The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-20
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.


A large audience greeted QUO beholA a' Ills
third recital at Beethoven Hail.
The Spring Valley Company proposes 10
serate the water supplied 10 san francisco.
The United states Grand Jury refused to
indict any one in the Freeman case yesterday.
Fair Wednesday; slightly cooler; south
westerly winds is the ouclaA lofecast lof To-
days weather.
C.P. Hunting ton having finished with the
local end OF the Southern Pacific, will leave for
New Y ork to-day.
Professor T. r. Bacon lectured on 1.-THE Ig-
nOrance OF Man at the second Unitarian
Church last evening.
The winning horses at the Bay District track
Yesterday were Gondola, Toano, Perhaps,
Judge Tamm and Happy Day
The Sketch Club opened its fall display of
paintings yesterday at the rooms OF the organ
iZation on Montgomery street.
Letters from Atlanta show that the. visitors
al the exposition are becoming greatly Inter
ested IN California dried fruits.
Milk Inspector Dockery has found the milk
in several hotels and restaurants not up to the
standard and arrests will follow.
Walter Alexander recognizes William
Schultz's picture in the rogues' gallery as that
of the murderer of Alfred A. Neville.
Watchers with drawn revolvers guarded the
gas meter during last Saturday nights meeting
OF the Democratic general committee.
The CITY Hall Commissioners decided yester-
day TO build the half-mansard roof proposed
by the City and County Attorney on the hall.
laundry-wsgon driver named J. Z. FlAven
committed suicide by cutting his throat with
a razor at 2032 Lombard street yesterday
morning.
portion of the Lincoln School property on
Market street was leased to A. J. Proger's Sons
OF Portland, Oregon, by the Board OF Education
yesterday.
The property-owners in the vicinity of Noe
and Twenty-ninth streets are indignant be-
cause the TWeQtV-ninth street electric line has
been shortened
Judge Trout has decided the suit of F. A.
Williams ct al. agsinst the directors of the Pa
ciic Bank, TO recover balances due on deposit,
in favor OF the plaintiffs.
According to the United States Supreme
Court the Union Pacific must do a commercial
telegraph business in competition with the
other telegraph companies.
The Chinese Merchants Association, the See
Yup faction of the inhabitants of Chinatown,
celebrated the opening of a new headquarters
on Commercial street yesterday.
Rev. F. II. Schwertz, the clerical impostor
who passed worthless checks on several gro
cerymen, was arrested in Sacramento last
night, and will be brought here.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Company
duced rates 10 Puget Sound yesterday to So
first class and 30 second. The Portland steamer
will leave to-day full of passengers.
The purchasing agent of the Mountain mine
OF Shasta County says that he will order all of
the companys supplies in San Francisco,
WHICH amount 10 '>0U,OOO u IuOHlu
The Cfgar-makers Union last evening levied
an assessment of IS member TO make up the
$3.50 deficiency caused by the embezzlement
Of the late treasurer, G. W. Van Guelpen.
At its meeting last night the Civic Fedora
ton strongly Endorsed the proposed new char
ter, opened a campaign against indecent pic
torial advertisements on fences and outlined
in detail ITS scope OF work.
J. W Rickett is suing the Market-street Rail-
way Company for $50 900 damages for per
cCr,o1 min rp6p hN hninC z q
Market-street car, on Powell and Market
streets. on May %, 1894.
Louis Arnold who has two charges of embez-
element pending against him before Judge
Wallace, failed to appear for trial yesterday
II he is not on hand to-day his bonds of $1,000
IN each case will be declared forfeited.
The California Baseball League has been
broken up because of the light patronage.
Most OF the players of the Oakland and San
Jose mines have gone East. A new league is to
be formed TO include the Paciics and Olympics.
The ravine in the Black Point Reservation
has been filed by Warren Malley, the con-
tractors who will now devote the S12, 900 ap-
Uropriated monthly to filing in the lots of the
Fair estate. The work will be done in two
years.
The charge of arson at sea, brought by Cap
tain Shorey (colored) of the American whaling
bark Gayhead, against the three white men,
Ekerenkutter, Bresling and Gehrmann, was
dismissed by United States Com missioner Hea-
cock yesterday
will play a secret practice game at Central
Park this afternoon and another to-mOr-
row afternoon, but on Friday the Olympfcs Will
rest before their big match with the Reliance
eleven Saturday.
Miss Laura Booth, the leading lady of the
''War of Wealth. company playing at the Cali
fornia Theater, was rescued in the deep water
of the Lurline baths after having sunk twice
She declares that she is going swimming every
day of her stay, though.
Miss Arcy, a servant girl from Third
street employment Office, was injured, perhaps
seriously, in the spine by the elevator at the
Baldwin Yesterday She walked in under the
elevator, the doors being left partly open, and
when it came down she was seriously bruised
Louis Conderoth, a laborer employed in re-
moving rubbish at a building being erected at
III Market street, was struck on the nose yes
terday by a scantling that fell from third |
story window. His nose broken, and he
has also sustained a possible fracture of the
skull
Philip Jaisohn, MD, Korean nobleman,
exiled eleven years ago by the Korean King |
with Prince PAX, and who has since been en- |
ployed at Washington and become somewhat |
noted in science, is at the Occidental. accom- |
panied by his secretary. He has been called !
home Dy the King.
Alfred Isson is endeavoring to have his |
brother-in-law, George Stierlen, prosecuted for
violating the postal laws. He received certain |
anonymous letters at Tapachula, Mexico, he !
says, addressed to MRS. w. G. Steele" but |
really intended for his wife. Mrs. Isson was a
victim OF the Colima disaster.
Judge seawell has annulled the marriage of
Augusta Senior and John W. Senior, on the
ground that both were under age and not le
gally competent to marry without the parental
consent which was lacking in this case. The
plaintiff Mrs. Senior was allowed to resume |
her maiden name of Augusta McNair.
This morning THE CALL publishes en- excel !
lent map illustrating the situation of the !
trouble in Armenia. 1t is worth preserving |
Yesterdays CALL con tanned carefully drawn |
map showing the Alaskan boundary now In |
dispute Such maps are of real value to news |
paper readers and should be kept for ready |
reference.
Caesar Crespi, editor and proprietor of II
Messaggiero, has brought suit for $4,000 |
damages against the Italian Publishing Com
pany, because they printed in LItalia the fact |
that he had been arrested for criminal libel |
and might be arrested again for classifying doc |
uments. He considers the publication OF those |
facts libelous.
General Agent Rudolph Neumann of the |
Alaska Commercial Company brings news TO !
the City of bold assumption OF jurisdiction |
by the Canadian Government over "Forty-
mile" little mining town ON the Yukon
River, which has generally been regarded as
just west of the boundary line, and, therefore.