The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-19
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

The golden wedding of Mr.. and Mrs. Levi F.
Cole was celebrated at Bear Hall last night.
Pater Maher arrived overland last evening
in good condition for his battle with Choynski.
Morris Windt has sued John A. Merrill and
G. W. Boutwell, for $4,000 due on promissory
note.
The annual picnic and games of the Emmett
Football Club viii be held at schuetzen Park
to-day.
Joseph L Twohig has applied for letters of
Twohig.
Margaret White has applied for letters of ad-
ministratlon on the $4,000 estate of Charles
EYerson.
reunion of the members of the first class
that entered Stanford University was held in
this City last night.
Petition for letters of administration on the
estate OF Henry E. Trubenbach have been filed
by Hermann Gudehus.
The old revenue cutter Hartley has been
practically condemned, and the Walter Hack
EFT is running in her place.
Much interest has been expressed in the
forthcoming sale of seats for the carnival bene-
Mt at the Columbia Theater.
The Merchants Association yesterday sent
out letters TO 1000 firms asking them to urge
all their employees TO register.
The Board of Health has refused to cooper
ate with Flung Yang Heng, the Chinese Con-
sui, in cleaning up Chinatown.
John W. Newell, g travelling salesman, COM
mitted suicide in his room al the Royal House,
126 Ellis street, yesterday afternoon.
R. c. Richardson received sixteen severa
cuts on the head and face from a pitcher
welded by Edward Fisher last night.
The schooner Lizzie Prien is considerably
overdue al Nehalem. She was seen OFF the bar
ten days ago, but has not been spoken since.
The County Board of Equalization sat for
over six hours yesterday afternoon listening
10 applications for reductions of assess
ments.
William Fleming, Jack Homer and John
Slattery, ex-cOnvicts, were arrested yesterday
morning for stealing goods from delivery
wagons.
Big reductions in the rates on tea and tea
dust from California to Chicago and all points
west OF that city are 70 become effective on the
25th inst.
The Supreme Court has sustained the de-
cision in the case of DAILY VS.. HIM for damages
caused by HIM running over Days little boy
with wagon.
Camilla Ferrari committed suicide by shoot
ing himself through the head on Ninth ave-
nue., near the main drive in Golden Gate Park,
on Friday night.
For the fiscal year ended June 80 the money
order business OF the local Pos tofice shows an
increase over the previous twelve months of
nearly 10 per cent
Florence Blythe, the heiress, was sued yester-
day in the Superior Court by Thomas 1.
Bs5rgins for SOC, 737 for professional services
and money loaned.
The Mission Defense Union at a meeting held
last night determined to make vigorous fight
trail point in the Mission.
Memorial services in honor of the brave
Slavonians who fell at the memorable battle
OF LISA in 1866 will be held in the Church OF
Notre Dame Monday morning.
Preparations for the Carnival of the Golden
Gate are going steadily forward. Yesterday 8
committee selected sites for "tribunes of
kings and queens" on Van Ness avenue.
An Ohio syndicate represented by Professor
P. L. Hobbs of Western Reserve University is
quietly looking for investments on the mother
lode and has already bought one property for
over 100000.
The will of Sarah jerks has been fled for
probate by b. F. Buhr. who petitions for letters
of administration on her estate. The property
IS valued at about 10000, consisting of real
estate in Vallejo.
The little Russian band that has been play
ing Tor Two weeks at the chutes has been
shipped back to New York by Manager Walters
of the Orpheum because it was not what it was
represented to be.
William Mahood, rancher from Sacramento
valley, was swindled out OF $13 by the old
lock game in Jefferson Square yesterday morn
ing, ana Theodore Yeager, one of the bunko
men, was arrested
The charge of threats to kill preferred
against John Sommers, grocer, Brady street,
by T. j. Gordon, saloon-keeper, 1888 Market
street., was dismissed by Judge Joachimsen
yesterday morning.
supreme Court returned from FL Paso de
ROBES early yesterday morning by special
Train ana went at once to the Palace Hotel
where ne rested quietly all day.
The Maria Kip orphanage will soon be
permanently located in new building on the
corner OF sacramento street and Seventh
venue. mork VIII be started at once, and the
cornerstone VIII be laid In August
The outcropping of what appeared to he q
gold quartz ledge was discovered Friday even
Ing by graders on Point Dobos avenue oppo-
slte Oentrel avenue. Contractor P. Frederick
mas put q fence around the ore and is having
samples assayed.
Leo Cooper returned yesterday from the
springs, where he spent several weeks on
of Dramatic Art, conducted by Mr. Cooper,
VIII open It's regular season in Saratoga Hall
on Monday, July 81.
Joseph Edwards and Robert Ross boys. ar
rested last Thursday for criminal assault upon
Annie Fortier, decrepit old woman, were sent
TO the County Jail for six months each by
Judge Joachimsen yesterday, the CHARGE hav
ing been reduced to battery.
The underwriters will be actusllv Soo 600
ahead on the raising of the Baltimore Had
they abandoned the hull and paid the in
Now $500 will see the vessel in as pood
condition as the day she went down
Stephen Roberts, Mrs Craven's friend and
ADVISER, lola an interesting story in his deposit
the attorneys now opposing the pencil viii
formerly swore by it and how they have failed
10 carry out the compromise contract.
Charley King, an Americanized Chinese.
while cleaning windows at the Auditorium
saloon, 8 Powell street, early yesterday morn
ing, was thrown off stepladder and sustained
fracture OF his skull. Charles Mccarthy. A
barkeeper, arrested for committing the
assault.
The st. George CLUB has awarded the con-
tract for the new building to be erected on
Mason street, between Geary and O'Farrell
streets, TO Contractor Hayes. Work will be
commenced on the structure next Monday
and be pushed to completion as rapidly as
possible.
This Sunday afternoon at 3 O'Clock Rev.
G. c. Herriott, superiu tendent of the Inter-
UNCONVENTIONAL Training Institute, Mime
apolis. Mimi, viii address young men at the
association building, Mason and Ellis streets.
Mr.. Herriott is said 10 be very able speaker.
seats free to all young men.
Rev Anna Shaw left yesterday for Los
Angeles, where she will speak tonight in the
Church OF the Unity for the benefit of Phoebe
Couzlns. Tomorrow she will lecture at Long
beach. leaving on Tuesday or Wednesday for
the East, where she will remain about q
month.
There will be an entire change of programme
al Inc suiro Baths this afternoon and evening.
mere VIII be high trapeze performing con-
tOrucn acts and other amusements. The