The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-04
SMALL TALES OF A BIG CITY.

The Street Committee of the Supervisors VIII
meet hereafter at 10 A NJ. every Thursday.
Ernest Linicke. laborer 60 years old. was
found dead IN bed In his room at 277 Minna
street last night. Ii is thought that he died of
heart disease. An autopsy will be held to-day.
Health Officer Keeney yesterday raised the
smallpox quarantine at 33l Turk street, where
Chaset Merritt has been under treatment for the
loathsome disease. The patient is reported as
ccDyalescent
Frederick e. Norton has sued for divorce
from Mary A. Norton on the ground that she had
another husband living at the time she became
Mrs. Norton The parties were married IN this
city on December 4, 1890.
The case OF FIorlan Waldeck the cashier of
l. Kahn & Co., who absconded some time ago
after embeZziing a large sum OF money from the
firm, was continued tn Judge Loves court y s.
terday until January Is.
Judge Hebbard yesterday ordered judgment to
be entered nunc pro tune as OF MAY 26. 1892,
against w. 5. Hobait aud In favor OF N. w. Fox
for 81 Oh 900 In the case OF Fox VS.. the Hale
& Norcross Mining Company.
Frank Purdue, 14-year-Old boy who has been
making himself notorious recently in The neigh
borhood OF Howard and Third streets, was s. ut
BY Judge Rix yesterday TO the Whittier Reform
School for a three years term.
The case OF f. L. Walter, who tried to vote
fraudulentiy In the Twenty-ninth Assembly Dis
trct. Seventeenth Preciact. on election day,
was brought up yesterday In the United States
District Court and trial set for January / L, 1898
Mayor Sanderson's last official act was TO re-
turn 10 The Board OF Supervisors without his
approval the ord rs granting to Eugene lie Roy
q franchise TO construct stI set railway in the
Post-street extension district and Moffatt s.
SOmers a franchise for the removal OF gat bage
and ona for twenty five years.
The eight men who comprised the crew Of the
Olsen, the suspected smuggler, were brought VI
before Commissioner Sawyer yesterday and
identified according TO law. Trial was set for
neat Tuesday and bail set at $4,000 for each
mao. The sailors applied for a reduction OF bail
but The application was refused and the men re-
turned 10 the County jail.
A trial jury was impaneled In the United
States District Court yesterday and the follow.
ing named defaulting jurors were notified to
show cause on January why they should mol
be punished for contr mpt Of court: L. Z. Des-
calso, Thomas Knigh. Georg5 G.. Katz, John
McCord. 7. h. Minor. Il. 7. McDennan, Thomas
Magee, Charles Is. Stone.
The following officers were elected for the en-
suing term at the regular meeting held by the
Draymen and TeamsterS Union, Saturday De
cember 81, 1892: President, b. j. Hamilton
vce-pfesidenf, ID. Fitzpatrick; treasurer, John
s. French; financial secretary, George L. Evers
recording secretary, Joseph b. Nderost; ser.
geant- at-arms Joseph Vandor; trustees QonQ
term)-C ID. Evers, w. Rawbinger and E. Ma
gnuls.
Mrs. Jane Warren. formerly the wife of Lo
renzo L. White, has, through her attorney, 10
100000. Tie Whites were divorced on DE
cember 90, 1886, for adultery on the part of the
husband. tie appealed and the Supreme Conrt.
on January 2. 1890, affirmed The judgment. The
lady was subsequently married 10 John j. " ar
rem. She claims that the defendant, bets seen
the date OF that tribunals decision, acquired
about 100000 In business, which Is conmu
nifty property. and that she Is entitled 10 one.
half OF this sum.