The San Francisco call., 1910-01-08
Suburban Breyities

HALL VERY ILL-oakland. Jan T.-Charles
r. Hall, the veteran theatrical manager. wlt
recently sold out his lease the Macdonough
theater. is quite i'll at his apartments at the
Hotel ST. Mark.
CHECK PASSER ADMITS GUILT-oakland
Jan. Michael ]. Hart pleaded guilty today
TO charge of forgery and asked toabe placed
on probation Hart is accused of 8assing j
worthless check for $3.50 to Frank Lewis.
TALK ON SINGLE TAx-oakland. Jan. r.
James g. Mcguire of San Francisco. former
congressman. will speak Sunday evening be-
fore fore I'll the Oakland fellowship at Lincoln hall,
4o1 thirteenth street; on The Single Tax and
the English Budget"
POLICE BLOCKADE PooLRooMs-
Jan. 7.-Police sentinels were stationed In
5hor,e Dl nnmoer ncte oI oaqngs IN which tn.
conducted today. and turned away all persons
who were unable to give satisfactory account
of their business.
7.-The Alameda county society for the pre-
vention of tuberculosis intends TO propose the
Institution of special classrooms in the public
schools for the segregation o. pupils afnicted
with pulmonary complaints at the next meet
ing of the board OF education.
HELD FOR THEFT-Oakland. Jan. 7.-Bernard
Becker, alias Brown. charged with the theft
of two razor strops from Wishart's drug store
faces term in the penitentiary. The police
found prior conviction for petty larceny in
his record and he bound over to the supe-
rior court on felony complaint.
TENDERLoIN BANDIT HELD-oakland Jan
John Cassidy. alias Murphy, who terrorized
tHe teuutriulii On New lear eve Dy nOlQlng
up two women of the underworld and threat
ening others. was held TO answer to the sI1pe.
ror court by Police Judge Samuels this morn
ing on charge of robbery.
THEFT REPoRTED-Oakland. JAN IA quan-
tity of pipe and fittings stolen frgm the
home of G. IL. kunig, at the corner of Thir-
teenth and Greenwood avenues, last night. ac-
cording to report received by the police
Mrs. NJ. B. Bird reports that she lost seal
skin coat valued at $3.50 while driving from
her home in Lincoln avenue west of Hopkins
street to the Dimond station.
AUTO HIT BY CAR-Oakland Jan. "A r.
Morrison. manager OF the local automobile de-
partment of the Studebaker carriage company
had narrow escape from being killed yester-
day. An eastbound Alameda car struck the
machine in which he was riding at Thirteenth
and Franklin streets and hurled him TO the
sidewalk. The machine was damaged but
Morrison escaped injury.
JUDEANS TO GIVE THEATER PARTY-oak-
land, Jan. THE Judean society will give
a theater party at Ye Liberty January Is for
the benefit of the treasury Of the Alameda
county society for the study and prevention
of tuberculosis. The committee arranging for
the benefit consists of n. J. Schoenfeld J. T.
IIirseh. Edward schary s. Lichtig, b. Buch-
man. +. HaIbert
SCHOOL BOND INTEREST PAID-oakland
Jan City Auditor Gross today authorized
the payment of the semiannual interest on the
school building bonds of 1892. The amount
forthcoming was $1,000 which WAS paid 10
the First national bank. There remains out
standing 100000 the school building bond
issue. which will be retired after three more
annual payments of $4,000 each have been
made on the principal. The semiannual inter
est payment amounted TO $500.