The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 5, 1900, Page 14

14 SEEKS TO RECOVER THE WAR TO WELLS-FARGO FOR SHI Sues Express Co 55 /58 YA additional sum of 5 cents in its regular tariff for the service and, refused to transport the rdise or to issue a receipt or bill ing for the same until the sen paid ompelled to pay f 5 cents, but in whether compelled its =hi the ad- order to nd damage in rriage dise paid the money under mplaint concludes: nt had no'right to demand the to its regular e service mentioned. and 1t that in doing so it was charging than the amount r r tarig rate and an unre quired by ble sum of oy Justice of affirmed by One suit Bar has beer it brought by Farrell,”” said At- | sires, ‘s to settle this issue ve been three the company company HE SAN FRANC 0 CALL, WEDNESDAY, TAX PAID | Superior Judge Troutt on ‘appeal, two others ‘are now on Judge Belche | brought with by the express company | the stand | 4o exact the payment of the from its patrons. war “This case is entirely dissimilar to one Attorney General Maynard of galnst the American Express his was a writ of mandate to compel the company to take a package The that the com- pany could increase its rates so as to in- ude the war tax charged on bills of lad- Fargo & rates when it the five | 1c itself ac- hat to be its regular sched- It. however, shifted the burden of the brought by | Michigan | Company. without the e court decided, tion of the war tax. however, We did contend ing that Wells, increa; its rell $1°% 2 ice the compa: not 0 ez packages knowledges t ule. war tax to its patron.” and appeal before The present action is not view to obtain any dam- sum of | ages, but is simply to recover what we Farrell protested | believe to have been unlawfully collected y. Farrell takes that-the company has no right tax THOUGHT OF HIS DEBTS PPING RECEIPT E. M. Farrell, Through His Attorney, George D. Squires, mpany for Five Cents. MAKES H Manager of Rada — Company Commits Suicide. DECEMBER , 1900. IM DESPONDENT m’s Mierobe Killer CALIFORNIA CLUB HOLDS port INTERESTING MEETING work Mrs. tion being done b Arthur W. Corn- California Representatives at Wash- 0"} S¢'ehce ington Urged to Work for Na- partment to have the Federal Government 5 Lat wil e the forests of to place the reservations g producing basis. A pre- lution newly prepa e California Repre. with the resquest that passage of laws to that end times when a man expresses a by wagging his head that y wagging his tail XFroRR oy A WAGLAN O this K 2 N E FFETE() DRESSER s wbs | | ) the labors of the so- | Open Evenings During December, COLLECTOR STRATTON Examinationgs. Port Collector Stratton made an order | vesterday that shows that he Intends to | enforce the Chinese exclusion act faith- Th G the effect that hereafter fionra‘}fgr:e? o other person not a member of the Chin Bureau shall be allowed to be present dur. | imony by the bu- | fons to land. i fully and vigorously. {Ing the taking of tes: | reau in cases of appli Marvel in or ollar aglan o-Day darment. Il TO ENFORCE THE LAW Attorneys; No Longer Allowed to Be Present at the Chinese Bureau Price-Making wellClothes Twenty- S That’s Our Story Short and Sweet The Raglan is the smanrtest coat of the agde, combining as it does the luxury of fine fabric, fine tailoring, smart- ness in appearance and the tiniest of tiny price. It’s a $20 coat, made from the highest grade of Oxford Cheviot, in a beautiful shade “of steel dray, just as youw see it nictured on the side; it’s a $20 couat bona fide. The only kind of clothes we handle is the very swellest and we’re giving yow the very| swellest at a tiny price—just jor a flyer, you know, and every detail of fine tailoring is faithfully carried out in or | WALTER HIRSCHFELD. 4 BECAUSE OF BUSINESS DIFFICULTIES HE FIRES A BULLET INTO HIS HEAD AND HIS LIFELESS BODY IS FOUND BY A CLERK SOON AFTERWARD. ALTER HIRSCHFELD, man- ager of the Radam's Microbe Killer Company, at 1366 Mar- ket street, committed yesterday afterncon by shoot- ing himself through the head with a re- volver. The manager destroyved his life in his place of business and his lifeless body was found by a clerk whom he sent from the place on an errand a s| time before. Business difficulty s giv. as the cause of the act. Shortly before 2 o'clock yesterday after- noon Hirschfeld returned from his lunch and his mood was exceedingly' gloomy. He devoted some time to writing letters and | then dispatched his clerk, Fred Turner of | 1208C Howard street, to mall them at a | nearby box. Turner completed his errand | and returnea to the store. When he opened the door he was startled to find the lifeless body of his employer stretched before him in a pool of blood. A pistol lay near the corpse and a bullet that had been fired from it had passed entirely through the dead, entering just above the left temple. Turner immediately called help and the body was taken to the | Morgue. . According to the story of Turner, | Hirschfeld did not intimate to any one that he was tired of life. He seemed in good spirits during the morning and it was not until after he returned from lunch that he appeared at all depressed. | Turner ~denies knowing anything of | Hirschfeld's business affairs. Mrs. Hirschfeld when seen at her home, 608 O'Farrell street, sald that her hus- band mentioned money matters many times and said that he was in a quandry | as to how to liquidate his debts. Af noon | yesterday he came home and was very | cheerful. He said that he thought he | cnulrirmnge everything in a satisfactory | mann® and was jubilant over prospects. | When leaving, however, he called his wife | and kissed her good-bye. He passed out, | but again returned and once more kissed her. What her husband’s monetary diffi- culties were Mrs. Hirschfeld refused to ay. Hirschfeld was 32 Six | | months ago he w wife and the couple lived apart for five months. Their little boy, 2 years of age, | was the cause of their coming together | again, and they were remarried about one month ago. Mrs. Hirschfeld said that thefr domestic peace had not been dis- turbed since that time. ars of age. ) TERRIBLE WRECK Fifty High-Grade Pianos Go to the Bottom With a Crash, But Are Not Injured. Owing to the fact that we have mining interests which require all of our timé and attention, we have decided to discontinue the piano business in San Francisco and will close out our entire stock of instru- ments at their wholesale cost. This morn- ing, Wednesday, December 5, every piano fn our store will be marked in plain fig- ures at the wholesale price, and must and will be sold within ten days, for that is all the time we can devote to this affair. Not a planp will be reserved from this mammoth stock and every one will be sacrificed in order to dispose of them at once. If they are not all sold within the allotted ten days they will be returned to the manufacturers at a discount. If you have any use for a piano you eannot af- ford to let this opportunity go by, for you can, by paying us cash, secure any plano included in this stock for less money than a small_dealer would usually pay for them. This stock is our regular line of goods and includes che wonderful “Crown” plano, The Haines & Co., Shaw, Schubert, etc. If you wish to get in on this deal vou can’t afford to wait, but come in early this morning ard avgld the | "Heckett Bros. & Co., 230 Post street, San | Francisco. ¥ —_———————— | WOMAN DIES ON THE OPERATING TABLE Arrest of Dr. Emst A. Bohm and Mrs. Alvina Schmidt in Con- nection With Case. | Mrs. A. Giddings’ of Santa Rosa, aged | 27 years, died yesterday morning whllei Dr. Ernst Bohm'of 8% Golden Gate ave-| nue was performing an operation upon her. G There were so- many suspicious circum-'| stances surrounding the case that the Coroner’s office notified te police and De- tective Gibson was detailed to make an investigation. o i Dr. Bohm sald to' Députy Coroner Meehan that when e returned to his office at 6 o'clock fast Saturday even-| ing he found Mrs. Giddings awaiting him. He then escorted her to a lodging-house, 42 Turk street. and introduced her tg | Mrs, Alvina §chmidt, who was. in_the | habit of receiving women patients from | him, and who, he declared, was a profes- | sional nurse. 'According ,to his story the | case was a charitable one and he paid | the landlady, Mrs. Conway, $2 50 for one | week’s rent in advance for the sick woman, Dr. Bohm: proceeded to perforny the operation yesterday morning and | when he was about. half through, tne | woman - collapsed 'and ‘died. : No other physician was preseiii at the time. . Both Mrs. Schmidt and the landlady contradicted Dr. Bohm. Mrs, Schmidt de- nied that she was a’trained nurse or that she took care of patients for -hire. Mrs. Conway said that Mrs. Giddings her- | self had paid her $1 50 for the room and that Dr. Bohm had not paid anything. Dr. Bohm remarked {o Deputy Meeha that he could have given in the death certificate typhoid fever as the cause of ' death and thus have prevented an official | i truth. Dr. Bohm and Mrs. Schmidt were ar- rested by Detective Gibson and will be | detained pending the announcement of | the result of the investigation by the | authorities. 2 Lyl Thomas Johnson, an_ elderly gentleman'' residing at 607 Van Ness avenue, called | at the Coroner's office at 5 o'clock | esterda; afternoon and said that | rs. Giddings’ parents, named Hickman, | lived near Santa Rosa and that Mrs. Gid- | alns' had been employved as a domestic | at Van Ness aveave for himself and O. H. Keyes, the owner of the house | Mr. Johnson said that Mrs. Giddings left | his house a week ago and 1 went to live with her cousin, ley, at 311 Golden Gatc aven ————— Fined for Illegal Fi Ignacio Balestria and his. o | 1 L | you go down this line. fal,!; . lnve:tlnllon. but he preferred to tell thel ut! tone, who were caught fishing in San Pablo Bay with a small mesh net, have pleaded guilty and were each fined $200. They were (‘nui&ll by Deputy Fish Com- missioner John H. Davis and taken before a Justice of the Peace and held to answer. Wkhen thelr cases came up for hearing at Martinez on Monday they surprised the | prosecution by pleading guilt: —_———— BAZAAR FOR FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH Three Days of Entertainment and Plenty to Buy and Sell. The First Christian Church, on Twelfth street, between Mission and Howard, Is about to appeal to its friends and the public. A bazaar, which is to continue three evenings, will open to-night. _All of good 'things will be offered for but there will be no raffling. Friday evening between 5 and 7 o’clock there will be old-time Boston dinner. Brown bread and baked beans will be the main dish. Mrs. McKay will vouch for both the beans and the bread. kinds sale, ADVERTISEMENTS. Wondering ebout that present? Suppose | China Orockery Glassware Fancyware Jardineres Lamps—-0Ornaments Siiverware Busts— Figures Dinner Sets Fish Sets ‘Game Sets Onyx Tables Oups, Saucers Plates, Salad Sets, Berry Sets, Toilet - Sets, Vases Clocks, Steins Everything that’s Beau- tiful for Ghristmas | Our Prices Just Like Finding Money. | (reat American [mportng Tea (i, CITY STORES. 210 annt‘hya.. bet. Post and Sutten, ‘ 861 Market St., opp. Powell. 120 Sixth St. 1419 Polk St. 112 Third St. 1819 Devisadero St, 148 Ninth St. 2008 Fillmore St. 30086 Sixteenth 8t. 521 Montgomery Av, 2516 Mission St. 3285 Mission St. 708 Larkin St. 2732 24th 8t. 855 Hayes 8t. A75 Haight St. 52 Market St. divorced from his | | Guerrero_street. ADVERTISEMENTS. New Black Goods -We will exhibit all this week a most completeassortment of elegant BLACK DRESS FABRICS, in FINE PANNE CLOTHS, ARMURES, WOOL POPLINS, VENETIAN CLOTHS, CORKSCREWS,AMAZON %OTHS and fine BLACK CHEV- I0TS. SFPECIAL. 15 pieces BLACK ETAMINE CHEVIOT for Tailor-made Costumes, full 50 inches wide. SPECIAL. 15 pieces 50 inch BLACK CORKSCREW (Mohair finish). Price .+-......$1.25 yd. SPECIAL. 20 pieces GENUINE BLACK FRENCH WHIP- CORD; full 42 inches wide. Price - $1.25 yd. We invite our patrons in the Interior to write for Samples of our special lines of Black Goods. ° m, u3, 15, U7, 19, 121 POST STREET. HOFFS SECONT HEARING DULL Testimony Is a Repetition of That Given at Former Trial. pa i B But little of interest took place at yes- terday’s hearing before Judge Carroll Cook of the second trial of Albert Hoff, accused of the murder of Mrs. A. C. Clute on December 18, 1597, at 803 Guerrero street. The testimony in its entirety amounted practically to a repetition of that given at the former trial and brought forth nothing that was new. Mrs. Mary C. Masterson, the first wit- ness called, testified as to Hoff's visit to her house in search of Mrs. Clute and of his apparent anneyance at not finding her there. This witness seemed much im- pressed with the nervousness of Hoff and | said that her chief reason for so think- ing was that he caught hold of the handle of the wringer. Questioned as to Hoff's sobriety on that occasion, the witness said | she beileved him to be perfectly sober. | Mrs. Masterson identified Hoff's photo- graph. The witness said that she be- lieved Floff to be jealous. When asked the cause she stated that he had wished | to lay the matting at 803 Guerrero street himself. Mrs. Nellie Uschold told of Hoft being at her house on the afternoon of the mur- | der and of his working there for Mrs. | Clute, who was at that time her lodger. | Mrs. Clute left Hoff with Mrs. Uschold, | saying that she must g0 to 803 Guerrero | street, but would return shortly. She had only left the house a few minutes when Hoff asked if she had gone to 803 On being told she had, Hoff said he guessed he would go there, too, to get his tools. This witness said that Hoff impressed her as a man in liguor. i\ arry Jackson, & carpet layer, was the next witness. He reached the house at 803 Guerrero street with the roll of mat- ting he was to lay at 3:55_o'clock and stayed there ten minutes. Mrs. Clute a mitted a companion named Foley an himself to the house. He saw Hoff there when he came to the door and stood on the matting that was being measured. When he left the house Mrs. Clute and Hoff were in the front room of the sec- ond story and Foley was in the room back of it laying the matting. Joseph Foley corroborated Jackson's charge of burglary in $2000 bonds each. Thef' broke the glass door of a tailor shop at 18 Mason street Thanksgiving night and stole a bolt of cloth, which was found in their possession when arrested by Policemen Burkholder and Wilson. PIAND PURCHASERS ATTENTION ! 28 Grand and Upright WEBER PIANOS Used by the artists of the GRAU OPERA COMPANY Will be offered for sale at LARGELY REDUCED PRICES, This and next week. Old instruments taken in ex- change. Terms given if desired. NOVEMBER 14, 1800. much pleasure in saying Weber has given me the satisfaction. JOHANNA GADSKL CLARK WISE & CO., Gomer Geary and Grant Ave., $. F, 519 Twelfth St., Oakland. The *'DANN"" RECLINING CHAIR A Handsome Christmas Present. Easy and Comfortable. Price $15. Co‘lne and see it. testimony as fo the time the: {he House. ““roley SaldHe saw M. chue | We A, SCHROCK, about half an hour after Jackson had lefr 19 New M the house. ~She was in company with | ew Montgomery Street. Hoff and the two had a conversation LSO W 1 about the cost and quantity of the mat- PAINLESS thg. -He told of being tak house at $:3 o'clock “that” Mgnt by :::g Egnacrion police. cts, At this point the prosecution, represent- Our $500 Plates ed by John Hosmer, attempted to get | fit like a glove. Foley to testify to a conversati: had | heard in Chief Lees' office. the morning | after the murder. THe objection of the defense to this was sustained, as no proper foundation had been laid for the guestion. At this voint adjournment Tas taken (Il to-day at 10 o'clock, when several important witnesses will take the stand. Q HELD TO ANSWER ON e DR. K. L. WALSH . 815% GEARY STREET Between Hyde and Larkin. Telephone Polk 1135. ST, GERMAIN BILLIARD COMPANY, 409 Market Street, ——SAN FRANCISCO.—— The preliminary e)m;:lnauon of Ji Brady and Edward Shea on the chl.rs:'::; burglary was concluded before Judge Ca- baniss yestesday and they were held to | answer before the Superior Court in $1000 bonds each. They broke into a car on the Valle; the Yalllostroe, whart o siofe U ats Manufacturers of Standard Billiard and Pool Tables. Lager and Steam Beer Pumps. OAKLAND STORES, 1053 Washington St 1237 Brondway. 1185 23rd Ave. 616 E. I12th St. | 1510 Seventh St. ALAMEDA—1355 Park 6t. AN RAFAEL—B 6t., pear Fourth, DR.MCNULTY, Lay, by Judge’ El?b-nln n 000 gorca SweL | RIS WELLKNOWN AND RELIABLE OLD Crowiers. lod He entered M Seminal Weakness, Ifapotence and thel strect, Jast Sundny Louse: O'Farrell | al rs. ook om Diseases of Meu. s, Sunaa and Was caught while | Overam: R T e et Joam T HE v’ Ine C m occupled by Ba :'lrl in the o 76:30t08. 0ev'gs. Sur iy 5 Daniel and Thomas Fra; brothers, _were held to answer by Judge. fosmn s