The San Francisco call., 1895-12-30
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

valuable collection from Oregon has been
presented to the Park Museum.
girl Ia years of age became suddenly in
sane In Golden Gate Park yesterday.
At the baseball game yesterday the Olympics
deieated the Paciics. Score: ID to 8.
Mayor sutro thinks the Government ought
10 sue {. P Huntington for an accounting.
The funeral of the veteran, Jacob Wray, at
floneer Hall yesterday afternoon was very
largely attended.
Hermann performed his great trick of
catching bullets fred at him by six soldiers
IN the Baldwin Theater.
Captain Lees says he believes Mrs. Davidson
IS the tool of clever accomplices in the plot TO
blaekmail Dr.. C. o. Brown.
' The second full moon in the month of De-
cemDer Is billed to appear tomorrow night.
Inc nrst full moon this month was on the 1st.
In the match for the coast handban cham
pionship at the Occidental Court yesterday
Nealon and Bonnet defeated Linehan and
Feeney.
Addresses were made yesterday afternoon at
the Good Citizenship meeting at Metropolitan
Temple by Ray Palmer, D. D.. and the Rev. H.
W. Bowman.
Members of the Columbia Pistol and Rife
Club were at Shell Mound experimenting with
the proposed new targets and obtained very
satisfactory results.
c. W. Saunders, sailor OF the Y. S. s. Phila-
sold for $50, and donned soldier clothes. There
IS reward out for his apprehension.
James Hanley, who has furnishing-store on
Market street, went to the Grand Opera-house
last evening and while approaching the box
office he slipped and fell, breaking his right
leg.
John Lawrence, an engineer, arrested
last evening upon q warrant charging him
with having made felonious assault upon Liz
zie Muller, small girl 13 years of age who
resides with her parents at 675 Stevenson
street.
Welch, Gardiner and Middlemiss, who were
arrested for the Inglesde streetcar nold-up
were last evening formally accused of robbery
by J. f. Bronner, who was shot in the hand
while trying 10 save the money taken IRON
Clarke.
Attorney Charles P Eells explained last
night the point of view of the Ibis Club in the
Suisun marsh controversy in the Federal Court
He did not deny that the club was composed of
California parties and had incorporated under
the laws OF Colorado.
Mrs. Mary A. Davidson, whom Dr. c.. O.
Brown accuses of blackmail, says the mysteri-
Gus Elizabeth Jane Baddin will never appear,
that she was an accomplice in plot to ruin
Mrs. Davidson and worked in unison with Miss
OYerman and Dr.. Brown to that end.
James and Frank Hunter, alias Butler, both
young men, were arrested last evening at the
Shooting the Chutes on suspicion of picking
pockets. A woman who was in the grounds
had her purse stolen from her pocket and she
accused the boys of being the thieves.
Martin Gavin amused himself yesterday by
annoying the flower -peddlers at the corner OF
hearny and Market streets He became so
obnoxious that ne was arrest ted for dis turbing
the peace Later, Frank Cuneo one of the ped
dIers, charged him with petty larceny.
The inadequate facilities of the Panama
Railroad Company, which operates the Colum-
bian line of steamers between New York and
Colon has caused a congestion of California
freight at New York, with the probability that
the surplus business will fall to the Southern
p Pacific Company.