The morning call., 1895-02-14
This is ST. Valentines day.

character.
Chairman spreckels OF the valley road COM
mittee IS still too i'll to attend the meetings of
that body.
Angelo Metrosa crab-catcher was drowned
off Point Lobos by the capsizing of his boat
yesterday.
Controller Colgan and Auditor Broderick are
opposed TO the delinquent tax bill now before
the Assembly.
The cases against the nineteen laborers for
tearing up Church street were dismissed by
Judge Conlan.
The dead body of Chinaman was found in
the room of an unoccupied house on Church
alley yesterday.
The funeral of the late W. W. Stow will be
held this forenoon from the family residence
1913 Pine street.
The charge Of cruelty to children filed against
Fred Yeaton, painter, was dismissed by Judge
Campbell yesterday.
c. H. Street was arrested on a charge OF fell
ony embezzlement in connection with the pur-
chase OF timber lands
1iChampion Donnelly and T. F. Bonnet de-
feated c. Nealon and John Purcell at the Occi-
dental Handball Court.
1t is announced from Paris that the Princess
Poniatowski, formerly Miss Beth Sperry, is
soon TO become mother.
There is no truth in the report that the Rev.
Father Yorke is TO be transferred to the Catholic
university at Washington
Harbor Commissioner Chadbourne is desirous
OF securing the Governor and Mayer as perma-
nent members OF the board.
Lee, Huston and Cough again indicted by
the Grand Jury and arrested in connection
with the late election frauds.
burglar entered the Office of Charles E.
Heise, Custom-house broker, on Tuesday
night and stole $21 in money.
The executors of the, Fair estate decline to
tell how much wheat they have on hand for
lear OF influencing the market
all of +ba poard of D ;1-ool
Commissioners was yesterday appointed
assistant secretary of that body
The estate of E. F. Coad, who was recently
declared insane, is shown by the guardians
report to be worth Sl61 ,S19 50.
The Grand Jury begins an investigation of
the election frauds of the Fifth Precinct of the
Thirty seventh Assembly District.
The controversy over the privileges of foreign
and American medical diplomas grows more
animated among local physicians.
Mrs. Grace Girard has become a heroine by
capturing burglar in her cellar at 1913 Mis-
sion street and landing him in Jail.
The preliminary examination of Alexander
Loughborough Jr. on the charges OF assault to
murder viii be taken up tomorrow.
Charles Sumner, colored cock, while asleep
on NfissiOn-stTeet wharf yesterday fell into the
water and narrowly escaped drowning.
The Coroner's jury has declared that Ralph
Selby committed suicide during fit of de-
spondeney caused by the death of his wife.
Inc oakland weather prophet VINO made q
clever guess or prediction last week is invited
TO send his correct address to THE CALL.
Charles Freeman Johnson, a stenographer,
has sued the Pacific Coast Association of Fire
Chiefs to recover $120 for.work performed.
warrant has been issued for the arrest of
Leo Block, salesman in the jewelry store of
a. Markewitz on the charge OF grand larceny.
Judge Coffey disapproves the habit of some
attorneys to retry case upon q motion for
new trial after the verdict has been rendered.
The Coroner's jury in the case of George W.
Paterson last night rendered verdict of acci-
dental death through an overdose of morphine.
Margaret Bush was arrested on Union street.
near Powell yesterday Tor drunkenness while
she had her four-months-old baby in her arms
In the trial of the railroad strikers, Cassidy
and Mayne, the defense continues 70 introduce
testimony contTadicting witnesses for the prose-
cution.
Mary O'Donnell has sued the president of the
Women's Real Estate Investment Company to
recover 1913 which she invested in real estate
at Sunnyside.
thinks the waterfront interests should file a
protest against the bill providing for building
the seawan north.
Secret Service Agent Harris is still engaged
in investigating the case of w. L. Dean, charged
with aiding and abetting as well as forging
United States notes.
The jurors in the Won Schmidt case are sorry
they did not give the plaintiff enough for his
costs. They appeared in court yesterday. to try
to resrrange matters.
Captain Thomas Gilmour and Mate George
Mitchell of the British ship Ardencraig were
each fined $50 by Judge Campbell yesterday
for battery upon sailor.
The contest OF Symmes and Ames for the po-
sitions of Carew and Bassett in the Board of
Education has had its first day, and so far
shows no material results.
James Anderson is suing the Pacific I'm
provement Company for $4,000 damages for
personal injuries caused by an explosion of
foul air in the hold OF ship.
The estate of John Brickell, who died in this
city in October last, has been appraised at
$3.50, 1873 50. 1t consists OF securities, cash,
personal property and real estate.
The preliminary examination of John Col
lins one of the four young men charged with
brutally assaulting Agnes Gallagher was
heard before Judge Joachimsen yesterday.
Leonie Talich has instituted two suits
against jacques Mounie of this city, one for
sos, 900 damages for betrayal, and the other
for a similar amount for breach of promise.
In the case of R. H. Mcdonald Jr., on trial in
Judge Murphy's Court, the defendant denied
that he ever swore to his signature on the Pa
cific Banks statement of January Is, 1898.
A committee of five residents of Santa Clara
County yesterday called on the valley road
committee and asked for instructions as to
what is expected of that county in the way
OF aid
But two of the five fayorites won at the track
yesterday and the bookmakers had good day.
Realization and Braw Scot had very exciting
finish in the last race, the former winning by a
short head
The proposed delinquent tax bill gives the
owner or his heirs the right to redeem the
property twenty years thereafter by paying the
taxes on the assessed value the time 1t became
delinquent.
Attorney Coogan gives it as his opinion that
Governor Budd is an ex-oficio member of the
Board OF Harbor Commissioners only in GER
tain matters relating 10 the construction of
the seawall.
L. E. Ryder, who retired from his position as
assistant teacher in the North Cosmopolitan
Grammar School, is suing for writ of man
damus to compel the Board of Education to re-
instate him.
The residents of Claremont, north of Oakland,
are in dread of burglars, numerous depTeda-
tions having recently been made in the yicin-
ity. Judge Hart and Contractor CASTOR are
among the latest victims