The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-08
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

page of the CALL.
Brief City items are to be found on this page
of the CALL every day.
number of vessels are lying in the stream
awaiting non-uniOn crews.
Governor Budd dined with Mayor sutro at
SutrO Heights last evening.
George H. Thomas Post held memorial servica
in Golden Gate Hall last night.
Local items, bright and brief, can be found
on this page OF the CALL every day.
letter from New York tells why some Cali
fornia wines do not bring better prices.
The, wills of Mrs. D. J. Staples, Abraham
Powell and O. T. Jones were filed for probate
Another thirty days extension was granted
dome.
The Neapolitan Mandolin and Guitar Clubs
concert at the Y. NJ. C. A. rooms last night was
a success.
The butchers viii hold picnic on the 22d
inst. at Shell Mound Park and the Oakland
race track.
The cruiser Olympia is fitting out for sea at
Mare Island. She viii replace the Philadelphia
at Honolulu.
Mrs. Nellie WEIGH, IL Allen street, who dis
appeared about ten days ago, was found by the
police yesterday.
Timetables of the railroad companies are
published free of charge in the CALL for the
accommodation of readers.
Affiliated college-site committee will meet
Friday evening at the Office OF Dr. McNutt, SUIT
ter and Montgomery streets.
jury has been secured in the worthington
trial and the opening statement of the prosecu-
ton will be made this morning.
The School of Design of the San Francisco Art
Association will begin its annual exhibition
and award prizes on the 21st inst.
Andrew Briggs, a gripman, has invented a
street-car guard which promises to be an eff
cient protection for the pedestrian
The winning horses at the Bay District track
yesterday were Extract FLY, Hymn, Eventide
Empress of Norfolk and Rear Guard.
The Grand Council, American Legion of
Honor, began its ninth biennial session in
B'nal Birth Hall yesterday morning.
Dr. Lazarus Shapiro was Yesterday fined 600
by Judge Campbell for using vulgar language
to Conductor Brewster of the Castro-street line
Argument was commenced IN the LOOMS
Somers case yesterday on the admissibility of
deposition made by Mrs, Somers in a former
trial.
The fifteenth annual meeting of the Cali
fornia branch OF the Women's Auxiliary of the
NJ E. church was held in st. Johns Church
yesterday.
The City Hall Commission has about de-
cided to have the figure which is to stand above
the new dome made OF aluminium instead of
white metal.
The old tumbledown structures at the north
east corner OF Grant avenue and Suffer street
nave been RACED. modern structure will be
erected on the site.
Rebecca Lachs was granted divorce yester-
day from her husband, Henry Lachs, and was
Immediately married to LaiOS Steiner by Justice
OF the Peace Carroll.
Troops and will leave the Preside to-day
for their summer encampmen in the Yosemite
Valley and Sequoia Park, which they will pro-
tect from trespassers.
Albert Collins has organized baseball nine
composed OF boys between 10 and II years of
age and has named IL the CALL Baseball Club,
In honor OF this paper.
Dr.. smoEzanski will deliver lecture in
Germsn this evening at o'clock, at the social
hall in B'nai Birth building, 121 Eddy street.
Subject, "The Hero OF Venice"
The Southern Pacific EMPLOYEES Mutual
Benefit Association held its yearly meeting
yesterday and elected officers. It has 600
members and is in tlourishing condition.
Steps are being taken to extend Railroad
House With the extension of the electric
streetcar line new suburb viii be opened up.
The conductors excursion left yesterday
morning Tor Atlanta and a trip through the
Eastern States. There are eighty persons in
the party, and forty-hYe OF these are conduc-
tors.
Fresh light was thrown on John T. Hills suit
with the assignee OF the proprietor of the Tor
toni restaurant by the production of the de-
PENDANTS diary showing when he was "off' or
"on"
The trustees of the Mechanics Institute have
decided to award beautifully engraved certih-
cafes OF merit ana instead OF medals
hibits.
The Finance Committee of the Board of
Supervisors advised Assessor Siebe yesterday to
prepare to put 100 men in the field TO make
the assessment on personal property under the
new law.
H. P. Bush returned yesterday from Gin
cinnat1 where he attended the convention of
the l. o. B. B. Grand Lodge. The next session of
this body will be held in San Francisco five
years hence.
A gang of young daylight burglars who have
been operating in the Western Addition was
broken up by the police yesterday by the arrest
OF three OF the members and the receiver OF the
stolen goods.
The celebration of Decoration day is already
under consideration by the various Grand
Army posts of the City. Committees have
been appointed and arrangements are being
rapidly perfected.
A case in Judge Hunts court was brought to
sudden termination yesterday by the death
of the plaintiff in q corridor of the new City
Hall, whittier he had been dragged, while dying
OF consumption, to testify.
Viee-President J. C. Stubs of the Southern
Pacific Company will confer with General Pas
senger Agent LOmax of the Union Pacific to
force the local agent OF that company into the
Passenger Agents Association.
Auditor Broderick, while declaring himself
bound to stand for the 81 limit under his party
pledge says that the rate of taxation should be
not less that 81 80 to meet the expenses and
udAe up LnS OCHclt Oh tnls year.
Directors of the San Francisco and San
Joaquin Valley Railway viii take trip to
Bakersfield Thursday evening to examine the
country and confer with delegations in the
towns along the proposed route.
Hill Durkin and Daniel LawIer have been
identified as the two men who committed the
robbery at the Sutter-street branch of the
American District Telegraph Company, and
have been charged with the crime.
1t is stated upon good authority that the
Market-street Railroad Company win shortly
erect the Haight-street aseball grand stand
and sheds at Bay View. This will be done by
the time that Railroad avenue is extended to
the FiVe-mile House.
George Shackelton, who stabbed John Schulz
horseshoer, in a saloon on Twenty-fourth and
Harrison streets last Saturday night, was yes
terday held to answer before the Superior
Court by Judge Campbell on charge of assault
with deadly weapon.
State Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald pro-
poses to establish employment bureau in
connection with his office, and viii also take
particular care as to the sanitary condition OF
factories and workshops where large forces of
men and women are employed.
number of clearinghouse runners boarded
the American ship Title Starbuck, which ar
rived from HOngEOng on Monday, and Hood