The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-30
LOCAL BREVTTIES.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. so, 1895.


s Rates of insurance may go up again.
Preparing to collect the income tax.
Pierre sonstre was suffocated by coal gas.
fifth story is to be added to the Safe Deposit
building.
The suspected footpads and burglars arrested
by the police.
The Pearsons will case has been settled by
Judge COffey.
W. J. Hurley was arraigned for contempt of
court and jury-bribing.
The official report of the last State shoot in
terests local marksmen.
Death of Robert Anderson, mendicant en-
route to the Almshouse.
The Freeholders considered the question of
reducing Recorders fees.
The residence of G. w. Lane, pol Eleventh
street, entered by burglars.
Captain Newt Jordan, the pilot, met with
slight mishap at Meigs wharf.
The police are rounding up the Clara-street
gang OF hoodlums as Migrants
A committee appointed by the Mayor met to
draft a bill for the unemployed
Four persons were baptized by immersion in
Metropolitan Temple last night.
Seasonal rainfall in San Francisco, 1866
inches; same date last year, 1880
Captain Lees wants all city detectives to be
designated as inspectors by the new charter.
Nearly inches more rainfall in San Fran
cisco this year than at same date last season.
Bessie Finley has been divorced from her
husband, j. NJ. Finley, because OF his cruelty.
Many communications have been received
by the Freeholders relative to the new charter.
Registrar Hinton will not appoint Thomas
Kelly, the son OF Martin Kelly, as his messenger.
One thousand ladies attended Mrs Lincoln's
first lecture on cookery at the Pure Food Expo
sition.
4 commodore's pennant will be presented to
CanfQiO WaflapA Of the WaIla Wa11a
to-day.
Two workmen injured by falling from scat
foldings-one carpenter, the other me-
chanic
To educate farmer in the Agricultural De
partment OF the State University costs
$2941 So.
The Legislature is to be asked to investigate
the Department of Agriculture OF the State
University.
Claus spreekels made the new valley road
certainty by subscribing and inspiring others
TO subscribe
Thomas L. Provost, while jumping from a
Mission street electric car in motion, was
nearly scalped.
Eugene Barraque, II years Of age, was ar
rested for fracturing his employers skull and
robbing his till.
Only six farmers have been produced by the
Agricultural Department OF the State Univer-
SHY at Berkeley.
The Supervisors hear representative of the
vetoed by the Mayor.
Governor Budd will be present at the laying
of the cornerstone of the Native Sons new
building February %.
Insurance agents have agreed on q new plan
Of combination under which expulsion is the
penalty for cutting rates.
The steamer service between here and Stock
ton was delayed yesterday by accidents to the
steamers T. C. Walker and Mary CARAT.
Florists and fora-growers formed temporary
organization. The purpose is to boycott CHI
nese. The two factions are not harmonious.
sid Kellett and Frank Savage, alias Joe
Abbott, boy burglars, were sent to the lone
School for four years each by Judge Joachim
sen.
sportsmen are jubilant over sonoma County
Judge DOugherty's decision according Fish
Commissioners the assistance OF County Super
visors.
The B'nai Birth elected ]. Levison grand
secretary. The friends of Louis Blank adhered
TO him 10 the end and strove to replace him in
his position.
The report of the cashier OF the Midwinter
Fair was filed last night. 1t showed that over
81 ,O00, 900 was received and that surplus OF
$50 600 remains.
All public parks except Golden Gate, Buena
Vista and Mountain View Park, will be in the
hands OF the Board Of Public Works if the new
charter is adopted.
The preliminary examination of Manager
Kiftridge and Secretary Ditto of the Painters
Protective League on the charge OF forgery held
before Judge Joachimsen.
Suits for divorce have been filed by Rispah B.
Kellogg against Calvin W. Kellogg, George P.
Greene against Ida NJ. Greene and Anna NJ.
Bennett against Alfred B. Bennett.
Another blow at outside interference in local
affairs struck last night by the Freeholders by
placing the appointment of Election Commits
sioners in the hands OF the Mayor.
The suit of w. H. Chamblss against the Tn
ion Photo-Engraving Company has been settled
out of court. A notice of the dismissal of the
action was filed with the County Clerk yester-
day.
The strange disappearance of the Fair viii
mystifed officials and the parties interested.
The legal bearing of the abstraction was ex-
tensively discussed and searching investiga-
ton instituted.
Chris Savage, who was arrested Saturday,
January 10, on a charge OF picking Miss Vina
Bailev's pocket on Sixth street, was dismissed
by Judge Low, as it was shown that he was IN
no way implicated.
Jacob Jackson arrived with the dead body OF
his wife, who died on the train. The corpse
was brought many miles in the sleeper, the
husband concealing the death. At the funeral
the husband explained his action.
The cases of President Thomas H. Williams Of
the Jockey Club, Starter Ferguson and Jockey
Glover, charged with cruelty TO animals, We're
called in Judge Lows court and postponed till
tomorrow on motion OF the defense.
The San Francisco Amusement Company
formed for theatrical purposes, has 1neorpora,
ted with a capital stock OF $4,000. Leonard
Grover, Leonard Grover Jr., May Noble, Frank
B. Prussia and Emma Noel are the directors.
The will OF the late James G. Fair, which has
disappeared from the County Clerks Office
still remains unbound Yesterday an investi
cation was instituted and speculation was rife
as to who would benefit by the abstraction Of
the document.
internal Revenue authorities have decided
that the rebate for ullage on bonded spirits
shall in all cases be reckoned under the pro
visions of the Wilson bill, even though part Of
the evaporation may have taken effect while
the Mckinley law was in effect
Money talked at the new valley road com.
mittee meeting yesterday. Over 100000
was subscribed to the stock in a few minutes
Claus Spreckels and his sons opened the ball
with generous amounts, the sugar king sub
scribing half million by stroke OF the pen.
At the last meeting of the Society for Chris.
tan Work at the First Unitarian Church, Mon.
day. January %, the secretary and treasurer'S
reports were read and the officers for the en-
suing year were elected as follows: President
Mrs. Horatio Stebbins; recording secretary, Mrs
William 6. Eliot Jr.; corresponding secretary
Mrs. E. T. 3. Mills; treasurer, Mrs. George R.
Presson.
Andrew J. Moulder, City Superintendent Of
Public Schools, has addressed q communities
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