The morning call., 1891-06-03
ACROSS THE BAY.
An Old Man Found Starving In a
Drifting Hulk.
Loss BY the Fire on Mcnday-An Ecclesiastical
Councn-School-Te Teachers in
Alameda.

Deputy City Engineer Nixon, In his sloop
| yacht Pilgrim, and with City Engineer
| Morgan and Mr.. Miller, were sailing on tie
bay On Sunday evening and came across an
| old hulk, between Goat and Angel islands,
with an old gray-headed man lying in it in
| helpless. thirsty and starving condition.
| Ihey revived him, and at his request he
| was lowed by them to Mission Bay. He
stated to them that he had been three days
on the bay. He had attempted to row
| across the bay from Oakland Creek at mid
| night on Thursday with tine tide, having
| purchased the hulk for S. for the purpos o
of living in it.
| L. III. Aldrich, whom ex-School Director
and ex-saloenist L. E. Chartrand 6rst
| charged with assault with deadly weapon
ana then with insanity, was examined on
| the latter charge by commissioners yeste r
| day afternoon and adiudged sane.
THE PLANING-MILLs FIRE.
| The loss by the lire in the East Oakland
| Planning mills on Monday night was about
| Sl2eo0; no Insurance. The mills were
owned by the estate of j. +. Crist but were
| leased ana run by MeSsrs. Miller d Moore,
| who owned the machinery and have been
| running them for some years. The place is
supposed to have caught fire from the out
| SHE as some boys were seen smoking
| cigarettes during the afternoon in reay Of
| the buildings.
1t is reported that the ears of the Oakland
| aud Berkeley Rapid Transit Company VIII
0s running again on Monday, as the defects
| IN the motors viii be remedieG by that time.
they are now being repaired at the JudSOn
Works.
TOO FOND OF THE SEX.
| Gaspard Tosetti has been sent to the
| County Jail from San Leandro on a charge
| OF seduction. His wife Mariana yesterday
brought suit for divorce on the ground of
lnhdelIty. ToSetti ran away from San
Leandro few weeks ago wish young girl,
| going to Portland, Oregon, and then return
| ing 10 san Jose, where he was arrested on
complaint OF her relatives.
The ordinance for another annexation
| election on the 14th inst. has beer finally
| passed by the City Council and signed by
Mayor Chapman.
The friends OF the missing J. f. Helm
have heard nothing from him.
REGARDING A NEW THEATER.
The subscriptions to the $40, 900 bonus for
new theater in Oakland, to be built by
Joseph Marlborough, at the southeast cor
ner of Fourteenth street and Broadway,
have reached $1,000. a. c. Deitz protests
that the citizens should support him IN the
matter Of new theater If one will be built,
and agrees to build one If guarantee of
gdUO pOI ulli IGuld Lcu years Is gwen.
The body of Mrs. Coiwell, the mother of
Mrs. M. l.. Gregg of Oakland, and Ralph
Colwell Of Lotus, who was burned at the
residence of the latter, was brought to Oak
Land last evening, and will be buried this
afternoon.
An Ecclesiastical Council OF the Baptist
churches has been called for 1 o'clock on
Monday afternoon at the Tenth-avenue
Baptist Church to investigate the troubles
in that church.
RUNAWAY CAR-HORSES.
team of runaway car-horses of the
FruitVale line, that had become detached
from the car, made things lively for little
while in East Oakland, but did no special
damage The vehicle of Judge Hilharn came
near being demolished. The whiffle-trees
of the runaway team struck the guard over
the wheels and put 1t out of shape. Mrs.
Hilborn was driving the phaetOn at the
time.
The Board of Education reelected all the
teachers of the department except Miss
Minnie Buckley. whose resignation was
rendered and accepted. The salary of S.
Z. Meads, vice principal of the High
School, was raised SI5 and Mrs. f. 81.
Pugh's $50 a month.
The body OF the suicide Of Saturday even
ing at the Sixteenth-street Depot remains
at tho MoTgue unidentified, and will be
buried at the expense of the county to-mor-