The San Francisco call., 1896-07-03
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Free Press Defense Association has reor-
ganized.
The entries for the Pacific Coast field trials
closed yesterday.
The Board of Trade has joined the ranks of
carnival promoters.
The Endeavorers will hold a picnic at Glen
wood Park on the Fourth.
The drawing of dogs for to-morrow's run at
Ingleslde has been announced.
DR.. c. c. 0Donnell has been sued for four
months rent due on his office.
A B. spreckels has sued John Norman be-
cause OF peculiar land transaction.
The lepers at the Pesthouse have not yet
been furnished with DR.. Goto's remedy.
The wheelmen OF this City will hold grand
lantern street parade on the night of the % tn
inst.
The eighth Grand Council of the Young
Ladies Institute will convene in this City on
Tuesday next
In the Thornton-Auzerais suit yesterday Mr..
Thornton's bill of damages was filed. The case
goes on to-day.
Over S40O 900 in special taxes will be paid
into the Internal Revenue Office during the
next thirty days.
The hearing in the Fair win matter was post
ness of Mrs. Craven
Nellie yaIleau yesterday applied for letters
of administration on the estate OF ex-Super-
visor Samuel Valleau.
Eddie Graney received telegram from Peter
Maher announcing that the Irishman will
night ChoyIsk in this City.
The State DEVELOPMENT Committee is nearly
ready to issue the new Typographical maps of
California and OF San Francisco.
The attendance at Ingleside yesterday TO see
the trottlng events was light Marguerite and
bruno were the money y-gatherers-
Captain Whitman stopped the smith-Gal-
lagher contest because OF slogging and the
reieree declared the match draw
Emile Hestres, the old Frenchwoman who
disappeared three weeks ago, has been dis
covered TO be dying in the Almshouse.
In the tria Yesterday of Creegan and Becker
Tor the Nevada Bank forgery, A H. Dean or
Seaver occupied the stand most of the day.
The Weather Office says 'fair Friday and
prooaoly saturday; fresh northwesterly winds,
increasing IN force during the afternoon"
Mrs. Mary Yarde- Butler has again mortgaged
her property. This time she has borrowed
+2oOo on her interest in her fathers estate.
The Young Mems Catholic Union will con-
quot patriotic exercises tonight at Metropol-
ltan Temple TO celebrate Independence day
The Letter-carriers' Mutual Aid Association
Will entertain their many friends at the second
annual picnic tomorrow in SchuetZen Park.
Three of the defendants in the suit TO Quiet
title 10 the Fair property at Pine and Sansome
streets have disclaimed any title in the prop
erty.
TlrYouths' Directory will hold grand fas
raise funds for new home and technical
school.
The banks are bringing suit to have the As
SCISSOR restrained from collecting personal
property taxes from them under his present
assessments
Jacob Wolf, barber was arrested last even
ing for battery upon Frank ]. Kane secretary
tor the Pacific Coast Society for the Prevention
OF Cruelty to Children.
Rev. DR.. NJ. Linerer will preach tomorrow
morning IN the Minna-street synagogue. on
THE successful Building of the Tower OF
Babel in the United States"
A hundred men and seventy teams are now
bus1ly employed upon the site of the new
Union-square Market, which will be completed
and occupied in next October.
Last night the executive committee for the
Fourth OF July met for the last time before the
celebration. The parade will probably be the
finest ever witnessed on the Pacific Coast.
1t was stated yesterday by a leading Populist
that Mcguire will be supported for Congress
from the Fourth in return for Democratic affil-
iation in the Fifth Congressional District
The iftieth anniversary of the raising of the
American flag in this City is to be fttingly
celebrated on the 9Th inst by the Exempt Fire
Company, the army, militia and the navy
John Kehoe, a teamster, was arrested yester-
day on a warrant charging him with grand
larceny In approprlatlng $40 belonging to
his emp oyer, Ed Tracy, which he got to paw
freight charges on goods.
A letter received by g mining man in this
CITY tells OF many horrors attendant upon the
Matabele uprising in South Africa, the facts of
which have been heretofore suppressed by the
English chartered corporation.
Judge Slack yesterday issued a writ of GER
tiorari commanding the Board of Supervisors
10 appear bofore Judge SeaweL and review
their action in letting the Folsom-s treet paw
Ing contract to the City Improvement Com
pany.
The latest attempt of the attorneys for the
Noe heirs to get Mission prope rty owners TO
buy qultclaim deeds is the sending OF postal
cards 10 members of the defense unions falsely
warning them that their suits have gone by
default -
suit has been brought by the administrator
OF the estate OF Solomon o. Heydenfeldt to re-
cover possession OF 1914 shares of stock of the
Zeila Mining Company that were transferred
10 Heydenfeldts wife. There is an unsatjsfied
mortgage of $40, 900 against the estate.
AT an election of officers held by the Dray-
mems and Teamsters' Union, Saturday
evening, June 27. the following were
elected for the ensuing term President
u r Brown; vice president, S. d. Cole; treas
urer, John S. French; financial secretary,
George G. Evers; recording secretary, J. b.
Nlderost; sergeant-at-arms, p. w. WinkIey;
trustees Tor long term, ID. L. Farnsworth and
william GrutZmacher.