The San Francisco call., 1896-01-26
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

Two witnesses testified at the Healy investi-
CATION yesterday forenoon.
A contest of the viii of DR.. Emil Trenkle has
been commenced by his sisters-in-law.
The downtown booksellers forced TO move off
the main thoroughfare into back alley.
The Bryant and Brannan street electric line
was opened for regular traffic at noon yester-
day.
The teachers of the public schools have COM
binsd once more for mutual benefit and educa-
ton.
Captain Charles 81. Matthews, an old retired
bar pilot, died OF apoplexy at the Russ House
yesterday.
Beginning with February the time be-
tween San Francisco ana Calistoga will be re-
duced both ways.
The Young Mems Christian Association will
celebrate the forty-third anniversary OF its
founding this afternoon.
Two car tenders were tested yesterday in the
presence of the health and police committee OF
the Board of Supervisors.
Another suit TO set aside the transfer of the
Pacific Bank property to the Peoples Home
Bank has been commenced.
The Superior Judges have submitted the
names OF LA men, from whom the grand
jurors OF 1896 viii be drawn.
The winners at the Bay District yesterday
were: Affiatus, George Miller, imp. Star Ruby,
Carmel, Logan and Hueneme.
The Salvation Army has discovered that
many OF the applicants for the bounty OF the
hODluSOn DeQ QeSt IuQQ are 1rdUQS.
Sergeant Lyons OF Company D, First United
States Infantry, was badly I'M juTed in q railroad
accident while away on q furlOugh.
Unsettled weather with showers Sunday
forenoon" is the kind OF ther which Official
McAdie promises San FraneiSco to-day.
J. A. Linforth, insurance broker, has been
arrested for embezzling premiums paid to him,
and which he appropriated to his own use.
The trial of the next case against Dick Nc
Donald, which will make the third against
him, has been set for February 8, before Judge
Bahrs
The Mark Hopkins Institute of Art has been
enriched by the addition of a famous painting.
"The Captive" by Benjamin Constant, the gift
OF {. +. SearleS.
Upon complaint made by the Bank Com
missioners the AJtorney-General caused TO be
removed from their positions the directors ofthe
defunct Merced bank
system OF letter collection is contemplated
by Postma asteTGeneral Wilson, and among the
list of places 10 be experimental with San
francisco IS included.
The floating committee is planning the pur-
chase OF launch TO conduct Endeavorers to
daily devotional meetings on board the deep
sea vessels lying at anchor.
The will of Allan Purvis has been fled by
Robert Ashe in whose possession it WAS. It
directs that his estate, worth $40 900, should
be left to immediate relatives.
Reports Of the operations of a short, swarthy-
mplexioned burglar with a lantern in the
ceived by the police yesterday
The market for May wheat fell a cent yester-
day from Fridays prices. The English markets
were responsive, though Chicago advanced IL
cents. Large speculative purchases have fallen
Off.
Gertrude Dougart is suing to make the stock
holders of the san Francisco and San Mateo
Railway Company liable for damages for an
injury which she sustained while riding on
that road.
Robert II. Young and W. c. Bridgman at
tached the Fulda Planning Mills at 40 Spear
street, of which Fulda Bros. the proprietors
aggregaung 1886.
charged with burglary, to Whittier until he
attains the age OF 2l. He is now IS. Ramirez
was convicted of a burglary committed in the
house in which he lived.
Lolita Guittesey, the last litigant in the
Emeric Alyarsdo case, had an execution
issued against her property in the disputed
territory yesterday, in order to satisfy the
judgment which was against her.
The Francis-Valentine Company has iucor-
pOTated with 100000 capital stock, S25 of
which has been subscribed. The directors are:
D. B. Francis, S. D. Valentine, ]. B. Hughes
T. B. Valentine and E. J. Valentine.
The Sunnyside and Castro-street addition
property-oWners held mass meeting last night
and were assured by School Director Clinton
that the district would have q schoolhouse
built before July. The Sunnyside Improvement
Club was organized.
Thomas Moore is suing for a divorce on the
ground that his wife, Elizabeth Moore is not q
good nurse. He says she married him for his
money and he married her 10 be taken care of
AS she mas not taken proper care of him he