The San Francisco call., 1896-01-25
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

The result OF one nights cutting and shoot
ing in the tenderloin district.
Local items, bright and brief, can be found on
this page OF the CALL every morning.
The Cleaners, a club of working girls, has
come TO the rescue of Lois Waisbroker.
The Del Monte Flour Mills suffered $4,000
loss by tre yesterday morning. Insured.
The committee of inquiry in DR.. Browns
case VIII commence daily sessions next week.
The Election Commissioners will hold a
meeting on Monday next in the Mayors office.
Jury-briber Hurley is examined by Drs Fitz-
gibbon and McMurdo in San Quentin as to his
sanity.
A movement is on foot to organize a Cali
fornia company 10 aid the Italian troops in
Africa.
Unsettled weather and probable rain are
prophesied for to-day by Local Forecast Official
A. McAdie.
Leon samuels has been elected assignee of
the creditors OF Howard Black, with bonds
fixed at $500.
Imprisonment by Judge Wallace yesterday for
telOnlous assault.
The will OF Joseph Bryan, leaving an estate
worth $l9,502 10 various relatives, was filed
Tor probate yesterday.
More of the poisoned horses at the stables OF
the Arctic Oil Works are dying, and the cuI-
prlts are still at large.
Richard Goggins teamster, 81 years of age,
dropped dead in the yard OF the Pacific Lum-
Der Company yesterday.
The King Solomon Mining Company, with
capital stock OF $3, 900 900, has incorporated.
There is $3.50 subscribed.
The case Of Mrs. Eliza Monaghan against
Sergeant Hugh Monaghan for divorce was be-
lore Judge Hunt yesterday.
The crockery firm OF L Altsehul & Co. that
assigned for SIS 900 viii pay % cents on the
dollar and resume business.
The winners at the Pev District Yesterday
were: Lucky Dog, Hermanita, Logan, The
Judge, Summer Time and Elsie.
Reuben Gibbs saw-fler, died suddenly at
his home, 637 Mission street, yesterday
morning. He was aged 81 years.
The Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty to
Children Will arrest young Sueirolo, the boy
who terToTizes his family, to-day.
Justice Groezinger gave judgment for the
defendant yesterday in the case of Miss NJ. a.
Deering against Dr.. W. A Harding.
The statements Of Bernard Huckmantel made
yesterday in an affidavit in an alimony case
may lead 10 his prosecution for perjury.
Judge Hunt rendered decision in favor of the
defendant Yesterday in the suit OF Ida Z. Tar
box against Ben c. TarboX for maintenance.
Thomas S. Harrison will address the District
Lodge OF Good Templars this evening on the
merits OF the National Amendment Club plan.
The Noe Valley Defense Association has col
lected oY er S400 for the purpose of contesting
the suit brought against them by the Noe
heirs.
Mrs. Stanford has been attracted by Meyer
Strauss picture Of Father Sierra on his way to
found San Carlos Mission, and may pur-
chase it.
G. Parodi is suing Joseph Newman for
$1,000, the price OF 100000 corks, which the
plaintiff claims were improperly appropriated
by Newman.
The contest of the will of Domingo Ghira-
deli was in argument before Judge Coffey yes
terday afternoon. There IS still more elo-
quence To come to-day.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Samuel T. Black lectured in the auditorium of
the Girls High School last evening upon the
the needs OF our public schools.
The St; Andrews Society celebrated the one
hundred and thirty-seventh birthday OF
Robert Burns by dance, literary ana musical
entertainment al Scottish Hall last night
Mrs. Celia Gilligan compla ined yesterday to
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children that her husband had wounded her
in slashing her dress 10 pieces on her person.
Mayor Sutro thinks the action of the Legis-
lature or Kentucky in moving to revoke the
charter OF the Southern Pacific will practically
lead to the defeat OF the funding bill at Wash
ineton.
Seven trustees of the Mechanics Institute
are to be elected on February 25. The present
management has named q ticket. Five other
men are also in nomination. A lively fight is
promised.
At meeting of socialists last night at Mozart
Hall the su bject of Government ownership of
railroads was discussed and resolution favor
ing a boycott OF the Southern Pacific COMPANY
was adopted.
DelmAs & Snortridge have fled their appear
ance as defendants counsel in the suit Of the
CrOcker-Woolworth Bank TO recover the
amount OF the check raised by A. H Dean
from the Nevada Bank.
The Council of Trades last night adopted
vigorous resolutions against the funding bill,
and made suggestion as requested to the
United States Labor Commissioner to consider
no pffap Of pi iun
country.
The story of the Norton decree by which the
Noe heirs were forever barred from bringing
suits TO dispossess property-owners on the San
CALL, was read with delight by the residents of
Noe Valley.
John Lynch's will was fled yesterday. He
leaves $4,000, his entire estate, 10 his sister
Mary A. Dore, provided she shall support her
two brothers, Michael and Thomas Lynch. If
the brothers attempt a contest she need not
support them
Auditor Broderick may refuse to sign the
fornia River improvement Association on this
City and County on the ground that there is
no law to justify such an appropriation by the
Board of Supervisors.
verdict for the defendant was rendered in
the case of Charles L. Phillips against the
Market-street Railway Company yesterday,
Phillips sued for $25, 900 damages for an injury
received on April 80, 1894, on Hayes and Lar
kin streets, in q bumper accident.
Rose P Lewis is suing the "Chutes'' people
for $4,000 for injuries which she claims to
have received in one of the defendants boats
She was thrown upon her back when the boat
struck the water and hurt her spine. She saws
her health is permanently impaired.
1t was positively stated yesterday by man
intimate with affairs of the North Pacific Coast
Railway that "Jim" Hill of the Great Northern
line was interested in the combination with
the Douahue road, the object being to build
competing transcontinental road to San Fran
cisco Bay.
The poolroom ordinance, prohibiting the
sale of pools outside the confines of racetracks,
which was sent back to the joint Judiciary and
Health and Police committees by the Board OF
Supervisors on Monday last, was not acted on
at the meeting yesterday, but was laid over
for one week.
a bill OF equity has been filed in the United
States District Court against heirs of John Bens-
ley by John Lloyd, assignee OF Bensley, praying.
that the defendants be restrained for continu-
ing suits clouding titles of the Bensley lands
II is based on the final decree OF the District
Court in December, 1893.
II. W. HewleY, formerly owner of the Denver
Times and until lately of considerable
interest in the Chicago Times Herald, is at the
falaee He is here on q business trip, after
visiting Denver and Cripple Creek, and is ac-
companied by Mrs. Hawley. He says the even
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