The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-25
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.


1t was decided yesterday to make NUMBER
OF changes In the Aid Institute.
Several new orders in the Fair estate were
issued yesterday by Judge Slack.
Benjamin Kopf, cigarmaker, was charged
with failure to support ms family.
Treasurer Widber made his annual report to
the Board of Supervisors yesterday.
Judge Coffey has fixed the collateral inheri-
lance taxes in the Wilmerding estate
Attorney-General Fitzgerald has rendered an
important opinion on sanitary districts.
The Board of Health met yesterday and as
result a number OF heads were Topped OFF.
The wedding of Miss Belle Mcpherson and
Lieutenant Alexander MeCrack1n took place
yesterday.
About $500 applicants for work registered at
the State free Employment Bureau during the
first week.
The forecast official predicts "fair weather.
stationary temperature, light summer Winds
Tor to-day.
The winners at the track yesterday were:
and Flirtilla.
W H. Phelps was yesterday elected director
OF the Peoples Home Bank 10 succeed l. L. Mer-
riI, resigned.
The grain handlers on the seawall struck
yesterday noon for ten hours instead of nine
Tor days work.
Assemblyman Thomas of Nevada and Miss
May James of Oroville were married at the
Palace Hotel last evening.
The Southern Heights Improvement Club
will demand better water supply and more
electric lights tot the Potrero.
Colonel A. Andrews, one of the most active
members of the order OF Red Men, is in line of
promotion to the highest Office.
a protest has been made against the State
Prison Directors increasing the size and scope
OF the iute plant al San Quentin.
John P Irish has protested 10 the Yosemite
Commissioners against the grant OF lease in
the valley TO Captain Hutchings.
The Austrian Military and Benevolent Asso-
citation viii ask Governor Budd for the privi-
lege OF bearing arms once year.
w F. Mau is OF the opinion that merchants
should push California products and the peo-
pie be instructed to appreciate them.
Word was received IN this City yesterday to
the effect that Captain Weeks of the whaler
Thresher died at Hershel Island March %.
The motion for a change of venue in the trial
OF Durrant will be replied to in Judge Muir
phys court this morning by the prosecution.
Tom Lane, the superintendent of the Utica
mine is in the City buying pumps to lift out
the water and hasten the resumption of work.
The San Francisco Yacht Club has decided 10
enter the great inter-yacht club regatta on
August %. and it is proposed TO have race
for big boats.
At FIRE in George Roconf's stable on Ten
nessee street, near Meriposa, six horses were
burned 10 death and several wagons and bug
gles were consumed.
Chief Clerk Barnett of the Mint quoted the
coinage laws Yesterday to show that assaying
and chemical analyses in the Government in
stitutions are prohibited.
Sam Wah, Chinese overalls manufacturer,
wants TO hire forty-one white women to work
in his shop 10 fill the places of his Chinese en-
ployes who are out on strike.
Assistant Superintendent of Schools Babcock
explained in an interview yesterday why
children under years OF age are sometimes
admitted TO the public schools.
Mrs. Annie Lukschewitz charged her nus
band, Benjamin Lukschewitz, with failure to
support her, and claimed that her father-in-
law was the cause of the trouble.
The test Of smelling small quantity OF ore
from the Keystone mine by electricity shows
that the effect is almost instantaneous oxidiza-
ton OF iron and liberation OF gold.
George W. McNear, the wheat king, has en-
barked in the milling business, having opened
the Starr mills at Port Costa and South Vallejo.
He has now three men on the streets.
Attorney w. H. Allen was yesterday held to
answer before the Superior Court by Judge
Low in $4,000 bonds, on the charge of obtain
ing money and goods by false pretenses.
The Sons of st. George, in second days con-
venticn of the Pacific Coast Grand Lodge.
elected delegates to the convention Supreme
Lodge and candidates tor offices OF that body.
Judge Campbell yesterday held Leo de Car
dons, ex-bookkeeper OF the Street Department,
to answer before the Superior Court in $1,000
S S28. i0' raising osinanu warrant from 20 10
Eva f. Crates came here from San Diego
County to study at q business college. A few
days ago she became subject to epileptic fits,
and last Tuesday night she smothered herself
during an attack.
Tillmann BendePs coffee warehouse was
Quilted yesterday morning. The loss on the
stock is estimated at $4,000, and the insur-
ance is S39, 500. The loss on the building will
be about $4,000.
The local Hquor-dealers for the last four
months have been putting in practice ascheme
by which they saw considerable money on
Government allowances Tor Shrinkage and
upon freight rates.
Morrow Tucker, not yet 20 years old, was
committed to the Magdalen Asylum by Judge
Campbell yesterday. man named Manning,
who was found in her company, was sent to
the County Jail for six months.
Attorney General Fitzgerald has given his
opinion 10 the Railroad Commissioners that
electric street railways carrying freight must
report to the commission and abide by that
body's decision on passenger and freight rates.
The preliminary examination of Attorney
James H. Long, charged with felony embeZzle-
ment by Carol d Weber, proprietors of a. faro
bank, was continued by Judge Campbell yester-
day for two weeks to get Chris Buckley as a
witness.
Stevenson, q fireman, was badly burned at a |
fire in the Pacific box factory yesterday after |
noon. An explosion of gas blew the furnace |
doors open and all the hair on his head was |
DuIHeu On Db TIC IusAIuB IdIueS DclOIe he was 1
rescued.
George Strebel the hog-rancher at Bay |
View, who was arrested on Tuesday night for |
an assault to murder his wife, was released on |
$1,000 bonds yesterday by Judge Low, as the /
facts showed that the wife first attacked him |
with pitchfork
Rebuilding the halfcompleted church of st.
Rose on Brannan street has begun, as the in
surance was satisfactorily settled with Father |
Nugent, the pastor. He said last night that /
the poor people who had been burned ont sI,f- |
fered but very little.
John Comerford, proprietor of saloon on |
Duncan and Dolores streets, and his bartender
William Wellman, were arrested early yester-
day morning in connection with the shooting |
of Daniel Johnson, butcher living at 1928 |
Twenty-sixth street.
The marine engineers and the masters and |
pilots of American vessels will hold meeting |
next Saturday night to devise means by which |
Congress may be prevailed on to pass an act |
making citizenship necessary to hold an off, |
GERS position in an American vessel.
George Garcier, George Ward, James Murphy |
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