The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 14, 1896, Page 7

B— THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1896 | ‘fi‘ht aan Srincisey Q’afl a4 Y 14, 18986 P BALDWIN THFATER. se." H CALIFORNIA THEATER | Morosco's O Lane. | eagspdaind The Man of | the | CROVER'S A ! ViAavi Ha 304 1\ Ness Talk me aow e - Haight street | ces. 1 ll = & v (Tuesdar), | oad ntgomery st | a: 10 . oy . January 16, | 7 } DG . January 2 6a8 , &t 12 o'cloc vix & FaMMoND.—~Thursday, Ja: - e T CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. | Tonsilit a sually prevalent 2 ildren. rhe st rs of the People’s Home Sav- | s cted & new dircetory. [ ‘ ‘ er and rain” fs predicted for t Ofiicial A. McAdie. | llers emploved women t g T T ews out of the Ingleside track Socialist Y is preparing to put cket in the field in the next cam- | rectors of the Home Savings Bank | . property to Taise money to pay | a | o strike out Alfred Clarke's vol- | ur ion in insolvency has been made | Keith, the landscape-pai | & ew discoveries in the art of ke Robinson has hopes that work on | 1 posed Mary Help Hospital may be com- | about a year. the Southern | hof her son at is_suing $50 000 for the des hasta Count vered an interestin; mania at the Howard | ening. ners at I sterday t, Wyoming 1 'and Rey were urged the & rday ina g Ministerial Ass for new hay One has been a: the Heydenteldt Flood and S1000 for y, and on trial for | ed it Judge hat he could ot his cue, | mpt. | ish ship | was coming | hy | slippe , whic ving Hospital. d | h day received | e Treasury 0,000 worth tereda bonds which vroposes to issue. | n over by a Mission near’ Ingleside d last evening the Antonio Panani, Water Company. rerintendent of > amount of county or 1896, was received terday, showing that | nal to thatof f San Francisco e paid THE DEAOLY TONSILITE, A New Enemy of Childhood | Abroad Among the City’s Homes. Marked Prevalence of the Disease | Among the Very Young—The Knife Often Required. Child-life seems hedged about with dan- | ger. Croup, diphtheria and whooping- | 1zh have long terrorized the fathers and sthers of the City’s future men and wo- and now, as though there were not hoos enough, comes tonsilitis, grim ysterious, to profane and disturb the 1 happiness which ought fo reign n the sanctuary of the home. Dr. Robert A. McLean, when spoken to 1 the ject, said he had met with a | larze number of cases of the disease since | « commencement of the present winter. esame time he did not consider the | n any sense epidemic. In fact| ; winter he had been obliged to attend | numbers of cases of tonsilitis, prin- ; Iy among children. § | Lord said he had noticed a of cases among very ear than ever before. | | there is any prospect of the | 2 epidemic, but it certainly is | wmon_at_present, and Iam ata | for the fact. Asageneral rule | that tonsilitis in children ted or unskillfully treated | -uts and unrses atiempt to : under their charge by em- e gargles, bands of flannel and a r ies, good enough in | ys sufliciently effective. | cason of this unscientific treatment | be able to throw off the b m cases the inflammation porarily allayed in the larynx passes to | and then the dreaded tonsilitis in iolent iorm, as the case may be, is throat. cure the chi & a mild or ¥ the result, { When the diseasc is well advanced and the | tonsils are ulcerated the most efficient remedy | is amputation of one soneil or both, as the case Tequire, ! m tion was formerly at- cc of peril, OWing to the carotid artery, but now is tused, which grasps and eleval leaving the | artery entirely out of 1he range of the knife. | Tons dom fatal, except in cases where 0 wide spread as to involve | In this event no time st in having an operation per- which mey prove successful unless ation be 100 far advanced. ¥y invented | bad a ver | coast of California w | sea broke over ing itup at | running to th | They felt ALONG THE WATER FRONT, | Rough Experience of the Steamer } Australia in a Hurri- \ cane. ‘ | TWO BOATS SWEPT AWAY. | Haste says Deacon is vre Comments of British Ship Captains on | the Loss of the Janet | Cowan. ‘ | va The passent which arrived esterday, Ten hours ler way a hur- ted until the Sea after nd ain to confess that he ificent sea boat before this voyage. The s high and every once Houd ¢ open a m seas ran mounta | meeting to be held th Major Charles Radford of Virginia was still under sentence of death for shooting Charles Simmons, a banker, at Cali. Rad- ford was to have been shot a month ago, but the United States Consul interfered | and the matter of the kiliing is being again | investigated. | Superinten.ent of Towboats and Dredg- | ers Haste of the Harbor Comumission is in trouble, and Commissioner Cole says his head is likely to fall. In return Haste in- sists that the Commissioner has been down on him ever siace he was appointed and seeks every opportunity to injure him. The charges against Haste have been preferred by W. Deacon of the Mam- | street Tron Works, and yesterday aite noon President Colnon and Commissioner Chadbourne _were inves him be ; 1se of a quarrel they bad over an | air pump a a-0. wvhow, the | charges have been made and _the superin- | tendent will have to clear himself at the afternoon. The yacht Jessie will go on the drydock to-morrow and will be prepared for her | vage to the Columbia River. A few | 's ago it looked as though the deal | all through, as Macdonough de- manded $6000 cash, and the pilots could not raise the They paid $2000 down, and fi at the last moment some wealthy lent of the balance toria the Je: River pilot-boat. itish ship Janet Cowan c of conversation among masters vesterday. One and all praised Captain Thompson as an able e Astoria put up | As soon as she reaches As- | and John Da e will_be put_into commis- | other FOR A POSTAL PRIMARY, The Junta Takes Up Max Pop- per's Scheme of Voting Through the Mail, THE WAY TO GET A BIG VOTE. If the New Election Commission Fail the Postal Plan Will Have Its First Trial. The Junta is ready to hold its little family primary for the election of a new general committee now. Max Popper, W. P. Sullivan, Samuel Braunhart and Gavin IcNab, the active and ostensibie leaders, ett, Sam Rainey and the anti-Buckley powers in the back- ground, are walting only for the decision of the Supreme Court on the legality of the new election commission. It having been arranged that the election THE OCEANIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY'S STEAMER AUSTRALIA HONOLULU TO S IN THE FRANCISCO. in a while one of them would come thun- dering aboard, flooding the cabins and doing considerable damagze. Ten feet above the up ck were the lifeboats strapped into the davits. One big sea came along and breaking abo: aft caught up two of the boats and carried them away in an instant. The croc y and glassware in the pantry suifered con- siderably, but Ju “The Austrz ship she is,” terday. ‘*‘Duri said Captain Hou g all the time I ha South Seas such a storm, and yet there was never ar instant that there was any H dreds of tons of water would pour on board from succeeding wave, but never a bolt gave and there is not a strain from stem to stern. The onl age was the loss of our be The cabin passe were: Miss F and Mrs. Cowan, Dillingham, Mrs. Field, J Frear, Miss T. Goodall, H. Hu G. W. Irvine, W. A. Johnson, . Lewis, Mrs. T. W. Walk A. Widemann and H. A. Mrs. Walkington had to be assi | the steamer in a stretcher. She was on | her way to San Francisco on th 4 China, and during the gale in w her berth and dangerously injured. Honolulu she was taken to the hospital, but she would not remain and insisted upon coming home on the Australia. Miss I. Goodall, daughter of Captain Charles Goodall, sand Miss Boyd, were | with Mrs. Walkington, and they remained | over at Honolulu with her. and all three came on to this City together. Mrs. Walk- | ington is injured internally, and it will be | months before she is able to be about again. | From the accounts brought from Hono- | lulu, it appears that the captain of the Miowera did everything possible for the | disabled steamer Strathnevis. The steel | and manilla hawsers parted three times, and a fourth time new ones were bent and put sboard again. A Mr. Holland of Ottawa, one of the passe: T8, writing of the last attempt, say. December Between midnight and 1 A. M. the wind was blowing a gale, and the ten-inch menitla | nawser snapped like a thread. We still held | our tow with the six-inch wire cable, but in- side of half an hour a great sea hit the S nevis, the cable parted, and in almost s short & time as it takes me to describe it she was car- ried away out of sight on the wings of the gale. A shudder went through the officers end crew was a hopeless case. In_the mean- timé we lay to all night, the seas rolling clean over our de One monster wave cleaned off the porch that sheltered the captain’s cabin- | doo1, broke in the skyiights and dameged the slley-way between the siaterooms. Our trunks | were chasing each other round our stateroom, | but ] jumped from my berth and secured them | from ‘possible damage by piling them in be- hind a coul chute. The next morning there was no sign of | the Strathnevig, so the Miowera was put on her course for Honoluln. | The steamer City of Panama got in yes- | terday afternoon after an unusually long passage of 30 days from Panama and way | ports. About fifty miles south of Acapulco | a little steamer, supposed to be the Bar- | clay Golden with Antonio Ezeta aboard, | was sighted. It was at nicht and as soon | as the tug sighted the steamer all her lights | were at once put Captain Searles waiched the little vessel for some time through his glasses, but he could not make ner out. The Panama brought up 11 cabin and 23 steerage passengers. She had a fair weather passage except on Deccember 30, i when a heavy gale was encountered. It | did no damage and did not delay the ves-| sel. When the stcamer was at Panama | be under date of |* careful navigator. not a drinking man, and char- cterize the stories of b g drunk at : time the ship went base fab- ations. Captain William lip Jr. of the British brig Strathdon voices their sentiments as follows: SAN F xcrsco, Jan. 13, 1896, >: there ap- loss of the British article dealing with orting to be made by The reporter, gospel of these Iy and tiuly nes of recording, almost in e men who of unpri master’s cabin and r gota chance, and leavi the mate he!pless and disabled in the lazarette On the testimon of r valua of these men the chars in command of a large ship, ty and the lives of thirly men, el that the man s iabrications > grand axiom, ‘‘De mortuis nan plac ble prop siandered, and I e by the correspondent or er shows he gnorant these writers of be of the sea and seafaring men. Chi rs do not tender advice gratis ana recommend their superior officer in com- mand to follow in the wake of schooners or other er nor do gentlemen criticize heir superior officers’ stubbornness, insobriety y, if thatindividual happens to be unable to defend him Ship masters are irequently fifteen or twenty years older thai their chief officers, and from™ this factalone can be supposed to know more about the working of a ship, at any rate, than any one else on board. ‘The loss of the Janet Cowan brings, as usual, the I 10ld you so” men to the fore, and what manner of man is more obnoxious or self- opinionated I have mever had the pleasure of meeting Captain Thompson, but o : the testimony ot his friends and acquaintances in this town I take up the cudgel in behalf of an English gentle- man who lost his life in the heroic efforts of saving other lives and valuable property; and 10 more unfeeling and degenerate action can udulged in than that of vilifying a man who is dead and whose month is sealed until the great judgment day, when happily the porter who wrote those outrageous statemen . will have to appear and take his eternal medi- Sh onclusion, I would add that it I had the g of the naval court, these same pilfer- seamen, if thieves they be, those models of oty, the passenger and chief officer, would scant mercy at my hand Almighty is a_recognized fact. How well they have repaid that merciful extension is a 0 patent. WILLIAM PHILLIP. British brigStrathdon. THE VETERAN VOLUNTEERS. One of the Associations That Turned Out at the Monument Unveiling. Through error the name of the Vet- s JR, eran Volunteer Firemen’s Association was omitted from the report of the unveiling of the Scannell monument in Monday morning’s paper. As a matter of fact the turnout of this society was one of the features of the event. Its officers are: President, J. H. Mahoney; first vice-president, J. 8. Marshall; second vice-president, G. Carhsle; third vice- president, J. Hayden; recording sccretary, W. A. Scollay; financial secretary, Gus Pohimanp; treasurer, W. Fahrenkrug; board of directors, F. A. Will, 3. Bunner, W. Raubinger, T. Cornell; trustees, W. McMann, C. Dunker, W. S. Edwards. —————— Willing to Come Baclk. Chief Crowley received a dispatch yesterday morning from Detective Anthony, New York, that ex-District Attorney Page of this City wa: willing to return without raising any obj: tions. The probability is that Anthony would leave at once with his prisoner. Page is under indictment for embezzling $4000 belonging to an insane ward. HURRICANE WHEN ON They as- | HER WAY FROM commission should appoint the five pri- mary ion officers for each district, the danger of the Commissioners stepping out of office any day now and giving place to the old commission is one that directly aifects the primary plans of the Junta, If the new commission is sustained prepara- tions for a club primary similar to the one held by the Buckley faction Saturday night will probably be made at once. If the commission is knocked out some- thing else will be done. In anticipation of that the idea of holding the election according to Max Popper's postal primary plan is being favorably discussed, and it is | more than likely that the scheme will be | litical methods. | | | | ninth carried out. : This will be a marked innovation in po- It will be remembered by many that the postal primary plan was much discussed in 1894. The idea orig- inated in the brain of a member of the Non-Partisan organization of Los Angeles about that time and it was taken up and elaborated by Max Popper Lere g little while before the time for the municipal Democratic primary of that year that was not held after all. Popper at last decided that it could not be used at that primary, because the enrollment was not legitimate, | but he helped express the plan in a postal primary bill presented to the last Leg- islaturé but not passed. 1f it be taken up now and put inio prac- tice for the first time election officers, polling-places, ballot-boxes, election rules and such matters of expense and labor will be avoided. The committee of twenty-five in charge of the primary will have ballots printed in the Australian style, and one ballot will be mailed to every voter whose name is on the Junta's roll. The anti- Buckleyite who gets the ballot will Le re- quested to simply put a cross opposite the names he wishes to vote for and remail the ballot to the primary committee. No definite reports of the Junta’s enroll- | ment have been given out, but it is de- clared to be about 6000. The election ex- pense, then, would be 4 cents for each name or $240 for stamps, besides the print- ing bill This would be cheaper than the regular style and a heap easier. The chief consideration that recommends this plan to the Jun*a leaders is the fact that they can get a far bigger vote that way. The people who have signed the 150 to0 | Junta’s rolls are largely of the class who never bother with a primary and never would. The Buckleyites could get the boys to turn out and roll up 6000 votes just asa aisplay of strength, but ata perfunc- tory primary, where there is no issue, the Junta could not ¢ounton a heavy vote. Then the Buckleyites would laugh at them. Itisimportant to the Junta to dis- play as much voting strength as possible, am{y so Max Popper’s primary suddenly looms up as a good thing worth pushing clear through. It is possible that the pian will be carried out as a matter of expedi- ency, even if the new election commission be sustained. The old and the new Buckley general committees will meet next Monday even- ing in Odd Fellows’ Hall. The old com- mittee will wind up its business and make its final bow, and the new committee will bow and elect a_chairman, who will make another bow. It seems likely thay James H. O’'Brien_wili be the chairman of the new committee. At the primary Saturday night the total number of votes polled was 6431. The total enroliment was 11,767. The fol lowing is a complete statement of the vote and its enroliment by district: Twenty-eight District, 345-553; Twenty- 5 -849; Thirtieth, 427-970; Thirty- first, $11-841: Thirty-second, 489-9265 Thirty- third, 324-934; Thirty-fourta, 97; Thirty- fifth, 426-530; Thirty-sixth, 785-1171; Thi seventh, 413-495; = Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, 242-459; Fortieth, 823-691: Forty-first, 489-841; Forty-second, 190-293; Forty-third, 203-348; Forty-fourth, 366-5; Forty-fiith, 251-395. It is not now anticipated that the State committee will meet before the latter part of February. DELAWARE SINGLE-TAXERS. Dr. R. S, Law of New York Predicts Success for the Reformers. Dr. R. 8. Law, a prominent mining in- vestor of New York City, is in this City fora few days, and will remain on the coast for a couple of weeks or more. Dr. Law, though a man of considerable wealth and much activity in the mining indus- try, is also an entbusiastic single-taxer. Just before he left the East for Califor- nia he made a tour of Delaware, where the great single-tax battle is now going on, and made speeches in all of the larger cities and towns. He brings to the single- taxers of San Francisco most cheering re- ports of the Delaware campaign. “We simply can’t help winning in that State,” said he yesterday. ‘‘Already we | have made 10,000 converts out of the 36,000 voters in the State, and 6000 of these we can depend upon for all emergencies. The election is not until next fall, and our campaizn 1s going along with enthusiasm all the time. There are but three counties in the State, and we keep twenty-five good single-tax orators there continually. The meetings are surprisingly well attended. I talked to crowded houses, to audiences that numbered over 2000 men and women. Congressman Maguire was well received there and did splendid work. It is the same in both parties. Both Republicans and Democrats attend the meetings and become converts. Congressman Maguire's name is cheered now wherever mentioned in Delaware. The single tax will surely prevail in Delaware at the fall elections.’ A RMLROAD'S NEGLECT, Result of Leaving a Splintered Crossing Between the Rails. | Mrs. Mary Heckle [s Suing the Southern Pacific for the Death of Her Son. A bit of neglect on the part of the South- ern Pacific Company in constructing a crossing at Anderson station in Shasta County cost the life of Claude L. Heckle, a brakeman, and has caused a lawsuit for | $50,000 damages from his mother, whose | only support he was. | The crossing at Anderson was like a great | many more—built by laying boards be- | tween the rails—but the particular oue in | question was not finished as the law di rects. The ends of the boards must be beveled off so that no sharp corner will present itself to any one walking along the track, or if this is not done the roadbed must be ballasted up to a level with the boards for the same reason. The cross at Anderson was not beveled off, nor was the roadbed raised to cover the step, and on account of this neglect the brakeman was killed. The brakebeams of passing cars used to catch in the ends of the planks, and it was not long before they were torn and splin- tered and the loose slivers of wood stood much i igher than the rails. On Septem- | ver 9, 1895, Heckle was at Anderson, and that night he started to counle the detacted sections of a long freight train. He was walking down the track near the crossine, intending to couple two cars, when his foot struck the splintered end of the planks of the crossing and he stumbled forward. The end of the train he haa intended to couple was upon him before he regained | his footing, and throwing him down, the | cars passed over his legs. Both his feet | were ctt off, and he died two days after. | An action to recover $50,000 damages | was commenced by the mother of the | brakeman, and the case came on for trial before Judge Daingerfield vesterday. | Delmas & Shortridge appeared for the plaintiff, and Joseph Campbell, for the | railroad, opposed them. Mrs. Heckle was | called to the stand to tell the condition of her son, and the care he received just after | the accident. She saia her son had been | | her only support. Waliter H. Dudley had been examined under oath some time ago, as he expected to be absent from the | City when the trial came up. He was still absent, so Mr. Delmas read his deposition until he came to that part telling what the injured man had said to Dudlev after the accident, and telling how the ac- | cident occurred. Mr. Campbell objected | to this. and the jury was allowed to go un- | til the lawyers could argue the question of the admissibility of the testimony. Heckle’s statement of how the accident occurred, made just before he died, will be an important portion of the plaintiff’s case. WHO VOTES THE STOCK, The Grangers’ Bank Directorsf Threatened With an In- | junction. | Probable Trouble Over Voting Stock of To.day’s Meeting of Share. holders. The stockholders of the Grangers’' Bank will probably run against a snag at their meeting to-day. Itisunderstood that A. D. Logan, the largest debtor and the larg- est shareholder, will serve the bank with an injunction against voting his stock, which was long ago assigned to it as par- tial security for the large sums he loaned himself while president of the institution. Mr. Logan owns 2200 of the 10,000 shares, and until Mr. La Rue was elected president last year filled that position for many years. While in that position he managed to loan himself about $175,000. He owns a number of warehouses and in a way was a rival in business of the bank. As security for the money he borrowed he gave some of these warchouses and as- signed about 1200 shares of his stock. As adebtor 1t is much to his interest to have something to say in how the wind- ing-up of tne affairs of the bank shall be conducted. The shares having been assigned to the bank, the directors will naturally claim the right to vote them in the interest of the stockholders and the creditors, and if there are any close votes in to-day’s meet- ing the question of who shall vote Mr. Logan’s shares will be a matter of con- sequence. ‘I'he meeting to-day of the shareholders will be the first since the bank’s suspen- sion. BAR ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Robert Y. Hayne Chosen President for the Ensuing Year. Following is a list of .oflicers of the Bar Association elected at”the meeting held January 11, to serve for the year 1896: Robert Y. Hayne, president; William H. Fifield, senior vice-president; A. C. Free- man, junior vice-president; E. B. Holla- day, recording secretary; Warren Gregory, corresponding secretary; John M. Bur- nett, treasurer; Alfred Wheeler, M. B. Kellogg, W. A. Plunkett, E. H. Rixford, W.F. i!en-in,tmslecs. | fection, out and the voung lady sued her father for her mother’s gift. The‘ | late Mrs. Shrakkarts, it may be men- | threatened breach of promise proceedings | | and demanded the gift of a house and lot | the pickle man feiled to appear and the | | edged that her affections had been blighted NEW TO-DAY. “ Pure and Sure:” (evel BAKING POWDER. ands Every ingredient used in making Cleveland’s bak- ing powder is plainly printed on the label, information not given by makers of other powders Recipebook free. Sendstampand address. Cleveland Baking Powder Co., N. Y. PLIGHT OF A PICKLE MAN| Charles Shrakkarts Trampled Upen Mrs. Anita Eggert’s Affections. SHE NOW DEMANDS $10,000. While Falling in Love He Was at Law With His Daughter Over Iz the Family Piano. Charles Shrakkarts is the proprietor of | the South End Pickle Factory, at 718 Bry ant street, and a dashing widower of 63 years of age. When Charles Shrakkarts is not preserving the fat green cncumber in strong vinegar and making sauerkraut he is making love. It goes without saying that he 1s more successful in pickles than in love, because Mrs. Anita Eggert, a Ger- man lady and the last object of his af-| is preparing to sue him for breach of promise, and considers | that her tender heart and peace of mind has been damaged $10,000 worth. She has sought her attorneys, Nowlin & Fassett, and her tale of woe has moved that law firm to call the pickle man to an account- ing. During last August Mrs. Shrakkarts, the mother of his son and tfive daughters, died, and in a few weeXxs later the saddened hus- band was pouring out his hearta votive offering at Cupid’s shrine. His new love was Mrs. Eisenbruck, the mother-in-law of one of his married daughters. While he was thus engaged he was carrying on a | uit agdinst another daughter in the ustice. Court. When his wife died | ne left word that the family piano | should be given to_this girl, who was the | voungest of her children and unmarried. | Shrakkarts, who is described by his neigh- | borsas being one of the most stubborn | men ever created and who was alwaysat; _ war with his children, stood guard over that | disputed instrument night and day. His | mulish persistency wore the whole family tioned, received considerable money from her father upon her marriage,* while | her busband was only endowed with a | knowledge of pickles, The chiidren took | the stand azainst their father, and the case was decided against him. He immedi- ately appealed to the Superior Court, and | the second trial will take place in Febru- | ary. By the good offices of his daughter, Mrs. Eisenbruck No. 2, he escaped from the ex pensive love of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Eisenbruck No. 1. However, he was ready for more adven- tures, for he confided to friends his belief in the scriptural assertion that it “was not good for man to live alone,” and he for one daid not propose to do c0. He soon fell under the fascina- | tions of Mrs. Anita Eggert, a buxom | widow of about 40 years of age, living at | 948 Mission street. She cooks the lunch | and other eatables for the Golden Bell saloon, at 1073 Market street, and is an old | acquaintance of the proprietor of that place. | It was there he first met her. and then | probablywhile sampling thewidow Eggert's | cookery and the saloon man's liquids he | | importuned her to be another Mrs. Charles | Shrakkarts. His course of true love did | not always run smooth even in the Golden | Bell, for the barkeeper several times | ‘‘bounced” him when he had become too | full of love and liquor, and informed the | habitues of the place that the old man was | not wanted there. But with his old-time persistency he | pressed his suit with the cook, and in her confession to her lawyer she says he kissed her “t’ousands of times” and loved her “‘better as anything.” One night he was ejected from the place by the proprietor, who possibly was jeal- ous, and from that hour he repudiated the Golden Bell saloon and its fair cook. But the end was not then nor is it yet. She on Brvant street. The property belonged | to the late Mrs. Shrakkarts, but Shrak- karts, to gain time, agreed. They were all to meet at an attorney’s office when the deed was to be made out, but, of course, widow began the first move in her $10,000 damage suit. When seen last evening she acknowl- in that peaal sum, but would not give any details of the methods by which Shrakkarts won her love. She expects that he will settle on some good financial basis without going to law. As he is not worth $10,000 it is hard to see where a possible judgment in her favor will benefit her to that amount unless she hopes to secure the output of pickles from the factory for years to come. Shrakkarts, with his usual vigor, will fight the case, and, with the piano suit in one hand and the widow in the other, he will be pretty well employed all summer. CLARKE'S INSOLVENCIES. He May Not Be Able to Put in His Own Petition. There was to have been a meeting of the creditors of Alfred Clarke before Judge Slack yesterday, but there was a hitch in the proceedings instead and so the meet- ing went over. The meeting was to have been in pursuance of Clarke’s voluntary petition in insolvency recently filed. When the case was called Attorney Olney asked the court to strike out Clarke's voluntary petition, as he was already insolvent. Clarke has for two years and more been struggling through the courts under an involuntary petition in insolvency filed by his creditors and not by himself. Clarke thought that by filing & petition of his own he could head off a great deal of this litigation, but the motion of Mr. Olney made yesterday shows that the voluntary petition will not supplant the involuntary petition with- out a fight. 3 The case went over to give Clarke an opportunity to arzue in his own behalf, .. . A Useless Plea of Guilty, Frederick J. Traweek was married in Marin County first, where he wedded Madeline Fair- fax in 1893. Then in & year and a half, hav- ingleft his wife and hearing that she had secured a divorce, he went down into Cala- veras County and married Viola Peck. He then came 10 this City and was arrested on complaint of his first’ wife on & charge of bigamy. He pleaded not guilty first, but on the ad- vice of his attorney Le withdrew his plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty yes(erfln( morn- ing. He wasthen informed by Judge Wallaco that the court had no jurisdiction over the case, and attorney and client left the court- room, the one & free man and the other much perplexed. NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. wbia FRIEDLANDLR.GOTTLOD & * LESSES AMD MATAGLRS - +* NOT FAKE Everybody came last night Lo ee the superb FRAWLEY COMPANY e THE SENATOR! The Perfectiod of All Great American Play New and Magnificent Scenery! Elegant Costumes! SEATS-15¢, 50c and ¥ ALDWIN 25 HEATRE Every Evening! Matinee Saturday! Second znd Last Week of MARIE WAINWRIGHT FROPS. And a Ca TO-NIGHT (TUESD THURSDAY — +of Sheridan “*THE LOV Friday Night and Sat. M Saturday and Sunda; @umm'k Al MAYMAN =Co INCORPD PROPS. America’s Representative gedian, MR. LOUIS JAMES. TO-NIGHT (By Request COTEIEILILO Y d Sunday... UCCE:! ¢ - \ TQ ' “MY PRECIOUS BABY!” Many of the funniest scenes on the sta ““Right you are!’’ says Moses. “WEDNESDAY POP’” MATINEE! Ice Cream, Cake and Popular Novels for Everybod Saturday Matinee—Dolls for Everybody. Night Prices—10c, 15¢, 25c¢, 35¢, 50c. Matinee Prices—10c, 15¢, 25¢. No higher 25c. Saturday Night—WOLVES OF NEW YORK. TlVOLl‘OPERA—VHOUSE MEs. LRNESTINE KR¥ or & Mauagaz TO=INIGIXT 25th——PERFOEKMA NCE——25th SPECIAL SGUVENIR RIGHT! Of the Brilliant Burlesque, I x( XL it SETON. |x 0 N ALEIDOSCOPIC VIEWS T —oF— 0 THE HEAVENS, THE EARTH AND THE SEA. A TREAT FOR YOUNG AND OLD! BRING THE CHILDREN ! 25c and 50c. MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. The Handsomest Family Theater in America. WALTER MOROSCO, Sole Lessee and Manager THIS EVENING AT EIGHT, Sedley Brown's Great Pastoral Play, “A LONG LANE!” A Tale of Strong Interest Dealing With Modern American Life. EVENING PRICES— Family Circle and Usual Matinees Satur ORPHEUM. O'Farrell Street. Between Stockion an1 PowylL TO-NIGHT AND DURING THE WEER REMARKABLE NEW ATTRACTIONS! A UNIFORMLY SUPERB BILL! GILMORE AND LEONARD, MONS. WM. ROBERTS, MANHATTAN COMEDY FOUR, A ND- OUR ALL-STA Reserved seats, aud Box seats, 50c. TWELVE WINTER .- HEALTHL.-. TALKS To Mothers and Daughters Will Be Given at the Viavi Hall, 2804 VAN NESS AVENUE, ESDAY AFTERNOONS at 2:30 o'Clock Beginning January 15, 1896. Popular Price: COMPANY. : Balcony, 10c; Opera cnalrs i) W NO ADMISSION CHARGED. PACIFIC COAST JOCKEY CLUB (Imgleside Track). FIVE OR mORE RACES DAILY. (RAIN OR SHINE. FIRST RACE AT 2:00 P. I1. ADMISSION $1.00. Take Southern Pacific trains at Third and Town send streets Depot, leaving at 12:40 and 1:15 ». M. Fare for round trip, including admission to grand stand, §1. Take Mission-street electric line direcs to track. A. B. SPRECKELS, W.S. LEAKE, President. Secretary. LOTS OF FUN Shooling the Chutes and Tripping the Trolley ! AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ADMISSION. ——10 CENTS Children (including a Merry-Go-Round Rid 10c.