The morning call., 1894-07-28
BENNETT AGAIN.
The Ex-Secretary at His
Old Tricks.
STILL HOUNDING MISS GRAY.
Railroad " Skates" Being Sheived
by the Company.
HODGES ROUNDED UP AT LAST.
1t Is Decided That No More Transfers
Shall Be Issued by Street
Railways.
HODGES ROUNDED UP AT LAS7

OAKLAND.-Ihe railroad COMPANY h"o
a new name Tor the men the strikers de-
nominate "scabs." These people are
called "skates" down about the mole, ana
since the strike was declared off the rail-
road company is quietly getting rld Oh
them.
Yesterday morning five "skates" were
let slide, and they feel very sore over the
matter; for they think, naturally, that
they went In to help the company out, anu
that now they should be given the prefer
ence. One of them is a young man VINO
made the run on the berkeley local as
switchman. Another one is hreman
who held an engine alone for seven hours
at Red Bluff when his life was threatened
by 200 men. He had TO escape from the
| town after night. He is now looking 1or
a job.
1t is thought the company will have all
the old hands back in few weeks. ana be
! glad to get them, as running railroad
| with green men is not a paying invest
ment.
When the strike was iDaugurated S12,0OO
! for deputy-sherIff hire was put up win
! Sheriff Mckilllcan. and OF this amount
! $4,000 has been paid out for the purpose. 1t IS
stated that the railroad will attempt TO recover
| this money from the county.
tillery Regiment, returned home yesterday al
| ternOoD.
Dogs Her steps.
In an interview had with George w. Gray
Yesterday il is stated that the old mans daugh-
Ter Ella is still being prosecuted by Charles Il.
Bennett. Bennett Is the eX-Secretary or the
Society for the Suppression of Vice. who, alter
having ruined the girl, persecuted MS victlm , 10
such an extent that her father shot TO Kill him.
Al the trial, which occupied public attention
about year ago, the father was acquitted OF
the charge. Intense Indignation was eVlnced
| against Bennett at that time by everybody who
beard or read the pitiful testimony OF the young
lady.
It was supposed that Bennett would cease
his prosecutions, but according 10 the old gen.
teman's story he has not done So he stated
that Bennett dogs her steps as perslstently as
before the trial, and is making her lie utterly
miserable.
He is reported to have stated that his
daughter is employed in the city and has TO
take train over every morning Bennett lYes
at FruilyaIe, and when he learned that Miss
Gray was going To the city every morning he
found out which train she TOOK and began TO
cross at that hour He would sit OPP oste her
and keep his eyes steadily fixed upon her.
Sometimes he would dIrecl public attention 10
her and make remarks and shake his head as
though 1t was something he was saying about
her.
Miss Gray began taking another train and
Bennett found this out and changed also. This
thing occurred many times, and the gtrPs
father is almost distracted over Benefits con-
duct. He says IL has almost made him crazy.
Forgery Now.
Ed s. Hodges alias Ed Sherwood, who has
obtained much nOtorety through his repeated
appearances in the Police Court dock during
the last month or TWO, was arrested by Officer
Qugey and Detectives Shorey and DOwney. in
Chinatown early yesterday morning, on
charge OF forgery.
This final Offense was committed on Monday,
when Hodges walked into the paintshop of f.
NJ. Farwell & Sons and presented an order for
a large pane OF glass sign-d by F. A. Scotte
West Oakland blacksmith. The order asked
that the glass be delivered to Hodges, bearer
of the nOte.
Shortly after developments went to show that
no such Order had been signed by Sicotte. and
a warrant for Hodges arrest was sworn ou.
When captured he was In tie company of an
opium fend. Hodges downfall is credited 10
his passion for the drug.
This young man figured in the newspapers
first for stealing a bicycle, then for marrying
and being divorced within TWO weeks, then for
arrest for Vagrancy. The Judge has always
treated him with leDiency on account of MS
good family connections, but il seems that
| lenlency was thrown away.
Aged Women Insane.
| Mrs. McCosh, housewife, So years OF age,
| was committed TO Agnews Asylum yesterday.
! She imagined that her children were not being
| properly cared for ard that wood was not being
| supplied her 10 cook with.
Mrs. Louisa Woodsum, an aged lady of
| Berkeley, was charged by her son, Horace
| Woodsum, yesterday, with being insane. 1t
was concluded by The commissioners that this
| lady was subject TO deluslons. but not insane,
| and she was accordingly discharged.
| The peculiar feature of the latter case is that
| Mrs. Woodsum few days ago attempted to
have her son arrested on charge of insanity.
| She Is said to have been in an asylum before
and her husband also.
Into Ditch.
! AT $3.50 o'clock yesterday morning Driver
| Mitchell of TalcOttS dairy ran inIo the open
ditch Of the Oakland Water Company at High
| and Fourteenth streets and had one horse
| drowned and his wagon wrecked.
| bridge that used to span this di;cn had
| been removed for some reason, and no lanterns
! nor signals had been placed there to give warn
! Ing OF danger. Tie ditch was four feet wide
| and ten feet deep. The horse was valued, at
| S4OO.
Ropaldson's Guardian.
! Mary Ronaldson yesterday applied for the
| guardianship OF the person and estate OF her
| husband, Captain Thomas ROnaldson. who was
! on Thursday sdjudged insane. She values the
! incnme of the captan's estate al $4,000 year
! l. consists of S4250 in bank, interest in tour
sailing vessels, real estate and mortgages
| There are four children.
Declared Void.
Judge Henshaw yesterday. In the suit of FL,
| NJ. Cameron against T. &. Harrison, Superin-
| tendent of Streets, to have the Commerce
| street assessment declared void decided in
| favor OF the plaintiff on the ground th It The
map OF the commission that accompanied The
| assessment was illegal. new assessment
| must now be made. Those who paid in their
| money can get II back.
Kelley Is Coming.
communication las been received from
| General Charles ID. Kelley, who commanded
the First California Regiment of The Industrial
Army, stating that he expects 10 be back In
| Oakland about he middle OF August.
Arrangements are being made for mass
meeting at Nj ills Tabernacle to hear Kelley re-
| cite the story OF his famous marcn.
Filling the Marshes.
| Men are engaged throwing up an embank-
| ment six feet high across the marshes on the
east side of Peralta street, between Eighteenth
and Twentieth preparatory TO filling In the
marshes with mud from the bay, TO be pumped
up by CAPTAIN Hasketts dredger as soon as the
big machine Is put In position.
Another County Ticket.
| On Saturday, August IL, the Prohibitfonists
will hold a county convention at Hamilton Hail
! commencing at 10 A. NJ. \ full county ticket
+, will be named. The Prohibition candidate for
Governor, Henry French, will be present and
deliver an address.
Transfers Called In.
After July 81 the Oakland Consolidated
Street Railroad Company will not issue trans
fers to or take them from cars of the East Oak
land Street Railroad Company 1t mas been
decided to stop the transfer system In order
that more revenue may be had from passen-
gers.
ALAMEDA.