The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-14
CITY NEWS TN BRIEF.


this page OF the CALL every morning.
The Worthington jury was locked up last
night, as no verdict had been reached at .
o'clock.
The Republican County Committee met last
night. The utmost harmony and good VIII
prevailed.
District Attorney Barnes has decided that no
more youthful Migrants can be sent to the re-
form schools.
The winners at the racetrack yesterday were:
Soon Enough, Belle Boyd, Model, Charmlon
and Little Bob.
This will be q poor year for hop-groWers.
Prices are lower than they have been III
twenty-five years.
The General Fire and Marine Insurance Com
pany Of Trieste, Austria, has estapnsheu
coast agency here.
The Naval Reserve have secured Henry Pc
terson, the noted oarsman, as trainer IN their
aquatic education.
The trustees OF the Congregation Ohahsi
Silalome have engaged the services OF Rabbi
Julius Fryer of Cleveland.
The work of packing the California exhibit
for the Atlanta fair was begun yesterday at the
State Board of Trade rooms.
The police have taken action TO rid the cor
ridors of the new City Hall OF "gratters,' and
six arrests were made yesterday.
There was a good attendance at the Mechan-
les Fair last evening. All the exhibits will
not be ready for two or three days.
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derson, the actor, arrested for refusing to full
I'LL contract to play with her company.
Judge McKinstry has little more to say about
his removal, but states that he never agreed to
give all his time to the Hastings Law College.
The Half-million Club is in receipt OF letters
from many wealthy Germans in the East and
in Europe who desire to secure homes in this
State.
The alarm from box rs at noon yesterday
was for $50 ire in the dwelling at SO Meal
lister street 1t was caused by sparks from q
chimney.
A successful literary and musical entertain
ment was given at the Howard-street Metho-
dist Church for the benefit OF the Fred Finch
Orphanage.
The Womans Educational and Industrial
Union held q business meeting and gave
social last night at the rooms of the union, 1G3
Van Ness avenue.
The Catholic reading circle met last night
at st. Mary's Cathedral and organized the Pa
cihc Summer School and adopted plan OF
government and studies.
Yesterday, appointed committee to look after
the appointment of a successor to Professor
Green OF the chair of botany.
Barney Juchter, a teamster at Rooney's
camp on Clipper street, shot Oracle Jaco,
Rooney's niece, last night and was arrested on
the charge of assault to murder.
Monterey, Mexico, short distance south OF
Texas, has been chosen as the scene of the
pFlZeugnL between COrD6tt and EltZSImmOug
Tor the champ onshlp OF America,
The German ship Alice came in yesterday
from Swansea with the police flag at the fore.
One OF the crew had assaulted the captain and
the men were in state of mutiny.
Secretary Mccarthy OF the new City Hall
Commission filed his annual report yesterday
showing an expenditure on the building in the
~rast twenty years OF So, 221 ,243 II.
HI. Mccoy, secretary of the Young Mems
Christian Association, says the criticisms of
that institution made by members of the Con-
gregational Monday Club are untrue.
The Southside Improvement Club is making
arrangements for another big mass meeting to
be held the first week in September in the in
terests of the Folsom boulevard movement
Burns, president Of the Cigar-makers' Union,
addressed another crowd last evening at the
corner OF Third and Market streets, where he
was recently arrested for obstructing the street.
At the States Free Labor Bureau there is
good demand for female help as housekeepers
and domestles and but few applicants for such
positions, although the wages offered are good
The young man, who obtains money from
married women on the pretext of procuring
employment for their husbands is at his old
tricks again, and the police would like to find
him.
Frank Clark has filed a complaint against
the San Francisco and San Nateo Railroad
Company demanding $4,000 for injuries sus-
tanned in an accident on the San Jose road last
year.
The meeting of socialists last evening at the
corner of Market and Seventh streets passed
off quietly, Notwithstanding the general expec-
tation that the police would break up the
gathering.
The trustees of the Chamber of Commerce
Yesterday passed resolutions commendinp the
Harbor Commissioners for ordering the re-
building OF Pacifc-street wharf, with iron
cylinder piles.
Attorney ". H. Allen was yesterday held to
answer before the Superior Court by Judge
iYlG on ono rs oI,t
money and goods from Mrs. Lucy NJ. Kelly by
false pretenses.
The captains of the local militia regiments
are complaining because their colonies al
lowed the board of location to recommend that
the company allowances be reduced from 500
month TO $50.
Metropolitan Temple has been selected for the
Silver Convention to be held on the 10Th inst.
A big delegation from Nevada is expected, and
Governor Mcconnell OF Idaho says he viii be
present, if possible.
The literary opening exercises of the twenty
eighth Industrial Exposition of the Mechanics
Institute were held at the Columbia Theater
yesterday afternoon. Hon. James A. Mcguire
delivered the principal address,
Gus Strand, VINO was discharged by Judge
Campbell last June on the charge OF obtaining
5000 by false pretenses, was arrested last night,
and warrant is out for the arrest OF L. w.
Scott, his confederate in the swindle.
James Elmer Johnson, the seyen-year-old boy
whose guardianship has been matter of court
Yontest Between Mrs. Susan W. Coon and Gen
eral John McComb, was yesterday committed
to the Home for Predetermined Children.
T. K Kase; the attorney who was arrested on
the complaint of Simon Prouty on the charge
of misdemeanor embeZzlement, had his case
dismissed by Judge Low yesterday. The Judge
decided that it was a case for the civil courts.
Forty-four veniremen were examined in the
Durrant case yesterday, but not an additional
Juror was secured. Judge Murphy was feeling
quite Ill, and at the end of the afternoon SEES
sion ordered a recess till Friday morning at 10
O'Clock. =
At the Methodist quarterly conference to be
held in San Jose tomorrow it will probably be
settled whether Rev. +. s. Cantine, DID,, will
be transferred to Grace Methodist Episcopal
Church of this City or not. San Jose wants TO
keep him there.
So great has become the indignation of the
local labor union over the Murdered by
Strikers inscription on the monument In the
Preside cemetery, that mass-meeting will be
called for Saturday evening to condemn the
action of General Graham.
Dennis Heating, an "opium fiend," was ar
rested by Detective Dillon yesterday for bur
glary in having entered the rooms OF Mrs J.
Arthur, 652 Folsom street, and stealing her
dresses fur cape and other articles, which he
sold in Fourth-street saloon.
The Salaries Committee of the Board of
School Directors yesterday discussed PROPOSE
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