The San Francisco call., 1895-12-03
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

heN. FRANK NJ. MllClSll VI ASSoSo
the Baptist Preachers Club yesterday
There will be another game in the water
polo tournament at Buringame next Sunday.
CLOUDY weather with occasional light rain'
is the forecast for tO-days weather issued by
the State official.
Charles J. Campbell, whose wife procured
divorce recently on the ground OF cruelty, de-
MES the truth Of the charge'
Yesterday the affidavits in the matter of
Durrant's motion for q new trial were read,
and to-day the arguments will begin.
The preliminary examination of Eugene Par
dini charged with criminal assault, was CON-
menced before Judge Low yesterday with closed
doors.
The trial of Charles Henderson for the mur-
der of Clarence Barr in the Baldwin Hotel
saloon in July last was before Judge Belcher
yesterday.
good story has leaked out which explains
the victory of the Olympic baseball nine over
the professionals and their subsequent crush
ing defeat.
Inspector Dockery seized sixty-fve samples
of milk Sunday and yesterday morning,
and out of the number only four were not up
to the standard
Judge Conlan decided yesterday that the
fatal shooting of William Massie by his wife on
November % was accidental, and discharged
her from custody.
Three OF the first choices won at Ingleside
track yesterday. The first horses past the wire
were Ramiro, Pepper, Peter the Second, install
lator and Remmel.
In another column of this paper will be
found list OF the Californians who won prizes
for their exhibits at the International Exposi-
ton a. Atlanta, Ga.
Patrick Kelly was yesterday held to answer
before the Superior Court by Judge Low on
two charges OF assault to murder in $4,000
bonds on each charge.
Arthur Arlington, with many aliases was
aTraigned in Judge Conlan's court yesterday
for stealing a diamond breastpin from widow
he promised to marry.
The union carpenters have been successful
in their strike on the Haight-street school
building Contractor Hansbrough has agreed
to pay the standard wages.
Rev Donald NJ. Ross replies to Father Yorks's
letter by saying that the acceptance of his bet
would neither prove him truthful nor false in
the matter under discussion.
The feud between the ST On Says and Wah
Tengs in Chinatown, who have been shooting
at each ether for some days past, is over and q
treaty of peace has been signed.
Professor o. P. Jenkins OF Stanford Univer-
sity ydelivered an Instructive and entertaining
lecture last evening at the Academy of Sciences
on GLACIERS, Past and Present.
Daniel Foley, convicted of burglary and
with four convictions for petty larceny against
him, was sentenced to fifteen years imprison-
ment by Judge Wallace yesterday.
Justice OF the Peace Groezinger and Attor-
ney Newberg had personal encounter in the
corridor at the new City Hall yesterday in
which the lawyer came out second best.
Bayard saville, an ex-convict, arrested
in Oakland yesterday and brought to this City
10 answer the charge of forgery preferred by
William McCracken of the Lick House Laun-
dry.
Miss Mary A. scherer, principal of the Gar
field primary school, complained tothe police
Yesterday of the depredations of young hood
lums, and asked for protection for herself and
scholars.
The claimants against the estate of Thomas
Bell are appearing before Judge Coffey with
their bills in their lhands. There is a goodly
number of them, and they want altogether.
over 800, 900.
Commodore Calvin L. Hooper of the revenue
cutter feet has been appointed Superintend-
ent of Naval Construction at this port. This
is an Office recently created by the Secretary
of the Treasury.
Louis Ahlborn, saloon keeper, Potrero
avenue swore out warrant yesterday for the
arrest OF Gus Miller, whose sister-in-law re-
fuses TO vacate his house. The charge
malicious mischief
A Amajority of the property-owners along the
line of Folsom street, from Steuart to Nine
tenth, have petiticned the Board OF super
visors to have that much OF the thoroughfare
paved with bitumen.
The painters union will petition the Super
visors for the enactment OF life and limb law
and to make an order that all pa ting on City
buildings be done by regular painters instead
of by policemen and fremen.
Dr. Werner Schmidt aid Richard Water, Ger
man mechanical engineers, are in town. For
three months they have been examining
American machinery. with the object OF rec
ommending the adoption of some OF 1t in Ger
many.
REPRESENTATIVES of prominent City real es-
tate firms met last night at 10 Montgomery
street TO fix q uniform rate of house-renting
commissions. No definite agreement was made
and another meeting Will De heId Decem-
Der 81.
The Police Commissioners through Chief
Crowley announced the appointment yester-
day OF seven sergeants, three detectives, two
corporals and sixteen patrolmen. There are
four sergeants and ffty-eight patrolmen yet
TO be named
John Holiday, a fruit-dealer doing business
at Hafght and Fillmore streets, horsewhipped
Samuel Whitney, collector, in front OF his
store yesterday morning. The men quarreled
over an unpaid account which Whitney re-
fused TO settle.
Judge Deingerfeld has refused to allow Mrs
Morrison 10 recover on an alleged contract to
bring about marriage between the then Miss
Green and the late Alexander Montgomery, on
the ground that the transaction savored OF
marriage brokerage.
The regular annual meeting of the Board of
Fire Commissioners was held yesterday, when
George BOhen was unanimously elected presi-
dent, and Joseph Marshall, the new Commis-
sioner, presented his credentials and was ln-
Vited TO take his seat.
Sarah Davis a claimant as heir-at-law in the
estate of Thomas II. Blythe, intends to sue out
writ of error to the United states supreme
Court in the matter of appeal from the decree
OF dis button recently decided against Her III
the Supreme Court of this State.
Mayor Sutro has called mass-neeting for
Saturday night TO protest against the passage
of the funding bill by the Fifty-fourth Con-
gress. A preliminary meeting will be held at
the Mayors Office tomorrow TO make the
necessary arrangements for the meeting.
All the various phases of the Fair will case,
now pending before Judge Slack, have been put
over for five weeks. Judge Slack is considering
the case of Fair ct al. vs. Angus ct al. to dis
solve the trust formed by the stolen will, and
until this has been settled the other cases have
been laid over.
Judge Cofey has refused to hear applications
for guardianship over the little girls now con-
fined in the City Prison. He says they are IN
der the jurisdiction of another court ana he
Will not Interfere. The police are afraid that
If the girls are released their parents Will pre-
vent them from testifying.
In q supplemental affidavit filed by Rali,
road Commissioner Stanton in the United
States Circuit Court he shows that after max
ing every kind of an allowance, and ACCORDING
to the reports OF the roads themselves, tnelr
aggregate net surplus for the year enolng
June 80, 1894, was 81, ,S13, 1875 81.
The defense in the Howell counterfeit case,
on trial before Judge Morrow, has had de-
tectives employed TO learn from Government