The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-30
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Fair Tuesday.-Local Forecast oficial W. H.
Harmon.
The Building Trades Council will elect two
new business agents tonight
The Alcazar Theater closed its doors Sunday
evening on account of financial embarrass-
ment.
The Presbyterian Ministerial Union was ad-
dressed yesterday by Rev. Dr.. Hallatt of st.
Louis
The Mckinley and Hobart italian Repub-
hcan Club was organized last evening, $50
strong.
A party of six ensigns just graduated from
Annapolis arrived last night to take positions
on the Philadelphia.
stephen Fletcher was yesterday appointed
administrator of the estate of Margaret Doyle,
with bond fixed at $500.
The Socialists formed their first political
club in the Thirtfeth Assembly District last
night a 948 Folsom street.
Rev. James Rowen addressed the congrega-
tional pastors yesterday, and regretted the
presence of lads in Christian churches.
There is no conflict of interests, as has erro-
neously been supposed, between the San
Francisco Teachers Club" and the Teachers
Council"
No new developments were made in the Fair
viii case or the matter of the Craven deeds
yesterday. The lawyers are preparing for the
battle Thursday.
Irwin Barueh proprietor of a poker game,
shot Jacob Rosenheim, alias 'Sleepy jake 8
well-known confidence operator, on Kearny
street, last night.
James Bayard Whittemore, native son and
resident of this City, is great-grandson OF
Rear Admiral Sloat, who seized California for
the United States.
In the Peoples Bank case yesterday Judge
Seawell took under Amusement a motion to
dismiss by Judge Carpenter after extensive
argument by counsel.
J.R. Freud declines to enter war of person
atty with the women of the American Liberal
League, but he makes reply to their attack
upon the new charter.
In the Baldwin-Ashley case yesterday Wit
ness Anderson testified that the plaintiff
and defendant were almost insepsrable at the
Santa Anita ranch during 1871.
The Supervisors have taken the money from
the street-sweeping fund to be used for other
purposes, and as result the street sweepers
have been withdrawn and the streets are dirty
again.
At meeting OF the executive committee of
the Golden Gate Carnival yesterday afternoon
many suggestions were received from those
interested, and it was advised that action be
deferred until after the Fourth.
Lazaro Bazuro, florist at Colma, was
swindled out of $107 on June Id by two men,
who played an old trick upon him, and yes
terday Luigi DOM and Dominica Bianchi were
arrested and identified as the swindlers.
Great excitement was created in Chinatown
yesterday by the Wong family, under the
leadership OF Chez Ting, withdrawing from
break up the boycott on the Sam Yup Com
pary. ~ ae
The executive committee of the Fourth of
July Committee last evening completed many
of the details of the celebration. Louis A.
Robertson, local newspaper writer, was
awarded The prize of $50 for the best patriotic
poem.
James Dawson, hneman in the employ.
ment of the Edison Electric Light and Power
Company, while on top of q pole on Market
street yesterday afternoon, was caught by q
live wire and fell to the sidewalk, dying in a
few minutes.
It is expected to have the new railroad mar
published by the Board of State Railroad Com.
missioners ready for distribution by the end oil
this week. 1t will probably show the route OF
the Valley road as far as 1t has been definitely
decided upon.
Professor Louis A. Buchanan has resigned
the principalship of the Cogsweu Polytechnic
College, and at the opening of the term next
August the vacancy will be filed by the APP
pointment of James H. Culver, Tor many years
past the secretary OF the Mechanics Institute
George z. Barron yesterday commenced sui
to quiet title to two-ffteenths of the real estate
LETT by his father, Edward Barron. The ac
lature by which If was made permissible 10 at
tack the validity OF trusts contained in Wills
in collateral proceedings
Admiral Evashintsoff of the Russian navy
arrived at the Palace yesterday on a leave Of
absence secured that he might get American
he proposes TO erect on the coast of KAN
chatka, where the Gar of Russia has given
him a concession for ten years.
An immense and enthusiastic audience at
tended the anti-funding ratification mass.
meeting last night in Metropolitan Temple
speech was made by Congressman Mcguire
who related the story OF the fight at Washing.