed to have been
robbed during the night previous of
| over $500. He sent word to the
officers and was met at the mole
by Deputy Sheriff Kellogg. who searched
Brewster and Manhatton and the car thor
oughly. In taking up car carpet the Off
Ger noticed that Manhatt0n handled a
| pnSnldOr thprp0n pInpRrlV II q
ined this particular spittoon ard found IN
in it four twenty-doilar gold pieces. There
| were accusations made against Manhat-
ton. who in turn accused Brewster. Both
were arrested, and Brewster is now out on
bonds awaiting trial.
PRETTY MABEL.-In the Police Court
yesterday Mabel Smith of West Oakland
was up on a charge of vagrancy preferred
by her father, Charles L. Smith.
She looked very much out of place
among the crowd that is usually assem- bled
in the prisoners dock each morning, and
she showed by her actions that she did not
much relish the surroundings.
She is pretty, shapely. well dressed and
refined in her actions. She was DISCHARGED
because her father had made no further
complaint against her.
In her story she said that she had been
compelled to leave home on account of the
cruelties of her father toward her. She
said that both herself and her sisters had
suffered at his hands, and that her arrest,
she thought was al attempt of his to get
her TO 90 home. But she declared en-
phatically that she would rather remain in
Jail than go back to her home. When
placed under arrest she was living quietly
In Washington-street lodging-house.
CosT HIM S1GO-It cost George Ingra-
ham just 500 to find out that he could OF
get damages for SIC, 900 to his good name
IN the Superior Court.
A short time since he noticed In the
merchants blacklist that his name ap-
peared as one of the delinquents who do
not pay accounts against them with
alacrty.
He came to the conclusion that j. L.
Lyon d Son, dealers in furniture, had had
his name put on the list on account of a
bill due them.
He brought suit for $4,000 damages.
He has filed complaint after complain
until four were recorded, and the last one
he failed to amend as per order, and yes
terday a Judgment was entered against
him and in favor of Lyon for $10O.
Too MUCH CARBoLIC ACID.-Mrs. An
ME Dignan, a housewife of Union street,
80 years of age, having sustained slight
injury to her toe, determined to dress the
injured member with pure carbOiic aciG
sity of repeated application of the acid in
solutions.
She accordingly soaked cloths in pure
aciu, bound up her toe, and kept the linen
on over night.
In the morning her toe had almost dis
appeared. and the self-con stituted physi-
clan was forced to submit to other treat
ment at the hands Of the City Physician.
Mrs. REDFIELD's CoNDITIoN.-The
condition of Mrs. Redfeld. the unfortunate
woman who was hurt by the runaway
electric car, is growing worse, and hel
most sanguine friends have given up hope.
Her physicians, Drs. Harmon, Pinkerton
and Fenton, say there is but little hope oil
her recovery. Her vitality is failing and
she has 40 rational moments whatever.
A CREMAToRY WANTED.-The Board
OF Health has fully agreed 10 apply fOi
money with which to build crematory
They will ask for $4,000 with which tC
erect building and $4,000 for the purchase
of suitable site.
An offer has already been made to the
board by Los Angeles parties to build a
cremat0ry for $4,000.
A FRUIT DEAL.-Last year Farmer w
b. Mckenzie sold S7.205 pounds of april
cots to the San Jose Fruit Company. He
says the fruit should have netted him
S1317, as it was worth at least IL cents
per pound. He received, however. only
$500 in the settlement. and has brought
suit for the balance, or SS17.
Berkeley.
PoUNDMAN IMPoUNDED. - A second
pfforf was M yactardav poornipu O.