The San Francisco call., 1896-04-19
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

Rev. R. N. Campbell has accepted call to
Glasgow, KY.
The bloomer girl is slowly but surely passing
away in San Francisco.
The Episcopal Church conference will be
held in this City on May 8.
The last secular concert of the Mormon
choir was given last night in Metropolitan
Temple.
Rev. DIFF Masters makes@artling revela-
tions concerning the ale OF Chinese slaves in
this City.
The Grand Lodge of the Knights and Ladies
of Honor of California will meet on Tuesday
in the Alcazar building.
Mattio Drobas, one of the best-known old
timers on the water front, was married to
handsome young widow last Friday.
The Mission Defense Union met last night
and reported 597 property-owners organized
against the claims of the Noe heirs.
John Keefe, gripman of the Jackson-street
line, who was discharged two weeks ago for at
tending the races has been reinstated.
At the second annual meeting of the local
lodge of the Travellers Protective Association
officers for the ensuing year were elected.
Partly cloudy Sunday; brisk westerly
wind"-forecast for San Francisco and vicinity
issued last night by Official w. H. Harmon.
Captain Cav of the British ship Blairmore,
lost during q gale in Mission Bay April 8, was
held blsmeless by the Consular Court of In
quiry yesterday.
Dick McDon aid is free He has been allowed
to go on his own recognizance. pending set.
tlement of the remaining charges. They will
probably be dismissed.
Several reputa bic citizens state that the late
). e Wllmerd.ng intended that the Wilmer
ding Art School should be established in this
City and nowhere else.
fire on San Jose avenue was caused yester-
day evening by defective oil lamp used in an
incubator, and the whole of the upper story of
the house was destroyed.
The winning horses at Bay District yesterday
TO faf no ffohr Nharf
Duchess of Milpitas, Esperance, Mount Me-
Gregor II and Heartsease.
The new advanced transcontinental freight
rates may not be put into effect until the mid
die OF May, owing to delay in getting out the
printed schedules at Chicago.
Joint committees from the Mechanics Insti-
tute and Manufacturers Association to-mor
row will have a conference relative to holding
home industry fair next fall.
The San Francisco and North Pacific Rail-
road Company complain that the Harbor Com
missioners are dumping refuse right under
the windows OF their waiting-room.
Edward I. Mahoney, wholesale liquor mer-
chant, driven mad by drink, nearly killed his
wife yesterday, and last night was locked up in
padded cell in the Receiving Hospital.
George W. Simpson, locksmith, 612 Shraoer
street, was arrested yesterday on warrant
sworn to by nelghbor, charging him with in
Sanity, but was released by Judge Slack.
Delegates TO the Grand Parlor of the Native
Sons OF the Golden West, TO be held in San Luis
Obispo in the latter part OF the month, are ar
living IN this city en- route Tor the south.
Robert Bright sued his sister, Mrs Mary
Craig for money and land transferred to her
recently by him, when he believed death was
near. Mrs. Craig is wealthy now, and he is
poor invalid.
sociology at Stanford University, accompanied
by twelve OF her class, visited the City Prison
and Police courts yesterday morning during q
tour OF inspection.
Company's steamer Gaelic was due from Yoko-
hama via Honolulu last Friday, but as she had
case OF the black plague aboard she was
probably quarantined at the latter port.
Frank Thompson. a boy living at 431 Ma
toma street, fell from the top of the fence
round st. Ignatius School on Grove street yes
terday and broke both bones OF his right leg
He was taken TO the Receiving Hospital.
The jury in the case of Martin against the
Southern Pacific Company awarded Martin
S25,0 900 damages yesterday afternoon, for hav-
ing been forcibly put of a train and robbed of
his ticket by train agent OF the company.
John Moss, the recently appointed traffic
manager OF the Valley road, was last evening
presented with Carrara bust of himself by
his late associates, the employees in the local
freight agency OF the Southern Pacific Com
pany.
a. Bucher, an employe in the California
Wire Works, was caught in the betting yester-
day and slightly injured, and James King, an
employe in the shoe factory at Battery street,
had the fingers of both his hands crushed by
roller.
Felix Bush, from Vancouver and Timothy
H. Terwilliger, from Petaluma, both farmers,
claim that they were robbed by women in
dives on the Barbary Coast Friday night and
swore out warrants in the Police Court
yesterday.
superintendent Stable and Steward Robin
son of the City and County Hospital are pre-
pairing charges against Joseph King, chairman
of the Hospital Committee of the Board of Su-
pervisors, for refusing or neglecting to sign
requisitions for supplies for patients.
The Eleventh Ward Sectional Club will con.
solidate with the new organization known as
''The Mission Improvement Union" the OBJ
ject being to make their influence felt with the
Supery isors and other coordinate branches of
the municipal government for the benefit of
the ward.
The steam schooner Excelsior arrived from
Cooks Inlet with number of returned miners
aboard. They say that the mines are frozen
over, and that the prospectors are suffering
great hsrds hips. Nevertheless the Albion was
to sail this morning with los men who will
tempt fortune at the same point.
The defendant in the suit for the annul-
ment of marriage brought by the guardian OF
Fred Stuart Adams yesterday filed volumin-
Gus answer. She denies that she beguiled her
youthful husband to marry her, and declares
that he is well versed in the ways OF the world
She Indignantly denies charges of immortality,
and brings counter-charges against the plain
tiff