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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. i CALIFOQNIA. Itipo utrawberriw nre in tho Sun -y Francisco market and sell at 10 nmi 13 cents per pound. George D. Schick, a street car cou- !' ductor, wns poisoned by stryohnined j1 soup on Friday last at his boarding j; houso, kept by MrJ. Frank and died j" in a very short lime. The presence of . strychnine in the soup was estab- 1 lished, as well as in Schick's stomach, but who put it in tho soup ia a mystery, fhe theory or Mrs. Frank is that the 1 man put the Btrychuiiie in his soup 1 with the intention of poisoning him- ( self. Tho Bank of California has levied 1 an assessment oi $10 per share, amounting to $300,000, which becomes be-comes delinquent November 20th, with day of sale December loth. This will bo tho lust asuesament, and will, when collected, make the actual paid up capital of the bank $5,000,-000. $5,000,-000. Since October 10 the rate of registration regis-tration of votea in Sau Francisco has been about 1,000 per day. On Saturday Satur-day ihero had been registered 30,27-1. Tho vote of the city is expected to foot up about 32,000, against 22,900 in 1S72. Everybody ia intensely ex I cited in regard to tho election. Tho i democratic esU mates of presidential majorities in the state foot up: Democratic Dem-ocratic 9, 4'J3; republican, 4,300. Net democratic majorities 5,190. The republican estimates claim a majority of 4.3S5 votea in the state. The democrats dem-ocrats claim the city by 2,500 majority and republicans by 1,500. It is estimated that the insolvent Continental life insurance company of New York had uhont 1,500 policies out on this coast, the net liability on which is from $250,000 to $300,000. NEVADA. Somo of the Virginians who went up into tho Sierras a few days ago on a t bear and deer hunt struck the big t brewery at Hoea, and tsoon were telo-f telo-f graphing for money on which to come home. The Nevada Slate Agricultural society has paid out in improving grounds, and premiums, etc., for three ' years, $00, 0WJ. The fair of 1370 was a ooinpletesnsccess. Expenses, premiums prem-iums paid, etc., $10,000. The property pro-perty baa been increased in value j0,50t); premiums to tho amount of $10,558 paid, and the debt increased only $3,2S3.1G. |