The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-14
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

TonSilitis appears 10 be unusually prevalent
among very young children.
The stockholders of the Peoples Home Saw
ings Bank have elected new directory.
Cloudy weather and rain" is predicted for
to-day by Local Forecast Official A. McAdie.
Downtown booksellers employed women to
gel their horse news out OF the Ingleside track
The Socialist Labor party is preparing to put
SOCIALIST ucket IN the held in the next cam
paign.
The new directors of the Home Savings Bank
propose 70 sell property to raise money to pay
dividends
motion to strike out Alfred Clarke's vol
uniary petition IN insolvency has been made
10 Judge Slack
William Keith, the lsndscape-painter, makes
some new discoveries in the art of producing
impTeSSionistlc effects.
DR.. Luke Robinson has hopes that work on
the proposed Mary Help Hospital may be COM
pleted i'll about year.
Mrs. Mary Heckle is suing the Southern
Pacific for $50 900 for the death OF her son at
Anderson, Shasta County.
Rev. W ". Case delivered an interesting
sermon on the gambling mania at the Howard
NJ. {. Church sunday evening.
The winners at Ingleside yesterday were
Draw Scott, Wyoming, Ed Kearney, i'm p. Star
Ruby, Ransom and Rey del Bandidos.
Attorney Barclay Henley while dismounting
from Pacific-avenue car Sunday fell and was
John Wagner, a sailor, was arrested last
night for assault to murder Peter Larsen in &
sailors clearinghouse, SAT Howard street.
Rev. Francis King urged the abolition of
capital punishment yesterday in paper read
before the Presbyterian Ministerial Association.
The denials of motions for new trials in the
Sternberg cases have met different fates in the
supreme Court. One has been affirmed and
one reversed.
The executors OF the Heydenteldt estate are
suelng TO recover possession OF five dividends
from the leila Mining Company enormously
held py them.
The Board OF Supervisors rejected the Wag-
ner poolroom ordinance and passed the meas
ure prohibiting bookmaking GU tside OF race
tracks to print yesterday.
Enrique Cano, d jeweler, after creating q
scene in Judge Lows court yesterday, was ar
rested on warrant charging him with threat
ening 10 Kill A Rufus, his former landlord.
Levi Strauss, Louis Sloss, ]. L. Flood and
George W. McNear have subscribed $1,000 for
electric wires for the University Library and
nothing is now in the way OF lighting it up at
night.
Judge Daingerfeld has sustained the de-
m urrer OF the city OF Santa Rosa to the bill n
equity praying to have the awarding OF the
contract for building the water supply system
Sc aside.
John +. Griffin has been sentenced to twenty
years Imprisonment by Judge Wallace for rob
berry Griffin was convicted OF robbing VIII
liam Conley OF S23, having first hit his victim
over the head with club.
Mate Robert Douglas of the ship N. P. Grace
was arrested b. the Federal authorities yester-
day for cruelty to seamen. The captain, John
d. Winters, has been held. awaiting the action
OF the United States Grand Jury.
George Hollumus, a boy peddler, on trial for
peddllng without license, pretended it Judge
Joachimsens court yesterday that he could
not understand English. but forgot his cue
and may be adjudged guilty of contempt
Emil Hubner, steward OF the British ship
HOsperder, lying in the stream, was coming
out OF the pantry last night, when he slipped
and fell breaking his left collar-bone which
was attended TO al the Receiving Hospital.
Assistant Treasurer Berry yesterday received
the circular Of the Secretary of the Treasury
inviting proposals Tor the 800, 000, 900 worth
OF per cent coupon or registered bonds which
the Treasury Department proposes to issue.
The man who was run over By Mission
electrician on Sunday night near Ingleside
died yesterday morning, and last evening the
body was identified that OF Antonio Panani,
laborer tor the Spring Valley Water Company
The report OF the State Superintendent of
Public Instruction, showing the amount OF
school funds 10 be received by each county for
the first apportionment for 1896, was received
by Auditor Frederick yesterday, showing that
ii the second apporuonment is equal to that OF
last year the back salaries OF san Francisco
teachers may be paid.