The San Francisco call., 1896-05-12
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
Fair Tuesday'-prediction by Forecast OFF,
cial McAdie.
The State Rebekah Assembly meets to-day
in Odd Fellows Hall
The Rev. DR.. Charles o. Brown is suffering
from nervous prostration.
Colonel Jack Clemishire's wife has sued him
for divorce on statutory grounds.
The Board OF Health will ask for an in
creased appropriation for the coming fiscal
year.
The 6rst annual session of the managers of
the Presbyterian Orphan Home was held yes
terday.
The Election Commissioners granted Regis
trar Hinton ten additional clerks at yeSter-
days meeting.
The twentieth annual session of the Homeo
pathic Medical Society will open tomorrow at
the Palace Hotel
The Ashley-Baldwin case opened in Judge
Slack's court yesterday, but the courtroom
doors were closed.
The standing committee of the First CoDgre-
gational Church has asked for permit to sell
the church property
Fred Bell Iegained consciousness yesterday.
but in moment he relapsed into his former
condition OF insensibility.
The case OF failure to provide against W. G.
Hughes, building ontractor, was dismissed
by Judge Campbell yesterday.
The Trsnscontinental Association at its meet
ing tomorrow will fix rates for delegates and
visitors 10 the big conventions.
The Election Commissioners have refused to
allow the Registrar TO have precinct maps
printed Tor the coming election.
The police are searching for bogus priest.
who got check for 800 from Rev. Father
Collins of Santa College last week
All Doc, Chinese highlander, was arrested
early yesterday morning for robbing Daniel
Freeman, colored man. on Pacific street.
The widow and family of John Ryer, the en-
gineer who was killed IN the Baden accident,
are suing for $4,000 damages for his death.
The womans Federation appointed a com
nittee yesterday TO secure the appointment of
an officer 10 compel children to attend school.
Judge Trout has declared the law under
which the Assessor may be sued for uncol-
lected personal property taxes unconstitu-
tional.
account shows SIS y34S to his credit, was found
dead in his room at a lodging-house on Mis-
sion street
An enthusiastic preliminary meeting was
held at the Baldwin last night to discuss the
feasibility OF inauGurating an annual carnival
in this City.
Walter Hobart lost 800 Sunday before all
'Blingum" backing his polo pony Laddie
against Santa Clara, the speed lest pony of the
Riverside team.
Property-owners and storekeepers of the
north end will meet tomorrow night to pro-
test against delay In building on the site OF
the old City Hall.
Maggie Smith and Lucy Inman, two young
girls, escaped from the Training School, on
Hill street, Saturday night and the police are
searching for them.
The Woman's Congress Association, the
Amendment Campaign Association and the
Woman Suffrage Association held enthusiastic
meetings yesterday.
Five of the six favor1tes were beaten at
Ingleside yesterday. The winning horses were:
Fleur de Lis. Instigator, Daylight Red Glenn,
WRwona and Toano.
The Rev. R. Vaughan Griffith, for the last
I'VE years pastor OF the Welsh Presbyterian
Church, is to leave Tor Wales because his sick
wife cannot live here.
important information relative TO how East
ern contractors are flooding the country wi tn
the products OF convict labor.
The Pacifc-Union Club met last night and
amended Its constitution calling for an cleo
tion OF president and board of directors from
the body OF the club on May 26.
The Union Iron Works have estimated the
cost OF putting in the underground trolley sys-
tenn for the Market-street Company on tracks
where the rails have already been wired.
John Lawrence the bogus bishop of Homo
lulu ana q noted lmpostet, arrived in this City
from Portland q few days ago He personates
Catholic priests and his audacity is sublime
A. ]. Clunie has fled sn accusation against
him from office. The cause is the under.
assessment of the Market-street Railway Com
pany's properly.
Professor John Watson gave learned ad-
dress to the Presbyterian Ministerial Union
yesterday on Faith" Professor Howison
spoke and said he did not teach unorthodoxv
TO Berkeley students.
The estate of Kate Johnson has been incor-
porated with capital stock of $472 500. The
directors are Frederick H. Deakin, Frank
Weber, FREDERICK Kellogg, Edgar NJ. Wilson
and Charles Il. Phillips.
The many friends OF Mrs. A. B. O'Brien, late
of Eureka, Cal, will be grieyed to learn of her
sudden demise on Friday last. She succumbed
TO chronic gastritis, from which she had suf-
fered for several months.
The hearing of exceptions to the accounting
of John F. More, the administrator of the
Santa Rosa Island estate, began in Judge Cof-
fey's court yesterday morning. The heirs
claim gross fraud and want his removal.
Registrar Hinton says registration viii be
conducted this year under the general law,
which opens the books 160 days and closes
them 85 days before the election. He thinks
this Will handicap the striffer and colonizer.