The San Francisco call., 1895-11-17
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

DR.. W. " Case will speak this evening on the
Barbary Coast infamy.
p. There are still ten fine boxes for the Chill
dren'S Hospital concerts for sale.
Many prizes won at the Goethe-Schiller fair
remain unclaimed at l20 Sutter street.
Miss Caroline Little sang yesterday afternoon
at the Carr Beel concert in Golden Gate Hall
Aconviet has written Mrs. Ballington Booth
from San Quentin expressing ardent apprecia-
tion OF her work.
Vallejois to have new independent paper
i will be run by two Native Sons and be called
the Vallejo News.
: John Goetze is suing to have his marriage to
Dora Winter annulled because, he says, he
was forced into it.
Beatrice. Bob Tucker, Marionette. Goodwin
IL, Little Cripple and ] o C. were the winners
at the track yesterday.
The Master Plumbers Association of San
francisco gave banquet at Golden Gate Com
mandery Hall last evening.
Trouble between rival fish-dealers in the Clay
street market has resulted in a suit against
Maurizfo Batiano. for SANDER.
Golden Gate Commandery No. 16, Knights
Templar, gave a chrysanihemum jinks at the
commandery banqueting hall.
The second grand ball of the combined Car
penters' and Joiners' UNIONS was held last
evening in the Turk k-street Temple.
The Republican Executive Council of Cali
-fornia viii give a. reunion and banquet at the
: 5Zinkatd cafe on Thursday evening.
Increasing eloudiness and probable showers
Sunday night; eeoler.' is the prognostication
OF Forecast OfieiaI MeAdie for to-day.
Ben F. Rich, editor of the Idaho Silver Ham
nler, Will discourse on the principles of Nor
monism at Pythian Castle this evening.
DR. Julius Koebig delivered LECTURE on ''The
Beet-sugar Industry in California and Its I'm
.portance to the State" at the Mechanics Insti-
tute.
The programme for Tuesday evenings con-
cert for the charity fund has been prepared,
and all OF the parts are filed by talented
artists.
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is con-
sidering plan. for the establishment OF free
temporary shelter for men without work or
money. -e 81
Miss Marian Nolen, the California Venus >,
demands $500 for the recent use of her pic
: ture as an advertisement for brand OF
j: whisky. 80
TW. Lockland. who demanded $500 900 from
Claus Spreckels Friday, will be examined by
the Commissioners OF Insanity tomorrow
morning.
casei is 10 be thoroughly ventilated by the
Grand Jury. 1t Will be taken up during the
coming week.
=: Adj jutant-General Barrett says Governor
:Aarkhsfn consented TO the payment of 30 8
" day to the directors OF the Los Angeles District
Agricultural Society.
=. The executive committee of the Thirty
= fourth Assembly District Republican Club met
On the evening OF the 18th inst. and effected q
permanent organization.
Edna Joslyn, q pretty girl IL years of age
: was arrested yesterday afternoon by Policeman
T. B. Gibson and. booked at the City Prison for
: the Boys and Girls Aid Society.
San Francisco won from Oakland, six to three,
:: In six-inning match at Central Park yester-
: day. This afternoon San Francisco will play
the Olympics at ? O'Clock and Oakland at 3:45.
-, Congressman Loud states that he viii use his
main efforts during the coming session OF Con-
. :gress in advancing the passage of the Mica
=Tagua canal bill, and he is confident it viii
pass.
:. Jennie Jones, better known as Jennie Lind,
the famous circus rider, was taken to the Re-
ceivimg Hospital yesterday suffering from NOR
phine poisoning, but when or how taken she
:; did not know.
= The San Francisco councils OF the Junior
Order United American Mechanics took part
IN the dedication OF the new hall of Panl Re-
we're Council at Berkeley last evening. 1t was
8 brilliant occasion.
The Southern Pacific and the Oregon Railway
and improvement Company have begun pas
senger rate war between this City and Port
land. Tickets are selling for 50 second class
and 81 so for first class.
T.. The Southern Pacific, its associated corpora
tions and officials and the Crockers, Hunting
:. tons and Stanford estate paid nearly quarter
:; of a million dollars in taxes at the City Hall
q y
One of the Jurors in the trial of Frank
>:Kloss SAYS that the verdict of murder in the
first degree should have included q life sem
tence but by mistake it I'D not. Kloss may
secure another trial on thc point.
L A vicious bulldog bit several people on Bush
and Kearny streets last evening. After driving
" the treasurer out of the bOx-office at the Cali
fornia Theater it. was caught by officer Jerry
Dinan and killed in an alley near by.
Henry Peterson, champion oarsman of Cali
ND Inr1 a
at Austin, Tex, yesterday He speaks well OF
the Englishmen, who gave the Americans a
:. high character for fairness and sportsmanlike
: conduct
Becvich committed suicide off Howard
street wharf yesterday morning. He left a
note stating he died from hunger, but his
friends assert that he was crazy. Beovich has
a wealthy brother in Vienna and another who
Is priest of the Catholic church.
=: In the North Beach scandals case Yesterday
Leon Meyer was held for trial in bonds OF $780,
.000, Eugene Pardint, shoemaker on Wash
. ington Street. was arrested, and 1t was deter
mined that an indignation mass-meeti ting of
women should be held in Metropolitan Temple
to-day.
Mis-. Olivia McMurphy is suing Frederick w.
+McMurphy for divorce upon the ground OF
cruelty. Her principal allegation is that he
banged her head against the wall until a hair
pin was driven through her scalp, and then he
: pulled her through a looking glass, all the
time using foul language.
The British bark Sharpshooter is again in
trouble. After being dismantled and toyed to
San Francisco there is row over the insurance
money. The Fireman's Fund wants the teWage
bill paid by the ship and Captain Watts objects.
In the meantime Grace & Co. will not pay any
freight until the matter is settled.
George Brugger, who claims TO be partner
OF Gustav Walter in the Orpheum has brought
suit against Walter for an accounting of the
profits of the place He charges that Waiter
has kept him excluded from any knowledge OF
the workings of the partnership, and that he
has made away with the profits himself
= The Salvation Army is establishing shelter
for women where q bed in respectable quarters
and q breakfast may be secured for nickel.
The plan was suggested by Mrs. Ballington
Booth during her recent visit TO this CITY and
has the approval of local philanthroplsts
About $4,000 is needed TO carry out the enter
prise.
!. The collateral heirs to the estate OF James
Kelly are suing to set aside the probate OF MS
will on the ground of undue influence. Before
Ids death Kelly decided to Catherine b. Russell
otherwise known as Sister Mary Baptiste, two
PIECES OF property, one on Fourth street worth
$35 600 and one on Tenth street worth go
900, each for 81. Possession was given py the
will, and now the heirs want to break IT.
At the Coroneris inquest held yesterday on on
Fred Larsen, who committed suicide at 20
Jessie street, Tuesday morning, by cutting