The San Francisco call., 1896-10-11
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF i.

The San Francisco Fire-proofng Company
was Yesterday incorporated.
Weather forecast to-day: HPartly cloudy
sunday with brisk to high WINDS.
AT o'clock this morning there was no per-
ceptible change in T. H. Goodman's condition.
The annual State convention OF the w. C.
I. U. will begin at Petaluma Monday and last
five days.
Father Crowley's festival in aid of the
Youths Directory is grand social and imam
cial success.
The members of the Pacific-Union Club are
desirous of removing to a clubhouse on Van
Ness avenue.
dog chasing ''diver' of its own accord
was one OF the scenes that attracted crowd to
Meiggs wharf yesterday.
T. H. Goodman, general passenger and ticket
agent of the Southern Pacific. is seriously i'll
al the Hotel St. Nicholas.
The Citizens and Taxpayers Water party
presented their petition yesterday asking for
recognition on the official ballot.
The directors of the San Joaquin Valley
Railroad yesterday invited bids for the con-
struction of the roundhouse at Fresno
The directors of the San Francisco and San
Joaquin Railway yesterday invited bids for
the building OF roundhouse at Fresno.
There is a strong probability that the police
law may be attacked on the allegation that the
Commissioners cannot remove policemen.
Neither side scored in the Olympic-Stanford
football match yesterday afternoon at Central
Park, the teams being well ma tched all round
The Olympic football captain said after
yesterdays tie game with stanford that ne
thinks stamford has it on Berkeley at
present.
Captains spillane and Dunlevy are leading
in the contest for prize police captains with
over 800 votes each at the Youths Directory
festival.
According to the lease the Pacific Union
Club must give notice by October 80 whether
il intends to surrender the present house or
extend the lease.
Howard Taylor, the leader at the Olympic
Club, has arranged a frst-elass programme of
sports, which Will lie given monthly until the
end OF the season.
Mrs. Julia Hughes All Bank street obtained
warrants yesterday for the arrest OF James
Lee an eX-convict, and Patrick Hug hes Tor
stealing her furniture.
The Mission Defense Union res olved itself
into mass meeting fayoring the adoption OF
the new charter at Turner's Hall, on Eight
eenth street, last night.
j. I. Dimond opened his public attack on
the new charter last night at Odd Fellows
Hall, where the Buckley Democracy held a
big ratification meeting.
The rider of the prize bike "Red Rover" in
the recent wheelman's parade was Captain
II. Hartman, late OF the Chilean navy, bloom
cred and disguised as lady.
Joseph & Werner, q New York firm, yester-
day sued l. & 6. Brenner OF san francisco Tor
$o0O0 alleging conspiracy with Lesser Bros
The prizes adjudged to the best decorated
bicycles in the recent wheelmens parade
were awarded last evening at the Columbia
Theater by the actress, Miss Edith Crane.
The nominations for officers of the San Fran
cisco Road Club for the coming six months
were made Friday evening last. An amend
ment is in prospect to lengthen the term to q
year.
The Louis Corrfveau estate case, in which
claim for $36, 900 was originally made against
c. o. SWanberg and H. W. Westphal, was
yesterday compromised by the defendants for
$4,000.
the United States Consul at Honolulu, Ellis
Mills. He is here on a visit OF pleasure, and
asserts that diplomatic affairs have nothing to
do with his trip.
A number of discharged policemen claim
that the Police Commissioners violated the
fourteenth amendment in dismissing them.
Suits Will be brought against the Commissions
eTs for damages.
The National Forestry Commission has fin
ished its inspection of timber belts on the Pa
cifc Coast John Muir, who accompanied IT,
tells about its long tour and what he hopes IL
may accomplish.
The wedding of Miss Mary Pollock to Will
liam Donald, and the golden wedding OF Mr..
and Mrs. John Donald, his parents were cele-
brated last night py banquet in Native Sons
Hall on Seventeenth street, near Valencia.
In an interview yesterday E. J. De Pue,
prison Director, intimated that a mum Der of
changes would be made in the management of
the j1te mill at San Quentin by the Board of
Prison Directors at the November meeting.
A banquet celebrating the wedding Of Miss
Mary Pollock 70 WilliGm Donald, and the
golden wedding OF Mr.. and Mrs. John Donald,
parents of the groom, was held Saturday night
atNative Sons Hall, on Seventeenth street.
There was an exciting struggle outside
Judge Conlan's courtroom yesterday between
the parents OF Mary Lehman, committed to
the Magdalen Asylum, and Policemen Cole
man and McMurray for possession CT the girl.
Patrick Kelly and William Corbett, alias
Martin, two OF the trio OF burglars who
planned the escape from the City Prison, were
yesterday held to answer before the Superior
Court on two charges in $4,000 on each charge.
magnificent brick and stone quadrangular
building is TO be erected at Menlo Park at once
by the Madames of the Sacred Heart for a select
boarding college for young ladies. 1t will be
one OF the largest educational institutions in
California.
The Navarro got in from clipperton Island
yesterday with thirty OF the laborers who
went down there last year and 800 tons of
guauo. The men say that outside of the
mOnotony and the smell, CIpperton Is not a
bad place TO live on.
Washington yesterday, there will probably be
clash between the State and Federal Guthor-
tues over the matter OF quarantine regula-
tions governing vessels reaching this port
from foreign coun tries.
Charles Montgomery, the philanthropist
tells strange story of having been kidn aped
about fifteen months ago. threatened and re-
leased under promise to pay big ransom
of several thousand dollars, which promise
he says, he religiously redeemed.
Miss Rose Young author of "The Story OF
Pitcairn" and '"The Mutineers of the Bounty,''
arrived on the Australia from Honolulu yester-
day. She is direct descendant from one of
the mutineers and this is the first time she has
left Pitcairn Island since she was three years
old.
The Veteran Soldiers and Sailors Associa-
ton of this City, through its president,
Colonel j. A. Whiteside, and Secretary L.
Washburn, have been busily engaged in cir
culating patr .otic literature to their comrades
throughout the State in the interest OF Major
Mckinley.
When Aggie Abbott was about to be sem
fenced by Judge Bahrs for grand larceny yes
terday an affidavit igned by William Robbs.
In which he claimed to be guilty of the crime
for which she was convicted, was produced by
her attorney. Sentence was postponed until
Wednesday.
Among the arrivals of vessels on the front
yesterday was the Oceanic Steamship Com
pany's steamer Australia from Honolulu and
the new schooner built at Eureka by Ben
dixon The latter will be towed to Oakland
and converted into q steam schooner when
discharged.
This Sunday afternoon at 8 o'clock there