The morning call., 1891-05-20
ACROSS THE BAY.
Protesting Against the SelI.0ut
10 the POOl-GambIers.
Captain Wilson in Town-Rescued by Dog
Crowley Only Battered Mansfield.
Anti-LiquOr Men Jubilant.

a young realestate dealer named D. E.
Barnard had his safety bicycle stolen some
weeks ago Yesterday afternoon he saw it
in front of the Courthouse and called Sher-
if Hussey's attention to it. The officer
waited. and another young man. named c.
T. Reynolds, came along presently and
claimed it. He said lie had bill of sale for
it. The wheel was taken into the Sherit's
Office, and the young man will prove prop
erty to-day. The number on the machine
has been effaced.
A mass meeting will be held at Detz's
Opera House tomorrow evening to protest
against what is called the seling-out by the
City Council to the pool-gamblerS. Petitions
are in circulation calling for the meeting
WAS VII. son IN TOWN?
One of the attorneys of the late Jennie
Wilson declares he saw old Captain William
l. Wilson on the streets of Oakland yester-
day. He rushed up TO the Office OF his col
league and reported, but the apparitiOn had
vanished and has not been seen again.
They are interested in judgments against
the captain for alimOny in the divorce suit.
Mrs Wilson died nearly year ago, but her
attorneys will not allow her death to be
shown and the case dismissed.
a Swedish seTvant-girl named Lottie Jen-
q
night near Oak-Street Station. The fellow
threw his hat over her head; but she
screamed, and large dog came to her res
cue, and While he was defending himself
from the dog she escaped.
The installation of Rev. H. B. Mcbride
as pastor of the Presbyterian Church at
Golden Gate will take place in the church
this evening.
A REMARKABLE DECISION.
Justice Allen. sitting in the Police Court
rendered yesterday lengthy opinion in the
case Of DR.. ID. ID. Crowley, charged with as
Sault with deadly weapon upon Professor
Hugo Mansfeldt. He held that only bat
terry was proven, and there was no testi-
mony to hold the defendant Tor trial in the
Superior Court on the felony charge. The
defendant was discharged.
The suit OF j. j. Pennypacker, Wharf
niger of Oakland, to recover from the city
money claimed due as back salary, was
stricken from the docket in Judge Els
wortA'S department. He was paid S75 per
month, bnt claimed that there was an oTdi-
nance in force at the time fixing the salary
at 500 per month.
The exercises of the Oakland High School
graduating class Will take place in the First
Congregational Church on Friday evening.
KoENIG's APPLICATION KILLED.
The License Inspector has ascertained
that the petition Of L. j. kOenig for a liquor
license, at Twenty-third avenue and East
Fourteenth street. has not the legal number
of qualified signers and so reported to the
Committee on Ordinance and Judiciary
This kills the application and the opponents
are jubilant
The trial of the suit of Lewis \. Hagar vs..
The Southern Pacific Company for S1027,
the value of team of horses killed by the
local train on July 4. 1889, at Seventh and
Short streets, was commenced before q jury
and Judge HenshaW Yesterday. The jury
xs-TI1 risif fbac Of ffsn 10 Aot-
the eectric-light works, at Second and Web
ster streets, and it is said viii make addi-
tons to the plant.