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Show PACIFIC COAST iEWS. CALIFORNIA. San Francisco, 22. The wholesale store of Goodwin & Co. was attached by a Boston creditor for $180,000. The firm is believed to be thoroughly solvent. Yy Ching, a Chinese proprietor of a cigar factory of Mcndez &, Co., seized a few days since Ibr i'raud upon the revenue, hanged himself last ni-rht. Los Angeles, 22. A few days since as workmen had been clearing up tho tunnel to the oil springs near San Fernando, Dr. Frank Howard entered with a lighted caudle when an explosion explo-sion took place, caused by the ignition of the gas. He escaped with a good singeing, and alter 2-1 hours' exertion the flames were extinguished. Thomas Aramauta, one of the leaders lead-ers in the Chinese riot,and said to have stolen a diamond -ring from the hand of a dead Chinaman, escaped from the hospital last night. San Francisco, 23. A married woman wo-man living at-lo Jessie street, says that on Wednesday night a man attempted to climb into the window of her room, that she seized an axe and chopped him repeatedly on the head and that ho then left. His hat, with five cuts in it, was found, and the axe is covered with blood, aud in the middle of the room is a quantity of blood as if the struggle had takcB place there, and not at the window. People living in ad-joinging ad-joinging rooms say they heard a noise j as it aloud and angry altercation was I going on. Tho trail of blood was tracked to the corner of Anthony and Mission streets, where a large pool of blood was found, and bejond that nothing can be ascertained. She is 45 years of age, weighs 2130 pounds, and was married sis weeks since to MaEvoy, an employe at Oakland. The affair is a puzzler for the police. A French girl known as Mathilda, made two ineffectual attempts to drown herself at Meipg's wharf yesterday on account of being discarded by her lover. Win. II. T. Clark, a pioneer of 49, a gunsmith by trade, who guilded the . ball surmounting the State capitol by a process known only to himself, died yesterday. |
