The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-19
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF


10 commit suicide last night
Manufacturers will meet in convention AT
the chamber OF Commerce this afternoon.
The charter was discussed by a convention OF
labor unions and reform societies last night
Governor Budd said yesterday that he would
sign the CHINA Basin valley road terminal bill.
students class in architecture was organ
lzed at the Hopkins Art Institute last evening.
Many delegates TO the manufacturers con-
Vention have arrived from interior and coast
points.
The legality of arrests under Grand Jury pre-
sentiments win be argued in the Supreme Court
April ?
John Smith was sentenced to an additional
twenty years imprisonment by Judge Wallace
yesterday.
The schooner Prosper, which went to sea
saturday, returned TO port yesterday in q leak
Ing condition
a parade drill and reception to General Mer-
TIT, I. :. A. took place at the Preside yester-
day afternoon.
President E. V. Debs OF the American Rail
way Union will speak here next Tuesday on
"ConSplra torS
Meetings were held yesterday by the Congre-
gational, Presbyterian, Baptist and Episco-
pallan ministers.
The remains Of Captain W. H. Freese, late of
the Spreckels shipping employ, viii be buried
to-day a 1870 O'Clock.
o. n. Grenewald is suing to recover from H.
ii. Scott $l50 due in rent for the premises at
S2l2 Washington street.
The first account OF the executors of the estate
OF Mrs. Susan Crooks shows the entire property
10 be worth $611 ops 20.
Mrs. Isabella J. Martin returned from Shasta
county Yesterday. She denies having run
away from her creditors.
Ah Sung attempted to steal a sack containing
eighteen raZorS last night and is now in jail
charged with petty larceny.
W Is. Bradbury has brought suit against j.
l. oaionon Il Co. TO recover So, 900 on sixteen
notes made by the defendants.
Yesterday 40 tins of opium and 5000 cans
intended to be rehlled, were seized by the Gus
tom house Inspector yesterday.
The Chinatown squad raided tan game last
night and captured fourteen players and the
entire paraphernaia of the game.
Three OF the British ship Springburn's men
drnted out 10 sea yesterday in an open boat.
Ihey were picked up by two fishermen.
Daniel Sheehan, an employe at the pumping
works, Golden Gate Park, was knocked down
and robbed by two young men last night.
Adolph Glootz, OF the firm of Fischbeck &
Glootz, died at his residence, 1907 Sacramento
street, last saturday night OF pneumonia.
Rate-cutting on the water front has spread to
the hahbut market, and the italian fishermen
threaten to boycott the "foreign" competitors
Governor Budd says that the new valley road
can be built for $l5 900 TO SIS, 900 mile and
viii pay handsome dividend on the invest
ment
The holly contested case OF Simms vs. Stan
ton will be completed to-day Simms accuses
Mrs. stanton OF plagiarizing his work on physi-
ogomy.
Chief Crowley asked Governor Budd to offer
areward for information that might lead to the
arrest and conviction OF the murderer OF Cor
nelius Stasg-
The schooner Elwood, which arrived from
Alaska on saturday night, was caught by an
ice foe near Muir glacier and narrowly escaped
being wrecked.
John Mcneil, a discharged guard of the
House OF Correction, charges that A. Cleary
drew pay at that institution while engaged in
other employment.
Moses silverstein blackened N. STEMS eyes on
Sunday night al meeting of a secret society,
and yesterday Stein swore out q warrant for
Silverstein's arrest.
-Four young ruffians attempted TO rob and
brutally beat Mrs. Mary Hynes. 20 WEIGH
street on Sunday evening, ana warrants are
ont for their arrest.
Leonatha Megartha of l Margaret place
cred al his wife and child yesterday afternoon,
eut only succeeded in wounding Mrs. Mergar-
tina in the right arm.
Charles S. Rice, charged with the murder of
Cora Everett, appeared in Judge Lows court
yesterday, and by consent the case was put
over till Tuesday next.
The bark Colusa is now out from Tacoma for
Shanghai 10Y days and still there are no It'd
iHgs OF her. Reinsurance at 10 per cent was
refused on the vessel yesterday.
Mrs. Alexander Ostlin and her boy, whose
miS1ortunes were referred to in Yesterdays
CALI, have been taken from the Receiving Hos
pital TO Petaluma by her brother.
Pierre Klein IS the lucky winner of the sevres
vase, valued at $500, rafiied forat the fete for
the benefit OF the French Hospital fund, and
the prize was handed TO him yesterday.
Deputy United States Marshal Over of Salt
Lake City left last evening with Alexander
Wilkinson, the ballot-bOx conspirator, who
was arrested last week at the racetraek.
II. W. Hutton has sued the directors of the
Pacific Bank to recover $1773 deposit, which
he claims was deposited because of the false
representation that the bank was sound.
William Milten, alias George Crawford, who
WAS arrested here few days ago, was taken to
San Jose Yesterday TO answer TO the charge of
stealing horse belonging TO w. L. Lunt.
Warrants were sworn out yesterday for the
arrest of Gustav Walters and Mrs O'Malley for
allowing the Manley sisters TO perform at the
Wigwam, Mrs. O'Nlalley being their mother
The United States VIII not take any action in
the case OF the schooner H C. Wahlberg 50
Attorney Kinney who came here on behalf OF
the Hawaiian Government viii have his trip
for nothing.
Gottlied Gruber was arrested yesterday by
the United States Marshal on a charge OF i'm
personating Edwa.d Hilszinger and attempting
10 draw mis- pension. Hilszinger died nine
months ago.
The guests at the Sutherland House. corner
OF Suffer and Jones streets caught q burglar in
one of the bedrooms last night ana his elo-
quence and tears won his freedom from arrest
by the police.
Rev. Father Bradley, the Paulist missionary,
is too i'll to be removed from his home on Cali
fornia street 20 the hospital. Very little hope
is held out for his recovery, as his physical
strength is almost gone.
VI. r. Higgins has refused to surrender the
Office of Insurance Commissioner TO Senator
Gesford, who was recently appointed TO that
position b. Governor Budd. The dispute will
be settled by the courts.
Secretary McComb of the Society for the Pre-
vention OF Cruelty to Children has arrested
Manager Walter of the Orpheum for permitting
nine-year-old Mildred Ever, known as La Reg
aloncita, TO dance on his stage.
Several collisions took place between bag
craft at Folsom-street wharf yesterday. The
ship JabeZ Howes caught another schooner on
her boWsprit, making the third craft impaled
there since she reached this port.
The Board of Supervisors yesterday rescinded
an ordinance preventing the Auditor from
signing and the Treasurer from paying warrants
for demands on appropriations in the general
fund, which have been exhausted.
Conservative taxpayers fear that an order
passed yesterday by the Board OF Supervisors
allowing transfers of funds from the general
fund of the municipal treasury VIII result In
speedy depletion of the general fund.
With one exception the races at the track