The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF,

J. F. Kidder is suing for his salary S Debris
Commissioner
Chinese New Year begins in earnest TODAY,
and will last for some time.
board of directors was elected last
evening at B mai Birth Hall.
It was "ladles' night at the Union League
Club at the Palace Hotel last evening
Paderewski's second piano recital was lsrpalv
attended by musical and society leaders.
Amos Gresham has furnished another. but a
very slight elew to the murderer of May Smith
The City has been given judgment in suit
involving the title to old Puebla lands in the
Potrero.
Rufhno was before Judge Coffey and jury
yesterday.
Crafty, Monitor, Kowalsky, Arctic, Bellicoso
and Red Glen were the winners at Ingleside
yesterday.
Fair Thursday; fresh northerly to westerly
Wlnd-predietion issued last night by Forecast
Oficial w. II. Harmon.
G. Verdier & Co. have had Hugo Goerlity.
Paderewski's manager, arrested for attempting
TO defraud his creditors.
An attachment suit involving the horse
Morello has complicated matters in the suit
Tor the possession of him.
The Rev. Father Nugent case was continued
before Judge Hunt yesterday. and the plain
tlffs will conclude this morning
The Sue Ying Benevolent Society," Chinese
tional purposes, has incorporated.
At the meeting of the Southern Heights I'M
provement Club tomorrow night sidewalk and
street transfer matters will be discussed.
School Director Henderson preferred charges
against Principal Joseph O'Connor at the meet
ing of the Board of Education last evening.
The McCloud River Lumber Company, formed
TO do general lumber and mill business has
incorporated with capital stock of $500, 900.
Clarence NJ: Murphy, VINO is wanted in
Salem, Mass, for bank theft, started East last
evening. He says he will never reach Salem
alive.
H. Powers told the Stanford University
Extension Club last night that poverty could
not be abolished, but might be appreciably
1essened.
Depositors of the Peoples Home Savings
Bank will call mass-meeting soon to express
dissatisfaction with the action of the present
board of directors.
The Williams Hardware Company has filed
its petition in Insolvency. The company owes
S756l A and has $4,000 worth OF personal
property as security.
The Carpenters Union will send protest TO
the Supervisors against the employment OF
police officers 10 90 carpentering work in and
around the police stations.
A the open session of the San Francisco
Reading Circle in Metropolitan Hall last night
some brilliant and entertaining essays were
read by members of the circles.
No new facts were developed yesterday re-
garding the death OF H. Cranston Potter of
Tacoma, but the police still cling to the theory
that he was accidentally drowned.
Mrs. Lahue. wife of Edward Lahue, rancher
near Ukiah, ran away from home last Thursday
with her youngest child, and her husband is
searching for them in San Francisco.
A Eldorado Psrlor No. 50, n. s. G. W., gave a
successful party at the new Native Sons Hall
on Mason street last night. This is the first
party TO be given at this hall by an individual
parlor,
There will be q mass-meeting held soon bv
he Of he I'm.
provement Clubs to discuss the advisability oi
indorsing or REJECTING the proposed new
charter.
On a demurrer submitted to the opposition
CT Herman Oelrichs Jr. to the probate of the
"pencil will'' in the Fair case, the question Of
the validity OF the trust is once more
brought up
Jim O'Brien says several of the Junta lead.
ers are nothing more nor less than political
job-chasers and that Buckley is solid enough
at the Occidental Club to get in occasionally
and act as an adviser.
Arguments in the case of Jane Shattuck
charged with the murder OF Harry Poole were
finished last evening. This morning Judge
Belcher will charge the jury and the case viii
be submitted before II o'clock.
The preliminary examination of Mrs Berths
Dale charged with the murder of Mrs. Ids
Gaucn, was held before Judge Low yesterday
and the dismissed as there was nc
evidence 10 support the charge.
The jury before Judge Daingerfeld in ths
Asa Fisk-John Mallon case insist on changing
their verdict TO favor the plaintiff They have
signed an affidavit to the effect that the con-
trsry verdict was coerced by the court.
Charles Wagner. who was discovered yester
day morning ransacking the bureau drawers
in bedroom in Mrs. Fenton's house, 1747
Mission street, was chased and captured BY
Policeman L. J. Thompson and charged with
burglary.
A naval court of inquiry was held yesterday
in the British consulate in this City over the
abandonment Of the ship Nineveh off Cape
Flattery. The court found that the vessel was
laundering and her captain was justified in
leaving her
4 warrant was sworn out in Judge LOWS
court yesterday By Mary A. Jameson, assignee
OF the Cooperative Publishing Company, fol
the arrest of Z. T. Culbreth, publisher of the
City Argus, on the charge of obtaining goods
and property by false pretenses.
The Borrowers Mutual Building and Loan
Association has filed articles of Incorporation
The objects. as set forth, are to encourage in
dustry, frugality and home building and to
care for accumulated savings. The capital
stock is So, 100000, of which $4,000 has been
! subscribed.