The San Francisco call., 1896-03-10
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.


Fair Tuesday prophesies Alexander G. Nc
Adle, local forecast official.
Carpenters Union No 4s3 last evening in
dorsed the painters strike
The bakers unions will hold State conyen-
ton in this City next Sunday.
The Election Commissioners will bring suit
to test the county government act.
Valuable property has been destroyed at the
City Hall by some unknown person.
Three more jurors, making seven in all, were
secured yesterday TO try Dick Mcdonald.
Mrs. Kate NJ. BaltzelI has filed charges
against II. A. Powell with the Bar Association.
The judgment against John Craig, convicted
of murder, has been affirmed by the Supreme
Court
Catherine Lund, the infant daughter of Cap
tain Lund, died on Saturday as the result OF a
SPIDERS bite.
A spirited debste on the relative merits of
anarchy and socialism took place last night at
Bersaglieri Hall.
John A. schafer, convicted of an assault with
deadly weapon, has been sentenced 10 two
years imprisonment
George A. Knight says that his client, Mrs.
Davidson, viii not ask the Grand Jury to in
dict Matte Overman.
The fact that ehrysoprase has been found in
Tulare. near Visalia, has attracted the atten-
tfon OF many jewelers..
The winners at Ingleside Yesterday were:
Crafty and Derfargilla.
A number of Improvements will be made
when the central fire alarm station is moved
into the City Hall tower.
AT the Methodist preachers meeting yester-
day Rev. DR.. Goodwin attacked the poetieal Ii
censes of the NJ. Z. hymnal.
Mrs. Rose NJ. French declines to serve
another term as president OF the Woman's
Federation for Public Good.
The plans for the new municipal building
viii be considered by the Board of Supervisors
as a committee OF the whole.
The steam schooner Celia was libeled by
John Moran in the United States District Court
yesterday. Morans claim is for wages.
Milk Inspector Doekery has Photographic
outfit to take pictures of dairies where the
itary requirements are not properly observed.
A site for the Wilmerding school has been
offered by James Gillis of stockton. 1t is situ-
sted two and half miles from that city, and
is valued at $4,000.
The residence OF Joseph Anheim, 1927 Ellis
street, was entered by burglars on Saturday
night and gold watch and valuable iewelry
and silverware stolen.
The B'nai Birth Hall Association is con-
sidering plan under which the Eddy-street
building Will be completely renovated and the
tiss1Y 91ss7ia' possibly converted into gymna-
Ton keenan,, a petty larceny thief, wa.
booked at the City Prison last night on
charge Of grand larceny for having stolen
Sixth street.
Judge Lows court was adjourned yesterday
till tomorrow morning out OF respect to the
memory OF Fred W. Kaiser, the official stenog-
raDher of the court, VINO died on Sunday from
heart trouble.
The City Board of Trade will meet to-day to
protest against the Oregon Railway and Navi
CATION Company discrimination against San
Francisco in the matter of freight charges 10
Humboldt Bay towns.
To,p NJ pax1oJdc on iptarviax,- Tur
CALL, points out in the proposed City charter
limitations which, he says, would make 1t more
difficult than it is at present to secure pub
licly owned water system.
Judge Morrow of the United States District
Court yesterday ordered the schooner Mary
sold to satisfy claims for wages amounting TO
$500. The sale will take place at the Mer-
chants Exchange within six days.
The Ecclesiastical Council will meet again
this morning at 10: 80 clock. DR.. Brown viii
be placed on the stand for cross-examination
provided his health permits. After his exam
ination comes the evidence in rebuttal.
John ". Klein filed suit against the city OF
Seattle in the United States Court OF Appeals
yesterday to enjoin the defendant from using
certain electrical appliances, patented by the
plaintiff, in connection with its fire alarm sys-
TEN.
The r. Dunsmuir's Sons Company has in
corporated with capital stock of 81 900, 900,
all of which has been subscribed. The direct
ors are Alexander Dunsm uir, James Dunsmuir,
IL q.
Alexander Gompertz.
by the jury last week of the charge
OF criminal assault upon little girls, had q
charge booked against him last night at the
City Prison Of soliciting and employing another
TO commit public offepse.
J. H. Banfeld painter living at 513 Post
street, fell from the scaffolding on a building
on Scott street, near Pacific avenue, yesterday
afternoon and sustained compound fracture
of the left thigh, which was attended to By DIR.
Thompson at the Receiving Hospital.
The Golden Gate Park Commission has tenn
porarily abandoned the peristyle project and
will take it up only when the treasury allows
construction in stone or marble. All SUPER
structures OF any importance in the park win
be built OF stone and be monumental.
Peter Owen Matthew was before Judge Coffey
yesterday with a petition to be restored to com
potency. He had with him sixty-seven wit
nesses TO prove that he was amply able to care
for himself and his property, but his petition
was not granted Peter Schilling, his guardian,
opposed his petition
The Peoples Mutual Telephone Company
which applied for a franchise to construct and
operate telephone system in this City on
Saturday last, proposes to extend its lines
system in working order by July l. 1897 and
both local and interior rates will be reduced.
The Board of immigration Inspectors yester-
day ordered the deportation OF japanese
woman named Kakaynma. She arrived at this
port on the last steamer III company wltn ner
husband. The latter was allowed to remain.
The woman was suffering from a contagious
disease and IL was under the law excluding
such persons that she was not allowed TO land.
Frank Belcher, the popular barytone, who
has Just returned to the City after an absence
of some years, will give concert in n :. g. w.
Hall on the evening of March 19. Assisting
him will be Bob Mitchell, Jimmie Swinnerton,
Carrie Roma, Frank Coffin, Dave Mclaughlin
and the Press Club Quartet. Mr. Belcher has
been study1ng conscientiously during his alb
sence and his voice has materially improved.
Fire on Laurel Place.
- .ba avplocion of peenlfnp