The San Francisco call., 1896-03-02
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

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There were but few people at the park and
beach yesterday.
Chief Crowley will recommend Captain Lees
as his successor in Office.
Pietro Gori appeared last night in the two
roles Of actor and playwright.
Elder A. L. Halliday declares that polygamy
is dead issue among Mormons.
Bishop Goodsen dedicated the new Norwe-
gian-Danish NJ. Z. Church yesterday.
Gun Division No. l of the naval battalion
held its monthly medal shoot yesterday.
Detective John Seymour is likely to replace
Captain Lees as head of the detective depart
ment.
The California wing-shooting Club opened
track.
Dr.. York, the liberalist speaker, lectured be-
fore good-sized audience at Scottish Hall last
evening.
The Rev. NJ. P. Boynton spoke befole the
Young Mems Christian Association yesterday
afternoon.
The weather predictions for to-day are In
creasine cloudiness and showers; high south
westerly winds.
The Cliff steam road to the ocean has shut
down because the tunnel near Point Looos is
blocked by cave.
The Rev. ]. @. A Henry win deliver series
of lectures at Metropolitan Temple, beginning
on the 18th of April.
At Ocean View Park yesterday afternoon
Lord Clifton won the sixteen-dog stake IN
handy style. Electric was his opponent.
The benefit given to the Theatrical Mechan-
les Association OF this City yesterday after
noon was well attended and entirely successful
William H. Byrnes, the illustrator and en-
graver. committed suicide by cutting ms
throat with a pocket-knife while respondent
yesterday.
Miss Overman takes issue with q CALL cor
respondent over an interview with Mrs. Tun-
nell. The young lady is not correct IN her
statement.
The Italian cruiser Cristoforo Columbo sailed
yesterday morning for San Diego. consul
General Grimaldl OF this port was guest
aboard the vessel.
Miss Annie Mistreau, Miss Julia Gout and ].
Gout were thrown from buggy on Golden
Gate avenue and Franklin street yesterday and
seriously injured.
The A. @. H. attended ST. Mary's Cathedral
in a body yesterday. Archbishop Riordan de-
lvered an address in which he highly COM
mended the order.
Owing to the high winds yesterday afternoon
the double balloon ascension at the Haight-
street grounds did not take place, but Miss
Essie Viola went it alone.
Major T. C. Ryan of Columbus, Ohio, adj
dressed a,large audience in Metropolitan Tenn
pie yesterday afternoon under the auspices OF
the American Protective Association.
The Sabbath-school children of the Congre-
presentation OF the drama and cantata OF
"Esther" at the Native Sons Hall last night.
An immense audience heard Paderewskfs
farewell music at the Baldwin Theater last
night, and at the same time gave an enthusi-
astic greeting to Marsick, the celebrated Paris
iaI viollnIst.
Among the games at the handban courts
yesterday was one between Amateur Cham
pion Donnelly and T. F. Bonnet and Cham
piOn Harlow and John RicTdan, the two
former winning.
Mia Musha, japanese living at as Grove
street. accidentally turned on the gas in his
room when retiring on Saturday, and was
nearly asphyxiated. He was taken to the Re-
ceiving Hospital.
Joe Anthony. q young hoodlum, dislocated
the arm OF Chinese trying TO pull a $50 brace
Officer Barry, who arrested him on a charge of
attempt at robbery.
Captain Lees received information yesterday
that A. II. Dean. who swindled the Nevada
draft, had been arrested in Minnesota, along
with his accomplice.
The steam launch W. Weighed, intended for
the mail and passenger service of the Cali
fornia, Oregon and Idaho stage line on the Eel
River, was Launched yesterday and taken on
its trial trip across the bay.
The K. r. 3. men met yesterday and COM
pleted arrangements for the celebration of
Emmet's birthday at Metropolitan Hall on
Tuesday next Ex-Congressman Finerty of
Chicago will deliver the Grafton.
Major T. c. Ryan, who was in the United
States immigration Bureau under the admins
ttation OF President Hayes spoke at Metropoli-
tan Hall last night on ''RoC1anism and Protest
anism: Their Fruits Compared"
The relatives of John M. Verhoef, a former
member of the Olympic Club OF this City, who
was lost on the Peary expedition, claim he has
been living with the Eskimos and has made
the north pole discovery accredited to Nansen.
In regard to the retirement of Chief of Police
Crowley and the appointment OF his successor,
,zaI,, g lxz,,- o..
Lees and City Marshal Hampton North quelled
a row among sixteen soldiers and ARE sted and
jailed nine of them.
d: A good roads mass-meeting will be held at
odd Fellows Hall next Tuesday evening dur
ing which addresses will be made by Commits
sioners Marsden Mansen, Manell and irwin;
also by MI. Wynne, chairman OF the Highway
Improveme mt mittee, L. A. w.
Bruce Porter is confident that the Super
visors will permit the proposed Robert Louis
Stevenson memorial to be erected at Ports
mouth square. Illustrations of the quarters
occupied by Stevenson in this City at the time
Of his marriage are published in The CALL to-
day.
The Supreme Court will be called upon to-
day to act upon the petition of Mary A. Hens
lev for q peremptory writ of mandate to COM
pei Superior Judge Matt T. Johnson of
sacramento TO issue decree that publication
of notice to creditors had been made in the
settlement of the estate of Calvin z. Hensley,
deceased If the petition is denied the title TO
all property of 791 estates probated from 1860
to 1890 and valued at over 81, ,09l ,4S2 will be
clouded.
Chinese Gamblers.