The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-12
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF,

Rev. ]. a. Cruzan has withdrawn from Patk
Congregational Church.
Judge Coffey has appointed Augustus Tilden
administrator of the Rankin estate
THE California Keramic Club opened an ex
hibition at the Palace Hotel yesterday.
The last concert during the fall exhibition
takes place at the Art Institute tonight
General Manager Kruttschnitt tells of his
first ride over the Central Pacific Railroad
The Railroad Commission is preparing TO
make another test OF its jurisdiction and power
Fair; probably slightly werner" is the
prediction issued by Forecast Official Hammon
for to-day's weather.
Judge Coffey and Bailiff Finn were called be-
fore Judge SanderSon yesterday to testify in
the Waters will case.
Indications point to great football game
next Saturday at Central Park, TO aid destitute
women and children.
Patrolmen Waliwebber and Harper were pro-
NOTED and made sergeants by the Police Com
missioners last night
The commission brokers' who deal in racing
matters ask that their licenses be raised from
S3 TO $1,000 quarter.
The defense in the Hale & Norcross case con-
tinres TO put in testimony TO show that car
sample assays are unreliable.
Discord has sprung up in the Civil Service
Association at the Custom-house because of
the delinquency OF certain members.
The Changers Bank of this City has stopped
making loans and is paying off its depositors
preparatory to going out OF business.
The special committee of the Board of Edu-
cation failed to make a complete report on the
Polytechnic High School last evening.
officers of the County Woman's Christian
Temperance Union have offered S75 in prizes
TO children Tor te m perance Scrapbooks.
Two young men robbed the safe in the
Whelan bindery d. and A Steuart street,
about noon yesterday and managed TO escape.
Thomas O'Donnell, alias James Johnson, was
arrested by Policeman Wagner yesterday after
noon tor grating" around the Police Courts.
The faction in opposition to the methods &C
the Women's Federation for Public Good will
hold a mass-meeting at Metropolitan Temple
this evening.
Alfred Clarke has been committed to Jail by
Judge Slack, and there ne will stay until he
has paid over certain 1878 for the benefit of
his creditors.
Judge Murphy has set the day for Durrant's
execution as February d, 1896. He has de-
MED writ OF probable cause and signed the
desth warrant.
Judge Campbell resumed business in his
courtroom yesterday, and took occasion 10 ex-
press his Unfavorable opinion OF the City Hall
Commissioners.
New sealing regulations Just received at the
Custom-house prohibit the killing by whites
or whites married to natives of all fur bearing
animals in Alaska.
Eastern people who evidently desire to get
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City for the names OF the dealers who handle /
cheap Jepanese-made goods.
Because Of conflicting statements as to the
time and place OF his birth, Il Chinese, How
Lung, who came TO this port october 13, is to
be remanded for deportation.
David Mckee is under arrest for being one OF
the men who broke into Richardson's jewelry
store on Friday night and stole several hun
dred dollars worth OF jewelry.
Clerk Tom OBrien of Police Court has not
l .-FI &c. al I.,-r
and the proceedings of the court are much
hampered by his failure 10 appear.
Eleanor C. Huntington of New York brought
suit in the Federal courts yesterday 10 prevent
Nevada City from acquiring water works OF Its
own. she owns the present water supply.
Yesterday was ladies' day at Ingleside track
and q big crowd was in attendance. The win
ners were: Emma d. imp. Miss Brummel, Red
Glenn, Megnate, Potentate and Thornhlu.
Two more policemen were sworn in by Chief
Crowley yesterday: Daniel A. Sylvester, %
years of age, born in San Francisco, butcher; |
John A Fitzgerald, 34 San Francisco, drug
clerk.
William Harrison, Chris Buckley's nephew
and Patrick McEllyeth, butcher, got mixed |
up in a fight on Ellis and Stockton streets last |
night, and were arrested for disturbing the |
peace.
Attorney Jesse W Lilienthal is about to start |
East with almost hundred dispositions from |
consumers who are clamoring for their rebates |
from the whisky trust. The trust is now"ln |
liquidation.
Anamended bill of Intervention is to f led by |
United States District Attorney Foote to meet |
Judge McKenna's objection. By stipulation
filed yesterday 1t is TO have the character of a |
sworn statement
The great suit of the Lux heirs TO compel a |
distribution of the Miller & Lux millions |
was ended yesterday at Redwood, the whole |
day having been occupied by the closing argu- |
ment OF D. NJ. Delmas.
In the Howell case yesterday the presence of |
Matt Jones in the courtroom caused a spirited |
debate between the opposing attorneys, with |
some incidental caustic illusions. Howell |
was on the stand all day.
The California State Poultry Association !
its third annual exhibition. There are $500 |
birds entered and The prizes viii be ready for |
in few days.
There is a warm fight in the Musicians
Union oyer the office OF secretary E. L.
Schmitz, the present secretary is opposed by
Abbiati, Davis and Peckham. The fight is said
to be between Davis aud Schmitz.
Frank Smith, Frank Silva and Frank Allen,
the two latter ex-convicts. were arrested yes
teTday morning on suspicion OF being con-
neeted with the murder of Neville, the car
penter, on Greenwich and Pierce streets
The case of Desire Lethric. who has been an
INN ate of the French Hospital for twenty-six
years, was before the Insanity Commission
He had softening OF the brain, and
It was decided not to send him to an insane
asylum.
A motion for dissolving the Injunction
against Rudolph Spreckels in the Paauhau
Plantation Company matter came up for hear
ng before Judge Slack in Superior Court
Department 10 yesterday and was continued
ill Friday.
W. W Foote, who was selected by Father
Yorke as one of the umpires in the contro-
-ersy with Rev. Donald Ross, refuses 10 act
With H. u. Outflow, whom be regards as being
because OF pronounced A. ?. A
1roclYities.
'fDick" Mcdonald sup before Judge Bahrs
charged with embezzhng S2O, 600
rom the Pacific Bank after it had closed its
oors for the last time on June %. 1888 The
prosecution concluded its case. The defense
egins to-day.
The National Board of Trade at Washington
las requested the cooperation OF the local
1ercantiIe organizations and the public in