The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

Mr.. and Mrs. Peter H. Donks of Hayes and
cough streets celebrated their golden wedding
yesterday
Patriot, Mollie Bawn, wawona, Yemen and
trlct track yesterday.
The suit of Adam Grant to have the Murphy
Grant property sold and distributed was argued
before Judge Slack yesterday.
The Southside improvement Clubs will ask
the railroad company TO pave Folsom street be-
tween the rails with biJumen.
The win of the late Captain John NJ. Cavarly
has been filed for probate He left an estate
valued at 100000 to his five children.
new cemetery, "Mount Olivet," is being
laid out in San MateO County in which nearly
all the frate rnal organizations will have piats.
The widow OF Detective Dan Coffey has
brought suit to recover $1,000 from the police
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At the last meeting CT the Baptist ministers,
General 7. j: Morgan, secretary OF the Home
missionary Society, spoke OF the work of his
organization.
C.. s. Young, who was appointed superin-
tendent OF Common Schools by the Board of
supervisors last Monday, took the oath of
Office yesterday.
The contract for the bridge over the s1anis-
leus Tor the Valley Railroad was let to John
Worthington OF Oakland yesterday. II will
cost about $4,000.
Thomas Williams has filed an account of the
guardianship OF Mrs. Sarah Althea Terry. R.
Porter AShe and others have filed claims
against the same estate.
Lick Free Bath trust, has filed his accounts for
the FIVE years ending october, 1895. He asks
10 be allowed TO resign.
The charge OF felony embezzlement preferred
by Mrs. Ellh SproleS against A. w. and |. n.
Caro-, woolen merchants, was dismissed by
Judge Campbell yesterday.
Harriet Schenck, the cOlored housekeeper to
whom P. y. Mackay was married by contract,
has peutioned the Superior Court to distribute
TO her her legacy OF $4,000.
Fair; cooler Wednesday morning: north
easterly winds changing 10 northwesterly," is
. the prediction for to-day's weather as issued
by Forecast Official A. McAdie.
Judge Joachimsen fined Peter Cosper, a
milkman, $40 yesterday for selling adulter-
ated milk, and intimated that in future he
would continue TO raise the limit.
John Glennon, an insane patient at the Re-
ceivlng Hospital, attempted to escape yester-
day, and four OF the attaches had a desperate
struggle with him before he was oyerpowered.
The Goethe-Schiller festival opened in the
Pavilion last evening and the German-A meri-
can colony turned out in gOodly numbers IN
spite OF the threatening appearance of the
weather.
The Grand Jury is to investigate ex-Surveyor
t:tzhugh with regard TO the D-street grading
JOB IN which 1t is alleged he made false esti
males, favoring contractors and mulcting the
City and the taxpayers.
The Federal Grand Jury Yesterday began the
tnlesuSsuon or the sensational charges Of
bribery, subornaton and intimidation made
against Attorney II. S. Mackaye Of New York
md Warren P. Freeman.
The San Francisco Pressmen's Union has or
dered a strike OF all the pressmen in the
Schmidt Label Company of II Main street, be-
cfuse the operatives it claimed, were be-
Ing overworked and underpaid.
Mayor Sutro and Auditor Broderick had the
customary spicy exchange OF personalities at
the meeting OF the City Hall Commission yes
terday, the topic under discussion being the
third or mansard story proposed by the Mayor
Judge Campbell was TO have given decision
Yesterday in the case of Murray & Leady en-
poyment agents, charged with obtaining
money by false pretenses from several labor
ers, but at the request OF the attorneys in the
case he decided to hear their arguments to-
dav.