The morning call., 1895-02-13
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.

William Field has commenced suit for a di-
Vorce rom Julia tleid.
DR.. Haweis has delivered his last lecture, and
win leave on Thursday.
\. Cohen has sued ]. Mead for $299 damages
for blackening his eyes.
Louis James viii appear at the Baldwin TO-
night in the Lions Mouth"
H. N. Condict of the Mendoeino Daily Bea-
con is in the city on business.
] TThe steamers Oceanic and Australia sailed
yesterday for Australia and China
Arthur Rodgers lectured on Hawaiian Pol
rites" before the Political Science Club
University Library privileges have been ex-
tended to students of affiliated colleges
The Civic Federation will go to Sacramento
to-day IN the interest OF the Lexow bill.
Daniel McCarty, q Jockey, was thrown from
g raeehorse yesterday and fatally injured
Attorney Campbell intimateS that he win
test the constitutionality of the dive ordinance
Louis James has recovered sufficiently to
appear at the Baldwin tonight IN the "Lion'S
Mouth"
Insurance brokers and some insurance man
ayers declare that the new compact is unfair to
the former.
The Mechanics Institute is suing J. X. Firth
its ex-treasurer, to make good 5000 shortage
in his accounts.
University Regents have conferred degrees
on W. +. Lloyd, Seymour Waterhouse and Min
ME B. Reynolds.
John Twohig, the Potrero wife beater, was
sentenced to six months in the County Jail by
Judge Campbell.
The preliminary games in the handban tour
nament OF the Olympic Club concluded at the
Occidental court.
The City Hall Commissioners have framed
bill providing for a 10-cent levy TO complete
the new City Hall.
Attorney II. E. Monroe was fined $50 and C.
L. Mackey, insurance agent, $40 for fighting in
Judge COnlans court.
Peter Watson has brought suit against the
estate of Alexander P. More for service claims
amounting 10 $4,000.
Captain McNevin, teacher of navigation, on
order OF examination testified yesterday
that he was without funds.
Forecast Official Harmon says that the storm
is not yet over. 1t viii probably rain to-day
and the Sacramento will rise.
, Mrs. Louise Worthington was brought from
San Quentin yesterday to be retired for the
murder OF Harry Baddeley.
Dr.. West has been given a new trial by the
Supreme Court because DR.. Johnson was not
allowed 10 testify in his behalf.
William Greer Harrison's new play, "Runny-
mede,' y viii be produced for the first time at
the California Theater Monday evening.
The Union for Practical Progress has asked
the Legislature to appropriate money to enable
municipalities TO give work 10 the unemployed.
The James McGinn will case is near compile
n
has been removed by the payment OF the re-
porter's fees.
J. R. Fletcher and his wife, Kitty Fletcher,
charged with swindling, have decamped with
one OF their bondsmen, leaving the other surety
10 face the situation.
F. L. Owens has petitioned TO have thespecial
administrator OF the Fair estate allowed 10 pay
him $5246 on contracts for the filing in OF
Fairs North Beach property.
The bureau of registration for the relief OF
the unemployed was opened yesterday by the
registration committee of the general relief
committee at % Eighth street.
Amelia Reichmann has brought suit for
$4,000 damages against Edward Rolkin, pro-
prietor OF the Reno House. She says he threw
her downstairs and jumped on her.
George Kennan, the lecturer, spoke last
evening upon the subject OF " Russian Political
Exiles.' He leaves for San Jose to-day and
viii go East via the northern route.
NJ, J. Morley, an exhibitor at the Midwinter
Fair, abandoned his wife in this city. She has
learned that he Is living with a woman IN
Mexico and she viii sue him for divorce.
The action of the nineteenth anniversary
meeting in India OF the TheOsophical Society
in the Judge-Besant controversy is likely to
cause division in the American section Of the
society.
John C. Hall, defaulter who fed from this
city seven years ago, has turned up in South
Africa. He is a newspaper correspondent and
says that If possible he will return the money
he stole.
A fund is to be raised by the Equal Rights
League to assist unemployed women in this
city. The plan was proposed by Mrs DR.. Burns
Gehricke at meeting OF the Equal Rights
League yesterday afternoon
The Presentation Sisters wish to notify their
friends that the woman who is collecting
money in their name and who says she has
been authorized by Very Rev. ]. Prendergast
TO do so, is acting without authority.
At the meeting of the Veteran Firemen's
10 MIC n cd fO uar
pate with the Native Sons in the laying of their
cornerstone on the 22d inst. gold badge
was presented to President Mahoney.
In the trial OF Cassidy and Mayne, the rail-
road strikers, now in progress in the United
States District Court, the testimony of witnesses
for the defense was in direct conflict with that
given by the prosecutions witnesses.
The subscriptions TO the valley road yester-
day viii be published to-day. Attorneys are
examining the articles of Incorporation to
ascertain whether or not there is IN them any
defect through which It's character as COM
peting line could be destroyed.
John Ross, alias Thomson, who with two
others attempted to loot the premises of the
Cement Brick Company, Folsom street, on
February ?, was yesterday held to answer be-
fore the Superior Court by Judge ConIan on
the charge OF burglary in $4,000 bonds.
The Presbyterian churches of this State are
taking steps to establish an industrial farm on
which boys may be taught trades and where
girls may learn housework. At meeting held
day the final steps in this matter were taken
The election contest of Pelham W Ames
against T. r. CsreW, and f. ]. Symmes against
E P Barrett for the positions of School Di-
rectors, set for yesterday, was postponed until
this morning on account OF the i'll health OF
Judge Trout, before whom the recount is to
be held.
The forty-fourth annual meeting of the
Protestant Orphan Asylum Society was held
yesterday in St. Johns Church parlors. The
reports show the institution to be in good
condition, that there were no deaths during
the year and that there is no sickness in the
asylum.
BENJAMIN Harris has brought suit against
Marcus Levy, Sarah, his wife, and Nettie, his
daughter, to set aside a deed sxecuted from the
father and mother to the daughter Harris
claims the deed was executed to place out OF
Levy's reach the only real property that could
be attached for debt of $4,000.
The heirs of Washington Ryer have peti-
toned to have set aside an order OF sale of
property appraised at $500,000, because they
think the property was sold at a time when
business was dull. They think by holding they
can get more than the appraised value, whereas
the proceeds from the sale do not reach that
figure.
Several dramatic incidents develop in the
Mcdonald case. The prosecution intends to
submit some startling testimony TO break down