The morning call., 1895-01-18

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| tors. The trouble was soon located by
SUPERINTENDENT Flemming at the subway
| on Twelfth street, in front OF the office
where the underground switchboard had
! burned out The contact was at East Oak
| land, but the current was carried IN on the
cable to the subway.
Says He Was Cruel.
John G. Steele, clerk in a Washington
street dry goods house is evidently lnsanely
jealous OF his pretty wife, according to the
| story told in a divorce complaint filed with
| County Clerk Jordan yesterday. Mrs.
Steele says that she was married to Steele
in San Francisco on the oath OF March,
1890, and that they have one child years
OF age. Soon after their marriage Steele
appears to have become suspicious of his
wife, and, as she alleges, entirely without
cause. In his jealous moments he so lar
forget himself as to lay violent hands upon
her. He continued to treat her with cruelty
until it became unbearable, and she finally
instructed her attorneys, Gibson d Whit
more, to file suit for divorce. The COM
plant sets forth that Steele is in receipt of
a salary of $50 a month, and the wife wants
an order that he pay her SIS month ali.
mony. She also asks for the custody OF
the child and her costs.
They May Compromise.
The suit of Sarah Lynch, widow and ad-
J L.
was continued until Monday in the Su-
perior Court yesterday. ]. c. Martin and
R. NJ Fitzgerald, attorneys for the Ala
media Electric Line, asked for another con-
tinuance in the suit for damages for the
death of Mr.. Lynch but the arguments OF
Samuel Shortridge and d. M. Delmas de-
feated their purpose. Judge Ogden de-
cided to call the case on Monday to be set
for trial. Messrs. Martin and Fitzgerald
show a desire to eYade contest with
Messrs. Delmas and Shortridge, and asked
for conference after they left the court
The outcome is unknown, but Mr.. Martin
said: ~ believe that the case may be
compromised. 1t will not be settled by
Monday, but there seems no doubt OF a
compromise"
In Daylight or Darkness.
Octavia O'Farrell wants $4,000 damages
from the Oakland Water Company or from
Kimball G. Easton she don't care which,
for falling into trench along the San
Leandro road which had been eXcavated
for mains of the Oakland Water Company
which Easton was laying under contract.
1t makes big difference to the defendants
who pays, and Easton has demurred to the
complaint on the ground that it does not
state whether he was acting as the agent
of the Oakland Water Company or indie
pendently, also that it does not appear
whether the alleged accident occurred dur
ing daylight or darkness. The plaintiff
was injured on the 18th of June, 1894, and
alleges that the trench was not properly
guarded.
Council Proceedings.
At the meeting of the Council commit
tees last evening representatives of the
Contra Costa Water Company were present
in regard to the order for the removal of
its main from the Eighth-street bridge.
The company offered to drive row of
piles parallel with the bridge so that it
might be widened ten feet and give a
chance for a six-foot sidewalk in addition
to carrying the main. The proposition
was favorably received.
1t was decided to recommend that an or
dinance be passed to restore the width of
the Twelfth-street dam or Lake Merritt
bulkhead to 206 feet, its official width, as
formerly fixed. 1t was reduced by the last
City Council to so feet. The extension will
be made on the north side of the dam.
Will Defend His Position.
Judge Wood of the Police Court has re-
tanned J. G.. Martin as counsel to defend
his position in denying jury trials in cases
under city ordinances Upon the hearing
in the mandamus proceedings instituted
by Herman Kahler, Judge Wood will also
be represented by the District Attorney.
The Judge will contend that mandamus
is not the proper method of determining
the case, but an appeal. He also asserts
that by the Whitney act, under which the
city Justice court is created, provision is
made for the action which he has taken.
The trial of Kohler has been continued to
January %, pending the hearing upon the
mandamus proceeding.
The WaIkerley Contest.
The Walkerley estate contest will be ar
gued before the State Supreme Court in
San Francisco to-day. All day yesterday
II. G. Firebaugh, attorney for the execu-
tors of the estate, was busily engaged look
ing over papers in the County Clerks
Office bearing upon the case. Fred E.
Whitney, representing the absent heirs,
was with him. Firebaugh was anxious to
have some papers certified by the County
Clerk, who refused to do it until he had a
chance to look them over and see if they
were correct. This privilege was denied
him, so the papers will come up to-day in
the Supreme Court without being certified.
The Argument.
The testimony in the trial of Charles
Becker for the murder of c. A. Edison at
Alameda was concluded yesterday morn
ing and an adjournment taken until 2
P. NJ, when argument was commenced for
the people by District Attorney Shook.
Before discussing the facts counsel stated
the law and said that plea of self-defense
shown that an attack was made under
such circumstances as to warrant a belief
on the part OF the person attacked that his
life was in danger. Such conditions, he
claimed, were not present in the case at
bar. The argument had not been con-
Guided when the court adjourned until this
morning.
IngIer Fined Twenty Dollars.
James A. Ingler, an ex-Deputy Consta-
bic, was fined $50 by Judge Fred V. Wood
in the Police Court yesterday morning. He
was found guilty of being drunk while on
duty New Years night and yesterday
tried to prove by four witnesses that he
was not. Two swore that he was under
the influence of liquor, one was doubtful,
while the fourth thought he was not, but
refused to swear. His attorney made plea
for leniency for his client, but the Judge
thought that an officer should take the
full benefit of the law. Ingler will not wear
star hereafter.
Will Not Prosecute Her.
Charitably inclined ladies are beginning
to interest themselves in little Alva Pablo,
the 13-year-old girl who has been arrested
for stealing from the convent on Lake
Merritt and carrying off her plumber in
boat, and it is now expected that she will
H.