The morning call., 1895-02-21
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.

for satisfactory prices yesterday.
Prison Commissioners will oppose the con-
solidation OF the two State prisons
The Gaiety Girl took bay excursion yester-
day and saw Neptune in his element.
The BARRIERS Association is progressing we'll
having enrolled eighty-one members.
Thomas O'Connor, California prospector, is
said 10 have been killed in Mashonaland.
The Fire Underwriters Association concluded
its annual session and elected officers yesterday
Allen gained forty-one votes in recount of
twenty precincts yesterday in the recordership
contest.
W. W. Stoves will has been assigned to Judge
Coffey for probate. 1t will be called March 5
at 10 4. NJ.
Several waterfront rookeries, the notorious
"Peg-leg saloon among them, are TO be de-
molished.
Michael Hendy. a special officer at the race
track, has disappeared from his home, 1415
Polk street.
The Union Flour-miT at Stockton, which was
bought last year by the Sperry trust, has been
closed down.
NankivelPs sketch in this mornings CALL of
the "Gaiety Girls in the wind is replete with
life and action.
The Congregation ohabai Shalome proposes to
build a synagogue at the corner OF Bush and
Laguna streets.
Health officer Keeney reports SAY deaths
during January, against 600 for the same
month OF last year
Two japanese servants of Lewis Norman, 10
Geary street, were arrested last night on d
charge OF grand larceny.
Probably fair, though somewhat threaten
ing" is how Weather Prophet Harmon sizes
up the weather for to-day.
NJ. C. Maunder has been given Judgment
against the Spring Valley Water Company for
5000 on mechanics lien.
The first and second mates OF the Arvan have
been arrested for maltreating members of the
crew while on the high seas.
The City Hall Commissioners have decided
that the statue which has been modelled for the
dome OF the hall is satisfactory.
c.. A. Sturts OF this city has invented an
apparatus that he thinks is as near perpetual
motion as has ever been reached.
William .Haker and William HIM, who owe
$50, l53 81 on their millinery business, have
petiuoned to be declared insolvent.
Judge Hebbard has awarded Judgment for
S43 80 in favor of B. Rankin against Jane Doe
Byrne in suit in unlawful detainer.
Five men, arrested for shaking dice in the
saloon OF Peter Bruno, on Bush street, were
fined 50 each by Judge Low yesterday.
J. w. Donnelly, who sued the San Francisco
Bridge Company for $4,000 damages for per
sonal injuries, has been awarded $1,000.
The rooms occupied by Mrs. F Haight, 2O2J5
stockton street, were entered by burglar and
about 5000 worth OF articles were stolen.
The executors OF the estate OF Mervyn Dona-
hue are suing for possession of 5000 shares OF
the Donahue road, held by Sehgman q Co.
Samuel J. Fox James Gilhurse and A j. Nor
rison have been appointed by Judge Coffey to
appraise the estate of Alexander Montgomery.
T. ]. L. Smiley in a communication to the
City Hall Commissioners states that only per
cent OF the total cost of the hall has been paid
in salaries.
Judge Hebbard has granted S. A. Dragoman-
ovlch divorce from his wife, Johanna, be-
cause she deserted him. She has been gone
since 1886.
Frank R. Clifton has dismissed his action
against a. Van der Naillen, as the latter had
nothing TO do with the matter out of which the
litigation arose.
The fruit-growers have written to the South
ern Pacific Railroad Company stating what
they desire in the matter of freight on fresh
fruit 10 the East.
The detectives have under surveillance
George H. Green and Mrs. Rebecca Jacobs, the |
sureties on the bond of Edward Smith, de-
faulting burglar.
The Native Sons met last night and COM
pleted arrangements for the laying of the
cornerstone OF their new building on Mason
street tomorrow.
George T. Gaden, Mayor Sutro's inspecting
engineer, says that contractors are doing better
work on the Street-nSTing Jobs than before his
Investigations began.
Henry Sears has brought suit against his ex-
partner, Daniel Titus, for his share of the
profits OF their law business, which he claims
Titus is keeping from him.
Con Sweeney and George Thomas, burglars,
were sentenced yesterday by Judge Campbell
TO one year each in the County Jail, being six
months on each OF two charges.
Pepsa Lula Menus, an Indian girl, II years of
age, arrived in the city yesterday morning from
sacramento on afreight train, and was placed
in the Girls Directory last night.
One long shot slipped in at the track yester-
day, but in all OF the other runs the first or
second choices won the money. Articus de-
feated good field in the handicap.
The money bequeathed to the city by Mervyn
Donahue for the erection Of fountain at Mar
ket and Bush streets will be given by the exc
cutors 10 the city two months hence.
Suits for divorce have been commenced by
Louise ". D. Rumkoh against John Rumkof;
Bessie Farnsworth. against Franklin ]. Farms
worth and ]. NJ. Xix against Mabel Xix.
The preliminary examination OF Alexander
Loughborough Jr. on two charges of assault to
murder was concluded yesterday. Judge Con-
Ian viii render his decision on Saturday.
demurrer to the suit of Robert Ammen
against T. w Newth, his captain, for damages
Tor having been compelled to do degrading
work, has been sustained by Judge Hunt.
The Supervisors met yesterday as a COM
mittee of the whole and listened 10 arguments,
pro and con, bearing upon the question OF fix I
ing the water rates for the next fiscal year.
The sickness Of a juror in the case of Alice
made 1t necessary to discharge the jury en-
tlrely and the case must be commenced again.
Mrs Bradbury, who boarded the quarantined
steamer City OF Sydney upon her arrival and
Inltted TO land with the passengers tomorrow.
The committee of fifteen, which is endeav-
orlng TO provide employment for destitute
woTk1ngmen, viii ask churches of all denomi-
nations TO donate their next Sundays collec-
tons TO the cause.
George ". VIM, who murdered Chief
Engineer Aonlhan of the Mexican steamer
Estata de Sonora at San Bias in 1881, has been
released from prison at Mazatlan after fourteen
years confinement
Another precinct full of fraud-the Eleventh
of the Thirty-third Distriet-Was unearthe in
the School Board recount yesterday The fig
ures ran from gain of % for Henderson to a
loss OF 81 for Maxwell.
The Board of Health adopted a resolution
censuring the captain OF the steamer City of
Sydney for coming into port on his last trip
without displaying the quarantine flag. case
of smallpox was found on board during the
trip up from Panama.
The fire department prevented a confagra-
ton yesterday morning. The gas works at the
foot of Webster street we're on fire, and engine
and truck turned out to a.still alarm. After
some hard work the fire was extinguished. The
damage amounts 10 about $1,000.
Madame Mamie Patries, a widow, swore out
a warrant yesterday for the arrest OF her hus-
band Joseph de Lahaye, alias Sinclaire, alias