The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-17
ticket was taken up before Judge Gibso IL
! and the new trial jury yesterday.
The fees of Court Commissioner ID. NJ.
Conner for the six months past were SS63.

ticket was taken up before Judge Gibso Il
! and the new trial jury yesterday.
The fees of Court Commissioner ID. Nj.
| Conner for the six months past were SS63.
| CALIFORNIA MILITARY ACADEMY.
The property of Rev. Dr. David Mcclure
| on Telegraph avenue and Prospect place,
| known as the California Military Academy,
has been sold to W. w. Cannon, B. E.
| Hardy and John Yule. 1t is 80 feet on
| Telegraph avenue by $50 on Prospect place.
| The military school buildings will be re-
| moved and the tract subdiyided for resi-
| dences. There has been no school since
| the holiday vacation, six months or more
ago. when Colonel w. III. OBren closed it.
| He has since taken the building used by
| L. o. Crawford for bis polytechnic school.
Judge Gibson yesterday granted Ellen G.
Hennessy a divorce from Simon p. Hen
messy on the grounds of cruelty and intem-
perance. The custody of tine minor children
was given to the mother.
W. A. Gordon. a United States prisoner.
confined in the Alameda County Jail, re-
ceiyed his pardon from the President yes
terday. His offense was using Cancelled
stamps
Rev. DR.. Ollie has returned to Oakland
from an extended trip through the South
ern States and the East.
A JUSTICE TAKEN TO TASK.
Justice of the Peace j. d. Austin has
been taken to task by the Coroner for hold
ing du iuQucSt anu tud
body OF j. Hahn at Mount Eden on Mon
day as an unknown without attempting to
identity him or notifying the Corone
The body was ordered exhumed by the Cor
oner, so that the relatives could see and
identify it. Austin, by the way, is the man
who sent a prisoner to Jail for thirty days
for assault with a "dedly weeping"
"Stagnation OF trade and forced removal
from store" is the cause assigned by Henry
E: Momyer, the keeper of bazaar on
III L.
in insolvency yesterday. His liabilities
are S1407 and his stock is valued at $1,000.
The new trial jury was empaneled in
Judge Gibson's department yesterday.
Among those excused were 5. +. Daniels,
on account of being an attorney, and
George Schmidt, Marshal of the town Of
Berkeley.
NO MORE HEAVY TEAMING.
The Alameda County Supervisors yester-
day directed the County Clerk to notify the
tender of the Webster street drawbridge to
stop all heavy teaming over the bridge.
Rock wagons weighing as much as seven
teen tons pass over the bridge every day,
and the structure is severely strained and
the planking and bitumen damaged in CON-
sequence
The Board of Health Sanitary District,
No. /, recently created in the territory be-
tween Oakland and Berkeley by the Board
of Supervisors, has organized with Richard
Rice as President and Edwin B. Fox as
Secretary. John Colder and Secretary Fox
were appointed committee to prepare
rules and regulations. The other members
of the board are Rude Volkmann and j. III.
Rourke.
The body Of Charles N. Rowe, who died
from the effects of q fall from second
story couple of weeks ago, has been en-
balmed and sent to Oswego, N. Y.
Alameda.
A calieo-dress party will be given by Ala
media Parlor. No. Is. n D. G. W., on Aug
ust 31st, the date of the third anniversary.
Preparations are in progress for the ball
which the Alameda Boat Club will give next
Saturday evening in Park Opera House.
John Gillian has brought suit against
James Smith and Ii. C0rdes to recover $40.
Smith borrowed that sum from Gillian, and
Cordes went his security.
Harry Taylor has gone to Mendocino
County to join his brother, K. Nj. Taylor,
the City Attorney, and w. X. Poyser, the
City Engineer, who are on deer hunt in
that county.
The school-houses are overcrowded and
two rooms had to be fitted up in the base
ment of the Haight School building to ac-
commodate the many pupils DESTROYS of
attending this school.
Census Supervisor Anderson estimates,
in communication to Health Officer Nc
Lean, that the population of Alameda will
exceed 10000. He was unable to give the
exact number, as all the returns were not
received from the enumerators.
The artificial stone foundation for the
new depot at Chestnut street, on the mar
row-gauge road, has been laid and work
upon the superstructlre will be commenced
next week. The plans call for very hand
some building.
Property-owners on Mcpherson street,
south Of Central avenue to the bay, have
petitioned that 1t be severed, graded,
curbed, macadamized and sidewalked. A
resolution of intention to make these I'M
provements has been ordered TO be drawn
up by the City Attorney.
w, b. Cause, who was arrested for
threatening the life OF his wife and mother