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Show WESTERN. California. San Francisco, 74 About four o'clock this afternoon a gas fitter and plumber went into the basement of Dr. Storr's old church, at the corner of California and Dupont streets, to attend to the metre. He lighted a match, when a terrihe explosion ensued, prostrating him, and blowing out the doors and windows. The man was not badly hurt. An alarm of fire was sounded but tho services of the firemen were not required. Catharine Hess and Adam Mayer were committed to Stockton to-day "for insanity. The trial of ex-supervisor SI. J, Keiley, for assault to murder B. J.Shay, was not concluded to-day. The divorce case of iiuth Card cs. Russell Card, was on trial in the 12th district court to-day. Cross charges of adultery aro made, and the trial is eon-ducted eon-ducted with closed doors for that reason. ino UDel case of Flubachor and Kelly, shoemakers, in which plaintiff claims $10,UX) damages, is pending in tho loth dislrict court. Kelly published an advertising card, which the plaintiff asserts was a libel upon him. The officers of tho county jail deny the report that John Devine tried to escape, es-cape, and whippet ono of their number for intercepting him. Devine is kept in irons for unruly conduct San Diego, 24. -Alex. J. Fen wick, under sentence- of death on Friday neit for the murder of Charles Wilson, died this morning. For several days pasta watch has been kept over him, day and night. Soon after eight o'clock last evening, he became drowsy and dozed off to sleep, waking at intorvals, until night. At ten o'clock he was sleeping easily. At 11.80 the turnkey's attention was called to an irregularity in his breathing, and the sheriff and county physician were immediately summoned. All efforts to wako him failed, and ho continued to breathe i hard and irregularly until tho time ot his death this morning. The indications indica-tions of dealh were similar to those produced pro-duced by narcotic poison, but tho physician phy-sician who attended him is of the opinion opin-ion that ho died from exhaustion. A sealed bundle f papers, addressed to his sister, Mrs. A. J. Dennis, Drytown, Amador county, was opened, but nothing noth-ing was found iu it to indicate the caue ol doath. Grass Valley, 24. Wah Kee, Chinese Chi-nese doctor, was stubbed in several places this ovening by one of his countrymen, coun-trymen, wilh a butcher's knife. The wounds are serious, but not necessarily fatal. The difficulty was about a bill. |