The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-27
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.

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pany DIS Grmory last night.
Assessments IS and z of the A. o. q. W. be-
come delinquent on March % instead of on the
SIst as published heretofore.
Professor lie Conte delivered another inter-
esting lecture on the glacial epoch in Califor-
mia IN Y. NJ. c. A. Hall last night
The Manufacturers Association has elected
officers The executive committee will meet
Friday in the Chamber OF Commerce.
The Croker Tract, $50 acres, west of Castro
street and south OF Thirtieth, is to be graded
with serpentne avenues newly laid out.
Tomorrow the board of directors of the val
ley road viii go to Stockton to inspect the
facilities for the road offered by that city.
The adjourned convention OF labor delegates
and reform men will reconvene at 1859 Mis-
sion street tonight TO discuss the charter.
The students OF the State University decided
yesterday to send team East to compete for
ethletie honors with Harvard, Yale and Prince
ton.
ers OF Mate Fitzgerald OF the bark Hesper, was
brought 10 this city from San Jose yesterday
for retrisL
W. W. Darlington, an anarchist and mis-
leader OF young girls, blew out his brains in
the presence OF TWO police officers who came to
arrest HIM.
The claim of R. C. Mattingly for 1925 900, as
commissions for selling some mining property
belonging TO Thomas Il. Blythe, has been COM
promised Tor $4,000.
Jackson A. Hathwell, printer, one of the
three young men suspected OF being implicated
In the shooting OF Walter P. Blake, was released
from custody yesterday.
The price OF Wellington coal has been ad-
vaneed so cents a ton at the instance of whole
sale dealers, who say there is no money in the
business at cut rate prices.
John.P. Gallagher has sued Fife C. Sobeski
lot $4,000 damages for Islander, because she
called him thief and liar, and accused him
OF stealing 500 OF her money.
70 oIioe the jury now impaneled in the Nc
Donald case, was found guilty yesterday. He
had twice tried TO commit suicide.
The Southern Pacific has made an effort to
have all the stop-over suits brought together,
by enIolnlng the suitors, and suing each one
for $4,000 damages for conspiracy.
The cases of J. F. Turner, real estate agent,
caseG IN WIN d torgeTy and grand Larceny were
consent were continued till April 3.
First Mate Evens of the British ship SPRING
burn was recently discharged for broaching
the ships stores while he was in charge of the
vessel during the absence OF the captain.
Some interesting developments in the suit of
&iax Wasserman against Louis Sloss over the
Transfer of the Alaska Commercial Companv's
stock were made in Judge Troutt's court
Warrants were sworn out yesterday by DR.. ].
Z. Plout for the arrest OF J. d. L. McCaughey
and Charles c. Watson on the charge Of at
tempting by verbal threats to extort money.
The Montana Mining, Loan and Investment
Company turns out to be a fraud. Hundreds
OF San Francisco people have bitten at the
tempting plum and now mourn the loss of their
dollars.
The preliminary examination of Samuel D.
Merryweather, charged with cutting Henry
Greater with dirk knife at the raeetrack on
March 6, was commenced before Judge Low
yesterday.
fstic encounter occurred yesterday on the
water front between Captain g. II. Brokaw OF
the Spreckels Tug Company and Alfred Dixon,
an Examiner reporter, over publication in
that paper.
At the meeting of the New City Hall Com
missioners yesterday Expert Dalton alleged
that the painting OF the southern Larkin-street
wing OF the hall was not in accordance with
the contract.
Miss Bertha Bayliss, member of the Whit
ney Opera Company, says the elders of the
Mormon Church entertained the troupe in the
great temple because she had been member
OF their choir.
Julius Cesar win be presented at the Bald
win Theater early next month by amateurs
The proceeds will be given TO the Church of the
Holy Cross, which is about to build a new
house OF worship.
Peter Johnson, the motorman whose car on
the San Mateo electric road killed w. D. Wilson
near Ocean View in June last, has been ac-
quilted OF the charge of manslaughter which
was placed against him.
First Lieutenant Cassius E Gillette and Sec
ond Lieutenant Herbert Deatyne have been
ordered TO report to Colonel Mendell for ex-
animation for promotion in the Engineer Corps
OF the United States army.
The C. 6. Stockton of San Jose charged in
yesterdays CALL with passing forged check
on Sullivan & Doyle is not C. A. Stock
ton, the mining man, of San Jose, as MANY
inferred from reading the article referred to.
The annual meeting of the Art Association
was held yesterday and the present directors
were reelected, save Z. S. Pillsbury and VII
liam Babcoek, resigned. In their stead Joseph
B. Crockett and Henry ]. Crocker were elected
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yesterday found Themselves "broke" at the
close of the day, for but two-Joe Cotton and
Captain Rees-won. The outsiders that won
were Lodi, Annette, Duchess OF Milpitas and
Red Pat.
The promotion committee of the Half-Mfllion
Club met yesterday and completed the pro-
gramme for the public meeting in the Cham
Der of Commerce rooms to-day at P N. Good
work is being done by the citizens excursion
committee.
The inquest on the body OF Cora Everett the
variety actress VINO was murdered at 634L
Broadway on the 18th inst, was held yester-
day. The jury charged Charles Rice the man
who lived with her, with murder, although he
he protested his innocence.
James Reynolds, a boy living at 2 Natoma
street, was playing on pile of bricks on East
street. near Howard, when he fell, alighting on
his head. He was taken TO the Receiving Hos
pital, where it was found that he had lacerat-
ed wound on his scalp and was suffering from
conclusion of the brain.
terday in Chicago. May began at 56% cents
and sank to 542s, closing on the curb at %
cents, and the option opened at 67zs and went
to S714 December began at 90 and declined
to S59z cents. At noon the speculative market
weak.
The large assembly-room in the Girls High
School on Scott street between Geary and
O'Farrell, which at the time the building was
turned over to the authorities was left in the
rough, is now being lathed and plastered, and
when finished will prove quite an addition TO
the magnificent building.
On Sunday, April 7, the Spanish colony win
have a pleasant entertainment at the New
Bush-street Theater with two selected operas of
the Spanish repertoire, La Gallina Ciega,"' an
opera in two acts by Senior Cabaliero, will be
played on that evening, followed with the
opera in one act by Senior Chueca Valverde
entitled 'sLa Gran Via"
Claus spreckels states that neither he nor
any one connected with him is interested in
the project of raising sugar cane in San Joaquin
County. He states that il is purely Govern
ment enterprise. The only connection he has
had with il was to supply the Government with
about two tons of seed cane from the islands
on its request. The selection of twas left to
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