The San Francisco call., 1896-03-20
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

II. c. Bunner, manager OF Puck, is seriously
Ill in this City.
The Art Institute will have no opposition
ticket this year.
The Grant memorial will soon be unveiled in
Golden Gate Park.
A successful concert was given by Frank d.
Belcher in Native Sons Hall.
The American Socialists are at work forming
public-ownership political party.
The Baden Brick Company is erecting large
brick works in South San Francisco
The will of Uncle Harris has been filed for
probate. His estate is valued at $1,000.
The second annual account of the Stanford
estate has been filed in the Probate Court
Cloudy weather with occasional rains IS
what the weather prophet predicts Tor to-day.
Miss Daisy May Cressy, local vocalist, is
about to go to New York to study for the oper-
attic stage.
The contests of Margaret Crothers and Will
liam Fair to the pencil will have been with
drawn without prejudice.
The directors of the Mechanics Institute pro-
pose the erection OF q pavilion on the FOLSOM
street lot in the near future.
Judge Hebbard has rendered judgment for
$3.50 900 in favor OF Alexander Boyd and J. H.
Davis against Kohler & Frohling.
Rev. Charles L. Mel OF Sausalito preached
last night at the Chapel of the Good Samaritan
on the miraculous Transformation"
Mayor sutro has written to the Driving Park
Pesthouse on the boulevard to lngles1de.
Charles A. Mars. the lather who was assaulted
by strikers on March 10, died from his injuries
at 765 Harrison street, yesterday morning.
The Street Committee of the Board of Super
visors decided yesterday to report in favor OF
having Van Ness avenue reserved as boule-
ward.
Julian sonntag said yesterday that the
miners have lost faith in Land Commissioner
Lamoureaux and expect no benefit at his
hands.
The Bay District track reopened yesterday.
The winning horses were: Faro, Torpedo
Service, Sea spray, Strathfower, Lobengula and
Robin Hood.
The Fair wills had a lively time in court yes
terday, and at the closing of the proceedings
the pencil will was on top. The case will con-
tinue to-day.
Julia Peshon, an habitue of the Barbary
Ceast, was terribly crushed by an electrician
on kearny street, near Broadway, yesterday.
She may die.
The police objected to the trustees of En-
manuel Baptist Church making any changes
in the building until the final disposal OF the
Durrant affair.
Secretary HoIbrook was promised the sup
port of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals yesterday in suppressing coursing
in this County.
Manager Filcher of the State Board of Trade
has received singular communication from a
deaf mute in Iowa, who wishes to found deaf
mute colony here.
Acknowledgement Fitzgerald will this morn
ing begin his fourth day OF argument IN the
Southern Pacific injunction suit against the
Railway Commission.
Edward A. Hatherton, for ten years City Ar
chltect, has been missing from his home since
March /, and his wife and friends fear that he
has committed suicide
A middle-aged man posing recent wild
over with six starving little ones has been
telling his tale to sympathetic individuals in
this City for the last three years.
At the regular meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the Merchants Association yesterday,
many important communications were read
and several firms admitted to membership.
The executive committee of the Wholesale
Paint-dealers' Association met last night and
decided to hold a conference with the master
painters looking toward conclusion of the
strike.
In Judge Levy's court yesterday the poolmen
arrested for violating the ordinance raised the
point that because the money was sent by tele-
graph to San Jose they were not amenable to
the law.
The annual report of the Fish Commission
shows marked increase in the number of
pounds of salmon taken from California waters
during the year 1895 as compared to the years
previous.
The Fire Commissioners yesterday afternoon
accented the resignation of Timothy Driscoll of
engine l6 and appointed Charles Fowler hose
man OF engine 81 and William Delong hose
man of engine l6.
John Buckley, 927 Broadway, an old man,
died at the Receiving Hospital yesterday
morning from fractured skull. and Charles
Gercken, an employe OF the American Brewing
Company, was charged with his murder.
Marc Levingston has filed an answer to the
contest OF Herman Oelrichs Jr. to the pencil
will He denies all the allegations made as to
the validity of the will and demands that the
matters OF fact involved in the contest be SUBJ
mitted to a jury.
Two witnesses in the Wong Sam case, now
before United States Commissioner Heacock
testified yesterday that Loui Quong, interpre-
ter of the Chinese bureau, had taken Dong Sun
Yet, the Chinese girl brought here for immoral
purposes 10 a gallery in Chinatown ano had
her photographed.
There will be an interesting entertainment
tonight at Trinity Presbyterian Church, cor
ner of Twenty-third and Capp streets. An
operetta from IN Trovatore" will be given.
Miss Fisher and Miss Bogart, well-known vo-
calists, and the Schubert Quartet will give
musical selections.
On Sunday next the Naval Battalion will run
excursion boats to its new boat, the old monitor
Camanche, which lies in the stream off Folsom
street wharf The boats will leave Mission
pier l. starting at $50 and making regular
trips through the day. Tickets will be sold on
the wharf and only by members of the battalion
in uniform. The monitor will be open for
inspection from stem to stern.