The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 14, 1896, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 1896. IS 1T A GHOST, COBLIN OR MAN? A Silent Figure Now Stalks About the Old First Church. WEARS A GREAT CLOAK. | The Strange Sight First Ob-i served by a Watchman Two Months Ago. DISAPPEARED IN A THIN MIST Lights Said to Flash in Different Parts of the Church at the Midnight Hour. Do ghosts and hobgoblins haunt the | twice-scandalized precincts of First Con-| gregational Church? There are scores of people living in the neighborhood of | i through the glass the figure of a man with a long cloak thrown carelessly over his shoulders was seen walking slowly down the alley. The first fear partially disap- peared, for the watchman summoned up sufficient courage to raise the window and call loudly after the stranger. But the man with the long cloak answered never a word. Indignant at such treatment the watchman reached for a good-sized stick Jying conveniently near and taking careful aim let it fly at the stranger. Then the strangest thing occurred. The stick, true to its aim, struck the stranger, or rather the cloak he wore. The missile fell noiselessly to the ground, the cloak dropped over it and the figure vanished in a thin mist. The watchman is not sure whether the man went up into the air, down into the ground or disappeared through the solid oak doors leading into the church. Of one thing he is certain, however, and that is while he saw the cloak and stick fall to the ground he did ! not see the direction taken by the silent tigure, ‘The next morning the cloak was found where it had fallen and returned to the church. been seen by at least a score of people, but no one has had the temerity to get within “'speaking’’ distance. THE CONDUCTOR WAS RIGHT. Peter Brooks, a Laborer, Fined for Re- fusing to Pay His Fare. Peter Brooks, a laborer, appeared in Judge Campbell’s court yesterday morn- ing to answer charges of disturbing the veace and battery. He got on a Market-street car at Third street Friday afternoon and handed the conductor a check which he said he got from the conductor of a Third-street car. The Market-street conductor told him that no checks were now issued, and demanded his fare. Brooks refused, and wher the conductor attempted to eject him he re- sisted and struck him. Policeman John The Mysterious Figure as Seem by the Watchman for the First Time Two Month: s Ago. Brown’s former stronghold, who are| willing to affirm that the sacred edifice | has become the permanent abiding place | of all manner of uncanny creations. i They go further than this, and in whispers, tell of mysterious lights seen | around the church study, lecture-room and in the front part of the building. These lights are said to flit from one -place to | another with almost inconceivable quick- | ness, disappearing entirely from sight, only to flash again the next moment at the same spot or in some more remote quarter | of the edifice. | The lights, however, if they reaily exist, | are the least of the mysteries attending Brown’s old church. A man slightly stooped is said to walk up and down the alley which separates the church from the 8t. Lawrence stables. The figure may be seen almost any dark night. The head is bowed low on the breast as thoughina deep study. £mployes of the livery stable view with distrust the approach of midnight. Two watchmen have already resigned their po- sitions, claiming that they were not mo- rally strong enough to-withstand the cold chills which chased up and down their spinal columns when they inspected that portion of the stable adjacent to the| alley. The figure which has caused so much uneasiness in the livery stable, and among the people who live close by, is said to re- semble closely that of Sexton Stevenson, who died Christmas, 18394, Stevenson had worked very hard all day assisting in the decorations, and doing such other work as | the occasion demanded. Lateinthe after- noon he was suddenly stricken with apo- plexy, dying that night. Stevenson was not a happy man as sex- ton of the First Congregational Church. For some reason Brown conceived a vio- lent dislike to him. On several occasions the sexton talked to leading members of | the church about his uncomfortable posi tion, asking them to intercede in his be- half. In spite of all these troubles the old sex- ton took a great interest in the church and | endeavored in every way to beautify its surroundings. Just prior to the fatal Caristmas Stevenson planted a lot of flow- ers in the alley between tie church and stable. With tender care he worked with them and just as they seemed in a fair way to gladden his heart with bloom and fragrance ceath came. The flowers either drooped and died or shriveled into some- thing utterly unlike their natural state. No one, nov excepting the grim-visaged but genial Pike, has ever succeeded in ! making the survivors flourish. The silent fi:ure which haunts the old church was observed for the first time about two months ago. People have watched him from a distance, but only one man has had the moral courage to get in touch, so to speak, with the mysteri- ous being. This was the first watchman to give up his position. About midnight two months ago the watchman was making Dbis usual rounds, when as he approached the window leading into the church yard, acold wind brushed across his face. He shuddered, glancing at the same time toward the window to see if it were open. The window was closed, however, but Wallace was summoned and placed Brooks under arrest. Judge Cam pbell after hearing the testi mony fined Brooks $20 or twenty days in the County Jail. The Judge in sentencing Brooks said that conductors bhad certain rights, and the Market-street conductor did quite right in attempting to eject Brooks on refusing to pay his fare. The presentation of the check was ;nerelya:ubter(uge to evade paying his are. Judge Murphy Will Not Prevent the Sonderup In- quest. Kuhlman Wil Now Have to Answer Certain Questions or Go to Jail. Dr. The Sonderup case, was yesterday de- cided in Coroner Hawkins' favor. Judge Murphy sustained the Coroner’s demurrer to the writ of prohibition. Marie Sonderup petitioned for a writ prohibiting the Coroner from proceeding with the inquest on the body of her hus- band. The Coroner’s demurrer claimed | that the writ faided to allege that the Cor- | oner had acted without authority. As public officials are presumed to act within the law, the court held that this was a fatal defect in the writ and sustained the dem urrer. 3 _This action of the court will force Dr. knuhmgn to testify before the Coroner or go to jail for contempt, which will throw open the gate for a repetition of the whole | trouble. Originally the matter started with the death of Mrs. Sonderup’s husband, who was injured in a Kearny-street car acci- | dent. Dr. Kuhiman attended him and made out a death certificate charging his demise to the accident. Coroner Hawkins then heid an inquest and called Kuhlman | a8 a witness. Kuhlman refused to answer certain guestions and was committed to the County Jail for five days for contempt, He procured a writ of habeas corpus and was released, it being charged that the in- quest was an illegal one from the fact that | the jury had viewed the body before being sworn. Coroner Hawkins then impaneled another jury and after a lot of trouble suc- ceeded in having the body exbumed, when proceedings were legally begun. The autopsy physician found that Sonderup’s death did not result from injuries, but from consumption. On the stand, at the second inquest, Dr. Kuhiman again re- fused to answer the objectionable in- quiries und while Hawkins was deliberat- ing whether or not to commit the physi- cian for contempt, he was served with the writ of prohibition by Judge Murphy. And now, like a link in an endless chain the bepinning point of the matter has come around again. | | Since that time the figure has | I THE CORONER'S FMOR oL WIN" SAYS MYSTERIOUS SMITH ‘The Champion Welter- Weight Speaks Highly of Gallagher. JACKSON IS A WRECK. |Declares the Mighty Has Fallen Through an Appetite * for Rum. THINES CORBETT MISTAKEN. | England, He Believes, Is Behind the Times in Everything but Horse-Racing. “Yes,” said “Mysterious” Billy Smith, champion welter-weight of the world, yes- terday, “I am here to fight Gallagher on July 2, and if nothing unforeseen happens I guess one or the other of us will get a | chance that night to see shorthand charac- ters, Chinese hieroglyphics and the labels on chemists’ bottles freely floating in the Smith arrived yesterday afternoon from Portland, Or., on the steamer Columbia. It was only about six weeks ago that Smith came over from England, where he was engaged 1n seyeral battles under the management of the London National | Sporting Club. In all of these he added to his laurels. The first was with Corporal Ham, the cham pion light heavy-weight of tne Eng- lish army. Ham lasted just ten seconds. The next was with Jack Bryant, the win- ner of nine fights in the foregoing class. This fight lasted just thirty seconds, Then came Alf Morris, who belongs to the heavy-weight class. This was a harder contest than the two preceding ones, and it took Smith two minutes to put his burly opponent out. Hislast contestin England was with Billy Husbands, and the cham- pion required eight rounds in which to put him to sleep. “Compared with Americans,” said Smith, “the English are fifty years behind the times. They are old-fashioned in | everything—in the way they build their houses, even. There is only one thing in which they excel every other country, and that is in horse-racing. There is no doubt but that they have this branch of sport down to a pretty fine point. When it comes to racing horses they are scientific, and no mistake about it. “While I was in London [ saw Peter Jackson, at the National Sporting Club and various other places. Poor old Peter. He is about as near a physical wreck as a man can well be. Idon’t believe he will ever enter the ring again.” “Whnat has brought this condition of af- fairs about to your notion ?"” *‘Booze,” said the pugilist sententiously. “‘He is in a irance nearly all the time."”” This latter is an original expression of “Mysterious” Billy’s own coinage. It means that Jackson is so constantly under the influence of liquor as to appear stupid. “T fought ‘Kid' McCoy in Boston May 18, continued Smith, ‘‘and at the expira- tion of six rounds the figzht was given him on a foul. McCoy fought at 158 pounds and I at 144. But that wasn’t where the trouble came in’’—this with an ominous | luwering of the brows and a close compres- sion of the lips—‘‘there was some crooked | work by the referee. Why, I challenged McCoy in the ring immediately after the fight had been awarded him, for $500 a side, and do you think he would fight me? Nit! He had ali he wanted already. | *“Then [ came to Portland, where my | parents live, merely to pay them a visit | and get a little recreation, but Bob Harris came down and told Johnny Mitchell T | was there, and so he telegraphed me to come to San Francisco, saying I could make a match with Gallagher. I aftes- ward found out he had telegraphed me in Boston. “Do I think I candefeat Gallagher?’ repeating the query. said the fighter, slowly Ishouldn’t have ““Well, I certainly do, or matehed with him.” th“Abm“ how]xlnlany?foun e contest will last?”’ “Well, now, as to that I cannot say. Sallagher is a good man, a strong, willing fighter, and is inngemns at all times. The fight may last to the ten-rounds limit and it may not. I am not prepared to say. When Smith was asked whathe thought the outcome of the Corbett-Sharkey bout would pe he said he thought Corbett ought to win, as he is a master of ring tactics and not to be compared with Sharkey as regards ability. He thought Corbett ought to get the decision anyway, even if he didn’t knock Sharkey out. “And by the way,” he added, “I under- stand Corbett has ds do you think said in one of your dailies that I am only & one-hEuded fighter, and that ‘Young Corbett’ can whip either Gallagher or me. Well, all I have to sav is that I am willing to .figbt George Green (Young Corbett), win or lose, for as much as he wants at any time, Smith also says that he is matched to fight Dudley Evans, the champion middle- weight of Oregon, in Portland, July 10. He is also confident of victory in this in- stance. ‘Ned Morrissey, his trainer, who has won many 130-pound matches in the North- west, says he is willing to meet any man in his class in California and is willing to open negotiations at any time. i e e R T CRUSHED BY A TRUCK. Lawrence Crounse, Five Years of Age, Instantly Killed at Fulton and Gough Streets. A fatal accident occurred to Lawrence Crounse, five years of age, yesterday after- noon at Fulton and Gough streets. The boy’s father, Fred C. Crounse, lives at501A Franklin street. Charles H. Selleck, teamster for I S. Van Wimnkle & Co., iron merchants, Mar- ket street, was driving his empty truck to the stables on Gough street when the boy jumped on the side of the vehicle to get a ride. He missed his hold and fell, one of the wheels of the truck passing over his chest and killing him instantly. Selleck, wondering what the wheel had passed over, looked behind and was horri- fied to see the body of the boy on the street. He stopped his team, picked the boy up and, thinking that life was not ex- tinet, put him in a passing express wagon and asked the driver to take the boy tothe Receiving Hospital. On reaching there, Dr. Thompson pronounced life extinctand said that death must have been instanta- neous. The body was then removed to the Morgue. Selleck surrendered himself at. police headquarters and was booked at the City Prison on the charge of manslaughter. Chief Crowley refused to release him on his own recognizance. THE SLOT WAS T00 WIDE Novel Point on Which J. C. Shee- maker Bases an Action for Damages. A Suit—the First of Its Kind Against the Geary-Street, Park and Ocean Road. The tire of John E. Shoemaker’s bicycle slipped into the slot on the cable line of the Geary-street Park and Ocean Railroad on May 23 last while he wasriding rapidly along the track, and he dismounted with rather more rapidity than is customary with wheelmen. As a result he has begun suit against the corporation on grounds never before urged as the basis of an action for damages. Shoemaker alleges that when the com- pany obtained its franchise from the Board of Supervisors one of the provisions of the grant was that the width of the aperture or slot above the cable should not be over seven-eighths of an inch in width, and that it was the duty of the company to see that this provision was carried out. Shoemaker goes on to say that on the day mentioned, while riding along the slot at the intersection of First and Point Lobos | avenues, his tire ran down into the slot and he was thrown violently to the ground sustsining severe physical injuries as well as completely wrecking his bicycle. He alleges that at the point where he was in- jured the slot was one and fiv ghths; inches wide and that this condition of affairs was contrary to the ordinance | granting the franchiseand due to the gross negligence of the corporation’s employes. He asks damages in the sum of $299 and [ sts of suit. | | CONSECRATION OF - BISHOP GRACE. The‘ Respected Priest of Sacramento to Be Elevated. CEREMONIES TUESDAY. They Will Be Held in the Cathe- dral of the Capital City. DEEP INTEREST IN THE EVENT. Archbishop Riordan Will Officiate With Bishops Montgomery and Scanlan. Right Reverend Thomas Grace, formerly vicar-general of Sacramento diocese, who was recently elected bishop of the see left vacaut by the death of Bishop Manogue, will be consecrated Tuesday morning next. The Most Reverend Archbishop Riordan, D.D., assisted by Bishops Montgomery of Los Angeles and Scanlan of Salt Lake City, Utah, will officiate atthe consecra- tion. In the Catholic church there is per- haps no ceremony surrounded with so much imposing solemnity as the consecra- tion of a bishop, and this event gives promise of maintaining that grand charac- ter and impressiveness. The ceremonials and their attendant services will be beld in the cathedral of Sacramento, the sanc- tuary of which will be beautifully deco- rated for the occasion. Indeed, prepara- tions on a very elaborate scale are already in progress to guarantee the fitting cele- bration of the raising of this highly re- spected and loved priest to his exalted office. Special arrangements for the accom- modation of visiting prelates and priests have been made. The sanctuary will be arranged to receive an unusually large number of clergymen, and it is expected that the whole floor of the stately cathe- dral will be densely crowded. In view of the widespread interest in the consecration, priests and laymen are ex- pected from all parts of California. All the Catholic societies of Sacramento have signified their intention of attending, and societies from other towns in the diocese will in all probability show their rezard for their new Bishop by sending large delegations to be present at the ceremony. It 1s likely, also, that Bishop Mora of Los Angeles and the prelate of Portland, Or., will participate. Bishop Grace was born in Ireland in 1842 and his education was received in a private school, then in St. Peter’s College, Wexford, anda finally he studied for the priesthood in the college of the foreign missions, All Hallows, Dublin. In 1867 he was ordained & priest, and then came immediately to California. = His first pastorate in the State was at Red Bluff, Tehama County. While there he built the Convent of Mercy. His next station was Grass Valley, whence he moved to Marysville. In 1881 he was called to Sacra- mento, where he succeeded Father Mec- Sweeney as pastor of St. Kose’s Church. For years he was advisor of the late Bishop and his long years of association with the Catholic peovle of various parts of the large diocese make him one of the best known priests in California. Temperance Service. At Simpson Memorial Chureh this evening, at 7 :45 o’clock, & temperance lecture will be held with an address by the pastor, Rev. John Stephens, and attractive music rendered by the choir. Members of the Order of Good Templars, Sons of Temperance and Woman’s Christian’ Temperance Union will be present and oceupy reserved seats. The public are in- vited to attend. | afrefacirelacacisetretrnly JACKETS el T TTTELE L Setaelasianaciaciantantastants most important Suit, Ja ferings are without peel Price chances that you pect elsewhere when goods have come. tisement—See the good: Sale Capes. $2 00 Allour $3.50, $4.00 and $4.50 . Cloth Capes, all wool, fancy trimmed—Black, Tan or Blue. i $5.00 All our $7.50, $9.00 and $10.00 . Silk Capes, full circle styles, Lace and Jet trimmed, Silk lined. $6 00 All of the $10 and $11 Velvet 3 Capes remaining in stock—Jet embroidered, Silk lined—full ripple style. Sale Jackets. $4.50 All-Wool Tan Mixed Cloth Jack. . ets—fancy Cheviot and bla £00ds—box frout, fancy back, big sleeves, finished with large and small pearl but: tons—a good $10 Jacket. $10.00 Jerp, Blegant, Tan Kersey . Jackets — lined throughout with fancy silk, fly fronts, small pearl but- tons, fancy backs, bil that has never been sold under $15. Sale Separate Skirts 53 00 Our $4.50 Separate Skirts in . B'ack Fancy Mohair, and in fancy Black and White and Blue and White Checks—wide cut, rustling lining, velveteen bound. shrelachrcrchrelrshrcrchrerehrefrefreirarehs LRI sheclrsfrshreloslosrcrcircireirefrofrefrefrntrds N— A TAILOR \WAISTS @5 NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. 0 =, % J ADES We begin at 8 A. M. t o-morrow the cket, Cape and Waist Sale we have ever held. Our of- r or parallel. can only ex- THIS SALE in the largest exclu- sive Cloak and Suit House in San Francisco means for you high class tailor-made garments at prices you could not ordinarily get the poorest NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. SPECIAL SALE —OXF" 200 PIECES NOVELTY SILKS! -Brocaded Silks, Fancy Colors ------4OCYar¢I Worth 75¢. e Reduced from 85¢c. O8I0, Regular Value $1. Printed Warp Taifetas Large designs and black satin’stripes. 7sc Yard Former Price $1.35. Fancy Printed Warp $ Taffetas, Lyons manufacture - - l‘OO Yard 3 Worth $1.75 and $2.00. EXTRA SPECIAL! 50 pieces BLACK FIGURED GROS-GRAIN SILK, full 22 inches wide, and extra heavy quality. 75 C Yard Former Price $1.25. Fancy Figured Gros de Londres Fancy Figured Taffetas Changeable effects The attention of our patrons is directed to this sale. 1882, ’ ’G a1, 113, 116, 117, 119, 121 POST STREET. FITCHBURG! FITCHBURG! - Is Midway Between Oakland and San Leandro, On the only county road connecting those populous cities. Tt fronts on the famous highway leading from Fruitvale to- Haywardsand extends to Oakland har- bor and possesses all the natural advantages requisite for a thriving business communi:y. It is systematically laid out into blocks and lots, bounded by wide streets, newly graded and graveled. Twenty-six direct fast ferry trains daily (San Leandro and Haywards local) to and from San Fran- cisco and Oakland stop at the commodious station just completed by the Southern Pacific B R. Co. Sidetracks, wareuouses and other conveniences for the accommodation of freight shippers. San Leandro and Haywards electric car service every few minutes to Oakland. Theater trains run on both lines. Distance and time the same as to Alameda or Berkeley. Be First to Secure Lots at Low Prices and Grow Up With the Town. I Prices as low as scattering lots can be bought for in Isolated tracts In some far off hayfield. LOTS 25 AND 50x100 T0 200 ONLY $100 TO $200. Ten per cent cash, balance easy terms. Full particulars of THAD S. FITCH, Fitchburg. W. F. McCLURE, 19 Montgomery St., S. F. HERE IS THE LONG-WAITED-FOR OPPORTUNITY TO BUY A ---=-BICYCLE OR A TANDEM !----- LOOK AT THE PRICES: Read this Adver- sleeves—a Jacket the Winter kinds for. S. now. 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A Swell Dress that we have always sold et §18. s 18.00 Alotour $22.50, $23.50 and = $25 Dresses, in a variety of fine All-Wool Cloths and Cheviot effects— strictly Man Tailor-made—Jackets lined, cut in the latest style—the Skirts wide, with rustling lining, ~ Many stylesand all Blazer Dresses in season advances—Half price rules We’re overstocked —the You cannot go on your vacation without a Wash Dress or two. ‘This is your vacation opportunity. Sale Dlfi(—l)resses. $l 50 Duck Dresses — Blazer styles, - ripple back, full skirts. Choice line of patterns. $l 75 Duck Dresses — Reefer styles, ' box fronts, ripple backs, full skirts. Large variety of patterns. $2. () Fine Duck Dresses, Blazerstyle, . with sailor coliars, ripple backs, full skirts. 20 patterns to choose from. $2.25 skirts. $4 00 Wash Dresses, made of Heavy . Golt Suiting Duck. Choice Outing effects. This is the very latest fabric for Wash Frocks. We have them in Blazer and Reefer styles. Sale Shirt Waists. 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