The San Francisco call., 1896-05-02
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

: CITY NEWS IN BRIEF,
:: A charter mass-meeting will be held in the
Mission tonight.
Mayday was duly celebrated by over $4,000
visitors to the 6utro baths yesterday.
:, Lack of funds has necessitated the discharge
of eighty laborers in Golden Gate Park.
Unsettled weather this morning and a fair
ds are predicted by the Weather Bureau.
G.: L. Spear OF the well-known auction firm oi
that name will be buried tomorrow afternoon.
= The Newsboys' Home has developed into a
permanent institution for the care OF homeless
:boys.
- Prizes were awarded yesterday for the best
Exhibits ct the rose show at the Palace
Hotel.
= An international complication has deve1
oped in the. French Benevolent society's
: ;Coleridge Russell is suing the McDonough
estate for legacy, which, he says, was prom
Used him.
:" The Socialist Labor party had a big meeting
= at Metropolitan Temple last evening, celebrat-
o. ing Maydsy; =;
. The Supreme Court has decided that Dupont
street assessment taxes paid under protest can
not be recovered.
Yesterdays free exhibition at the Mark
Hopkins Institute OF; Art was attended by at
least 5000 persons.
% An interesting method of securing hidden
figures was disclosed in the More case before
Judge Coffey yesterday
The children of Pacific Heights School have
:. raised over 5000 with which 10 endow bed in
70 the Children's Hospital
: Consul Booth-Tucker of the Salvation Army
is rapidly getting we'll, She will be able to
meet her engagements on this coast
The Grand Jury yesterday indicted twelve
men for the murder OF Charles Mahrs during
= the recent strike or fathers and others.
The winning horses at Iugieside yesterday
were: San, Mateo, G.. B. Morris, Joan, imp.
. Santa Bella, Tiberius and Yankee Doodle.
For the present.Judge Slack has ordered that
the AIarceau baby remain in the care OF Mrs.
: Martha Green; friend Of the Marceau family.
A new frsternal order, known as the Sons
and Daughters OF the Society of Old Friends
was organized in the Commercial Hotel last
evening. -"
The-children.ot Benjamin Curtaz are suing
to.compei the firm OF Benjamin Curtaz & Co
TO account to them for their fathers share Of
the business
Red Jim Phillips, q trainer at the Bay
District track was arrested yesterday on 8
warrant charging him with doping" the race
e mare Oracle S.
The records made at the coast championship
games at Central Park this afternoon may be
Questioned on account OF sloping field aiding
the performances.
Representatives of the Building Trades Coun
Gil appointed committees yesterday to canvas,
b. the. City to-day and strike all "unfair Jobs
. Monday morning.
The Federated Trades Council Of Sacramento
wrote TO Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald yes
terosy, asking If & State Labor Bureau coulc
be placed in that city.
The Manufacturers and Producers Associa
tion forwarded request to the Prison Direc
tors yesterday to patronize the California To
bacco trade in supplying the prisons.
Horace Dunn, expert of the Grand Jury, ha
completed a thorough examination of Police
Court records OF fines and forfeitures and sub
mitted the document to the Grand Jury.
Miss Eleanor Calhoun, the California actress
who is one of the claimants of the multi-m II
1ion-dollar estate OF Andrew j. Davis, says tn,
claim will be prosecuted without compromise
:: The opposition to Brown are now after hi
abe lieutenant, Deacon /. H. Morse. They
contend that the First Church will never bt
: reunited as long as Morse remains in the lead
The"schooner Viking is now q month over
due and her owners have about given her VI
as lost. The son OF the late J: G. Kittle was
passenger and all hercrew were San Francis
cans, =
Henry Ryan, solicitor for Brown, Craig &
Co. and treasurer of Acme Court, Foresters o
America, has disappeared. Ryan is a de
iauiter'to an amount varying from $1,000 tC
. $1,000.
:: "A: somewhat sensational controversy is ir
progress in court and out between the firm o
g. LeipnltZ d. Co. and rival drugstore which
has assumed the title of "the old snake drug
store"
The. argument on the demurrer to Van r
Paterson's opposition to the Fair will was held
over for. another week yesterday by consent as
MI Paterson was so engaged as to be unable tC
be present.
= The chairman of the Assem- blv District dele
cations of the Kelly-Rainey Republicans me
in the Flood building last night for the pur
pose OF making arrangements for the Stats
convention.
The little gunboat Petrol arrived from Hon
Olulu Yesterday in the II firoa 0f
Pay master Mohun was taken with the small
pox and the warship was quarantined nine
days at Nagasaki.
The fire insurance managers in this CITY M Of
yesterday to set standard rate of Insurance
on growing grain risks, but failed to agree
. There will be q war in this class of Insurance
business this season.
Frank schiliing's motion TO transfer tn,
Matthews case from Judge Coffey's court ha,
been denied, and his affidavit on the motion
has been stricken from the court records al
being contenptuous.
John Lewis. alias Louis Pritchard, charged
with attempting 10 strangle Isabelle Morris t(
death Thursday night, was held for vagrancy
by Judge Campbell yesterday morning. II ii
understood the detectives want to secure ad
dltlonal evidence against him.
: The local passenger ticket agents of the
Southern Pacific and Northern Pacific rail
roads were convicted of rate-cutting by the
San Francisco and Oakland Passenger Agents
aSSoclaIlon aL;so arn Yesterday Complications may
- '-O. tiO pIcseIJ SlbudblO0 LndJ may auSe
general disturbance of transcontinental pas
senger rates.
:. According to the results shown by the adop-
ZOE ZOE Oh the new transfer system at Powell and
x aIIket streets yesterday It's operation was far
ION ION successful. The newsboys' traffic in
mem was more profitable; it failed to check
.l IS % eianic IN the least; the company was put
70 d ElSat aeal OF extra expense and the travel
'A"s Puoiic 70 much delay and inconvenience.
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Emma Buckley,s Will.
The will of Emma Buckley was filed tor r-o-
bate yesterday. She left an estate valued At
$4,000 to relatives and to charity. The char
lty bequests are; Sacred Heart Convent of