The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-02
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.


San Francisco. - - -
"A new: steamer is to be put. on between this
city and s4lviSo-. - -: =: :.
= The anglers. are getting ready to fish the:
trout streams OF the State 80. III :"
: DR.: Gruzsn of Santa Cruz has been. called to-
a Passionate In San. Francisco. =.
Presbyterian: preachers yesterday said a good
WORD Tor women at their meeting. =:
:. Congregational ministers YESTERDAY discussed:
the merits and dement's of Professor Herron.
William Gardiner is suing Mayor .Sutro for
two months rentfor the Pesthouse property.
:. NJ. Lizzie Pedler, 81: years Of age, poisoned
herseltat $50 Minna' street after:a quarrel with
her husband. -: - =. =: -.
The FossrCiprieo gang of. copnterfeiters cam
= NOT give bail Their'tria1 has. been postponed
TO the 10th inst: $500
=. Harry Strick, an aged watchman living:at 20
steuart street, dropped dead on. Main-street.
wharf last evening. ~ -:
A Dutch tea was gfvenye terday at the First
Unitarian Church, at: which society ladies.
posed as living pictures:
August Morrell,:.a young laborer, was: ar
rested for burglary in the room of Pertola
Cato on Greenwich street. p.
Southern Pacific; officials say that G: P. Hunt,
ington has not yet left New York. They do not
know when. he7will be here.
, Mrs. E. NJ. -Hfnckley. delivered an interesting
lecture on; cooking to her class at 703 Suffer
street: yesterday afternoon. :.
J. Herman Brinkerhoff, first assistant engineer
OF the steamer Colum tis died on the passage
OF theVesSel from Portland to this city. . :.
The relatives OF the late DR.. Charles 4. TAYLOR
assert that he was poisoned. They will have
the body exhumed and an autopsy held.
The bark HelenW. klny, which arrived from
the gilbert. Group on Saturday, brings. news of
1.-The murder off white trader bya native police
man. ..:::.': -:
" The estate OF Isaac W ormser has been ap-
praised at $260,T59 ~. OF this see, I09 70 is
IN PERSONAL property and $235 800 is in real
estate - 80: -, =
George Sinclair. has. been sentenced to the
State prison Tor. FIVE years by: Judge Wallace
Tor placing hisy Dung wife in q house of prosti-
tuition. III p
A special train will leave. the city at1:3O
O'Clock p: M.:on i thursday for the polo tourna-
nlent at BurltngaTle: : It will return in the
: evening. IF = :..-@
!: Eleven trained nurses OF the Chibdren's
Hospital and: Training School for Nurses grad
: uated :ln.the First Presbyterian Church last
evening. -. =:..:. .@: " = :-,
I y. s. Leeds manager. OF the Traffic Associa-
= tiotli xesteTda resigned. The: association VIII
secure more Inexpensive quarters, but will not
:: dis0rg anize.:. r =:
=. One Of the attorneys for Max Wassernan
says ere. is no charge Of actual eriminality
: ag ainst.L oIis Sloss in Wassermans action for
ansaecounting. . : -.
:. p. T. Dundon, ex-Supervisor, is suing the
Pacitie: Bank its officers and stockholders for
!. deposltorst and creditors claims amountingto
over 50 ;0oO5 1000: Fl. =
s The board Of directors OF fheValley road.yes-
terday form al ~ ratified the action Of the COM
mtttee in:sel Letting Stockton as the first place
: ct yYhlc Ito begin work. -, :. =.
s The three ice companies of the city have
Joined "lssu les on the price of ice and issued
Schedule, in which rates are raised 100 per
cent to. small cor surners. =.
: Several non-union sailors shipped Yesterday
.tor: the; bari Canada, now lying at Port Costa,
refused TO board the Stockton steamer Weber
s Tor passage to that vessel. 80. =. r..
Z: "A young man named Lew Wallace was
arrested yesterday charged with stealing
carpenters tools at the corner. of Howard and
Spear; streets Sunda y: ntgh hit. -.
.sThe British bark Cupiea is among the miss
- ing. She was bound.ffom Liverpool for Port
-land.and dropped Inysteriously out of sight
when of the G umbia river: -
= Attorney Alfred Clarke received a setback in
the: United states Circuit Court yesterday.
demurrer to:oneof. his famous. land suits was
sustained by Judge McKenna:
= Police officers; are unable to learn anything
concerning the two mysterious weapons found
: In the room of Yicenzo Palini, alias Parma, the
mnr derer ofEugenio de Leva.~ :. -.
:. Judge Morrow was engaged all of yesterday
+. IN, delivering the charge to the. jury in the
strikers trial. He will conclude to-day and
the'ease willthen go to the jury.
=. The revenue. cutter Bear Will begin prepare
ns.for.her northern cruise tomorrow, The
the Boring Sea fleet this, season.
The newly appointed Board of Port Wardens
JAILED TO present credentials yesterday, and the
present. board has signiied an intention of re-
+ ~ a1Ttlng1n office another year.;
. : The crew of-.the coast defense vessel Mon
: te rey object to hottropicai trip in her; and in
narhI circles the question is why is not the
Olympia OF Bennington sent to Peru. =.
Ata:m meeting OF the Loyal OrangeInstitution
yesterday resolutions were adopted indorsing
Premier .frrpnnWQU n nha
= In regard. 70 the public school system.
The polo. team from Fort Walla Walla, with
fifteen sturdy ponies, went to Burlingame yes
terday. to- begin pTacIice for the Interstate
Tournament Which opens on Thursday.
Three appeals OF. Mrs. Mary 6 Dougherty
from the decree OF distribution in the estate OF
; William Walkerly, the deceased Oakland mil
Ilonalre, nave been dismissed by the Supreme
Court.
The writ. OF :nandsmus to compel Police
Judge CampDeH 10 grant, because of his ante
elecuon pledges, "a. change of venu to Alfred
Baldetta, was argued :before Judge Hunt yes
terday.
The betting-ring at. the. track Yesterday
seemed quiet without .Gfannan and the other
PlungeTs that departed Tor. the East. Four of
the six favorites won, Ricardo and Mainstay
winning at long odds. "
The local detectives and Southern Pacific
detectives have traced many crimes to the two
men who held up The: Oregon express near
Marysyillej and have identified them as the
murderers OF Cornelius Stage.
Sheriff Whelan- has applied to the Superior
g Court for a writ OF review, upon which he
wishes the higher court to pass upon the con-
tempt proceedings before Justice Of the Peace
Groezinger, who fined him SIS for disobeying
the court By not serving summons.
Eight Supervisors, King, scully, Benjamin,
Hirsh, Hughes, bunker, Morganstern and /
Wagner, voted for the, Southern Pacific btu
minous: rock. ordinance yesterday, with
Dimond, Taylor, Spreckels and Hobbs against
It.. The ordinance was thus adopted.
: Benjamin, Bangs, as. executor of the estate of
the late Mrs. Kate Johnson, has commenced
suit to quiet title to the various pieces OF prop
erty which were sold by Judge Coffey last
week. twas agreed beforehand that he would
:erty.:
The Superior Court on the request of the at
torneys for Mrs. Frankie White, wife of the
Mendocino 'cattle king" has made an order
olrecting White TO appear and show cause why
MS property should not be sold to pay the
100000 Judgment which his wife was award
ed against him in:her suit for divorce.
The following execution sales will be made
by the Superior Court upon the dates men
toned: April 3, lot on southeast corner of
TWenty-hrst and Noe streets, 57x105 feet;
April a, lot on west line of Shotyell street, $50
north Of Sixteenth, 35x120; April 8, lots 1913,
l5l4 and 1929, gift map g. and lots 254 to 25S, |