The morning call., 1894-06-22
OVER HIS WIFE.
j. p. Cooke of FruitVale
Takes Poison.
Society Players to Appear on the
Piedmont Diamond-Nofes From
Alameda and Berkeley.

man on the Southern Pacific Railroad, COM
mited suicide by taking strychnine at the
residence OF his mOtheIin.law, on Whittier
street, FTuity6e, yesterday morning.
The cause of The deed was quarrel with his
wife, when she had announced her intention OF
leaving him.
Cooke had been out Of work for four months
aud was without a cent. Sometime in Febru-
airy he resigned his situation as brakeman on
the railroad, and has not been regularly en-
pioyeu since. He is known TO have been q
drinking man. and a short time previous TO bis
death was seen on debauch.
In March last he was married by contract TO
his present wife at Fresno. Two months prior
to That she had left her first husband Cooke
had also been married before and leaves a
daughter by his other wife, IA years OF age.
The contracI.wedded pair came to Berkeley
from Fresno, and later on settled down with
The wife's mother at FruItvale.
Wednesday night Cooke came home drunk.
He qUarreled with his WIFI and the following
morning Quarrelrd again. 1t was then that his
wife told hun that she would leave him that
d ay. Cooke went at once 10 drugstore at East
Fourteenth street and Twenty-thiTd avenue
and bought > cents worth OF Strychnine. He
swallowed the poison on his way home.
Fruiter~r's TroubIeS
A battle of a fruit-venders creditors was
fought Oh The open at The corner of Broadway
ana Elev- STREET Yesterday morning.
B. Stevens originally established the stand.
HI got everything on credit an0 figured that all
| he had TO do To sell enough caudies and
! fruit 10 payioff his debts and then he could turn
! his attention 10 amassing fortune.
! His goods came from f. Sinclair of the Oak
! land Fruit and Produce Company; his lumber
for shelves, counter. etc, was bought OF
Champney Bros, contractors.
! en- days ago Sinclair, weary OF receiving no
payment, took bill of sale of the place and
assumed possession. Yesterday morning
Champney Bros. decided they should have
some return for the S44 worth OF bOarus they
I had nj itf4s AUt4nf IN IOYQ and
began TO pun down The structure and carry it
away. Tue creditors resoHed TO the tistcuH
methods and FIRE fight ensued. The bill Of
| sale finally prevailed and Sinclair remained in
| possession.
Society at the Bat.
Society men will cross bats at Piedmont to-
| morrow afternoon. No admission will be
! charged and everybody, particularly every BODY
| in and of the 400, Is expected TO be plesen:.
The eontesting teams will be picked mines
! from Oakland's social circles and the Bohe-
milan Baseball Club The players have been in
| training for some weeks past In secret.
The personnel of the mines will be as follows
Observation-Disclosures, left field; Owen. pitcher
! Woods, center field; Depue. second base; To-
| bin. shortstop; FIagler, first base; Spear
! catcher; Wilcox, thhd basei Atherton, light
Picked nine-T. Magee pitcher; Allen.
/ catcher: Bridge, first base Cohen. second
! base; w. Magee, shortstOp; Adams third base !;
! Requa, right field; w. Wheaton, center field !;
The Bohemian team is the one that will play
the University nine in the annual Charity event
PIundercd House.
In the absence of the family OF Rev. August
! Lemkau yesterday his residence at 526 Seven
teenth street was entered and a number OF
valuables were stolen.
The little boy was left at home and was play
! ing on the sidewalk with Il COMPANION when
| three well-dressed men came along One of
! the men gave The boy money with which TO buy
| cherries al a neghbOring store and two of them
entered the house and ransacked ii. carrying
! of a sack of plundeT, including everything of
value they could lay hands on.
Damages Asked.
Suit has been commenced in the Superior
Court by julia A Root against the Southern
! Pacific Company, in which plaintiff asks for
! S1O.150 damages sustained by ner on the ferry
! boat EDeDa on January 10 last. In the COM
| plaint she states that as The bOat approached
| the feTry-Slip on Inc San Francisco side IL
ran into the piles with sncD force as 10 cause
| plaintiff 10 be thrown down The steps leading 10
| the lower deck, from which she was severely
| injured about The head and body
Receives No AIimony.
When Mrs. Dorothea Bulchins got divorce
from James o. Hutchlns, she was made happy
moath alimony. She now complains that this
almony has not been paid. and wants the
court 10 compel HutchinS 10 contribute TO her
! support.
Harvey Wilson. the blacksmith, who acct
! denialy shot himself Ten days ago. is now prac-
/ ticaily out OF danger. His escape from death
was very narrow. The bullet. A CALDER, en-
tered the front Of The abdomen and has not yet
been recovered.
Are Not InsOlvent.
J. Z. Sturgeon and ID. Pratt, propTietors OF
| the Wilson House, asked yesterday that the
! Insolvency proceedings threatened against them
by creditors be dismissed. The hotel men say
! they are not financially embarrassed.
She Stole Shoes.
Margaret Mackenzie. Berkeley woman who
| has obtained more or less nOtoTiety in the
! Police Court. was arrested yesterday on a
charge Of stealing pair OF shoes from a Wash
ington-street store.
Wants Separation.
Catherine II. Mccoy has entered suit for
divorce from James Mccoy OF HaywaIds She
asks for the custody OF the minor child; also
| almony and counsel fees.
Wants to Be Guardian.
Margaret Olcese has pettioned to be ap.
pointed guar dian OF her son Victor, IA years OF
age, who has an estate left hun by his father
and valued at $1,000.