The morning call., 1891-07-17
ACROSS THE BAY.
Another Webster-Street Bridge
Damage Case.
Most Singular and Fatal Accident 20 the
Engineer of the Piedmont Fsrry-Boat
Railway Bonds.

Some citizens of Oakland are advising
dismissal of the annexation suit, now pend
ing before tie Supreme Court, and depend
ing on the annexation Of Tuesdays election.
The best legal advisers think. however. that
the appeal should be prosecuted, and if the
case is won annexation is doubly sure. II
the suit is dismissed the taxes for 1922 in
the annexed district are lost. That, OF
course, would be the case in the event OF
an adverse decision, but there is hope the
decision may be favorable.
MRS. HORTON LOSES HER PLACE.
The Piedmont Board of School Trustees
has dropped Mrs. G. W. Horton from the
rolls OF the district as a te acher. She went
East during the vacation with her husband.
but did not get her visit out, so remained
and requested the Trustees to extend the
vacation for month or allow her to pro-
| vide a substitute. This the Trustees re-
fused to do, and in consideration OF the
| fact that her husband is the principal of
| one Of the Oakland schools at $500 they
concluded to elect Mrs. Nelli K. French,
| widow with three children to support.
The amount of Ball-thrower Dale's hotel
| bill was put up early yesterday morning
| and the case was dismissed in the Police
| Court. 1t is said he has been contem-
| plating returning to Rochester and throw
| ing up his agreement with the Colonies,
| but Manager Robinson says he will not
allow it unless Dale makes good $50 ad-
vance money and the value Of two uniforms.
| ANOTHER WEBsTER-sTREETD DAMAGE CASE.
Another commission has been issued out
! OF the superior Court of Alameda County
to take the testimony of Attorney Samuel
| NJ. Wilson, now at Paris. France. The last
case is that of 2. II. Look and wife for
| $4,000 damages for alleged injuries to Mrs
| Looks spine in the Webster-street bridge.
Mag 80. 1890. The Southern Pacific Com
pany is defendant.
The Oakland Consolidated Street Rail-
| way Company has voted to issue bonds IN
| the sum OF $4,000, to run twenty years at
| q per cent interest. Il is understood that
this is for the purpose of commencing work
| on the eross-town lines of the road
| The articles OF Incorporation OF the Contra
| Costa Laundry Company were filed yester-
day afternoon. The capital stock Is $780,
| 900. The Directors are George III. Hallett,
| Oliver q. Haliett, San Francisco; Pliny
| Bartlett, Patrick Edward Dalton, John
| Hudson Grswold, Oakland.
THE ROAD TO WHITTIER DEFINED.
1t has been asrertained that Section 20 of
the Whittier Reform School Act provides
| that the committal must be made by the
| Superior Court, and then the Board OF
| Supervisors defrays the expenses II the
| parents are unable tn do so. Mary Ann
Lader, the 14-year-old incorugible, will be
brought before the higher court to-day. the
| Police Court commit Dent being Insufficient
1t is said the Oakland banks have decided
| not to cash the warrants of the school
| teachers any more without discount. They
have tried 1t year and it does not pay.
| The arrangement was a voluntary one, made
by the banks and the City Treasurer a year
| ago.
THE CoUNTY's CASH BOX,
The cash in the County Treasury was
counted yesterday by the Chairman OF the
Board OF Supervisors and County Auditor
and found to be SlS6.9i1.
The work of hauling rock for the Lake
Merritt boulevard has been commenced.
The estate of Mrs. Elizabeth A. RisGon.
deceased. is to he distributed. The amount
TO be distributed is S33, 300.
Alameda.
Charles Schuy will have his trial before
the City Recorder and jury to-day on a
charge of selling liquor without license.
L. B. Tappan will conduct the prosecution
in the absence OF the City Attorney.
J. 4. Fleming and Vincent Tobin have
been elected delegates of Young Mems In
stitute No "a TO the Grand Council. which
meets in jacksonville next September.
City Attorney Taylor and City Engineer
Poyzer are expected home from their deer
hunt in Oregon next Tuesday.
II. b. Smith Jr. has sold his residen ce at
the northwest corner of Santa Clara ave nue.
Fresno capitalist, for ST., 800.
Mrs. George Bishop had several boys ar
rested yesterday for entering her yard on
Sherman street and helping thems elves to
the apricOts and peaches.
| The attendance at the night school Is
about thirty. Girls are not admitted but a
| special class will be opened for them if a
sufficient number apply.
| A meeting of the Iroquois Club will be
held this evening. II is proposed to make
arrangements for banquet. to which the
clubs of San Francisco and Oakland will be
invited.
Robert Jackson, engineer of the ferryboat
Piedmont, had a most peculiar thing happen
to him last evening. He was at the house of
the Alameda Boat Club, of which he was a
member, and had been lifting some of the
heavy boats ont OF the water into the house
He then sat down to rest and stopped over
to pick up something. when something snap
ped in his throat He fell to the floor ex-
claiming, "My God, | am dying" His
companions went to his assistance, and
| to their establishment his neck COM
menced to puff out, and in few minutes
his neck extended out on a line parallel to
his chin. He was placed in a wagon and
taken to the Office of a physician, who was
noDplused when he saw Jackson's con-
dition, and called another physician for con-
sultation. 1t was at first thought that the
unfortunate man had burst bloOd-vessel,
but the physicians finally came to the con-
cusion that he had broken a small bone in
the neck. He was removed To his home on
where he died last evening. The doctors
say it is one of the most peculiar cases
which they were ever called upon to treat
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