The San Francisco call., 1895-08-02
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF,

DTnsmite Company was fled yesterday.
The winners at Bay District yesterday were
Addie NJ, aphin, Nellie &, Boreas ana Han
ford.
The San Francisco Presbytery decided yes
terday to establish church extension sinking
fund.
pierre Humbert Jr of Boston is the pur-
chaser of Senator Fairs interest In the Pioneer
mine.
AGED Mrs. Peter Olsen of Alameda is suing to
recover property that she decided to young
husband.
The alarm from box 513 yesterday afternoon
was for fire at 1900 Kentucky street. The
loss was slight.
Rosa Musgrave is detained at the Beulah
Home to prevent her elopement with G. T.
Elliott, married man.
The Madrid Mutual Benevolent Society viii
celebrate the anniversary of the discovery of
America next October.
The Weather Bureau forecasts for to-day in
San Francisco: Fair, slightly warmer weather
and west TO north winds"
give series of five classical concerts at the
conclusion of the Mechanics Fair.
Matt Green, an employe at the racetrack,
during fight with John Murphy, the horse
trainer, bit q piece of Murphy's ear.
The Merchants Association will next make
a move to cause the removal of all signs and
bulletin boards from the sidewalks.
Lawrence Vincent, an auctoneer, was ar
rested yesterday on the complaint OF F. c.
Carlsen, on the charge OF felony embeZzlement.
The project of establishing an athletic park
at Bay Farm Island is likely TO be abandoned,
as the organizations interested will not frater-
niZe.
James L. Davis, q broker, has fled COM
plaint against the Marke treet Railway Com
pany, demanding $4,000 for injuries sus-
tained on June 6.
The near appoach of the meeting of the
Olympic Club for the purpose of selecting
nominating committee has given politics
boom in the club.
The San Francisco Schuetzen Verein will
give banquet next Wednesday evening at the
beach to the crack rife team that recently re-
turned from New York.
Meyer Strauss friends are discussing a plan
for calling council of Congregational churches
for the consideration of the justice or injustice
OF his expulsion.
Company of the Police Department has
presented Captain Short, now retired, with
handsomely engrossed resolutions, testfying
their esteem ana respect.
Populists of this county are entirely reorgan-
lZlng and will have new County Committee
OF IA members, each Assembly district to be
represented by eight delegates.
The suit of W. s. Morgan to recover 1921 20
from the Pacific Coast Association of Fire
Chiefs for stenographer'S fees has been dis
missed By Justice of the Peace Groezinger.
E. A. Hensick passed silver bill raised from
81 to 800 in Liyermore yesterday. He was
arrested, and Secret Service Agent of the Treas
ury Harris will bring him to San Francisco.
The record in the Stanford case was filed in
the United States Circuit Court of Appeals yes
terdsy. The Government will probably have g
chance to present its case anew early in Sep
tember.
One of the charges against Leo de Cardona,
ex-bookkeeper in the Street Department, OF
passing fraudulent demand warrants, was dis
missed by Judge Campbell yesterday, on tech
nical objection.
The decision of Solicitor-General Reeve on
certain provisions OF the Chinese exclusion
act considerably widens the scope OF that law.
The opinion was rendered at the request of
Collector Wise.
The promoters of the Folsom-street boule-
ward expect that the Finance Committee OF
the Board of Supervisors will take some action
concerning the $50 900 appropriation for the
boulevard tonight.
Edward Falkner, railroad laborer in search
of work. had his skull fractured and his
pockets emptied while asleep in the Southern
Pacific yards, on Fourth and Kentucky streets,
yesterday morning.
The Press Club held q meeting last evening
ct which nominations for the coming election
were submitted. It was also decided TO extend
the membership limit and TO revise the conStl-
tuition and bylaws.
Fire Marshal Towe continued his investiga-
tion yesterday into the cause of the fire at the
San Francisco Cooperage Companys premises
on Wednesday evening, and SO lar has found
that it was accidental.
The State Supervisors are slow in appropriat-
ing the money they subscribed to the fund for
sending California exhibit to the Atlanta
fair, and a call has been made for them to
hurry up with the cash.
Congressman Hilborn has returned from the
Sandwich Islands and reports that the consti-
tutional Government cannot last long, owing
70 its enormous expense, and that the queen
will probably be restored to her throne.
Mrs Stanford states that the prospects for
the university at Palo Alto were never brighter
Arrangements have been made TO cheaper
boarding rates. Two hundred applications for
admission were rejected through want OF room
The letters received from the various counties
OF the State by George ?. Keeney, local seere-
tary of the American Bimetallic League, 1ndi-
cate, he says that the coming silver conven-
ton here on the 18TH INST. Will De most en-
thusiastic gathering.
The owners of cycleries in this City have de-
termined to resist the payment of the quar-
terly license fee of $15 recently imposed on
them by the License Committee OF the Board of
Suneryisors and have formed an organization
to fight ii in the courts.
Richard Rice, barber Greenwich and Baker
streets was found unconscious in bed yester-
day morning from gas asphyxiaton. He had
accidentally not turned the gas entirely off.
He was taken TO the Receiving Hospital, where
he gradually recovered consciousness.
Two more Jurors, making six in all, were
secured in the Durrant case yesterday. They
were Walter S. Brown and Charles p. Nathan.
Witness Clark has writtenfrom Boston that he
was mistaken as to having seen Blanche La
The Fire Commissioners yesterday, owing to
the action OF the Harbor Commissioners In re-
stricting the use of the fireboat Governor
Markham to the protection only OF state prop
erty, organized the hose company attached TO
IT into engine company 30, TO be stationed at
Ashbury Heights
James C. Jordan's protest against discrimina-
ton shown in depriVing him of the chance to
bid on contracts where public funds are used
in payment was before the Street Committee OF
the Board of Supervisors yesterday, ana they
professed not to understand what he meant by
discrimination.
Collector of Customs Wise has received word
from Washington that the appeal in the Zante
currant case has been allowed. The matter Will
now be carried to the United States Circuit
Court The Board of General Appraisers has
held that currants from anywhere in Greece
outside of Zante are not Zante currants.
An important meeting of the Philosophical
Union OF the University of California will be
held at Berkeley the 30th of this month, at
which Professors Josiah Royce and Sidney e.
Mezes, two distinguished native sons, will dis
cuss Professor Royce's book, THE Religious
Aspect of Philosophy" The meeting is ex-
pected to be of exceptional interest.
The Election Commission held q meeting
yesterday, at which discussion took promi-
nent part and at which nothing was done.
The old fight between Jake Steppacher and o.