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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-11
sTRYCHNINE OR SALTS.
Mrs. Maud Howe Attempts to Poiso1
Herself

Mrs. Maud Howe Attempts to Poison
Mrs Maud Howe, wife of James Howe,
saloon-keeper, Ill Eddy Street, startled her
husband and some customers at the bar
by walking into the saloon last night and
announcing that she was going to poison
herself
She had small box in her hand which
contained white substance. Before any
one could prevent her she swallowed a
portion OF the contents and sat down pre-
pared to die.
She was driven to the Receiving Hospi-
tai and Drs. Somers and Redding took her
in hand. She did not show any symptoms
OF poisoning, although she said she had
swallowed strychnine, but finding it so
bitter to the taste she did not swallow it
all.
The doctors tasted the substance in the
box, and were inclined to think it was
EPSON salts. The box bore the label of
Frank S. Kelly, druggist, 1o2 Eddy street.
Mrs. Howe was sent home.
The reason for her strange action was
jealousy of her husband. She saw woman
whom he knew enter the saloon, and she
followed her and alarmed everybody by
traglcally announcing that she was to kill
herself She is 80 years of age and has
been married thirteen years. She says she
is daughter of Sir Arthur Stanhope,
Baronet, of London.
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AT THE OCEAN BEACH.
improvements That Are Noticeable
There at This Time.


There were many who yesterday con-
cluded to take a ride to the beach near the
seal rocks and ride right back, " but when
they reached the ocean shore and discov-
cred how pleasant it was they concluded
that they would not go back in a hurry.
An object of interest watched by the many
was dozen or more fishing smacks with
their peculiar sails, short distance from
shore, the occupants being busy with
seines hauling in fish, for which there is
such demand at this season of the year.
The grade from Sutro Heights to the
beach is being widened in some places
and the road put in good condition.
The rock which is blasted away is used
ton for the new Cliff House. AS soon as
the repairs to the road are finished work
will be commenced on the new house.
The placing along the road of a large
number of iron rails, the kind used on
electric lines, is evidence that the new
Sutro road is being pushed ahead.
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Knights of Honor,

The Past Dicta tors and Dictators Association
held its regular monthly session last Saturday
evening. There was q large attendance, and
several new names were added to the roll. Ar
rangements were perfected for reception to
the grand officers and representatives to the
Grand Lodge session, to be given at the Alcazar
building on the evening of the 10Th.
The Grand Lodge of California will convene
in its sixteenth annual session at the Alcazar
building, in this city, on Tuesday, March 10,
at 10 @ clock A. NJ.
Yerba Buena Lodge gave a musical and lit
erary entertainment and dance at Social Hall,
Acazar building on last Monday evening. The
large hall was filed by members of the lodge,
their families and friends The address was
delivered by W. Fl. Barnes, 2. G. D., and all the
exercises were OF highly creditable and en-
tertaining nature.
The Costhmed Degree team of Fortuna Lodge
will be present with Occidental Lodge at b. B.
Hall on the evening of Wednesday next, at
which time several candidates will be initiated.
District Deputies Lawrence and Learned were
present at San Francisco Lodge last Monday
evening and assisted in comforting the degree
on an initiate
America Lodge held very interesting session
last Thursday evening. A petition for men,
bership was received. Grand Reporter Curry
was also present and addressed the lodge.
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Knights of Pvtbias.

The quarterly report of the endowment rank
makes splendid showing; 127 sections have
been organized since October; 1854 a. olicants
have been admitted, the total of the certificates
issued exceeding 100000 Illinois leads
with an increase of eighteen sections, Tennes-
see increases sixteen, Missouri fourteen, Wash
ington adds five and California four. re-
view of 1894 shows the establishment of 395
sections and the admission of 6700 new appli-
cants, covering an insurance of $13,000,O00.
The interest earnings from investments and
daily balances have been nearly SIG 900, an
increase offs $4,000 over 1898. Balances and in
vestments on December 81, 1894, were $292, ;
600; for the entire year. $4,000. A remark
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The metsing of the past masters on Monday
night was filed with interest President Crow
ley invited Vice-President E. F. Joy to preside;
remarks by Grand Master Workman Ward,
Grand Foreman Toohy, Past Grand Masters
Brewer and Barnes, DR.. Daywalt Grand Trus-
tee Abrahamson, Grand Medical Examiner
Mavon and others caused the session to be
filed with interest. Among the matters
adopted was a resolution favoring the fixing of
ship by the Supreme Lodge back to its former
figure, so years, and it was agreed 10 request
representatives to said supreme body to labor
for that end. California has always been op-
posed to the reduction of this age limit which
was made two years ago by the Supreme Lodge.
Grand Overseer Winter was in the city last
week and visited a number of the city lodges,
receiving the welcome always accorded this
sterling worker.
Deputy JOY will have reunion of his dis
trict with Golden Gate Lodge on the Nth.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-11
THE FRANKLIN
DIAMOND ROBBERY.
BABY" CURTIN, WHO PUT THE
paddock ON THE FRONT
DOOR ARRESTED.
HE WAS FOUND IN STOCKTON.
HIS AcCoMPLICE WAS EDWARD
WILSON, ALIAS SARGENT, AN
EX-CONVICT.

Anthony Curtin, alias Baby" one of
the two young men who committed the
daring diamond robbery at Franklin
store, 215 Grant avenue. on the night of
February 10, is in the tanks at the old City
Prison.
Since the robbery Detective Ed Gibson
has been steadily working on the case.
Captain Lees was satisfied that the robbers
were local men, and he got two of Frank
Inns statesmen and the proprietor of the
Olympic stables to look through the
rogues' gallery at the police headquarters
to see if they could identify them. The
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Masonic,

The dedication of the new temple at Pasa-
dena on the list was the event of the season,
and was in every respect brilliant fraternal
and social success. The attendance was I'M
mense, visitors being present from all
of the neighboring localities, among them
Henry S. Orme, P. G. NJ. OF Los Angeles After
the dedication Rev. ]. S. Thompson pronounced
the grafton, and selections by an orchestra and
recitations by Tom Barnes were followed by q
grand banquet served by the ladies of the
Order of the Eastern Star, at which 500 guests
were present.
At Stockton the carpenters have been busy
making the repairs occasioned by the recent
fire They are under the supervision of Jerome
Robinson, and will be pushed forward rapidly
to completion.
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Miscellaneous,

G. PIN fraternities generally there is no
appeal upon question of order except to the
body ITSELF lodge sustaining or rejecting the
decision of the presiding officer upon the point
of order settles the question.
NJ MA bill has been introduced into the
Massachusetts, Legislature, the purpose of
which is TO allow members of organizations,
paying benefits at death after membership OF
five years to transfer their BENEFICIARY certifi-
Gates, with the consent OF their benifciaries
and the officers of the company or order. to
persons or institutions which may guarantee
to provide for the care in old age OF sickness of
said members.
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Native Sons Of the Golden West.

On March Grand Trustee E. W. Frost of
Eureka reorganized Sebastopol Parlor No. 143
n. S. G. W., with a membership OF nearly thirty.
The following officers were elected and in
stalled: Val Watson, P. P; James P. Kelly,
president; Charles Food first vice-president;
]. F. r. Jansen, second vice-president; Ben
Sullivan, third vice-president; George Bonner,
marshal; Fred II. Luth, recording secretary;
Calder, treasurer; E. F. O'Leary, l. s.; Ben Es-
pey, o. S.; E. f. O'Leary, John Bonner and
David Strauss, trustees; DR.. Deas, surgeon.
After the parlor work had been completed
banquet was served.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-11
SAN FRANCISCO IN SHADOW.
Tho City Plunged in Darkness During
the Eclipse.

The total eclipse of the moon threw San
Francisco into deepest shadow about 8
O'Clock last night. Because it is the time
for full moon no street lamps we 'e lighted
and the streets were intensely dark. The
sky had a strange and uncanny hue as the
moon hid herself behind the earth for a
brief space of time. All over it wore the
forbidding appearance of a gathering
storm, black and menacing. Some heavy
clouds hanging sulkily overhead height
ened the extraordinary effect, and flashes
OF distant lightning, all too faint to illu-
mine the blackness, intensified the phen-
omenon.
1--WE are going to have terrific storm
with heavy, rains tonight" prophesied
clerks OF the weather who believed I'M
pllcltly IN their own Judgment.
But the storm did not come as expected.
1t was only the earth had come between
sun and moon and left everything in the
pltchy darkness of a lunar eclipse.
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Savior of mankind. Many of these were pres
ent last night to openly testify that they were
on the Lords side. ROBBED in black, the min
lister stepped into the water and receiving the
converts one by one, immersed them and gave
each one their baptismal name: While the
ceremony was being performed the choir sang
seWashed in the Blood of the Lamb
cloves Last Limit was the pastors subject,
and from it he deduced many valuable lessons.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-11
DE-. Henry,s Last Service.

The baptismal service and the fact that it
was the last sermon the Rev. J. Q. A. Henry
would preach drew a large audience to the
First Baptist Church last evening. During the
revival services in Metropolitan Temple quite
a number of people declared themselves saved
and protested their faith in Christ as the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-11
How People Bothered owen.

Owen was known to all circles possessing
the slightest tincture of science as the man
who could reconstruct an entire extinct
animal if you gave him the fragment of a
fossil tooth. The public would not buy his
books; but they showed their appreciation
of his genius in various supplemented
fashions. All reports about the sea SER
pent were referred to him for examination.
People who fancied that they had found
live toads imbedded in rock or coal wrote
to ask him what he thought of it. One
day, just as he was setting out to keep a
dinner engagement, he was detained for
half an hour by a note from a stranger
wanting to know whether something he
had found in sausage was or was not the
tooth of dog, and requesting an immedi-
ate answer. To the credit of the sausage
vender it proved to be the tooth of suck
ing pig.
On another occasion Earl Russell, hay
ing received as a present from President
Grant what purported to be bear ham,
sent the bone for examination to Owen.
One is sorry to hear that the great anato-
mist at once pronounced it to be the ham
bone OF an ordinary pig.-The Academy.
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THE picture frame industry is one that East

THE picture frame industry is one that East
ern competition cannot kill. Sanborn, Vail &
Co. employ over one hundred hands constantly,
making picture frames, room mouldings cor
nice poles, and mirrors. This force enables
the lowest possible prices, and their customers
are getting the benefit of them. Good lumber
and all factory supplies are very cheap at
industry, and buy pictures and picture frames
at satisfactory prices.
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NatinnaI Hmm.

The San Francisco Cabinet of this order met
last Wednesday evening Some very interest
ing matters were discussed, among them the
holding of a public entertainment in some
large hall in the near future.
President Seligman is making the rounds of
the various councils, encouraging them in
their work which is growing rapidly in San
Francisco
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-11
TWO YOUNG HORsE-THIEVES.
They Steal a Rig in San Jose and Drive
to This City.

Archie Gignac, 10 years of age, and
Harvey Wernez, Ii, his cousin, both ofSan
Jose, stole horse and four-seated Rock
away on Saturday morning and drove to
this city. The police here were notified
and yesterday the boys were arrested on
San Jose avenue and Twenty-third street
by Policeman McMurtry and will be sent
back to San Jose.
They drove from San Jose and kept it up
all last night around the city. Becoming
tired of driving they hitched the rig to a
post in Golden Gate Park and went for a
stroll, when they were arrested. Mem urtry
went with them to the park, but when
they got there the horse and vehicle had
disappeared and have not yet been found.
SPONGE Fiber Gov. Blotting is best absorbent
known f., I solo
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Official Assessment Table,

[Official assessment notices of any legitimate
fraternal society will be published free of cost
in above table Send them, with any other
matters of Importance, by Friday, addressed
Fraternal Society Editor MORNING CALL, San
Francisco
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Knirhts and Ladiss Of Honor.

The grand protector and wife, Past Grand
Protector J. ]. Groom and other grand officers
officially visited Yerba Buena Lodge, San Jose,
on Wednesday evening last, where they were
accorded a royal welcome.
The official visits to be made for the current
week are Oakland Lodge, Tuesday evening;
Golden Rule Lodge, Thursday evening; Har.
mony Lodge, SACRAMENTO, Friday evening.
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FiIImore-StreetL Line

large force of men has been engaged dur.
ing the past week laying the double track on
the southern end of Fillmore street, to be used
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A. O. U. W.

able feature is that Notwithstanding the large
addition of the membership the number of
deaths has fallen below that of 1898.
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by the electric line on that street. When fin
lshed this will be the sixth across town line
north of Market street.
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Great Plate Sale.

FIVE CENTS EACH FOR PURE WHITE
DINNER PLATES.
They won't last long at this price.
GREAT AMERICAN IMP. TEA CO.'S STORES
Other lines of Crockery equally as cheap.
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SPONGE Fiber Gov. Blotting is best absorbent
known. Myself d Rollins, 521 Clay, sole agents.
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SAMPLES SENT FREE TO ANY ADDRESS.
The Press., 1895-09-12

Lucy was merely stunned. and in the course of a day or two appeared to be none the worse for the accident. She had been physically as well as mentally declining for many months, and noth- ing seemed to make very much differ ence to her; her unimportant life was not to run more than @ few years longer.
 Little more remains to be told. Be- fore the Firefy was out of sight letter from the captain was in MT. Haslett's hands, in which he formally offered himself as a suitor for his niece, and Fanny's nerves recovered from the shock they had sustained far sooner than the fair skin upon her shoulder re- gained its normal whiteness. The good folks of St. Vitus were perfectly satis- fled that the offer had been made at the government house ball, and with the exception of her friend Lottie, who was taken into her confidence, Fan did not think it necessary to undeceive them.
 THE END
The Press., 1895-09-12
ONE FOOT ON SEA.
By MARGARET 0. FILLMORE.
Copyright, 1895, by the Author.l Men were deceivers ever: -- One foot on sea and one on shore, Vo ono fbiS,ey noT1okoT,h V,a1yoI.

One foot on sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.
 If he lived to be as old as MT. Glad stone or Methuselah, he was certain that he could never forget the impression her image had left upon his memory. Until now, when he had arrived at the age of 87 years, the captain had never thor oughly succumbed to the tender passion, albeit, after the approved fashion of sailors, 8 small portion of his heart had often remained on loan in many port both at home and abroad.
 Captain Fame was we'll built, hand some man, standing few more inches in his dancing pumps and red silk socks than any of the other officers of H. M. s. Firefy, and his engaging manners and appearance would have insured him welcome reception in any circle even without that extra letter of credit which in this democratic age still continues to serve it's owner in good stead, the fact of his being the grandson of an earl and heir to baronetcy. True the lives that lay between himself and the estates and title were humanly as good as, if not better than, his own, taking into consideration the risks encountered by those who go down to the sea in ships. His father was still in the prime of life, and his grandfather, the present baronet, might as likely as not outlive both his heirs.
 Waiting for dead mems shoes ig much on a par with looking for promo tion from the lords of the admiralty, | &oir +I0 of mothers of marriageable daughters re- garded as calculating and worldly, all ways posed as nOnmarrying man, giv- { ing out whenever opportunity presented | itself that, much as he reyered the fair sex, he had never seen any member of it whose charms and virtue were sufd- cient to withstand the inevitable deteri- oration that ensues after a dozen years battling against the miseries of married poverty.
 His views on the subject of "Love In 8 Cot, With Water and a Crust, being no secret, the captains evident surren- der to the Vaccinations of an absolutely dowerless maiden, with apparently lit tie in her favor beyond a lovely face, modest Gveliness of disposition and a capacity for riding about the country or playing tennis the best part of the day and dancing from o'clock in the even ing until three hours after midnight, afforded subject for much comment and surmise among the officers of his mess. Cruising about among the islands in tho Caribbean sea, previous ac- quaintanceship with the administrator was the ostensible reason pointed out by the finger of fate for putting into the bay of Princetown, St. Vitus, which sleepy little isle would always rouse it. self from it's normal state of torpidity, and, 6guratively speaking, hold out it's arms to welcome the crew of a man of war.
 It was a glorious evening in June and shortly before sunset when Captain Fane's doom was sealed. The Prince town tennis ground being but stone's throw from the seashore, some of the members of the club, heated with the
The Press., 1895-09-12

There is nothing to prevent anyone con- cocting a mixture and calling it "sarsa- parilla," and there is nothing to prevent anyone spending good money testing the stuff; but prudent people, who wish to be sure of their remedy, take only Ayers Sarsaparilla, and so get cured.
The Press., 1895-09-12

Then O blush OUerSpreGd the gtTL'6 fGtT
 fGce.
 was charitable enough to afford him the chance of lowing to Miss Crofton and apologizing for his inopportune ar- rival on the scene.
 Nobody could exactly tell why or how it came about, but in the way those things will sometimes happen it simply seemed nothing more than right and natural that Captain Fane should be allowed to devote himself entirely to the service of Miss CroftOn, and, strange as it may appear, not even one of her own sex was aware of any actual pang of jealousy or petty malice at the young lady's appropriation of the most eligi- ble among the new arrivals. Creole girls are no more exempt from the self ishness and tendency to condemn the conduct of others than their sisters all the world over, but it is the blessed lot of some people to be able to win the regard and admiration of their own as well as of the other sex, and Fanny Crofton was one of these highly favored mortals.
 "She's as poor as a church mouse, poor darling," her dearest friends would say of her, "and entirely dependent up on the stingiest old curmudgeon of an uncle in the world, who hardly allows her enough to dress upon. As soon as ever she's of age she means to go out as a governess, but she's only IS yet, and as she's so dreadfully pretty she might find it very difficult to get situation.
 oE -1 marrying at an early age naturally pre- sented itself to every one, and swarm of eligible admirers had always how. cred round her from the time she could walk alone, but as yet no one among her train was able to boast of having received the slightest encouragement.
 So many fairy favors seemed to have been lavished upon Miss Crofton that one might almost think she must neces- sarily run some risk of being in the category of those whose moral charac- ters are endangered by the fact of all men speaking we'll of them. But, al- though she was the most popular girl not only in Princetown, but throughout the whole island, to the remotest plan tation of which the fame of her charms and virtue had spread, notwithstanding the fact of her decidedly trying relations having the honesty to confess t'tthat Beware of Ointmenta for Csstarrla that con-
 tain Mercury. as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smen and completely derange the whole system when entering 1t through the mucous surfaces, Such articles should never be used except on prescrIp- tions from reputable physicians, as the damage they do IS ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Halls CatarTh Cure, manll. factured by F. J. Cheney & Co.,, Toledo, O., con- tains no mercury, and is taken iIternally, act ing directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Tn buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken inter nally and is made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Che noy & Go. Testimonials free. FE
 DEsOld by druggists, price 76c. per bottle.
The Press., 1895-09-12

A FULL Line Ot Rubber Goods,
 "A such as Syringes, Hot Water Bottles, Rubber Bath Mittens, Hand Brushes and Tooth Brushes, Rubber Cloth, New Bottle Fixings, AT HEALD'S
The Press., 1895-09-12

Give me the man who sings at his work, Whose melody scars with the sun. Yes, give me the man who sings at his work
 And give me, oh, gimme a gun!
 Indiana nOliS Innrn pl
The Press., 1895-09-12

A FALSE DIAGNOSES Grippe is con- founded by many persons with a severe attack of catarrh, which in some respects resembles the former. These individuals suffer severely with pain about the fore head, eyes and ears, with soreness in throat and stoppage of the nasal passages and in fact, are incapacitated for work of any kind for days at a time. These are catarrhal sufferers. Ely's Cream Balm has been used with the best results in such cases, The remedy will give instant relief.
The Press., 1895-09-12
DYSPEPSIA IN ITS WORST FORN.

IStQ.s 0I GeLtvSO1t3'Qkl, ,kS1.a writes: "Only thOge who have had dyspepsia fin it's worst forms know what it really can be. What such 8 case needs T have found in your kindly announcement. and your Golden Medi- cal DiEcOvery.'4
 Although I can now claim; if any one can, that I have a cast iron stomach. l always keep your Golden Medical l Discovery and the Pel- | letSHOn hand when set ting, down from an ac- tive summers vacation.