The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-06
ACROSS THE BAY.
Stella Hawley Will Not
Leave the Stage.
George Hill Sues a Doctor-Why a
Saloon Closed Its Doors - The
Acme Clubs New Quarters.

Mrs. Stella Hawley, pretty little bru-
nette, became a second Mrs. James Brown
Potter several months ago. deserving a fond
husband to elevate the stage. She played
the part of Topsey IN Uncle Toms Cabin"
at the Peoples TheateT week before last.
During the same week her husband, Charles
Hawley of Tillamook, Oregon, was here
implOring her to give up the stage and re-
turn with him TO their domestic Preside.
She refused. She raised her skirts and
executed a dance. similar to the one Lilly
Langtry cut when she snubbed the wife
whom the Prince of Wales dared to intro
duce during the Lilies glory in London.
The husband went disennsolately back to
Tiiamook and sent his father down to try
TO show the wife the error of her ways. She
told the old man TO 60 10 the dickens. but he
is still here plaintyely telling his story. He
is a lawyer and has finished his pleading.
lie will leave tomorrow for home. The
young woman is good actress, only %
years of age, and was on the stage 10 Port
land for quite awhile before she left her
husband.
Plucky little Harry Belden showed the
County Cleak what he could do yesterday
IN the way of mastering up Republican
friends. A committee of them, headed by
Charles II. Spear, chairman OF the county
committee, went down and asked If ii were
really so that Harry was about to be re-
moved as clerk Of Department of the
Superior Court TO make room for Judges
son who recently emerged from the Berk-
eley University. They put the question
with the utmost sang froid and the County
Clerk heard them politely, but was not, of
course, able to commit himself to any
definite answer aside from the fact that he
was unsHeryingly true to his party. He
a'rerward said, wheui they were gone, that
they made him feel tired. Harry's friends
are circulating a petition in favor of lis
Of m rffa he % q
pOintment of the Judges son.
Rabbi Sessler of the First Jewish SYna-
gogue is little ST. Peter all by himself
The prosaic trustees dismissed him short
time ago, but he has the keys, and all per-
sons who want TO enter have to present
their qualifications to him. The quarrel
between the Rabbi and the trustees is assum-
ing a ludicrous shape, and IS based prin-
cipaiIy on obstinacy. The Rabbi refuses to
give I'D the KEYS till they enErosS resolu-
lions of respect 10 him, and they refuse to
eDgross the resolutions till be gives up the
keys.
George Hill, commission merchant, was
taken by sickness recently. and he is now
seeking to turn 1t into source OF profit. He
thinks he ought to get about S2g9 out Of it.
Dr. A. l.. Cunningham, who attended him
first, is the unfortunate victim expected TO
foot the bill. Hill discharged the doctor
one day and called in another physician,
who looked wise and gave him another
kind of medicine. Hill has now sned
Cunningham for damages because the latter
didn't give him the same kind of medicine
in the first place.
Joseph :Fottkoff. the young Austrian
who abandoned tile navy and came to
America TO go into the forgery business
four months ago, is now in the city Jail.
The only Oakland customers who gave him
good money for fraudulent notes were the
Jonas brothers and young man named
Austin. Dir. Fottokoff never would have
a hod he. in iulf min md
he will now go up TO Napa to ponder abo ut
where he is at"
A resolution is pending In the City Coun-
eli for the widening of two blocks of New
Broadway from Fourteenth to Sixteenth
streets. Eli Playter and others are object
j. because the tax will be TOO great.
.syerai protests have been filed.
Inc acme CluD Will give ladies' night
next Thursday evening at the clubrooms on
Fourteenth and Harrison streets. The club
will move into It's commodious new head
quarters about the middle of January 1t
will occupy the second and third stories of
the remodeled City Market building, with
the main entrance on Twelfth street
The legal dispute about the custody of
the child of Chauncey Nj. st. John was COM
promised yesterday. The father is to have
the custody of the child and the divorced
wife is to be allowed to visit it.
The recent stringent rules in regard to
liquor-drinking among railroad men has
caused a saloon at the Point to close.
Nearly all its patronage came from railroad
employees.
The suit of the county against ex-Sheriff
Hale was dismissed yesterday. The county
sued 10 recover $1,000 which had been paid
him in fees for conveying prisoners to the
penitentiary. A law was subsequently
passed making such fees tire Sheriff's legal
perqnisites.
Wing Sing, Cinnamon belonging to the
mission at Eighth and Webster streets, was
pushed from the local train by hoodlums
last night at Seventh and Broadwas. The
wheels crushed his right hand which had
10 be amputated.
Berkeley.