Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-29
LEGAL FINDINGS.
The Bell Telephone C0mpany's
l-4-- 60 Claims Sustained.

i-'-- Claims Sustained.
New ORLEANS, April %. Judge
Pardee in the United States Circuit
Court yesterday rendered decree on
the final hearing in the case Of the
American Bell Telephone Company
ct al. vs.. the National Improved Tele-
phone Company in equity. The Court
decides that the telephones used by
the defendants are an infringement
on the Bell patents, and gives the
complainants judgment for costs in all
courts. ,,. A s
IL MAsTIN DISCHARGED.
SACRAMENTO, April 28.-S. P. Mas
tin, Clerk of the State Board of Exam
iners, who was arrested for ejecting
Will Carson, a correspondent OF San
Francisco newspaper, from the Gov
ernor's Office. was to-day discharged
in the Police Court. Judge Buckley
held that public officer may remove
intruders in his private Office, which
is private to the extent that privacy
may be necessary for the safe and
proper transaction Of public business
H}tt- A KfDNAPPER IN COURT.
SAN Francisco, April 28.-The pre-
liminary examination of Frank Rene,
alias s. 'Sinowally, for an alleged at
tempt to kidnap Florence Blythe, the
heiress of the deceased millionaire,
Thos. Blythe, a few weeks ago, was
on trial before Il. Lloyd, Justice of the
Peace at Berkeley, this morning, and
RENE was held in $1,000 bonds to
appear at the next session of the
Criminal Court. (. III ..'-''i 4fa,4s
GRAHAM's HEARING POSTPONED.
SANTA CRuz, April 28!-When the
case of Jesse Graham for the murder
of Bennett, 38 years ago, came up be-
fore Judge Mccain to-day, r. HI.
Ward, counsel for the defendant,
moved to set aside the indictment ON
several grounds; one being that the
Superior Court he'd no jurisdiction, as
California was not a State at that time.
A number of other like errors were
also found, sufficient, it was alleged,
to invalidate the indictment. District
Attorney Peter asked a further con-
tinuance to allow him to look into sew
eral points of law set forth by the op-
posing counsel, and the Court there
upon continued the hearing till Mon
day.
BOSS BREWERS UNDER FIRE.
New YORK, April 2S.-The State
Board OF Arbitration and Mediation
resumed Investigation of the brewers,
strike to-day. Richard Elsner, Sec.
retary of the Milwaukee Brewer En-
ployees' Union, was witness. He
testified on the cross-examination of
the Boss Brewers conspiracy. When
the letter written in English was
handed to witness, and he was asked
if he wrote it, he replied that he had
not come here to expose the Boss Brew
ers' conspiracy. The witness became
very excited at times, and spoke in
broken English. Elsner declined to
answer any questions regarding the
English letter, saying it might crimi-
nate him. At this point the hearing
was adjourned until next Wednesday.
Elsner will again be called upon to
testify when the hearing reopens.
Lawyer Untermeyer said after the
close of the examination that the
names Of Herbrand, Elsner and prob
ably others will be presented to the
Grand Jury for Indictment on, evil
dence obtained during the hearing.
crNcINNAT1's SUNDAY LAW.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, April 2S.-The
outlook tonight is for mixed sort of
action tomorrow under the new law
which makes it an offense to keep
saloons open on Sunday. The Liquor
Dealers Protective Association adopt
ed resolution to close and obey the
law for the present, The brewers
have been apparently favorable to
obedience to the law, but o-day they
had session and decided to
deliver beer tomorrow to such
of their customers rs desir-
ed, but they all recommend
that the saloons be kept closed until
I'm. Two breweries notified their
customers that they would not de-
liver beer to morrow. The police are
instructed to make careful note to
morrow of all persons violating the
Law, and report early Monday morn.
ing to the Police Court Clerk, who will
at once issue warrants for arrests
The brewers have agreed to furnish
bonds for such of their customers as
may be arrested Several concer'
halls and hilltop resorts have giver
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