The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-24
CITY ITEMS IN BRIEF.

petition TO raise the rate on petroleum and its
products.
The housekeepers' class of the Silver-street
kindergarten held its closing exercises yester.
day afternoon
Warrant Clerk Kyle of Judge Lows court is
TO be retired TO make way for the son of Super
visor Benjamin.
The winning horses at the track yesterday
were Cardweu, Captain Rees, Gold Bug, Mr..
Jingle and Arctic.
Nathan Martin, colored boy, was booked at
the City Prison yesterday for stealing robes
from ilyery-Stables.
The big wheelmens meeting called by the
Pioneer Hall tonight.
The new advanced tariff on grain over the
Central Pacific will be discussed by the Rail-
road Commission to-day.
The steamer Oakland ran into dolphin
south OF her slip yesterday morning and de-
mohshed twenty-six piles.
Louis Meyer, the well-known restaurant pro-
prletor, has been forced into insolvency, with
naoIitles amounting to $13, 900.
James McCabe, 40 Arctic street. is wanted by
the police for brutality beating his aged father,
I. j. McCabe, on Wednesday night.
A successful performance was given last
night at the California Theater in aid of the
Ladies' Protection and Relief Society.
Foreign insurance companies are showing
disposition to abolish the commission system
ana introduce salaried men to do the work
Administrator Mercer of the Osborn estate
yesterday filed a specific denial of neglect in
the matter OF his care of the Osborn estate.
Judge Daingerdeld yesterday rendered a de-
cision giving the Theresa Fair estate 81 o OOO
out OF $50, 900, paid as taxes under protest
Polls opened at the headquarters of the Santa
Cruz Venetian Water Carnival in the Grand
Hotel for the election OF Queen of the carnival
The question of the right of the Farmers
Alliance to engage in the fire insurance bust
ness submitted to Judge Murphy yesterday
after argument
The Weather Bureau forecast for to-day in
San Francisco is fair, nearly stationary tenn
perature, light winds In the morning and
brisk after noon.
The Street Committee decided yesterday to
recommend that 1000 be called for in the
next tax levy for paving Folsom street with
bituminous rock.
Charles H Seaman, the aged Lothario, known
as the widows friend" yesterday brought suit
10 recover property, out of which he declared
he had been vlctimiZed.
The grocers' picnic next Sunday, celebrating
the twenty fourth anniversary of the Retail
Grocers' Protective Union, will be one of the
best ever given by that body
Congregation Ohsbai Shalome mas purchased
site lot the new synagogue on Bush street.
near Laguna. The edifce will be ready for the
holiday services, four months hence.
Patrick Cunningham is making Intellectual
efforts TO get the body of his brother, who died
in the Almshouse, from the Cooper Medical
College, where it was sent for dissection.
Inc street committee yesterday decided to
report against the petition for cutting the
grade OF Beale street at Harrison twenty feet
but favored paving and sewering the street.
The Mackiuaw, which arrived from Tacoma
last evening, attempted to land a couple Of
passengers, but her boat was swamped, and
two sailors narrowly escaped plunging into the
bay.
Adam Fitzgerald, the st. Louis millionaire,
accompanied by his private secretary, o.
4, to extend his travels through China and
Japan.
second engineering party was dispatched
to Fresno yesterday to survey route through
will leave next week to work from Fresno via
VisaIia.
The fury in the case of Mrs. Louise A. Worth
ington, on her second trial for murder, failed
to agree and were discharged by Judge Belcher
who pronounced the defense theory as
"gauZy."
Two alleged widows of one David Jaffa, alias
Levin, alias Levet were yesterday found to
have made an amicable arrangement to divide
the estate OF the deceased, which was yet in the
Probate Court
Walter Ross and W. B. Holland, two of the
four footpads who held up John S. Macintosh
the saloon-keeper, last Sunday morning were
identified in the Oakland City rison yester-
day by two witnesses.
At rs last night an alarm from box %
Claims residence, S12 California street.
mattress thrown into the back yard caught
nre. There was no other damage.
The wife of William Jenkins, keeper of a
restaurant at 3131 Mission street. has eloped
with sea captain, taking with her diamond
pin and 5000. Jenkins yesterday swore out a
warrant for her arrest for grand larceny.
Walter Ross, having been identified by two
witnesses as being implicated in the Macintosh
robbery on McAllister and Leavenworth streets
last Sunday morning, was brought from Oak
land last night and booked at the City Prison
for the crime.
Rev. NJ Balogh of Cleveland, Ohio, and Rev.
Julius Balogh of st. Louis, Mo-, have arrived in
this city, and will officiate at the Congregation
Beth Menachim Streisant, Minna street. be-
tween Fourth and Fifth, this Friday evening
ana saturday morning.
H. Ahrens, night clerk at the Hammam
Baths, swore out warrant Yesterday for the
arrest of James Dunn for petty larceny, in OBJ
tanning SIS from him on May Is by represent
ing himself as the son of member of the firm
OF Nolan Bros, shoe merchants.
Nicholas Jennotti, shoemaker, Vallejo street.
who nearly killed his son Louis on Sunday by
beating him over the head with piece of lead
superior Court by Judge Low in $4,000 bonds
on the charge OF assault to murder.
Henry Belyille, a bunko man, was sent to the
house OF Correction for six months by Judge
Low yesterday for playing upon stranger the
old confidence trick of dropping $50 Confed-
crate bill on the street and getting $25 in good
coin from the stranger as half OF the find
The ladies' central committee of the German
branch of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton gave "tea OF roses last evening. A
good programme was provided at Association
Hall. The object of the entertainment was to
raise funds for furnishing the German branch
rooms.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Company began
suit in the United States District Court vester-
day to recover the sum of $25l Is from Moore
Ferguson & Co. of San Diego. The latter
shipped 244S sacks of barley by the plain iff's
steamer Bonita, and the dispute is over the
freight bill.
The plans for the grand stand of the Pacific
Coast Jockey CLUB have been finished. The
track is being graded. Accommodations are
being provided for 1000 horses and 5000 spec
tators. Work is guaranteed TO be finished by
November 1, but will probably end by Octo-
Der 1.
At the meeting of the Street Committee of
the Board of Supervisors yesterday it was
decided to recommend that provision for $780,
600 be made in the new tax levy for street
cleaning, as this was the estimate given by
President Dohrma m OF the Merchants Associa-
ton as being necessary.
Names of every color in the rainbow and out
of 1t were among those of the defendants in the
action brought yesterday by John Baptiste
Podesta and others to quiet title to property on
the corner of Union and Dupont streets.
Altogether ninety-eight names were entered,
many of them being fictitious, as the real
anna of fla not k1nt