The San Francisco call., 1896-03-18
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Brief City items are to be found on this page
OF the CALL every day.
Company F, First Regiment N. G. c., elected
Two 1eutenants last night.
Fair Wednesday" is promised by Local
Forecast Official A. G. McAdie.
Judge Hunt has rendered an interesting
decision referring to the payment of lodge
dues.
The Knights of St. Patrick celebrated Ire
lands holiday with brilliant banquet last
night
Maybell's "Army of Heaven Here is fitting
Ninth. ~i''' 0l Dfannan street, near
The Painters and Decorators Union will in
crease the initiation fee from % cents to SO
after Monday evening.
The directors of the San Francisco and North
Pacific Railroad have answered Sidney Smiths
sult 10 nave them ousted.
Ernest Mccullough writes in regard to the
auHeS ana powers of the Board OF Public
Norks under the proposed charter.
The winners at Ingleside yesterday were:
klngstreet, The Judge, Mobalasca, Aladdin,
baoe Murphy, Sir Vassar and ToaDo.
The residents of the Mission district are filed
Win progressive spirit over The prospects OF
gettng high school and public park.
DR.. Abrahams treated Rae Alexander by
hypnot1Sm for the writer's cramp, and be-
cause she refuses TO pay he has sued her.
There will be great labor union mass-meet-
ing under the auspices OF the striking painters.
Mrs. Kate Mcnamara, Al West Mission street.
was arrested yesterday for cruelty to her chill
dren, who were sent to the Youths Directory
The Woman's State Central Republican Clup
will hold a meeting at 8 o'clock this evening
IN the parlCrs OF the Baldwin Hotel by order of
the president.
The streetcar transfer committee of the Mer-
chants Association held special meeting yes
terday morning and formulated a reply to
Manager Vining.
The Irish Nationalists of San Francisco held
their twenty-ffth grand anniversary ball un-
der the auspices of the Knights of the Red
Branch last night at Odd Fellows Hall.
There was not single delinquency in re-
sponse to the call for the fifth assessment OF 10
per cent on the stock OF the San Francisco and
San Joaquin Valley Railroad Company.
Daniel Mahoney. pugilist and ex-freman,
while drunk attacked Theodore Van BusFirk
and Eddie Hanlin on Larkin and Ellis streets
with a revolver yesterday morning and was
arrested.
The preliminary examination of D. ]. Nc
Rea, one of the striking fathers, on the charge
OF assaulting Peter Trade with intent to COM
nit murder, was commenced before Judge Low
yesterday afternoon.
It is reported that C. ]. Smith of the Oregon
Improvement Company may act mediator
to settle the differences between the Southern
Pacific Company and the Oregon Railway and
Navigation Company.
tery and naval drill OF the California Garrison
No. 1oI of the Regular Army and Navy Union,
held last night at the Mechanics Pavilion, was
a pronounced success.
Acknowledgement Fitzgerald argued all day
yesterday for the defense in the case of the
Southern Pacific against the Railway Commits
sion, which case is in progress before Judge
McKenna OF the United States Circuit Court.
Joseph Graham, cook, living on Lexington
avenue, deserted his wife and five young chill
dren last December, leaving them destitute,
and yesterday the Society for the Prevention
OF Cruelty to Children took charge of the case.
The California State Protective Association,
composed OF some 5000 wholesale and retail
liquor-dealers throughout the State of Cali
fornia, have begun an agitation for $300-a-
year license and a censorship over retail
iquor-dealers' licenses.
The Fair case has gone over until to-mor-
row morning. The attorneys were all in
court, but it was found that Mr.. Delmas had
not been furnished with a copy of Mond ay's
proceedings, and so further time was granted
until the testimony can be transcribed.
Edward Nettleton, police off Ger, has petit
toned the court for writ OF mandate COM
pelling the Police Commissioners to retire him
on half pay He says that in the discharge of
his duty he has become almost blind, and that
when he applied for retirement and pension
it was refused him. He was appointed April
"a, 1873.
c. Harmon of Oakland, was married on Satur-
day evening 10 Albert A. Wheeler and they are
now living at the Golden west Hotel. DR.. Har-
mon recently created a sensation by trying to
board a steamer clandestinely, bound for Brit
ish Columbia, to avoid the payment of alimony
to his wife,
The ecclesiastical council rendered Scotch
verdict in the Dr. Brown case last night on the
question as to the alleged undue relations OF
that clergyman with Mrs. Stockton and Miss
Overman, but censured him for having vio-
lated all the rules that go to make gentle
man and minister in the intimidation cases.
Miss Oyerman's testimony about the letters
was not believed and DR.. Browns explanation
as to why he paid $500 to Mrs. Davidson was
not satisfactory. The verdict will be presented
to the ch urch tonight