The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-15
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.


winds. W. H. Harmon, Forecast Oficial.
Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper's will has been found
TO be Invalid because of a technical de feet
The committee of fty will send repre-
sentative to Washington to fight the funding
bill.
Minnie Young, for divorce on the ground of
desertion.
Circuit Judge McKenna yesterday decided
adversely 10 Collector Wise in the starch or
tapioca cases
The Presbyterian orphanage and Farm re-
soiVeo yesterday to begin building al San An.
seImo early in the new year.
Passenger trains are now being run on the
san Francisco and San joaquin Valley Rail-
road from Stockton TO Fresno.
The second days sport at sutroville over the
tug-of-war was undated SO far as the con-
teholng teams were concerned.
Two insane men-a negro and Chinese
9aa an exciting battle in the waiting-room or
Judge Hebbard's court yesterday.
The Congregational Monday Club appointed
com mittee yesterday to draft resolutions of
regret at Mrs Cooper's untimely death.
Post street was damned for two blocks yes
terday by crowds seeking entrance to the
funeral services of Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper
Judge Hunt has denied the application
mace by Mrs. susie Baker in her suit against
Inc Board OF Education of San Francisco.
Judge Coffey has admitted in evidence the
marriage contract signed by the late DR..
Charles A. James and Laura Mflen James.
Six events were run off at Oakland track yes
terday. The winning horses were: Good Times
Shield Bearer. Mt McGregor II, Arrezzo, Lucky
Dog and All Over.
Martin Cafferty, who lives at Sunnyside, was
sent TO the County Jail for six months by
Judge Campbell yesterday for brutally beat
ing his son Johnnie
The Board of Health has asked the Board of
Supervisors to prohibit expectorating and
throwing banana peels on the floors OF public
buildings and other places.
To make Montgomery avenue a boulevard to
Its intersection with Bay street. thence to Van
Ness avenue, is one of the conte INFLATED i'm
proVements of the South End Club.
The Supreme Court finds that the act pro-
yid1ng that mining superintendents OF Cali
tOrnla must make weekly report to the
stockholders is not unconstitutional.
Carl Won Tiedeman has chance to escape
punishment for perjury because an important
picture relating to mis- case is missing from
the archives of Judge Wallace's court.
The tug Rescue that took the brigantine
Genave to Eureka is bar-bound up there, and
will have to await the pleasure of the SOUTH
easter before getting back 10 San Francisco.
Charles Miller, miner, living at 30 WASH
ington street, was seized with deathly chill
five days ago and since then he has not been
able 10 sleep, which has driven him almost
crazy.
United States Circuit Judge McKenna has
refused to dismiss the Humboldt timber land
cases. He claims jurisdiction over the cases,
which the defendants desired should be tried
in Illinois.
Secretary Holbrook oil the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says that
the fhorse- breaking episode at the Horse
Show last Saturday night was cruel and un-
warran Ia BILE.
George A. Morrison OF 200 Eighth street was
formerly prize-hghter He says he was doped
in fight in Ogden in 1891, Wyatt carp being
the referee chosen by bunko men and gold
bar swindlers.
An enthusiastic meeting of the Sixteenth
street Improvement Club was held last even
ing The street will be illuminated cleo
trically and cele bra lon VIII take place next
Saturday evening
Company G, constituting st, Brigid's Junior
Branch of the League of the Cross Cadets, held
its quarterly rally and entertainment last
night in st. Brigid's School hall on Broadway,
near Van Ness avenue.
PatKeIiy, one OF a trio of desperate criminals
awaiting trial for burglary and assault to
murder. was apprehended early. yesterday
morning while engaged IN UNDERMINE the
outer wall of the County Jail.
The British ship CenteAima was run on the
mud flats in Richardson's Bay yesterday. Her
damages are greater than was at first imagined,
and her cargo will have 10 be discharged into
scows before repairs can be made.
The Supreme Court bar found that A. w.
Foster was not in contempt OF the Superior
Court when he shut Sidney V. Smith out OF
meeting of the board of directors OF the San
FRANCISCO Thu 4fOAtA GaOAAS AS1hnoS NOAA-
pany.
On the 18th inst. George Frank A. Dare,
"a years of age, fell from ladder at the lead
works and sustained severe injuries from
which he died yesterday in the City and
County Hospital He lived at 20 Minna
street
Jack Ward of Newark got a decision over
Jimmy Anthony of Australia In ten-round
bout ct Woodward's Pavilion, and Charley
Rochelle was knocked out by Cans, the col
ored pugilist OF Baltimore, in the fourth
round.
The attorneys for Mrs. Florence Blythe
states circuit Court to have the case barred
ont of that court and the complaint entered
bv foreign claimants to the Blythe estate
dismissed.
CIV Prison last night and will be taken to
i1cstraz this morning. He was brought from
Fort Grant Ariz., by Sergeant Connolly, nav
ing been sentenced to two years on the island
for desertton.
Fire last night destroyed the hay warehouse
Of Smith Bros, on Brannan street, between
Seventh and Eighth, and its contents, COM
prising about 500 tons OF 6aleu nay t loss
is estimated at about @oVVVI winch 10 luliy
covered by insurance.
The commission appointed by the Secretary
of the Navy to select a location Tor a training
school on Goat Island Will meet IN tnls City
building will begin, and early in the New Year
the place will be open for boys.
Rev. Father Ferguson lectured on p. "T tn
TrIum phs of Truth" at Metropolitan Hall last
nipht to q large audience. An attractive
ynfIsical programme was also rendered. The
entertainment was given unaeT sne auspices
of San Francisco Council No q Y NJ l.
Alta meeting of the Western Addition I'm
provement club last night it was decided not
to recommend enY further Improvements I'M
I'll after the meeting of the San Francisco AS
societion of improvement Clubs, when the
same viii be presented to the new supervisors.
The schooner Lizzie Prien is bar-bound in
Nehalem River. She:was being towed out by
the tug Tonquin. when the latter caught
snaR in her propeller and broke the snatt.
Roth vessels are awaiting the arrlVal OF tug
from San Francisco or some otner point 70
help them out.
The Young Mems Holy Name society OF 81:
Dominick's Church met last night IN the OLD
church on Pine street, nominated officers for
the next halt year and made preparations for
an Anniversary banquet TO be given In the So
cietyis rooms on January 10, celebrating the
Attn year of the organization
samuel NJ Shortridge was yesterday con-
frmed as executor of the last will of Mrs.
Marion NJ. Allen, to serve without bonds. The
heirs and all persons interested united in urg.
ing the court to appoint him. This is the case
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