The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-14
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF,

were married in Oakland last night
The Golden Gate Club has passed resolutions
ton.
Bunker Hill day win be suitably celebrated
ton. - 1890 1A''00-"-
The Weather Bureau forecasts for to-day fair
Weather, slightly warmer, probably. and sum-
mer winds.
Joseph Cook pronounced a eulogy upon
last evening.
There is considerable delay in the process of
loaolng the syndicate wheat at Port Costa for
foreign market.
= The Merchants Association submitted speci-
fications for sweeping and cleaning the public
streets OF the City.
The Mail-carriers' band of thirty-iv pieces
Will furnish the music for the picnic at San
Rafael on the Fourth.
The winning horses at the Bay District yes
terdey were: Virgie A, Connaughf imp wv
Mulberry and Realization.
The. carrier-pigeon which brought Queen
Anlta's picture from the carnival was shot at
and badly wounded on the way.
The model of the Bridges Underground
Electric Railway system has been placed on
exhibition in the History building.
The Mediums Protective Association and the
Native Sons of the Golden West Cemetery AS
ISOLATION were incorporated yesterday.
Ambrose Watson has applied to the Superior
order
adiudging him guilty OF contempt of court.
Benjamin f. Gillman's tule works at 400
Ninth street was burned late yesterday alter
noon. Loss, about $4,000; cause, frecrackers
The proceedings in the contest over the estate
OF the late John S. Monkey were confined to the
reading OF letters written by Monkey to wife
No. 2.
The Delaware Insurance Company reinsured
with the St. Paul yesterday and withdrew from
the coast. Competition in rates caused the
change.
General Wade Hampton, United States Com
missioner of Railroads, is coming to San Fran
cisco. His expert accountant, F. Z. Storm, will
follow in July.
gage agent of the Southern Pacific Company's
Pacific system yesterday in place of C. L. Crab
tree, deceased.
immigration Commissioner Stradley yester-
day fined the Pacific Nail Steamship Company
$40 for failing to list immigrant passengers on
the steamer Colon.
The Valley road will open bids for $50 cars
and steel drawbridge Monday. Its directors
are working hard to push the enterprise for
ward with rapidity.
Cecilia Quinn yesterday applied for letters of
administration upon the estate of Cecilia Hen
neberry, which consists principally of real es-
tate valued al $4,000.
Superior Judge Belcher referred to the in
situations in the Grand Jury report upon his
action in the election-fraud cases in very caus-
tic language yesterday.
Eureka is to build a railroad to connect at
Grants Pass with the North Pacific Coast
a subsidy OF 900 has been raised and the
necessary rights OF way secured.
The wheat trust is considered too strong to
be broken It practically controls the entire
output OF the State, and according to brokers
the farmer will have TO pay the tolls.
Two more Comstock mining companies yes
terday acquired territory on the celebrated
Brunswick lode. They are the Savage Mining
Company and the Hale and Norcross.
J. G. Davis OF Rochester, N. Y, who is on his
wedding trip, was arrested yesterday for pass
ing several worthless drafts on business men
and receiving goods and coin in exchange.
Ten jurors have been secured so far to try
McGaughey for the murder OF DR.. Plouf on
Market street several months ago. 1t is ex-
pected that the taking OF evidence will begin
to-day.
President Il. D. Walker of the Bodie Mining
Company denies that there were any false re-
turns made of the Bodie yield or that there
was collision in the Standards suit against
the company.
Suit was begun IN the Superior Court yester-
day by William Thiedeman, as assignee of
William Eide, against Joost Brothers to recover
$4,000 due upon promlssory note dated
June 1s, 1891.
J. J. Smith, father of McGlaufiin & Co.'s
missing cashier, talks interestingly OF the dis
appearance OF his son. Rumor says that Nc
Glaufiin & Co. sent man home with young
Smith every night
The inquests on the remains of James How
ard, who was murdered on Folsom street, and
Howard Smith, the witness in the Winthrop
murder case who committed suicide, will be
held next Saturday.
The salmon canneries in Del Norte County
have been forced TO shut down. The close sea-
son under the new fish and game law takes in
the entire period OF the salmon run in the
rivers Of that section.
Specifications for sweeping and sprinkling
the streets were submitted by President Dohr-
mann OF the Merchants Association at the meet
ing OF the Street Committee OF the Board of
supervisors yesterday.
George T. Gaden president of the Civic Fed
GRAFTON, charges that Contractor Garrett Burke
furnished cesspools which were not up to the
requirements OF the law, and that the street
inspector allowed his claim.
Several boys were arrested In the South
ordinance. They were James Murdoch, David
Tierney, James WEIGH, James Howard, Charles
Cole and Patrick Shannahan.
sMary Dougherty, a laundress So years old,
jumped out OF two-story window at 217
Vallejo street early yesterday morning and re-
ceived such injuries that she died at 80 PM
at the City and County Hospital
Kate Flood was yesterday held by Judge
Joachimsen to answer before the Superior
Court in $500 bonds on the charge of grand
larceny in stealing pair OF diamond earrings
from Laura Hurblust, a roommate.
The hearing of Messrs. Ollie, Truman, Gaden
and Dexter, on charges of criminal libel pre-
ferred by DR.. Marc LevingSton, was resumed
yesterday. The testimony was particularly
snsppy. The hearing was not concluded
Rev. T. Johnston Lamont, DID, Of Olympia
Wash, will preach next Sabbath in Brooklyn
Presbyterian Church, morning and evening.
His morning subject will be: 1.-THE Best There
Is in u.s.; evening: 1.-THE Bible Idea OF Man"
The Association of Manufacturers and Pro-
ducers has decided to hold mass-meeting at
Metropolitan Temple on July II to promote
the interests of home industries. Strong inter-
est is already being manifested in the meeting
The cody labor investigation has caused
factional trouble in the local Japanese colony.
A japanese paper scores one OF the Jap wit
nesses for telling the Commissioners certain
facts concerning the importation OF cody
laborers
Mrs Mary T. Kelley, who conducted an in
telligence Office in room II, Phelan building,
and was charged by several women with
swindling them, was arrested yesterday on
the complaint of the License Collector for not
having license.
Harry A. Knox of the American Railway
Union stated in an interview yesterday that
the Imprisonment of President Debs Will serve
TO stimulate and solidify organized labor in its
contest against what it considers the unj Just ex-
actions or corporations.
The California Bible Society has applied to
the Superior Court for permission TO mortgage
Its real estate on the north side of McAllister
street, near HYDE, for the purpose of raising