The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-04
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

School Director Charles Murdoch says he was
not at the fight.
The investigation OF the San Benito wreck
will be continued for several days
The Weather Bureau forecasts to-day partly
cloudy weather, probably without rain.
. The Police Commissioners met last night
when charges against five policemen were dis
posed OF.
Summertime, Geyser, Moylan. RUDE Murphy
yesterday.
The trial of Arthur Jackson for the murder
Of August Florentine is being heard in Judge
Belcher's court
: Central police station, was entered by burglars
Tuesday morning.
George S. Harrison has been convicted of
burglary in the second degree, and viii re-
ceive his sentence to-day.
The secondNmeeting of the joint conference
COMMITTEE was held yesterday, and the organ
ization was made permanent.
George Orr has pleaded guilty to charge of
" burglary. He will be sentenced by Judge VAL
=: lace at 10 o'clock this morning.
The winter exhibition of the San Francisco
art Association was opened at the Mark Hop
ktns Institute OF Art last evening.
w. A. Clark, the millionaire copper king is in
the City on his way from his mines in Arizona
.to.his varied possessions in Montana.
>. The Kings Daughters opened an entertain
u
iJhnrch yesterday afternoon at that edifiee.
-: Jules Simon, hairdresser at 225 Powell street
:. attempted 10 commit suicide by turning on
:. the gas in his bedroom yesterday morning.
= The yearlings bred at Theodore Winters
Rancho del Sierra were sold by Killip & Co.
e. last evening. Twenty-one head realized $3.50
= Messrs. Carmen, Rives and Story, of New
; y ork,, judges in the forthcoming hUrse show
here, arrived mere yesterday and are al the
Palace.
The boys in blue of the United States battle
e ship Oregon gave an invitation bali IN Odd
q Fellows Hall last evening, and i. was great
success.
The subject of the lighting and repairing of
streets, civil service REFORM and new charter
were discussed blythe Merchants Association
yesterday.
Attorney D. B. Woodwork swore to two new
d. complaints yesterday, charging B. F. Hudel-
son wi h libel, and the original complaint was
withdrawn.
: arrested on charge of felony in order that
her second husband could abduct her 15-year-
old daughter.
The jury in the case of ]. F. Ramicciotte
: charged with forgery, failed to agree, and the
:" case will come before Judge Wallace to-day to
be set for Ietrial.
An improvement club was organized at Sar-
a-toga Hall last night by the retail merchants
= doing business between Suffer and Market
streets on LsTkIn.
The property-owners and business men of
:. Nalencfa street organized improvement
club with its principal object the relightinG of
that thoroughiare.
The local detectives and Deputy Marshal
;: from Utah are searching for Mrs. Mercer, who
. fed from Ogden, Utah. about mouth ago
s. with her little daughter.
: The South San Francisco Gun Club will prob
:. ably evade the San Francisco Society for the
=. PEeYention of Cruelty TO Animals by shooting
live pigeons in San Mateo County.
e." Ex-Governor Romualdo Pacheeo has gone to
":Ohio for the purpose of urging his claims be-
- fQse. Mckinley for the office of United States
Minister to either Spain or Mexico.
e.: The preliminary examination of John Miller,
carpenter, charged with the murder of James
. H. Childs, on November Is, wfs commenced
= before Judge Joachimsen yesterday.
The will of Vincent Wagner, who died in
:. this City on the 22d OF last month, has been
filed Tor probate. The estate is worth $20, 900
and is bequeathed to members of the family.
=. She Fire Commissioners yesterday afternoon
= fined Robert Malburgh, driver OF engine 8,
five days pay for neglect of duty, and ae-
=. cepted the resignation of J. F. Hanniver of
engine %.
John Devlin, q laundryman living at 1414
). Washington street. was fooling with q re-
volver Wednesday evening in the Osborne
House, sos Kearny street, when it exploded,
fatally wounding him.
-: Emelie Doris has sued Marie Stopper for
:: possession of the property known as 700 Du-
pont street, which is rented at the rate of
a. Do month ana which amount the de-
fendant refuses to pay.
The closed public schools in the Mission will
o reopen to-day on an order from the Superior
p. Court Father Brennan endeavored yester-
i. Gay to reopen his school but was defeated by
.. ten deputy health inspectors.
Native Sons Hall was crowded last evening.
it. being the occasion of the presentation of a
painting called ''The Golden Heritage of the
Native Sons" by Artist William Keith to the
hall association by Hon. Irving NJ. Scott
. Attorneys for the executors of the Fair estate
and the experts employed by Them denounce
. the Examiners statement that the inspection
.:of the Craven deeds has been denied them as
being entirely false. They say they have been
given every opportunity for inspecting the
deeds.
judge Daingerfeld of the Superior Court
has directed members of the Board of Health
To;appear on December IL and show cause
why they should not be enjoined from inter
. ierinR with the Board of Edueation's manages
!. ment of public schools. Meantime a tenn
..porary injunction has been granted.
In the Williams libel case yesterday Judge
E HebbHrd said that General Sheehan and James
'.Alva Watt were intimate personal friends of
% his and at the time that he appointed Shee-
han he was fully aware that the Supreme
Court had decided that the appointment of a
.receiYer for savings bank was illegal and
void.
Charles L. Fair appeared before Notary Phil
lips yesterday TO give his deposition In the
Caldwell suit for Senator Fairs letters The
matter was postponed until the 18th inst
e some interest was felt in the matter, as it
brought Fair and d. NJ: Delmas together, Fair
having been known to swear Vengeance
> a yainst Delmas recently. There was no sign
OF hostilities.
NEW TO-DAY.