The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-18
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Generally fair Friday is to-day's weather
prediction.
Con Mooney's wildcat is to come up in court
this morning.
Richmond still advances on the lines of
improvement and prosperity.
The committee of fifty has begun TO raise
money to fight the funding bill in Congress.
An excursion of business men will leave the
City this evening for the Citrus Fair at Fresno.
A club has been formed in this CITY to give
the Cuban patriots moral and financial sup
port.
Colonel William p Sullivan Jr. is said to be
on the slate for the position OF Mayor Phelan' S
secretary.
Applications for more than $3.50, 900 in fees
in the James Fair estate have been made to
Judge Slack.
General c. n. Taylor, owner of the Boston
Globe, arrived here yesterday, accompanied
by his family.
The winners at Oakland track yesterday
were Soniro, Palmerston, Billy Vice, Schnitz
and Major Cook.
1t has been discovered that the Mayors OBJ
jections to signing the Hall of Justice contract
are unwarranted.
Taylor street, from Golden Gate avenue to
Eddy street, will be among the illumin ated
streets tomorrow night
The Grand Jury met last night and con-
sldered the subject of the City's title to land
known as the Mission Plaza.
The school children added very consider
ably to the fund for the Salvation Army
christmas dinner yesterday.
The Street Committee OF the Board of Super
Vlsors has recommended that the new City
map be accepted and paid for.
A bazaar was held yes terday at the California
Girls Training Home on Natoma street Tor en-
riehing the current expense fund.
Mrs. Anna NJ. Hoffman, committed suicide
IN the French Hospital while suffering from
meldQc6Olla Wednesday evening
Judge Seawell yesterday gran ted a nonsuit
IN the case OF Thomas Curtis against j. L. lis
dale, the amount involved being $3.50.
e. The Naval Board to select site for the naval
tralning-school on Goat Island visited the
island yesterday and is comforting as to the site.
1t is likely that mails from the infected ports
in Japan Will be delayed in their delivery and
fumlg@ted in the Angel Island quarantine
station.
At the lnquests upon the bodies of Mrs.
Sarah B. Cooper and her daughter, Harriet
Cooper, 10 new light was thrown upon the
awful tragedy.
The admiralty damage suit of L. A. Peter
son, seaman, against the owners of the tug
Viglant is on hearing in the United States
DIS riot Court.
The Ocean View Improvement Club last
evening voted unanimously in favor of the
proposed boulevard from Nineteenth avenue
10 Ocean View.
Mounted Policeman W. H. Hanley stopped
streets, and turned away danger from many
school children.
The Civic Federation is likely to take vigor-
Gus action to have the prize-ighters, FitZsim-
mons and Sharkey, and their seconds indicted
by the Grand Jury.
. The Supreme Court found the burial ordi-
nance of the City and County OF San Francisco
invalid. The decision is OF great importance
TO property-owners.
The Christian church will soon establish in
Tor4
of Japanese, who will act as missionaries when
they return TO their native land.
Alexander Heyneman. the well-known at
torney, and Mrs. Mary Kane Gibbs were mar
fied last evening al the home of the brides
mother, Mrs f. Z. Gibbs, on Fillmore street.
The will of the late Mrs. Annie Donahue
has been filed for probate. ]. Downey Harvey
and Mrs Eleanor Martin are residuary lega-
tees The estate is said to be worth So, 000,-
600.
Animals Will leave the office of president va
cant until next July as mark of respect to
the late Jacob q. Davis, and will drape the
presidents chair with black.
George Mitchell, a Greek fisherman, sus-
pected of drugging and robbing John Martin,
q miner from Nevada, was booked at the City
Prison yesterday on a charge OF vagrancy, as
Martin tailed to identity him.
Mrs. Sarah Owen Spencer produced docu-
mentary evidence in Judge Wallace's court
yesterday to prove that she was not in Califor-
MIA at the time Carl Won Tiedeman swore the
name of Mrs. Christy was forged.
Danny Miller, the horseman, and bosom
friend of Wyatt carp, is declared to have been
the man who with 'Long Green" Lawrence
engineered the appointment of carp as referee
in the immons-Sharkey fight.
new trial has been granted to E. N.
Tucker, who was sentenced to Imprisonment
in Folsom on conviction OF eXtortion in San
Joaquin County. The decision was handed
down in the Supreme Court yesterday.
The Sixteenth-street Improvement Club was
sadly disappointed upon learning yesterday
that the electric-light company cannot get the
arc-lamps on the street by Saturday night
hence there will be no celebration at the date
proposed.
The blind students of the Institution for the
Deaf and Blind will give their annual sacred
concert a O'Clock on Sunday afternoon, De-
cember 20, in the assembly hall VI the institu-
ton at Berkeley. The public is cordially In
Yited to attend.
The inventory and appraisement OF the es-
tate of the late William Spencer McMurtry has
addition to considerable personal property are
a number of notes and mortgages. The value
of the estate is placed at $269, 800 "a.
Judge Sanderson yesterday decided that the
glove contest in which FitZsimmons and
Sharkey took part was prize-fghI, and that
the participants are indictable and the specl a.
tors lawbreakers. The court had no jurisdic-
ton over the squabble for The purse, and dis
missed the injunction and complaint.