The San Francisco call., 1896-08-05
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

o. T. Wiley & Co., carriage dealers were at
taehed by their creditors yesterday.
The weather Office offers fair weather, with
westerly winds brisk and high for to-day.
County Clerk Currys annual report to the
Board of Supervisors was rendered yesterday.
Clubs to foster home industries will soon be
formed among the working classes of this City.
The California Swimming Club will meet
this evening at its headquarters at the Sutro
Baths.
Chief Janitor Brooks of the Emporium is
supposed to have gone away with his type
writer.
National Parlor No. 11s, N. s. G. W., gave an
entertainment and dance last night at Native
Sons Hall.
City and County Attorney Creswell has de-
clared the reduction Of south of the park taxes
to be legal.
Awarrant is out for the arrest Of Samuel B.
Black, an actor, on charges OF bigamy and
failure to provide.
The Pacific Coast Pony and Steeplechase AS
sociation will hold its annual meeting at
Monterey this month.
Donations of fruit and flowers are contin-
uelly being sent by friends of the cause to the
Woman Suffrage Bureau.
A private letter from Alaska says that the
schooner Herman has made the splendid catch
OF sixty-three otter skins.
The cases of Illegal registration recently re-
ferred by the Registrar to the Grand Jury will
be considered next Friday.
The crew of the Sierra Parma was not lost
as reported. They were picked up by passing
ship and landed at Colombo, Ceylon.
John B. Earle has sued H J. Booth to re-
cover $1,000 due on promissory notes, drawn
in favor OF the Anglo-CalifOrnian Bank.
A final article on the lumber industry
further shows how free trade, the same that
Bryan advocates, has led to general ruin.
Four Of the bay and river steamers broke
down yesterday. The I. c. Walker blew out
her eylinder-head and two of the crew were
sealded.
Chief Crowley and Chief Sullivan of the
Fire Department refused yesterday to aid the
Board OF Health in tearing down Chinese
rookeries.
The Kings Daughters of the Chinese Pres
byterian Church held their first regular meet
ing since their summer vacation yesterday
afternoon.
German ConsuLGeneral Rosenthal denies
that he knows of the immense fortune to
which Barkeeper Adolph Nothbaar claims to
have fallen heir.
The case of the Government against the
North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company
came up for hearing in the United States
Circuit Court yesterday.
The Phoenix Republican Club held rousinR
meeting in Scottish Hall last night, at which
stirring addresses were delivered by William
Powers and Andy Branch.
The British ship Lathom, which arrived from
Swansea yesterday. rescued the crew of the
ship Gowanbank off the Horn. The latter ves-
sci was IN sinking condition.
synopsis of the report of Hon. T. L. Ford
to the California Miners Association upon his
work IN Washington in the interests OF mines
and miners appears in this issue,
The es tate OF Alexander P. Moore has been
partially distributed. The report of the in
come-tax appraiser, sc ting forth the amounts
paid the heirs, was filed yesterday.
Chinese lottery tickets have been so extern
= or of Lot hxN Inn nfCrINH
police that the Chinese are setting up presses
to make their own tickets in this City.
Owen Cunningham has sued Contractor J.
H. Mckay for $40, 600 damages for injuries
sustained by reason OF fall from an alleged
detective ladder in use by the defendant.
1t is now claimed tnat the statute providing
Tor the sale OF franchises at public auction is
institutional, and test case will probably
be made in the matter of the Geary-street
roads application.
A. Palardini, the fish merchant, was con-
victed by Judge Conlan yesterday of having
striped bass less than three pounds in weight
in his possession and was ordered to appear
for sentence Saturday.
Nine. Amelia Mezzara of this City has been
granted a pension by the War Department for
services nurse during the Civil War She
also did service in the hospitals during the
Franco-Prussian conflict
Mrs. Annie Mitchell, who is awaiting trial
for cutting a horse with razor on Eighth
rope yesterday afternoon and jumped into the
bay, but both were rescued.
During the progress OF the trial of Peter F.
Lane IN Judge Wallace's court yesterday, Julia
ChrlstianSen, 14-year-old witness refused to
testify unless released. from the Magdalen Asy.
Ium, Where she is at present detained.
James Carr of the Portland Hotel Sd Saera.
mento street, desires 10 have it known that he
is no way connected with the Jim Carr of Nc
Allister street, who was mentioned in an
article published in THE CALL last week.
The British ship Lathom, 175 DAYS from
Swansea, ana the American bark Undaunted
1876 days from Baltimore, both arrived in port
yesterday. They were considerably overdue
and heavy reinsurance was paid on them.
H. Kobagashi, a representative of the COM
pany which proposes to run steamers from this
coast TO the Orient, appeared before the Har-
Dor Commissioner yesterday and was assured
the hearty support OF that body in the enter
prise.
The children of John O'Brien, wealthy resi-
dent of Noe Valley, are fighting to secure pos
session OF his property before the old man dies.
A suit to obtain portion of his estate was
filed yesterday by Mrs. Annie Perry, his
daughter.
Yesterday at 10 O'Clock the council fire was
kindled OF the thirty-frst great sun session of
Order of Red Men, ana the fourth great sun
council of the degree of Pocahontas, at Red
Mems Hall.
The Manufacturers and Producers Associa-
Will prODhDly make q IlVelE 0Rht before
Congress and the State Legislature to secure
the passage OF laws to compel dealers in con-
Viet-made goods to brand the same by some
mark to show that the stuff was not made by
free labor.
Superintendent Babcock states that he is in
receipt this year OF an unusual number of ap-
plications for transfers of pupils from one
school to another. He attri butes the reason of
this chiefly TO a desire upon the part of parents
to have their children educated in fashionable
schools and aristocratic neighborhoods.