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Show PACIFIC COAST ITEMU. CALIFORNIA. It is said that Florence will not visit. San Francisco this season with his new play "The Mighty Dollar," which is drawing well in New York. Mr. Charles R. Thome and Mr. John Wilson propose to reconstruct tho interior of the old circus on the corner oi Mission and New Montgomery Mont-gomery stree'a, and mate it over into a variety house. It is not yet known who is to be the lessee of the Mission street theatre. It will be opened to the public on the 1st ol December. Tho tront is 110 feel wide; the depth is the same as that ol the Palace hotel, 275 feet. Tho stage is 80 bv 100 feet in size, and from its floor to the roof above, the distance is 03 feet. Undorneath it is an immense pit, with cement walls, into which scenery will be lowered. It iB now reported that the Union Pacific people with J. P. Jones intend in-tend continuing the Los Angeles and Independence road to Ogden. The cost is estimated at $15,000,000 to $20,000,000. While Buffering from puerperal fever, the wif'o of Gustavo Edelmon, of San Lorenzo, Almeda county, attempted at-tempted to kill her babo and an older child. Being disarmed by the nurse, she went to tbo shed and severed sev-ered the veins of both her arms, and then hung herself with a ropo to a beam, dying shortly after. Fifteen hundred persons have already al-ready left Virginia for California, and more are going. As tho laudlady of the Sargent house, northeast corner of Eighth and Harrison streets, Oakland, was going to bed on Friday evening, she espied a powerful negro under the bed, whose intentions were probably burglary. She gave tho alarm and grappled with him, which aroused the other lodgers of the house, und one of ihem shot at him. He was probably wounded, for the marks of blood wero found after he had escaped. |