The San Francisco call., 1896-05-06
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

The woman's congress is In progress in
Native Sons Hall.
Fair, Wednesday" was the prediction is
sued last night by Forecast Official McAdie.
The second day of the woman congress was
even greater success than the opening day.
The City Hall Commissioners have adopted
Architect Shea's plans for e directory of the
building.
Complaint is made that the streetcar trans
and Powell streets.
The building trades committees yesterday
found il necessary to call out union men q
second time on several jobs.
George A. Hoag committed suicide yesterday
in room SO of the Murphy building by taking
half an ounce of strychnine.
The Republican Club of the Thirty-ninth
Assembly District feyors an unpledged delega-
ton to the National Convention.
The Government Intervention suit was be-
fore Judge McKenna yesterday. Judge CARRIER
spoke the entire day in behalf of the railroad.
The Supreme Court has just decided a case
which would have been important a year ago.
II is the case OF Wallace Bradford against the
City.
The attention of the architects of San Fran
cisco has been called to the ease with which
building material be procured in Cali
fornia.
George f. White has been adjudged guilty of
contempt of court for having transferred sew
eral notes and mortgages in defiance OF the
courts order.
Father Yorke lectured to an immense au-
dience in Metropolitan Temple last night, his
subject being The Cessock in the Capitol, or
Father Marquette"
The application of Andy Clunie to compel
the Assessor TO do his duty by the Market
street Railway Company was argued before the
Supreme Court yesterday.
Judge Morrow of the United States District
Court was compelled to adjourn court yester-
day on account of sudden illness. The trouble
is not supposed to be serious.
Every favorite on the card was beaten at
1ngleside yesterday. The winning horses
were Lodestar, Bellicoso, Don Caesar, Summer
Time Affiatus, and Instigator.
The Manufacturers and Producers Associa-
tion viii lend It's support TO the Harbor Com
missioners in its stand upon selecting Colusa
stone Tor the new ferry depot.
Complaint has been made to the Board of
Health that the health of the pupils of Win
field Scott School and of families near it is
endangered by stagnant pond of water.
Frederick Bell, the son of the late million
aire, Thomas Bell, is lying at deaths door at
his home stricken down by an accident SINH
lar to that which caused his fathers death.
The Mechanics Institute and the Manufac-
tuTers and Producers Association have joined
hands to exclude ali but Pacific Coast MANI
factures and products from the coming fair.
A large portion of the steel work for the ferry
building has been ordered oy the Risdon Iron
Works, which secured the contract from the
Carnegie Iron and Steel Works of Pittsburg, Pa.
william F. Kelly, an ex-employe in the Post
office, was booked at the City Prison yesterday
on the charge of defraud1ng his cousin, Robert
Kirlen, q farmer, out of 1902 so by forging his
name.
Under the general head Government" many
interesting topics will be discussed at the
Woman's Congress in Native Sons Hall to-day
Morning, afternoon and evening sessions will
be held.
Charles A Bacon of the music firm OF Bacon
& Armstrong had his nose punched by Louis
F. Gessler of Sherman & Clay's, and for the at
tendant damages he sued for 5000. The jury
gave him $50
For the first time in the history of the Epis-
" copal church there were women lay delegates
at the forty-siXth annual convention of the
Diocese of California, which opened yesterday
in Grace Church.
James Moore, 20 years of age, had charges of
petty larceny, battery and grand larceny
booked against him yesterday, and another
charge will be entered against him as soon as
the police find an owner for watch.
J. A. Mcclure was yesterday held to answer
before the Superior Court by Judge Joachim
sen in $1,000 bonds for forging the name Of z.
A Brooke-Ridley to a check for $3.50 which
he passed on the Kelly-Donohoe Bank.
Laura INLAND, the supposed widow of the
late Charles James, has filed contest to the
petition for distribution filed by :he other
relatives OF James. She alleges that she is the
widow and that she and her child are the only
heirs.
Judge Trout has rendered judgment for the
defendants in the suit of Pilger ct al VS.. Strass-
man ct al The suit was to quiet title to some
valuable City property, and Judge Trout has
decided that the defendants, Lucy Pilger,
Joseph Pilger and Hilda Levy, are the real
owners.
The long-overdue schooner Viking got in
from the South Seas yesterday. She was in
three storms and a hurricane. Captain Lut-
trell reports the sudden death of two we'll
known South Sea Island traders and the burn
ing of Catholic church. Captain Kustel had
his hand blown off.
John Mallon, the defendant in a suit in
which Asa Fisk secured judgment on note
with enormous interest. has filed an affidavit
in support of q motion for new trial. in
which he states that the jurors were all in his
favor and would have given him judgment but
for the courts instructions.
Householders and agents in charge have of
late been greatly harassed by burglars, who
enter residences which are either permanently
or temporarily unoccupied ana steal anything
from a pound of lead pipe 10 diamond jewelry.
Many vacant houses have been greatly
damaged by having the plumbing destroyed.
Alva Z. Snow of Fresno, at present District
Attorney, is declared by one who is conversant
with the story of the Snell-Davis-Calhoun
claim TO the Davistestate to have sole power
OF com promise which the heirs are powerless
TO annul thus leaving him master of the situa-
ton: An effort to supersede him necessarily
resulted in q com promise.