The San Francisco call., 1895-12-13
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

The feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe was cele-
brated Al the Spanish Church yesterday.
In the Howell case yesterday Mrs Howell
told how she received the 'Dear Matt letter.
The directors of the California Girls Train
ing Home yesterday ipdorsed the work of Mrs.
Rose VI. French.
The Commercial Travellers Association win
hold its annual benefit at the Columbia The
ater on the 9th inst.
The verbatim report of Attorney D. NJ Del
mas eloquent argument in the Miller & Lux
case at Redwood City.
The will of DR.. George Gerlach was filed for
probate yesterday. He left all his property to
his wife and daughter.
The law firm of Morrison, stratton & For
ester was dissolved yesterday by mutual con-
sent, Mr.. Stratton retiring.
Local artists will hold meeting at the Art
Institute next Monday to arrange the details
OF the SearIes presentation.
The unions of the building trades are still
at work upon plan for the establishment of
general building trades council.
Mrs. Leonore Ettinger is ,suing her absent
husband for support. She charges that her
her-in-law is keeping them apart,
Internal Revenue Collector Welburn is ask
ing the Treasury Department in his present
report for an increase OF clerical force.
Hugo Frauenholz. ex-manager of the Ba-
va. ID Brewery committed suicide at the ocean
beach yesterday afternoon by shooting him
sell.
Ille1 NTOWI6V yesterday SWOre III Dennis j.
Daley as a police officer Daley is % years OF
age, a native OF San Francisco and plumber
by trade.
The weather forecast fer to-dayis f'foggy in
the morning. generally cloudy during the day;
stationary temperature; fresh northerly to
westerly winds"
The attendance at the poultry show yester-
day was an improvement on the day before.
Several awards were made during the after
noon and evening.
~
Amador County, has been arrested by the Fed
eral authorities on an indictment for tamper-
ing with the mails.
A young man who registered at the Russ
House as MAX Linse of New York; tried to
commit suicide yesterday morning by turning
on the gas IN mis- room.
The womens mass-meeting at Metropolitan
Temple was addressed by Mrs. A. c. Wells, Mrs.
L. 2. Moore, Mrs. II. Chandler, Mrs. Anna
Smith and others last night
The Bacon Printing Company, started over
forty years ago, has failed and the business Is
now in the hands OF an assignee a to satisfy the
creditors claims for $4,000
Irnpf Santa Bella won the G. II. Mumm &
Co. stakes at Ingleside yesterday. The other
winners were: Sir Richard, Ferris Hartman,
Pepper, Tobey and PhilOmena.
The jury in Judge Bahrs court acquitted R.
H Mcdonald of the charge of embezzling
the money his brother, Frank v, claimed to
have lost in Chicago from an old trunk.
T c. Spelling, attorney for depositors and
stockholders of the defunct Peoples Home
Savings Bank, makes vigorous attack on the
California Safe Deposit and Trust Company.
Arthur Arlington, the women-swindler with
many aliases was yesterday held 10 answer
before the Superior Court by Judge Conlan on
the charge of felony embezzlement in $4,000
bonds.
The Fire Commissioners yesterday announced
that in future grocers and liquor men would
have to collect their own bills from fremen,
as the board refused longer to be a collection
agency.
CAPTAIN L. O. Parker, who has been In charge
Of tue San Francisco United States Army re-
cruiting station for the past Jour years, has
been relieved and will join his regiment at
Benicia.
Collector Wise seized Captain Charles Luch
ems sealing schooner the Kate and Annie yes
terday for violating the regulations as to the
Paris award Her cargo OF sealsklns was LETT
in Astoria.
The testimony taken in the Hale & Norcross
case Yesterday related to the method OF taking
car samples, the percentages OF return 10 De
expected on various assays, and the hnanclaI
transactions OF the hrm.
Evidence in the test case brought by the
Southern Pacific Company against Richard b.
Collier for falsely personating another was
heard before Judge Conlen yesterday and de-
cision reserved till to-day.
The Battle Creek salmon hatchery will be
closed on the 18th inst. The result OF the sea-
sons work was 100000 spawn, which is
being shipped to the Sisson ana CIackamas
HGtc0erleS LOT OlSlIADutAoh'
letter from ]. A. Filcher, who is in charge
OF the California exhibit at the Atlanta Expo
sition, states that the number Of gold medals
won by meritorious products OF thls State mas
been increased to thirty-four
Luigi Sciyio is suing to recover $4,000 from
Ottav7o Gavazzo, which he claims.was collected
from the Home Insurance Company Tor MIN by
Gavazzo and was then applied 10 the purchase
OF land by his faithless friend.
The police have discovered that John Hill,
l1o n or n
number of people out OF small sums OF money
by falsely representing that he was about to
close an important real estate deal.
, The board of adjustment of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers OF the southern "a
cifc system is holding its annual session IN
this CITY and presenting local grievances 10 the
Southern Pacific Company for adjustment
A dispatch from Washington states that the
order requiring certiheate Oh lhspeGifold "
accompany export beef has been modlhed TO
go into effect March / instead OF January l.
The local beef exporters are highly pleased.
Milk INSPECTOR Dockery caught J. w. Rey-
nolds of the Woodland dairy IN the act oi
watering the milk in his cans from trough,
on Iilv avenue and Laguna street, early yes
terdey morning, and will have him arrested.
The Veteran Volunteer Firemans Associa-
tion OF California held its annual meeting on
the evening of the 10th instant for the pur-
nose of nominating officers for the ensuing
year, to be balloted for at the next mohthiy
meeting.
Miss Rosella La Faille, well-known ana
popular Mission public school teacher, mas
determined to adopt the stage as profession;
She will Join Beascos "Heart OF Maryland
company at Washington with the coming Oh
the new year.
Durrant has been granted stay OF proceed;
ings for twenty days delaying his removal
from the jail to the State Prison whlle his
counsel shall be hard at work drawing, up
voluminous exceptions to present 10 lhe ou-
preme Court for the purpose OF polntlngtou1
mistakes in the trial.
Mrs. Mabel Wilson, young woman, COM
mitted suicide by taking stryehnine cary yes
terday morning at the Acme House, 9oI MAI
ket street. In letters which she had written,
she charged Albert Z. Bartlett with ha'lhs
abandoned her for another woman
A protest Is to be sent on to Secretary CarlisIe
by the owners of the seized sealing schooners
Bowhead and Winchester, through Attorney
Riordan, mplaining hat Collector OF customs
Wise had strained the technical1ties Oh lne
Treasury Department, very much to the INJURY
of the sealing industry.
Attorneys Foote and Outflow, chosen as Judges
in the Yorke-Ross controversy, neld CONFER
ence yesterday, but could come to no agree
ment, and as result new judges may have 20
be named Rev. DR.. Case replies 10 fatneT
Yorke's statement relative to his BraZlllaH
cousin and withdraws from the controversy.