The San Francisco call., 1896-01-24
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

The downtown booksellers are to open up
new Monte Carlo.
The Corralitos Fruit and Land Company has
failed for $11 500.
Rudolph Hagen, who kept saloon in this
City, has faileu for $l1 $50.
The funeral of the late A. Page Brown took
place yesterday at Burlingame
The Board of Health will enforce the law re-
quiring the registration of births.
The winners at the Bay District Yesterday
were: Fllian, New Moon, Rosebud, Hidalgo
Toano and Hueneme.
The Chinese tailors have combined to form
the FOO sun Hong Society. 1t is for mutual
benefit and protection.
The unions OF the building trades have de-
clded TO organize building trades council on
the evening OF February o.
The Fish Commissioners will soon place two
KINDS OF bass, perch and pike OF pickerel in
the big rivers and Clear Lake.
The forty-third annual meeting and ingtalla-
ton OF officers OF the Mercantile Library Asso-
citation was held last evening.
Charles w Orr, first mate of the ship John
McDonald, was arrested yesterday on a charge
OF cruel treatment OF sailors at sea.
The coopers' strike in the Pacific Wooden
Ware and Cooperage Company has been settled
py the restoration OF the old rate OF wages.
All the horses in the stables of the Arctic Oil
works, twenty-five III number, have been pois-
ened within the past few davs Ten of them
I.
Judge Morrow yesterday fixed February IL
as the date for the trial of W. Z. Price on the
charge OF sending obscene literature through
the mails.
The Madden divorce suit was put off the
calendar by Judge Seawell yesterday because
all the parties suddenly lett the courtroom be-
fore the trial.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals discovered consignment of horribly
m11Iated chickens yesterday that were in
tended for food.
the case of Harry Morris, the accused
County Clerks deputy, has been placed in the
hands OF the Grand Jury, and it viii come up
before that body to-day.
The Gold Mining Exchange, at q special
meetlng yesterday, called for a mas s-meeting
10 oe held tomorrow in behalf of Hammond
ana others Imprisoned in Africa.
The Postofice Department is investigating
the presence OF due newspaper and periodical
stamps in large numbers in the collections of
phllatelistS throughout the country
The demurrer Of Ambrose Watson to the suit
OF AHreu Morgenstern Tor possession of his
place as clerk OF Police Court No. 2 was
argued before Judge Trout yesterday.
Nobby Clarke obstructed court and counsel
yesterday by refusing 10 answer questions on
the ground that it would tend to convict MIN
OF felony. He was not compelled to reply.
During quarrel in Brenham place, China.
town, yesterday afternoon, Jim Schwartz alias
Cancan Murphy" slashed John Yockel across
the LETT groin, and the wound may prove fatal
The Street Committee OF the Board of Super
yisors has decided TO recommend the declar-
ing OF Golden Gate avenue 10 be a public
boulevard. and has an order drawn up to that
effect.
A. Anderson, q restaurant-keeper has been
forced into insolvency by his creditors who
accuse him of transferring his property to pre-
$1,000.
Baldwin & Hammond held a successful auc-
tlon sale OF City real estate yesterday, (which
"a "a n n 4
$281, ,115
Samuel B. Thompson. the aged newsdealer,
set fire to his clothing at the Receiving Hospi-
tai Yesterday morning, but it is still believed
that ne IS simply playing part so as TO be de-
clared insane.
Five recent burglaries were Yesterday traced
to George Paul Debriss, alias George Paul, alias
Charles Miller. The mans room was filled
with silverYare and other articles, part OF
which has been identified.
John Wall, 6 Waller street, while under the
influence OF liquor, was knocked down by a
cable-car last night and sustained q confused
side and possibly internal in juries. He was
taken 10 the Receiving Hospital.
Miss G. suthon of New Orleans. for seven
years missionary OF the American Episcopal
church in the distant japanese island OF
Hondo, Is here on her way home for q vacation
She was the first European in Hondo.
Special Agent Thomas Y. Gendine of the In
terror Department is at the Occidental He
has been gathering facts in Los Angeles
County in reference 10 boundaries of lands in
cluded in the list OF Benson land frauds.
The complaint for divorce submitted by Paul
Heinlcke against Fanny B. Heinicke for cru
city and her answer and cross-com plant have
svailed nothing, for by stipulation the case
was dismissed yesterday by Judge Slack
At the mass-mee ting held last night at the
Metropolitan Hall resolutions we re adopted in
favor OF Government ownership and operation
Of the Pacific railroads and Congressman
Mcguire was requested to endeavor to bring
this about by Introducing a suitable bill in
Congress.
Henry Miller. as surviving partner of the
firm of Miller & Lux, has brought suit against
Agro y. Lewis and Thomas b. Bishop as
executors OF the estate of Miranda w. Lux, to
recover money advanced to the deceased by
the plaintiff. The amount sued for is
$50, ,301 75.
A jury has been secured to try Mrs. Jane
Shattuck for the second time for the murder
OF Harry Poole. The case will open Monday
Truly Shattuck has been heard from in Port
land and she is on her way to Montana. 1t is
probable that her testimony from the former
trial will be read.
Sidney V. Smith fled his answer in the
Marin County Superior Court yesterday to the
allegations OF a. W. Foster, president of the
Donahue Railroad, and others. He denies
every charge made claims he was justified in
law and morals in trying to vote his pooled
stock in the road and Drays for an in junction
10 prevent Foster from voting it.
The Wallace-sisson case was before the
Supreme Court yesterday on argument. The
case is suit by Emeline Wallace and Cora
Hestystein against Joseph H. Sisson, Milo A.
Burke, A. W. Sisson, Julia Ann Crocker and
Clark W. Crocker, and is to re cover $40 600 on
a contract Judgment was rendered for de-
PENDANTS, and the plaintiffs appealed to the
Supreme Court The case was submitted.