The morning call., 1891-12-12
ACROSS THE BAY.
Howell Found Not Guilty of the
Killing OF COlyin.
City Prisoners Frust rated-sanitary District
Election Salvation Army Prosecutions.
A Combine Of Grocers

Judge IIensnaw charged the jury for
nearly an hour in The Howell case yesterday
morning, and at 1850 the jury was sent
| out TO deliberate In exactly one
hour the Jury came in with its verdict.
There was a fiutter of expectation in the
crowded courtroom. Upon receiving the
verdict the Court ordered Sheriff Hussey to
80 station his deputies that they could arrest
any one making the least demonstration
upon the announcement of the verdict. The
verdict was read announcing that the jury
louhu tue defendant not guilty. There was
look OF relief on the faces of the friends
oil the defendant. Mfs Howell leaned for
ward and embraced the defendant, and the
daughters came forward and kissed him.
owing to the instruction of the Court TO the
Sherlf, there was no demonstration. The
verdict seems to be satisfactory to the
majority OF citizens. 1t is said that there
| were three ballots, and that on the first
eight were for acquittal and four Tor con-
| yiction.
An attempt was made to break ont of the
CITY Prison yesterday, but was frustrated
IN Tune. The wall back oil the bath-tub v as
| picked out. and the prisoners we're working
ON the outside of the wall when they were
| intercepted
A movement is said to be in progress for
the removal of Mrs. French as principal of
the Piedmont School.
| SANITARY DISTRICT ELECTION.
The election of officers of the new SAM
tary Inspection District No. l, will take
place to-day. There Will be one precinct.
The district includes Lnrin, Temescal and
adjoining territory outside the Berkeley
ilres. The cost OF supplies for this election
| under the new law indicates that a general
election with a new registration will cost
| Alameda County from $50 0G0 to $4,000.
| A meeting OF the Ordinance and Judiciary
| Committee will be held at the Council Cham
| Der this evening with the citizens, at which
| the ordinances for the issuance OF bonds for
| boulevard. park and school improvements
| Will be discussed.
l.. Ii. Brown of Vacaville has purchased
| for $4,000 the house and lot 100 feet west Of
| Market street, on Sixteenth street, Oakland,
| from Mrs r. Stearns widow.
| Inc East Oakland Episcopal Church has
| filed a petition in the Superior Court asking
that it be allowed TO mortgage its property
for $500.
| NO POSSIBILITY OF CONVICTION.
Prosecuting Attorney Church has dis
missed the charges of obStructing the streets
| preferred against the Salvation Army. He
| did this because, in view of the acquittals
| In the cases already tried, there appears to
be no possibility of obtaining convictions.
| The charges against Major Frank Robinson
| will, however, be pressed.
I A Japanese was stood up on San Pablo
avenue on Thursday night, near Thirty
sixth street, aud robbed of small sum.
| Another alleged holding-up of a pedes-
trian on Castro street. near Fourteenth. is
reported. The Indictment weather has
| driven lot of tramps into town.
| The big pond at the Tompkins School is
in terrible condition again, ami the resi-
| dents in the vicinity are clamoring for the
| authorities TO attend TO the matter.
Judge Greene yesterday afternoon ordered
| Louis Brugguiere 10 pay IS per week for the
| support of his aged mother, Ekcquia Brug-
| guiere. he is single, and receives S25 per
| week.
PROBABLY COMPROMISED.
Mrs. Peckham's attorneys having with
| drawn in the contest of the will of Louis q.
| kohler. and no others having been substi-
| tuIed. the will was admitted TO probate by
| Judge Greene yesterday afternoon. The
| estate is valued at Sl7,O0. 1t is believed
that the matter has been compromised.
Oak!aud'S grocers are organizing for pro-
tective purposes Thirteen Of them have so
far agreed to combine. One of the PROPOSE
tons is that no member of the organization
shall make presents during the holiday
season to customers.
The Oakland Camera Club has elected
the following Officers: DR.: IL, 7. Carlton,
President; W. Ii. Rabe, Vice President; G.
b. Perrue, Secretary Miss Gertrude Carl
ton, Treasurer.
Louise j. Clinton has sued H. G. Clinton
for divorce.
Alameda.
Harry Atwood has resigned as Captain Of
the Temperance Cadets.
The p0stoffice now closes for mail for Ari-
| IONA, New Mexico, Texas and other south
ern places at S 10 o'clock in the morning in
stead of at 4 40 o'clock in the afternoon.
A carpenter named Jerry Young sur
prised number of people yesterday MORN
ing by divestlng himself of his clothes and
swimming across the tidal canal.
NO reference WAS made to A lame1a In tho
Grand Jury's report, and in fact the Grand
| Jury did not pay Alameda a visit while it
was in session.
| The suit OF Health Officer Mclean and
| others against the State for $i25,0O0 dam
| ages, for confiscating the Yosemite toll road,
IN which they were interested, has been
| brought IN Sacramento.
| Oak Grove Lodge. No. 2l5, F. and A. NJ.
| Carmony. w. NJ; d. j. Sullivan, S. W.;
| j. B. Nosburg. Treasurer; Oswald Lubbock,
| Secretary; Trustees-G. ii. Payne, j. a.
Collins and J. B. Merritt.
John Bird, young man living at the West
End, commenced on Thursday evening to
| guy Portuguese known rs Shorty joe"
| The latter became angered and applied
vile eptnet to Bird. who seized him aud
threw him down. The Portuguese pulled
| out knife and cut Bird, whu tainted from
loss of blood. No arrest resulted as Bird
| declined TO prosecute or to swear to a COM
plant His wound is not serious
Berkeley.
| The East Berkeley depot is hardly what
the citizens expected the railroad company
would erect. but it is very great improve
| ment over the old structure.
Hon. Lawrence McCully, Superior Judge
| of the Hawaiian Kingdom, and his wife,
! have been spending the week as the guests
of President and Mrs. Sprague of Peralta
| Hall.
Captain kelner, Superintendent of the
| University Botanical Department, has re-
! turned from Santa Cruz County, where he
has been prospecting for agricultural and
| horticultural specimens.
| ID htheria is prevalent in West Berkeley.
| Several cases are reported. The Infected
houses are closely quarantined and no dan
| ger OF lhe disease spreading among the
school children is anticipated
AT the joint meeting of the Town Trus-
tees and the Board of Education several
sites for schOol-houses in various portions
| OF the city were discussed. 1t was decided
that about $4,000 should be expended on
buildings and $40. 400 for sites, making the
$4,000 voted for bonds
1t is understood that all efforts to
sell bonds voted at the recent 0lec-
ton TO parties in San Francisco have been
abandoned, and that Eastern purchasers
are now being looked up. There does not
| seem to be any doubt that the bonds could
readily have been disposed of at home IL
proper care had been used in preparing for
the election and the law had been complied
| with.
The faculty has decided not to excuse the
members Of the Southern California dele
CATION who wished to leave for Los An
geles on Wednesday, two days before the
close OF Rotations. All who cut will do
SO on their own responsibility. The restric-
ton does not bother the students concerned.
however, and they will probably leave as
they have planned. Next year the college
VIII begin IN August Instead Of September,
and all the first terms work, including ex-
amnations, will be over and three weeks
vacation VIII be given. Such being the case,
the present excursion of the delegation will
probably DO the last. As the students finish
their examinations they will leave for home
IN twos and threes, and not wait until all