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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-18
KENNEDY. MUST
FACE A JURY
Motion to Dismiss the In
dictment of Grand Jury
Denied by Judge Lawlor
TRIAL SET OCTOBER 10
Plea of Once in Jeopardy
Made for Accused Murder
er of Policeman Robinson

The Supreme Court having denied
lease of William B. Kennedy, alias
yellow" charged with completely in
the murder of Policeman Eugene c.
Robinson at Sixteenth and Valencia
streets on Janaury 81, 1902, the case
against Kennedy was called in Judge
Lawlor's court yesterday on the mo-
ton to dismiss the indictment.
Attorney Newburg, who represents
Kennedy, called Assistant District At
torney Ferral to the stand with the
object of producing the notes taken at
the Grand Jury investigation. Ferral
said he did not know where the
stenographer's notes could be found.
Newburg said he wanted to. show that
the defendant was being prosecuted.
The Judge ldenied the motion and
Kennedy was arraigned on the charge
of murder. Newburg asked for an
early trial and the Judge replied that
it was impossible, as there were sew
eral murder cases already set for trial.
After few questions by Newburg
the Judge finally set the case for trial
on October 10. Newburg entered a
plea of once in jeopardy and at his
request was granted a thirty days
stay to prepare bill of exceptions on
the denial of the motion to set aside
the indictment.
Kennedy's case has become a cele-
brated one. He was tried and con-
victed, but was granted a new trial by
Judge Cook. The District Attorney APP
pealed to the Supreme Court and
Judge Cook. was sustained on the
ground that Kennedy could not be
convicted on the uncorroborated testi-
mony of an accomplice. Judge Cook
discharged Kennedy, but he was
promptly arrested for another crime.
He was released several times on
writs of habeas corpus and rearrested
each time till finally the District At
torney laid the case before the Grand
Jury and Kennedy was again indicted.
A writ was applied for to the Supreme
Court for his release. but it was de-
MED, and he has now to stand his
trial for the second time.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-18
SMITH NEVER
SIGNED TICKET
Young Man Ayers Signature
on Transportation Was
Not in His Handwriting
DESCRIPTION FAULTY
Trial of 7. A. RigdOn Accused
OF Disobeying Injunction
on Before Judge Murasky

The trial Of T. A. Rigdon, ticket
broker. charged with disobeying a
writ OF injunction. was on before Judge
AIurasky yesterday morning The chief
witness Of the day was James Smith, a
young man who secured a ticket TO
Chicago from Rigdon's office. which the
railroad company refused 10 validate.
Attorney Walker represented the rail-
road company and Samuel NJ Short
ridge appeared for the defendant.
The witness testified that he had
been i'll in a sanitarium at San Jose.
on his recovery he wrote TO mis- sister
in Chicago asking her TO send him
money. 70 come home in reply he re-
ceived a letter inclosing an order on
Rigdon's ticket Office for a ticket to
Chicago.
He presented the order and was told
10 return in half an hour and his ticket
would be ready. On his return he was
handed the return half of a Knights
Templsr excursion ticket. He was
shown his signature on the ticket, the
clerk explaining we copied it as near
~ as was possible"
He then told me-" continued the
witness. Ito go down to the valuation
Office and have il validated He also
instructed me not to return, saying
that everything would be all right At
the Southern Pacific Company's Office
4 was told il was no good"
Smith is a pale. slight-built youth
who he's just passed his twenty first
birthday. The ticket he held described
its owner as a middle-aged man. He
had never signed the ticket himself and
did not know in whose handwriting the
signature was.
The case was continued until the 9th.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-18
NEW CONSTRUCTIONS.

The ST. Francis Hospital Company
will build a four-story hospital, to cost
$4,000 on the west line of Julian
avenue, between Fourteenth and Fiji
teenth streets. A. ]. Clunie will build
on the northwest corner of Haight and
Fillmore streets a three-story and
basement building. TO contain five
stores and ten flats, to cost $4,000,
and on Fillmore street twelve apart
ment flats, to cost $4,000. The con-
struction of the eleven-story building
for the Croker heirs on the north
west corner of Post street and Grant
avenue will soon begin and the old
buildings at that place are being de-
molished TO make room for it.
William Mentzner will build two
story brick residence on the north
west Corner of Pacific avenue and
Webster street, to cost $4,000. Ber-
nard Lowenstein will erect on the
north line of Pacific avenue, 54:2 feet
west of Webster street, a three-story
and basement residence, to cost
$4,000. Mrs. Florine H. Branden-
stein will expend s2O,O in the erec-
ton Of a two-story and basement resi-
dence on the west line of Franklin
street, between California and Sacra-
mento.
William A. Magee, Thomas Magee
Jr., Frederick Magee and Walter Magee
have sold to a client of the Union
Trust Company, Baldwin & Howell
representing the purchaser, the ware
house on the north corner of Sixth
and Townsend streets, with lot 137:6x
0T5 fact for S115 00O
Morton L. Cook has sold to the
Bradford Investment Company the
water lot on the northeast line Of
Beale street, 1894 feet southeast from
Mission, with two-story building occu-
pied by the Porter Metal Works, for
S35, 200. The new owner will erect a
five-story brick building upon the ex-
piration of the lease to the present
tenant.
Bovee, Toy & Co. have purchased for
a client from George K. Fitch 25x120
feet and improvements on the south
line of Suffer street, 1876 feet west Of
Grant avenue, for about $4,000. A six
story brick building will be erected on
the site by the purchaser. Through the
same brokers the Baird Estate Com
pany has sold to client of Bovee, Toy
& Co. the block bounded by Waller,
Haight, Ashbury and Clayton streets,
for $4,000.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-18
Geher Has No Attorney.

The cases Of August Geber, charged
with shooting and killing Charles and
George Hartmann at 319 Third street,
were called in Judge DUNES court
yesterday TO be set for trial. Geber
said he had no attorney and the
Judge continued the cases till Septem-
Der % 10 give him time to engage one.
II by that time he has not secured the
services Of an attorney the Judge will
appoint one.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-18

A whole town in Ireland is to be sold
at auction-Castle Martyr, in Cork
County 1t belongs to a Count who
needs money and to raise it gives the
inhabitants Of that town a chance to
buy the place they live in.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-18
IMPORTANT DEALS.

Among the important sales of the
week was that made by Davidson &
Leigh for a client, by which two fifty
varas on the west line of Scott street
were sold to the Pacific Hebrew Or
phan Asylum for $4,000. The same
brokers also sold for A. P. Hotaling &
Co. 155x16O feet on Howard street, 100
feet south of Twelfth, with old i'm
provements, for So, 500, to O'Connor
Brothers.
Through the agency of Shainwald,
Buckbee & Co. the Humboldt Savings
and Loan Society has leased the build
ing at 626 Market street for a period of
years.
The following sales have been made
by Sonntag Brothers: Lot, S5x137:6 feet,
south side of Vallejo street, 80 feet east
of Pierce, for $500, to E. Avery Nc
earthly; 3Ox137:6 feet on the north side
of Union street, 162 feet west of Pierce,
$4,000, to DR.. F. r. Axton, who will
build a residence; 64x1OO feet on the
southeast corner of Dolores and Dun
can streets, $500, for Improvement; 25x
100 feet on the west side of Alabama
street, 100 feet north of Twenty-sixth,
$1,000; 30x137:6 feet on the south side of
Vallejo street, 1876 feet east of Pierce,
$4,000. to Charles Won Ende, who will
build a two-story residence; 25x137: g
feet on the north side Of Fulton street,
1873 feet east Of Central avenue, $2175;
30x137:6 feet on the south side of Val
lejo street, $50 feet west of Steiner,
$1,000, by z. J. Brandenstein; 30x1S7: 6
feet on the north side of Union street.
1876 feet west of Pierce, $4,000, to Mrs
X. A. Hermann, who will erect a two
story residence; 30x137:6 feet on the
south line of Vallejo street, 135 feet
east of Pierce, $4,000, to Mrs. Ellen Slack
for residence; 50x114 feet on the north
side Of Elizabeth street, 125 feet west
of Noe. $500, to Daniel Sexton; 25x1OO
feet on the east side of Church street,
202 feet north of Twenty-fourth. $1,000;
27:6x1OS feet on the west side of Shot
well street 81 feet north of Army, $500;
30xS0 feet on the north side of Folsom
street $3.50 feet east of Sixth. with a
two-story frame building, $10,500; 26x100
feet on the east side of Alabama street,
l04 feet north of Twenty-third, $1100:
25x122:6 feet and improvements on the
west side of Howard street, 1856 feet
north of Eighteenth, $4,000; S0x137:6 feet
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-28
FOREIGN NEWS.

The German Foreign Office today is
sued denial to report current in some
quarters that Germany was preparing fol
another demonstration in Venezuela.
While returning from the races al
Florence yesterday the carriage of the
Count of Turin coIlided with another
vehicle containing several persons, two
of whom were seriously hurt and five
Others slightly injured. The count was
not hurt.
A Constantinople correspondent quotes
several Turkish papers as stating that
Captain Ranifort Buchanan, the Ameri-
can, who is bringing the Turkish armored
cruiser Medjidie from the Cramps yards
in Philadelphia to the Bosphorus, will
enter the Turkish navy on his arrival.
Orders have been issued for the i'm
mediate mobilization in Syria of eight
classes of reserves. The concentration
has begun at Beyruth. The destination
Of the reserves is not known, but the or
der has revived the rumors of the immi-
nence of concentrated outbreak of hos
tilities in the Balkans.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-28
Damage by Floods.

Conditions in Grand Rapids, Mich.
and nearby towns along the Grand river
were grave last night as a result of the
unprecedented food that has swollen the
stream far out of its banks for the past
three days. At 8 O'Clock the river gauge
showed a depth of 1913 feet. This is
three feet above the previous high-water
record, that of 1874. The water had risen
six inches since O'Clock Saturday even
ing. 1t was falling slightly last night,
however, the drop in temperature having
checked the small streams and surface
drainage. The inhabitants of flooded
houses are suffering greatly from cold
and lack of food. There has been no
loss of life thus far, but there is great
suffering and vast amount of sickness
will, it is feared, follow the exposure sus-
tanned by many of the floods victims.
There is grave danger of an epidemic of
typhoid fever following the flood, as a
result of the unsanitary conditions that
the lowering of the water will expose. 1t
is conseryatiyely estimated that the loss
to property and business on account of
the flood will exceed 81, 600, 600. Fifteen
thousand men were unable to work to-
day, owing to factories being compelled
to close by the high water. Two thous-
and homes are flooded on the west side.
The food conditions at Ionia, Lowell,
Portland and other points along the
Grand river we're reported to be slightly
improved last night, the water having
begun TO fall. These towns are practi-
cally isolated by the bridges crossing the
Grand river going out, and it will be
many days before anything like normal
traffic with the outside world will be es-
tablished. The food loss at Ionia is es-
timated at 500. 900.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-28
News Of the Day.

Mr.. John d. Rockefeller has placed
Starr ]. Murphy, young New York
lawyer, at the head of his bureau for
the distribution Of money for phila :
thropic purposes.
Gen. Thomas o. Osborne, of Chicago,
former Minister to Argentina, and one
of the first Americans interested in pro-
noting the Pan-American railway plan,
died in Washington yesterday of cere-
bral hemorrhage at the age of seventy
five years.
After spending seven years in the
cloister Sister Annette, of Burlington,
Iowa, has made application to Arch
bishop Keane for a dispensation freeing
her from her vows in order that she may
wed one of her music pupils, Harold
Stevenson.
The newspaper advertising agency Of
Pettingill & Co., of Boston, has an
nounced that it has placed its affairs in
the hands of its creditors. Counsel rep
resenting Pettingill & Co. stated that
the liabilities may reach 81, 900, 600,
with assets possibly one-quarter OF thai
amount.
Dan DAILY, the comedian, died sud-
denly on Saturday afternoon in his room
in the Vendome Hotel, in New York.
He had long been consumptiye. He
got up that afternoon, and while dress
ing was seized with a fitof coughing,
which brought on fatal hemorrhage.
His wife died suddenly two weeks ago.
William Hughes, who several months
shot and killed Edith Nelson, his sweet
heart, at Eckman, w. Va, and escaped,
was captured at jacksonville, Ohio, Sat
urday night and has been landed in the
Mcdowell CIV. Va.) county Jail, al
WEIGH. Hughes shot the young woman
because she was receiving attentions
from another man.
A tremendous storm on Saturday iso
lated the South from the Atlantic to the
Mississippi for many hours. Flood;
caused much damage in Ohio and Indi.
ana also. Michigan is recovering ex-
cept in Grand Rapids. Disastrous floods
we're reported at many places in New
York State and New England aud sew
eral bridges were carried away.
Mrs. Mary Mertens, widow of Fred
erick Mertens, died last Friday night al
her home in Cumberland, Md, aged
sixty-nine years. The Mertens family
/ is considered the richest in western
Maryland. They control the Washing
ton and Alexandria railroad, own Mar
shall Hall and have divers interests in
Maryland, West Virginia and the Dis
trict of Columbia.
The cry of sire" in st. MichaePs
Church in New Haven, Conn, yester-
day morning caused a stampede of about
1000 people from the building. They
piled up ten deep on the side walks, and
about 500 of the worshippers were more
or less injured. During the distribution
of the palms an alteration occurred be-
tween two young men, and one of the
diaputants produced a revolver A
strong smell of gas was noticeable at the
time and the cry of "fre" followed,
with the result given above. Several of
those injured we're in a critical condition
today.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-28
Race War in Arkansas.

A dispatch from Dewitt Ark, says
1.-TWO more negroes have been killed in
the clash between whites and blacks al
st. Charles, fifteen miles from Little Rock
in Arkansas county. This brings the total
of dead negroes up to thirteen, all of
them being killed within the past week.
The last two negroes killed were the
Griffin brothers, Henry and Walker, who
were the cause of the trouble. The ne
groes were reported to have escaped, but
it is known that they are dead, and it is
believed that they we're killed Saturday.
Owing to the remoteness OF st Charles
and to the fact that news of the result of
the riot is not given out freely, it is diff
ficult to obtain details, but there is no
doubt of the authenticity of the death OF
the Griffins. In the st Charlds neigh
borhood the negroes largely outnumber
the whites aud trouble has been brewing
for long time, andit is said thenegroes
for the past two years have been getting
insolent and belligerent. 1t is now be-
lieved that the leaders of the unruly ele-
ment have been killed aud that further
trouble will be averted. Saturday was
election day, and usually on such a day
st. Charles is crowded with negroes, but
during The entire day only two negroes
were seen in the town and these two APP
peared in the morning and stayed in the
village but short time. Near st. Charles
the negroes are quiet, and are attendir :
strict " to their work. The trouble orig :
uated last Monday when the two CRITICS
met two white men, brothers, named
Searcy. The Searcys, who are fishermen.
and the Griffins had an alteration a few
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-28
Killed by Tornado.

A tornado swept the country twenty
miles north of Charlottesville, Mo-,
Saturday night, causing a great loss of
life and destroying thousands OF dollars
worth of property. The wires were down
yesterday and authentic news is hard to
get, but as belated reports come in the
losses of life and property increase. 1t is
known that six lives have been lost and
thousands of dollars worth of property
destroyed The lives of the Shoemaker
family, living near Portageville, four in
number, were blotted out and their home
demolished. Wesley Miller and wife,
living two miles north of Mount Pleasant,
were killed, and their home destroyed.
Their BODIES were found two hundred
yards away, badly mutilated. Mr.. Mil
Ter was wealthy mill owner and plant
er. Fifteen hundred dollars in money
belonging TO him was found scattered
over the ground. Much stock was killed
and wounded. Ii is feared full report
will reveal greater loss of life.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-28
Mysterious Murder OF a Boy.

Boston, March 2S.-Parker Dexter,
the II year old son of Edward J. Dex-
ter, was fatally shot by a cowardly as
sassin, as alleged by his brother, at his
home in Great Pond yesterday afternoon,
and died at l :4j o'clock this morning, at
the homeopathic hospitalin Boston. Mrs.
Dexter, mother of the boys, has been in
the Homeopathic Hospital in Boston for
several days and the shooting occurred
while the father was visiting the mother
in the hospital. Parker and his brother
Harris were eating their dinner when a
stranger, with revolver in his hand, en-
tered the house. The boys being fright
ened rushed up stairs, the stranger follow
ing them and shooting the younger who
attempted to shut himself in the bath
room. The assailant Immediately left
the house and has not yet been captured.
The cause of the shooting is a mystery.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-28
Senator Burton Found Guilty.

St. Louis, March 2S.-United States
Senator j. Ralph Burton, of Kansas, was
this evening found guilty of selling his
infuencein United States District Judge
Adams court. His sentence will be fixed
by Judge Adams. The maximum penalty
is fine Oslo, 900, two years imprison-
ment and perpetual disqualification of
holding any public Office. When the
court convened at 10 o'clock the jury re
ported that it had not etagreed and was
sent back. Foreman Wall stated to the
court that the jury stood IL to 1. While
at dinner Sunday night, E. S. Hardy, a
member of the jury, was stricken with a
slight attack Of heart disease but was
soon restored. Senator Burton spent an
anxious Sunday at the Southern Hotel.
He was visited during the dag by his
ATTORNEYS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-28
Damage by Floods.

Carlisle, ILL.,, March 2S.-Kaskasika
river has been rising at the rate of two
inches an hour for over As hours, and is
four miles wide south of here. Many
residents in lowland districts have been
forced to abandon their homes. The
Santa levee, eight miles south of here,
protecting about twenty thousand acres
of fertile bottom lands, is in great
danger II is predicted that the present
high water will exceed that of 1892.
St. Louis, Mo-, March 2S.-Owing
to the floods, all trains we're late in ar
irving Sunday.
Vandalia, H., March 2S.-The Okla
waya bottom east and north and west OF
this city is under water for over two
miles. The big iron bridge east of the
city is in danger of being carried away,
cutting off all travel from the east.
The Clark leyee southeast Of this town,
broke Saturday night. Several families
were rescued yesterday. Considerable
live stock has been lost.
Manchester, n. H., March %. North
of Concord the Merrimac mas risen
rapidly and the lowlands are overhowed.
A bad ice jam has formed at the gorge
and the bridge over the Sugar river at
Newport and it is feared the bridge
will go. The dam at G. 5. Giles
factory and the one at Fairbanks and
DORIS, about two miles from Newport,
were carried away yesterday The
Merrimac is rising here.
Pittsfeld, Mass, March 2S.-An
iron bridge between Great Darlington
and Glendale was washed away by high
water. The water has flooded the tracks
of the Berkshire street railway company
and cars have stopped running on that
portion Of the road.
Springfield, Mass, March 2S.-The
Connecticut river has risen several feet
within the past sc hours, and with the
freshet has come the breaking up of the
ice to the uorth. Considerable damage
has resulted in this vicinity.
Peru, Ind March 28.--The food that
has swooped down upon the city has en-
quilted the winterquarters Of the Wallace
Circus and has risen to the point where
the elephants are compelled to stand in
water up to their bodies. The rising
waters have also put out the fires in the
Carniyora building in which are housed
all the tigers, leopards and other mem
bers of the feline species and there is con-
sequent suffering among these animals.
The food has caused more damage than
any other that ever paid its respects to
this town. The Indiana Manufacturing
Company is great sufferer Its great
lumber yards have been swept barren Of
logs and lumber and six hundred men
have been thrown out of work. One
thousand homes, standing from two to
ten feet in water, are abandoned. There
is not family in South Peru and the
water is rushing through the streets at
terrific rate. Much stock has been
drowned and the loss will amount to
approximately 500, 600. The mouth of
the Missinewa river, two miles east Of
here, is five miles wide but the waters
are now slowly falling.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-28

Mr.. J.G. CAPERs, of South Caro-
lima a recent convert to republicanism,
having secured a government Office, has
published letter, of course for the
Presidents eye, Boosting that his State
was the first to instruct for Roosevelt
and that he was elected one OF the
delegates-at-large to the national con-
yention. The people of South Carolina
will wonder why Capers, after desert
ing his people, would like to figure 50
conspicuously in public print. But
southern republican converts are curious
creatures and many of those who secure
Office through desertion have an idea
that unless they make a noise they will
be lost.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-28
The Market
Georgetown, Mar. 2s--Wheat 9SaS1.Q3.
OPENING AND CLOSING OF NAILS

Northern mails, week days, close at 7 80
8 80 and Ii 90 a. M, and Is, 240, $40, s %
and 10 45 p. m. Open at s 90 a. M, 200 m.
and 40 p. m. On Sundays Northern mails
close at 80 a. m, 80 p. m. and ~ p. m.
Southern mails via Charlottesville close at
7 80 and 10 40 a. M, and 80, 9 80 and 10 45
p. m. Open at s 90 a. m. and 2 S0a and 80 p. m.
Southern mails, via Richmond, close at
10 80 a. H., and 800, 6 80 and 10 As p. m.
Open at 8 a. IN. and and p. m.
Manassas Division mails close at 7 20 a. m.
and 3 40 p. m. Open at 1200m.
Alexandria and Round Hill mails close at
80 a. M. and p. m. Open at 8 90 a. III. and
8 30 p. m.
Chesapeake and Ohio mails close at As p.
M. and 10 As p. m. open at 500 a. m. and
430p. m.
Washington mails close at Z 80 $50 and
II 10 a. m, and 10, 240, 6 40, 8 % and l045
p. m. Open at 8 90 a. m, II 90 m. and 90 p.
NJ and 43O p. m.
Office Hours--Open at s 90 a. m. Close at
500 p. m.
Sunday Hours-Open at coca. m. Close
at 10 90 a. m.
Carriers Schedule Collection made on IN
side routes-6 80 and 10 90 a. m. and 90 and
8 80 p. IN. Full rOute-6 30 a. m. and 30 p.
N. Sunday collection 500 p. m. Carriers
window open Sunday 900 a. m. and close
10 90 q. m.
Deliveries made 8 90 a. m, p. m. and 4 10
p. m.
All mail should be in the Office ten minutes
before our indicated time for closing.