The San Francisco call., 1896-07-23
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

tor of the will OF Nathaniel w. Cole has been
accepted.
Auditor Broderick called Mayor Sutro a fakir
at the meeting OF the Election Commissioners
yesterday.
Angel Island infantrymen are practicing at
long-range targets at the Presidio with the
new army models.
Mrs. Nora Cunningham, alias several other
names, is accused OF cruelty neglecting her
two small children.
The First Congregational Society hopes to
reassemble for worship in the church building
within q short time.
The Woman's State Republican Club held an
enthusiastic meeting in Judge Groezinger's
courtroom last night
Billy Jordan, market inspector, seized 500
watermelons which were wilted ana saved 5000
boys from stomach ache.
Msjor-General n. T. James has appointed
Colonel ]. G. Currier assistant adj Jutant-
general and chief OF staff.
Members of the Union-square Free Baptist
Church held jubilee last night over the dis
charge of the church debt
The annual meeting of the Produce Ex-
change was held yesterday, at which the newly
elected officers were installed.
Woman Suffrage lecture work will be in
Rugurated next week among the colored peo-
pie of this City and the interior.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals is endeavoring to stop the sport of
setting fox-terriers upon rabbits.
The second days meeting of the Pacific
Coast Gas Association termina ted with BAN
quet last night at the Palace Hotel.
Annie X Brenham has petitioued to be ap-
pointed guardian of the estate Of her hus band,
Robert b. BRENNAN, an incompetent.
Cloudy weather with conditions favorable for
showers and southwesterly winds is the best
the Weather Bureau can offer Tor to-day.
James ]. McKlnnon has been appointed ex
ecutor, without bonds, of the will of Angus Z
Mcmillan. The estate is valued at $500.
Hollis N. Cox, 1925 Howard street, dropped
dead in the Receiving Hospital early yesterday
morning from, II is supposed, heart disease.
The single-tax leaders are planning to stump
the State and educate the people to siDgle-taX
principles and the advantages OF local option.
Billy Gallagher, the pugllst, attached Young
Mitchell's place yesterday for $440 for his
share of the purse in the Smlth-Gallagher
fight.
Assistant United States Acknowledgement ].
NJ. Dickinson, now here pleasure trip,
says the Populists would be foolish to indorse
Bryan.
The British ships Cedarbank and Cambus-
kenneth arrived yesterday after unusually
long passages. Reinsurance was paid on both
vessels.
Considerable speculation is being INDUCED
IN by Federal employees as 10 who will succeed
Captain Talbot as chief inspector OF hulls and
boilers.
William Watts, the fruit peddler accused of
eooping up the boy George Walker in q barrel
was arrested yesterday afternoon on charge
OF battery.
The will of Peter Kehoe has been admitted
to probate. Cornelius Shay and John O'Con-
nor were appointed executors. The estate is
worth 5000.
A contest to the probate of the viii OF Caro-
line Vetter was flea yesterday by Rosine
Grant sister of the deceased. Property worth
$75, 900 is involved.
George NJ. Rogers has begun suit against the
Emporium Company for alleged breach OF con-
tract in not allowing him to establish de-
partment hardware store.
7. D. Mckay, the Oriental passenger agent
of several transcontinentai and trans-Pacifc
transportation companies, is to return to his
post OF duty next Thursday.
The Chinese Merchants Association, at a
meeting held last night, determined to make
special inquiry into the death of Lee Tie, who
was murdered Sunday night
For the fiscal year ending June 80 there was
imported from Hawaii merchandise to the
amount OF $9.915 ,44S. The export trade was
little over one-third of this.
A suit to oust the directors of the American
Pipe and Pile Armor Company was MED
yesterday. Itis claimed that they have juggled
the affairs of the corporation.
The Painters Union will ask the assistance
of Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald in the en-.
actment of laws for the improvement of the
condition OF the laboring classes.
Hugo D. Keil has replied to the charges
made by the carnival committee against the
Merchants Association in stinging terms, ac
cusing the former OF a lack of liberality.
The Supreme Court hss affirmed the decision
OF the lower tribunal in the case OF John w
Mackay and Richard " Dey, executors of Mrs
Theresa Fair, VS.. the City and County OF san
Francisco.
Exclusive information in The CALL concern.
ing the damage caused to the Channel-street
sewer by the running OF trains above ii has
caused sensation among householders and
taxpayers
Rosie t. Oliver yesterday fled complaint
asking for the annulment of her marriage
with Manuel Z. Oliver. She claims Oliver is q
disreputable character and that she was not oi
age when she married him.
A rate war has begun again among the
steamers on the San Joaquin River. Yester-
day the California Navigation and Improve
ment Company cut the rate between San Fran
cisco and Stockton from so 10 25 cents.
julius W. Raphael, president OF RaphaePs
Qncorporated), returned from New York last
night He urges prompt measures for main
tanning the supremacy of San Francisco in
Oriental and Central American commerce.
A. R. McFarlane, an old man, who was
tricked out of $50 worth OF diamonds last
Ihursday, which he was trying to sell, has
become Insane through worrying over il and
is now in cell in the Receiving Hospital
District Attorney Barnes is at present look
ing up the legal power of the Grand Jury TO
take steps against the Supervisors who voted
TO reduce the assessments of the railw ay com
pany and other corDorations last Monday
The washburn Sisters, Blanche and Lillian.
now playing at the Orpheum, are putting on
their famous act OF the "Newsboys" 1t has
reaped many dime for the boys in the East
and seems ABOUT to repeat the success here
''Uncle'' George T. Bromley, the venerable
Bohemian, was taken suddenly i'll at Belvedere
Monday morning. He is nearing his cightieth
birthday and this, his first Illness has fright
ened him almost to death. He is recovering
slowly.
"Biliy" Develin, an old-time employe of the
Mail Company and brother of the District At
torney OF Solano County, died at Champerico
of yellow fever recently. He was General An
tonic Ezeta's private secretary at the time oi
his death.
The local United States Shipping Commits.
sioner has been notified by the Treasury De-
pertment that in future all seamen will be
provided with leather pocketDooks in which
10 carry all records relating to voyages, time
discharged, etc.
Charles Arms, tailor, 4O2 Jones street, for
whose arrest Louise Sch wegler swore out a
warrant on Tuesday on the charge of grand
larceny, flled suit in the Justices Court yes
terday, claiming $43 from her for damage to
his carpets and bedding.
General Wade HAMPTON. United States Rail-