The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-22
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Kid Mccoy will not meet Choynski In a
fstlc contest.
The Pacific Bank is suing W. A. Perry for the
face value OF g promissory note of $27 ,S46.
The Hibernia Savings Bank is suing to fore
close 5000 note made by Margaret r. Mann
The weather forecast for to-day is fair.
warmer, with fresh Winds Jog in the m orning.
James Mortimer has returned from Seattle.
where he judged the bench show of the North.
west.
W. J. Stone has been awarded Judgment
against Il. q. Bancroft for wages due on q
contract.
The Olympic Club win send team of ath.
letes TO Portland TO compete against the Multi
nomah Club.
Another bidder for the new telephone fran.
cnlse has submitted an ordinance TO the Board
OF Supervisors.
On the 2sth inst. the Merchants Association
will hold its annual meeting and election a,
20 OFarrel street.
Admiral Beardslee has discovered new spe.
cies OF trout, which has been named after him
by Professor Jordan.
The winning horses at the Bay District yes
terday were Myron. Toano, Bohemian Lass
Hello and Thornhill.
=, Forty,;nine physicians were graduated from
the medical departm OF the University OF
California yesterday.
Charles Billman, 1919 Eddy street. has been
missing since Tuesday and his friends fear he
has committed suicide.
The Fire Commissioners yesterday asked the
boArd OF supervisors to pass an ordinance to
regulate the tearing up OF streets.
The Grand Council of the Y.M.I. was ban.
quoted at Haywards last night and many
patrlotlc toasts were responded to.
The Knights Of Pythias held their annual
election OF officers yesterday, and The womens
auXlnary adjourned til next year.
William Norman, a bicycle dealer at 326
McAlAs ter street, has been attached on claims
aggregAung several hundred dollars.
Colonel Andrews has suggested feasible
scheme for raising funds for this City's carni,
Val without begging people to subscribe.
A syndicate brewery has probably been Sc
lected by the Brewery Workmen's Union for its
boycott in the fight for union recognition.
Expert George ". Elder of the Board of
Supervisors declares that the Merchants Asso-
citation estimates for street sweeping are erron-
eOus.
r. NJ Samuels, the New York commercial
traveller. served with a warrant in the
City Prison yesterday charging him with petty
larceny.
The entries and handicaps Of to-morrow's
cycle races at Central Park, pu blished in to-
days CALL, show some of the fastest riders in
the State.
Mrs. L. E. Aweng was murdered by Alva E.
Sheppard, VINO then committed suicide at
2O5 Seventh street at an early hour yesterday
morning.
The case of Park Policeman Dow, charged
with threatening 10 Kill Osmund q. Nelson OF
1922 York street, viii be heard by Judge Low
this morning.
Minnie Adam Brooks, the heiress of Jennie
Parsons, whose bottled viii created senss-
ton, is dead, and her husband refuses to carry
on the litigation.
The Presidio Heights Repu blican Clubs new
wlgWam on Maple street was formally opened
last night. It is one of the neatest meeting
halls in the district.
Dr.. Hugh NJ. Smith of the United States Fish
Commission has come here from Washington
TO hunt for lost Holsters planted along the
coast some years ago.
The estate of Mrs. r. P. Wieland, deceased,
has been appraised at 22,970. OF this sum
SCI 900 represents the value OF q lot Cali
fornia and Webster streets.
Several hundred dollars worth of jewelry
stolen from the residence OF Mrs. Blemis, 81
Second street, on Monday, was recovered in
Buena Vista Park yesterday.
The residence of John f. Greene Deputy As
SCISSOR, entered by burglars on Wednesday
and numbe OF valuable articles OF jewelry
and other things were stolen.
The Sunset District Club held an enthusiastic
meeting night before last in which resolutions
were passed thanking the Supervisors for the
recent appropriation made for the district
Charles T. Lehman, who witness in the
Durrant case, was arrested yesterday on the
charge OF petty larceny for pawning a ring
which he had borrowed from young lady.
Henry D. Bigelow, the journalist who died
last Tuesday, was buried yesterday. Many
prominent persons were present, and the obse-
qules were cnarac terlZed by touching scenes.
The one hundred and fifty committee ap-
pointed by the Finance Committee of the Board
OF Supervisors 10 arrange for celebration the
coming Fourth of July, held its first meeting
last evening.
The Manufacturers and Producers Asso cia-
ton has written TO Governor Budd requesting
him 20 use his influence and insist upon all
public institutions patroniZing home indus
tries instead of Eastern producers.
General Manager vining, of the Market-street
Railway Company. stated yesterday that the
placing OF a transfer agent at Tenth and
Howard street WAS in contemplation and also
the adoption of the check-transfer system at
that point
The crew of the John A. are at outs with
Captain Hellquest in consequence of what
they claim to be his neglect in not permitting
a boat TO be lowered for the rescue of the man
seen last Monday on the keel of an upturned
boat off Lime Point.
Jews and gentiles united last night in grand
memorial services at B mai Birth Hall in honor
of Baron Maurice de Hirsch. There were adj
dresses by Z. J. Wolfe, Edmund Tauszky, 2.
I. Yorke, Rev. DR.. Levy and Rabbi Voorsanger
and appropriate hymns, prayers and anthems.
Fred Healy has applied for q decree annull-
ing his recent marriage on the ground that he
was 30 deeply intoxicated at the time OF the
ceremony that ne did not know what he was
doing. He is the son OF Captain Healy of the
Bear and was married TO young lady OF this
City some weeks ago.