The morning call., 1891-11-09
ACROSS THE BAY.
Death of a Mining Expert Who
Took Morphine.
A Man Buried Up to His Neck in Sewer
Capture of q Horse-Thief With His
Booty-Two Burglars Arrested.

Joseph Holbrook Coulter, the mining ex-
pert who took morphine on Friday, died al
the Oakland Receiving Hospital Saturday
night. He did not recover consciousness sui.
fciently to be able to speak. During the fore.
noon some hopes of his recovery We're en-.
tertained. The Misses Carrie and Winnie
Wade, referred to in his statement pub.
lished Saturday morning, visited him, but
he was unable to recognize them. They
wept over his condition. Mrs. Cynthia
Coulter, his wife, came down to Oakland
yesterday from Calistoga. She testified that
her husband left home on the 1st of May
last for British Columbia mines. He sailed
from San Francisco on the 10th of May.
She had not seen him since. He had been
out Of money and employment, and was
constantly seeking work. She believed that
was the reason he took his life. She said
he was So years of age. Coroner Evers held
an inquest last evening, and verdict of
suicide was rendered.
The revenue cutter Corwin is lying in the
estuary of San Antonio. opposite the Broad
way Wharf
Rev. Dr. Bale, pastor of the United Pres
byterian Church at ST. Clairsvlle, Ohin is
visiting friends in Oakland. and preached
for the Oakland United PreSbyteIians at
the morning service yesterday.
NEW POSTMASTER.
J. NJ. Macarthur has been appointed Post
master at Brays (Fruityaie), and his CON-
mission has arrived.
the movement of DR.. Rabe and Jere Tyr
rel, of the Free Library Trustees, to abolish
the outside reading-rooms at East West and
North Oakland is meeting with much oppo-
sition from those quarters.
The Alameda County Board of Education
has decided that all teachers certificate re-
newals must be made at regular meetings of
the board, and not by the Superintendent
during an interim between meetings. This
Is said to be on account of a recent Superior
Court decision
There was large attendance at the con-
cert of Home Protection Division, Sons of
Temperance, in Y. NJ. G. A. Hall on Satur-
day evening, the proceeds being added to
the fund for the erection of a home for
the orphan grandchildren of Rev. w. L.
Adams. The work of erecting the cottage
on the lot given by Mr.. Sessions will be
commenced soon. The plans are all ready.
sewer at Washington and Thirteenth
streets caved upon Z. Campi, laborer, on
Saturday afternoon and buried him to the
neck. He was eXtricated with some diff
Guilty. but 1t was found that no bones we're
broken, and he was taken from the Receiv-
ing Hospital to his home.
A HoRsE-THIEF ARRESTED.
Deputy Sheriff WcDOugall aud Constable
Seaman of San Pablo yesterday arrested
Bill Higgins between San Jose and Gilroy
with the two gray horses stolen from
Manuel Agyiar at San Pablo on November
81, and cart and harness belonging to
Wilson's livery stable in Oakland. There is
500 reward fog the recovery of the horses
and the conviction of the thief
John a. Logan Circle, Ladies Of the G. A.
r., has an entertainment at Grand Army
Hall this evening.
The arrest of w. F. Breen has been caused
by leweler on charge OF appropriating
articles given him to sell to his own use.
Henry 5. Peters, the young man who was
injured by failing from the narrow-gauge
train on October ODD, while trying to get on,
died yesterday at DIR. Woolsey's Hospital.
A Cor0ners jury found that his death was
due to his own carelessneSs in trying &c
board a moving tram.
Two young men named William Ryan and
Thomas Wilson were arrested while in the
act OF burglariZing the residence of William
Snyder, on Thirty-third street, near Grove,
yesterday afterD Don. They got gold watch
and some jewelry. Attorney Button was
one OF the citizens who ran after the young
burglars and caught one of them.
SOLDIERS ARRESTED.
Seven more members of tile Salvation
Army were arrested last night on Washing.
ton street, corner of Ninth. Bail in the sum
Of Sl75 was Immediately furnished by Col
onel E. NJ. Gibson.
boy named Louis Miller had his leg
broken in jumping from the local train near
Adeline street yesterday afternoon. His
father resides at Washington and Tenth
streets, Oakland, and his mother In San
Francisco. He is at the Oakland Receiving
Hospital.