The San Francisco call., 1896-03-06
DOWNES HAS PPEARED
It Is Thought the Old Man
Committed Suicide in
Alameda.
Telephone Subscribers Protest Against
Nickel.in.th Attach
ments.

ALAMEDA, CAL, March 5-Patrick
Downes has disappeared and it is thought
he may have committed suicide. He was
man not vigorous of mind, VINO 1oated
hither and thither without aim or object
or consecutive effort. Four months ago
he was arrested for being a vagrant and
was held before Justice Morris. The
magistrate instead of sending him to jail,
set him to doing chores about the magis-
terial residence for his keep. For time
all went well and then the old man began
to grow restless again and 10 talk mysteri-
ously OF dying and ending his troubles.
Suddenly he disappeared, and now that
his peculiarities are remembered it is
thought he may have wandered away to
some secluded spot and ended his life.
Downes is the man who attracted atten-
tion in San Francisco year ago by throw
ing a cobblestone through one of the
large plate-glass windows of J. J. O'Brien's
store, claiming he did SO to get shelter and
food through arrest. In this he was but
temporarily successful however, for
sympathetic jury, hearing the story of his
woe, acquitted hin. OF the charge of mali
cious mischief.
Protest About Telephones.
ALAMEDA, CAL, March 5.-The bust
ness men of Alameda are up in arms
against the action of the telephone COM
pany in putting nickel-in-the-sIot attach
ments on their telephones. The machines
only permit OF forty calls during the
month, each one over that number costing
the subscriber cents out of every
dropped in the slot, and this discrimina-
tion the merchants protest against. A
petition for presentation TO the Sunset
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being circulated by a. P. Smiley and James
A. Munroe, which reads:
We, the undersigned, contract subscribers to
your telephone, request that the nickel-in-the-
slot cohtrivance be removed from your tele-
phones, and that our use of the said telephones
be not limited by said contrivance, but that
we be permitted to use the telephones IN ac
cordance with the terms OF our contracts with
you. In case this request is not acceded to, we
desire the removal OF the said telephones.
The petition already has long list of
names attached 10 it. The merchants
a little over one each day, which is en-
tirely out of proportion TO the amount of
cost of rental.
Funeral of Mrs. Mclean.
ALAMEDA, CAL, March 5. - The re-
mains OF the late Mrs. Mary Eliza Nc
Lean, the wife of the Health Officer of
Alameda, have been embalmed, and their
interment at Mountain View Cemetery
will be private, on the return of DR.. Nc
Lean from Washington, d. c. At the
funeral the pal!-bearers were: Joseph f.
Forderer, of the Board OF Trustees; Drs.
G. P Reynolds and c.. II. Lubbock, of the
Board of Health; G. f. Watson and w. F.
Gibson. The ritual of the funeral service
was read by the Rev..F. D. Bovard of the
Park-street NJ. E. Church, and the eulogy
pronounced by the Rev. NJ. G. Biggs of
San Jose.
A Christian Canvass.
ALAMEDA, CAL, March 5. - The
churches represented in the Ministerial
Union of Alameda have made a new de-
parture. They haze canvassers who have
for the past week or more been visiting
from house to house. Their object is to
learn whether or not the family called on
is affiliated with any of the denominational
churches of the city, and if not they make
an effort to have them do so. A card entitled
christian Greeting, inviting the recip-
lent to attend and identify yourself with
some one of them as your Christian home,
etc., is presented.
Anna Shaw to Lecture.
ALAMEDA, CAL, March 5.-The Po-
litical Equality Club OF Alameda has se-
cured Rev. Anna Shaw to lecture before it
on March Is. The lecture will be de-
livered in Park Opera-house, and the sub
ject will be "The New Man."