The San Francisco call., 1896-03-21
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF


Miss Susan B. Anthony addressed the Ameri-
can Socialists.
The Davidson case will come before Judge
Bahrs on Monday.
Read the auction sales column In THE CALL
II you want bargains in any line.
Superintendent of Schools Babcock is in
favor OF nigh school in the Mission district.
The Supreme Court has passed upon an inter-
estlng mining case involving an abandoned
claim.
Two more petitions against the hog ranches
were filed with the Board of Supervisors yes
terday.
Next Monday the two great Democratic fac
tions will meet in battle array and blood will
flow amain.
The Italian, French and Spanish carpenters
of this City have formed union for mutual
protection.
A new and more convenient timetable for
the Sausalito ferry goes into effect the 29th OF
this month.
Dr.. A. A. D'AneoDa relates his experience in
the employment of hypnotism as a curative
agent in medicine
Showdown, Adam Andrew, Charm, Magnet
Decision and Scimitar were the winners at the
Bay District yesterday.
John J. O'Brien and John J. Hare, convicted
OF grand larceny, have been sentenced TO six
years In the State prison.
Dr. o. H. Patterson, California pioneer of
1s49, once City Physician OF Sacramento, died
in this City on Thursday.
A pianoforte recital was given last night at
the Association Auditorium under the aus
piceS of the Hawthorn Society.
A successful concert was given yesterday
afternoon in Golden Gate Hall by the San
Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
John Brannan, laborer, fell from a build
ding on California street, near Larkin, last
evening and was seriously injured.
need be no Ill will by the suffragists because of
the coming temperance convention.
Several non-union painters working at the
corner OF Post and Powell streets yesterday re-
fused to stop work and defed the strikers.
Tomorrow the Naval Battalion will throw
the monitor Comanche open to visitors. Boats
viii leave Folsom-street wharf for the vessel.
DR.. c. H. Lubbock reports the new ordinance
in Alameda for isolating consumptives is prov
ing satisfactory in its operation i'll every wsy.
The heirs of the Hearst estate are co-operat-
ing with the Reese brothers in removing Blue
rock Hill, in the Potrero, to fill in swamp land.
The overdue British ship Lyndhurst arrived
from Hongkong yesterday and was libeled for
g claim OF $1,000 by the United States Mar
shall.
Nicholas Claussen pleaded guilty to murder
in the first degree yesterday, but he was al
lowed to withdraw the plea and plead not
guilty.
A. H Dean and James McCheskey, the
Nevada Bank robbers, were arraigned before
Judge Wallace yesterday. They both pleaded
guilty.
''Fog in the morning, probably clearing in
the afternoon; light westerly Winds was the
weather forecast issued last night by Official A.
q. McAdie.
ing entitled, ga Man and His Mother" en-
tered an eloquent protest against the new
woman idea.
The Harbor Commission awarded the last
contract for the ferry-depot building yester-
day, and the work OF construction will begin
Immediately.
Dr. Pond yesterday eensured DR.. Brown
severely relative to the untruthful press dis
patch which the accused pastor dictated TO the
Eastern papers.
Over 100 Eden colonists en- route to Mendo-
cino County arrived yesterday from the East.
They have % 900 acres in Eden Valley, forty
seven miles from Ukiah.
Customs Inspector Williams, accused of TAX
ing money for the landing OF Chinese at this
port was placed on the rack by the United
States Grand Jury yesterday.
George Peters an old man, was arrested in
the Mission yesterday selling lottery tickets
and writing the letter "P' on the doors OF
houses where he sold tickets.
The Irish societies viii give a picnic at
Schuetzen Park, near San Rafael, April 19.
There is also a movement on foot TO erect q
fine building for the societies.
c. A. Bailey, druggist, Grant avenue and
Suffer street, was convicted DY jury III JuQRe
CampbelPs court yesterday OF selling opium
without doctors prescription.
The gauzy warn of the stranger and woman
in the tenderloin district, published in the
evening papers last evening, has been proven
to be a freak of somebody's imagination.
George wilson and Michael Mcdonald were
each sentenced to fourteen years imprison-
ment by Judge Wallace yesterday. They were
each convicted CT assault co commit robbery.
The British ship Cromdale arrived last night,
seyenty-three days from Newcastle, n. S. w.
She experienced light winds all the trip, and
was almost becalmed off this port fourteen
days.
Judge Coffey has decided that Mrs. Domingo
Rarbacolata was not Domingo Ghirsrdelli's
child and that she is, therefore, not entitled to
any OF his estate except the sum bequeathed
to her.
The anti-Browns met in secret conference in
the Columbia building last night and consld-
cred the question OF removing DR.. Brown from
the First Congregational Church and from the
ministry.
The striking painters have decided to
give the bosses until Monday to settle the
present differences, failing which they propose
TO go into the market to compete for the work
with tie bosses.
Attorney Delmas demanded jury trial of
the issues raised IN the Fair case by the will of
SeDtember "a, 1894, and Judge Slack yester-
week to all parties in the case.
Frank C. Colville has been given judgment
of 81 Is against the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company He had been overchafged that
much on passenger ticket and sued the COM
pany for that sum, also $299 damages.
George w. Baker, chairman OF the State BIZ
metallic League, says that the silver men Will
make an attempt in their National convention
npxt July to fuse with the PopuiisIs the
financial plank and the direct legislation
plank.
UNIVERSITY LECTURES.