The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-10-09
OVER IN OAKLAND.
The Railroads New Move
for Tomorrow.
A SAN LEANDRO SUICIDE.
That Car-Speed Test-Encounter
With Temescai TOughs-Asso-
citation Cyclists Meet.
A SAN LEANDRO SUICIDE.

ern Pacific Railroad Company in regard to
forcing passengers who get on between
stations to pay fare win 20 into effect TO-
morrow.
The railroad detectives and number of
special men have been ordered to report
for duty at Oakland on that day.
+: The Chief of Police has detailed dozen
officers for duty at the several stations
along the line within the corporate limits
to preserve order in case Guy trouble
should arise in regard to the collection Of
fares.
Spiritualists at TrestIe Glen.
Mrs. Zellner of San Francisco was or
dalned as a minister OF splrltnallsm at The
Trestle Glen camp-meeting yesterday
afternoon. The ceremony was Impressive
and very peculiar. The occasion war
Tanted extraordinary rites, and the ordlna-
ti0n of medium is a ceremony seldom, If
ever. performed before.
The ordaining lecture was delivered by
Mrs. Shelhamer-Longley of Boston and
consisted of resume of the development
of the occult science, together with some
profound delving into the mysterious un-
known and much dark limiting of the
secrets OF the unseen world. Attendance
on the ordination was unusually large.
SpirituajistS are counting on great feast
tomorrow night, when Z. Z. hotter will
produce in darkened hall the phenomena
of materializations and etherializations.
A Desperate Encounter.
The McSorley brothers, prOprietors Of
the Club stables at Fourteenth and Web
ster streets, had an experience with the
notorious Temescal gang yesterday that
neither party will be apt to forget soon-
AS result of the encounter Dick McSor-
ley lies on a bed of suffering. battered aud
bruised to frightful extent His brother
John and Charley, the carriage washer,
are almost as badly off. OF the gang one
is occupying cell in the County Jail with
a half dozen serious charges against him,
and eight or ten more of his associates will
probably be arrested to-day.
The story of the fight is succession of
sensations. John McSorley had occasion
to visit Temescal early yesterday morning.
While there he saw battered buggy and
a horse badly winded and used up stand
ing by the side of the street. McSorley
crossed and examined the rig, and was sur
prised to find it was one from his own
sta bles.
A young man named Dick Bowling came
up at the time, and McSorley recognized
him as the man who had hired the rig that
day. McSorley asked Bowling how it was
that the horse and buggy came to be in
that condition, and Downing said he had
with one wheel of the buggy and the axle
dragging on the ground. The buggy was
loaded down with friends of Bowling.
McSorley asked if Bowling intended to
pay for the rig. and when some alteration
ensued over the security MeSorley said he
would take the buggy home himself.
be accordingly telephoned for his
brother and for Charley the washer, and
when they arrived Dowling had called the
Temescal gang together and a fight was
precipitated. The three men were assailed
from every side and clubs and knives
were called into use. Dick McSorley was
thrown to the ground and brutally kicked
until he was almost unconscious. Charley
was battered black and blue. John tried
to 60 for assistance, but was kieked off
cable-car. and when he finally got on his
bicycle and attempted to dash away he
was stoned and beaten numerically.
The police finally arrived and the crowd
of fifteen or twenty tOnghs was driven off.
bowling was arrested on charge Of as
sault to murder and taken to the County
Jail. Dick McSorley was removed to his
home, where his wounds were bound up;
five stitches had to be taken in his lip. 1t
is the the intention Of the police to-day to
arrest II possible every member OF the gang
that assaulted the llverymen.
Cyclists at Haywards.
The pretty little town of Haywards was
yesterday invaded by more than 500
wheelmen, who had been attracted thither
partly by the union meeting of the Califor-
MIA Association of Cycling Clubs but
principally 10 witness the finish of the
road race of the Acme Nheelmen, an
event which has engrossed the attention
of local wheelmen for some weeks past.
The union meeting of the association clubs
had been arranged as a com pliment to the
board OF governors. which met in San
Francisco on last Saturday evening, and it
proved to be very handsome compliment,
indeed.
Shortly before o'clock yesterday morn
ing the wheelmen of the Reliance and
Acme clubs gathered at the foot of Broad
way and organized in two long lines, and
upon the arrival of the creek boat, several
minutes after 9 o'clock, they cheered re-
peatedly, for the boat was crowded with
nearly 500 fellow-wheelmen from the San
Francisco clubs.
Dewitt Van Court organized the entire
force into DlatOons and fours. and the
Queerly mounted cavaleade paraded
through the principal streets of the city
TO the Reliance Club quarters, then up to
Twelfth street past the Acme Club, where
The entries for the road race were making
ready for the contest, and on out along the
San Leandro road to Haywards, where
they arrived shortly before the noon hour.
The clubs represented in the parade were
as follows: The Bay City Wheelmen,
California Cycling Club, Olympic, Path
finders. Reliance Club and the Acme Club.
The start of the road race, which was a
handicap. was made at the clubs quarters
on Twelfth etreet at IL 80 O'Clock. The
seventeen entries, with their handicaps,
were as follows: G. Kram and c. Jurgens,
81 minutes; a. OrmsbY and j. Gotten, 6%
minutes; j. Wright minutes: 0. PutZker,
AZ minutes; A. L. Swain, minutes; j.
Kitchen. 81 minutes; d. Hutchinson, ~
minutes, G. Neece, "a minutes; A. Bed
barry, l minute. and j. Schleuter, j. Rose,
G. Faulkner. G. Bell, j. Sampson and D.
Ayiward from scratch.
sThe race all along the road
was very close and we'll contested
and was won by o. Putzker, who
came IN first in the net riding time of 46
min. 6 2-5 sec. Jack Kitchen finished sec
ond. Young PutZker lprovedsto be very
fast man and greatly surprised the crack
riders of the club.
Suicide While DersDgcd.
James F. Watson, laborer. % years of
age, committed suicide at San Leandro
yesterday morning by taking strychnine.
de is believed TO have been out of his
mind at the time. Watson had been en-
ployed doing odd jobs about the house of
Frank w. Bergir for some time past.
When he first came to San Leandro he
acted in an extraordinary manner. He
had been drinking to excess and his hallu-
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