The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-30

test between Al Lean and Frank Cook
each securing fall, and La Rue and Con.
Ian, with fall each to their score.
There was a three-round boxing match be-
tween Fields and Andrews of the Acme IN
which the former did about as he pleased
with Andrews. Fields was announced to
fight a match with Frank Smith, the cham
pion 115-pound man of the Olympics, on
February 5. Some of the younger men OF
the Acme also tried the gloves in three
round bouts. They were Manning and
Delaney, Arena and Coyne, and spirited
contest between Sullivan of the Olympic
and Hughes of the Acmes, in which the
latter had the best of it throughout, closed
the boxing. The entertainment was closed
with weight-lifting contest between Lean,
Miller and Pickett, in which the latter was
declared the winner. The Acme boys VIII
hold their annual exhibition at the Mac
donough Theater on February IL.
Shields, the Claimant, Dead.
Patrick Shields, once a sailor aboard the
man-of-War Baltimore, and one of the men
mobbed in the streets of Valparaiso during
the Chilean war, was drowned yesterday
morning at the Peralta yards in pool OF
water. 1t is supposed that he fell in the
water while in fit.
He had been living at the house of Mrs
streets, for the past three years, the woman
having taken him as a boarder at the
solicitation of Shields attorney, who had
hopes of recovering $50 900 from the
Chilean Government. On the strength of
his prospects he had run a board-bill of
something like $500.
English Claim Against Mrs. Murphy.
A Misunderstanding document, all the
way from old England and covered over
with various seals in gold and red, was filed
yesterday with the County Clerk. 1t was
a claim against the estate of Mrs. Anna l..
Murphy, the widow of the late senior
partner in the firm of Murphy Grant IL
Co., and was forwarded by Frank Hunter
of Edinburgh, Scotland, who says he is a
writer to the signet and who represents in
the matter Hon. Archibald Kennedy. Mar
quis of Ailsa. The claim is for f602 lis
I'D and is for rent of the quarters occu-
pied by Mrs. Murphy at u Charles street,
Berkeley Square, London.
Dalton at Work.
Assessor Dalton went up to Sacramento
yesterday, having in charge the amend
ments to the city charter adopted by Oak
land at the election on Saturday. The
Assessor was busy from the moment he
struck the capital, and Immediately had
his precious documents rushed into type
at the State Printing Office and in the
hands of the judiciary Committee of the
Senate. The amendments were soon
through the Senate, piloted by Senator
Earl. 1t is thought they will go through
the Assembly to-day without trouble.
Did Not Throw His Mother-in-Law.
Mrs Mamie A. Steele brought suit re-
Gently for divorce from John G. Steele, al
leging various acts of cruelty as ground
for separation. The defendant by his at
torney, NJ. G. Chapman, has filed an
answer to his wife's complaint, in which he
denies that he was cruel.
Notes.
The police think they have clew to the
Postoffice robbers. A young man called at
the coalyard of B. Smell on Nineteenth
street and tried to sell Mrs. Smell some So
or Sc worth of stamps, which he carried in
a box. He wanted only fifty cents for the
lot. Mrs. Smell did not buy, but the police
were given a description of the man.
Mrs. Jacobs of Twenty-fourth street and
San Pablo avenue may find herself in
trouble for receiving stolen goods from
small boys. Edward Verdan and Willie
Powers were up yesterday in the Police
Court for stealing a tricycle., which the
woman had bought. The police had the
case 90 over until they could investigate
Mrs. Jacobs, who, they said, had been en-
couraging the boys.
A woman residing on Eighth street and
named Catherine Beckley was yesterday
locked up on suspicion Of insanity. She
was found on the roof of her house, and
claimed that she was looking for the Virgin
Mary.
Albert Thompson, alias Patrick Kelley,
the sham lame soldier, was yesterday
morning found guilty of vagrancy. When
judgment was pronounced Thompson was
so angry that he almost took the roof off
the house. He raised his crutches to dash
them down and smashed large window
pane behind him. He was finally dragged
below. bowling vengeance.