The San Francisco call., 1896-01-15
CITY ITEMS IN BRIEF

There are to be no more pools sold on horse
races in the downtown rooms.
The reformer, Frank r. Gibson, is insolvent
lie owes Sll26 and has Sllo TO pay it with.
Joseph Johnson is running foul of both State
and Federal courts for selling lottery tickets.
RalfOur, Guthrie & Co. have answered and
explained the peculiar reasons which caused a
big lawsuit
The Naphtaly- -Feigenbaum wedding~at the
Concordla Club was one OF the society events
Of the season.
The last protest of the Blythe Company to
the distribution OF the estate has been denied
by Judge COffey.
The Nationals of this City and the Hawaiian
Guard OF Honolulu are preparing TO shoot
friendly hfty-man match.
The winning horses at Ingleside yesterday
we're PiQue, Bate Murphy, Alvarado, MeStor,
Major Cook and Highland.
The Art Association has begun a system OF
tme-keeping that makes il necessary for the in
structors 10 get their classes promptly a. A. NJ
Samuel B. Thompson, the old venderof news
papers, again attempted to hang himself IN
his cell in the City Prison yesterday morning.
The State Development Committee is prepar-
ing to establish in the large Eastern cities
small permanent exhibits OF California prod
uctS.
Yesterday the regents OF the State University
accepted the $4,000 donated by citizens for
lighting the library and grounds at the uni
versitv.
Mayor Sutro has named the san Francisco
delegates to the Anti-Funding Bill Convention,
which is 10 be held al Metropolitan Temple on
Saturday next.
J. Marclukowsky, who has been trying to get
control of his colOTed wife property, is about
10 appeal from Judge Nurphys decision TO the
supreme Court.
Judge Seawen has denied the writ of man
date asked for by Henry Miller, and in so do
iIg has declared the legality and the force of
the fee bill of 1895.
W Wittland. receiving teller of the Grangers
Bank, was short in his accounts over $4,000,
and although detectives are searching for him
he cannot be found.
The Board of University Regents Yesterday
decided TO send an expedition to observe the
solPr eclipse on the eastern coast OF Japan,
which takes place in July.
Dr. F. L. Molass, a French physician, sick
and despondent, committed suicide at the new
French Hosplta! Yesterday morning by shoot
Ing himself IN the head with revolver.
Charles Nauman was acquitted in Judge
Lows court yesterday of the ch8re of selling
wild duck out OF season. and a warrant was
Immediately sworn out against his son
Clarence.
Tor the Insane by the Insanity Commissioners
yesterday. he came here on the steamer Peru
from Hougkong, from which place he had been
sent by the American Consul He a sailor.
In an interview with f. H. Hinton, agent of
the Panama Railroad Company in this City,
the position OF that company relative 10 the
Pacific Mail steamship Company and the
transcontinentel lines was clearly defined yes
terday
John Madison was booked at the City Prison
yesterday on the charge of burglary. He broke
into the residence OF Leon Blum, 1926 Post
street, on January IL, the police say, and stole
q set OF carpente tools belonging to W. A
Burdick.
The new Chinese Consul-General, Fung Yuns
Hun. issued a circular yesterday informing
the Chinese OF the change in the consulate on
account of Ii Iung New having been detailed
10 resume the negotiations for treaty between
Mexico and China.
The executive committee OF the Republican
state Central Committee met yesterday and
decided 10 prepare an appOrtionment of dele
gates and to draft a call for the State pri-
maries. The general committee viii be called
together February %.
J. A. Duke, q colored man, who upon habeas
corpus tried TO escape the penalty of grabbing
50 from poker table, has been remanded He
was charged with grand larceny, but this was
reduced to petty larceny, and he claims there
should have been a release and another arrest.
The Alaska Packers Association reelected
Its officers at its annual meeting Yesterday
The financial statement showed that after pay
hand a profit of S426, 1893 after having set aside
S266 .496 10 in the reserve funds. The capital
stock is S3, ,079, ,5O5.
Mayor Sutro and the committee of fifty have
appealed 10 the Governor and Legislature of
Kentucky 10 revoke the charter OF the South
ern Pacific Company, Oh the ground that the
corporation deceived the Blue Grass state
when the charter was granted, and that the in
s'rument conflicts with the laws of other
States.
The agreement of the Pacific Telephone
Company not to send telegraphic messages
over their wires expires in November, 1896
General Manager Sabin has ordered the tele-
phone-girls in the Sunset department to learn
Ielegraphy, and instruments viii be put into
the Offices at once, and telegraph and tele-
phone messages will be sent over the same
wires at the same time.