The San Francisco call., 1896-02-22
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF i.

The receiving Of testimony in the Healy In
ouiry closed yesterday.
Iudce SeaNell has decided that the ordi
nance limiting the height of fences is invalid.
Paderewskis recital yesterday at the Califor-
MIA Theater drew bigger house than ever be-
fore.
The mother and foster-mother of Adolph
Hermann are In dispute about the possession
OF ihe boy.
The police are continuing their arrests of
teansters driving heavy wagons on Golden
Gate avenue.
ton of Cruelty to Children to appoint guard
ian for his daughter.
sacred Heart College observed washington's
birthday last night with a public musical and
literary entertainment.
Clan Fraser No. IS celebrated Washington's
birthday by an entertainment and dance at
scottish Hall last night.
The San Francisco symphony Orchestra
played Schubert's diminished" symphony
yesterday in Golden Gate Hall.
Christopher Ryer has compromised what
claims he had upon the Washington Ryer
estate. He has accepted S25,0
Duchess, Caspar, Modesto. Fortuna, Rienzi
and George Dickinson were the winners at
the Bay District Track yesterday.
Judge Wallace has sustained the conviction
Of Jerry DrlScoll, and in doing has declared
the validity OF the poolroom ordinance.
Fair weather for washington's birthday,
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night, Is predicted by the Weather Bureau.
Grant Edison, q colored stabIe-boy. severely
stabbed Andrew Jackson Miller, another stat ble-
boy, al the Bay District track yesterday morn
ing.
The Supreme Court has decided that Auditor
Broderick had right TO audit demands for
election expenses which ran over the appro-
priaton.
Fred Gallagher threw steel bar and long
bladed knife at J. H. Leyden of AIS HAYES
arrested assault
TO murder.
Michael McGlynn's opinion that trades
unions entrance into politics would be unwise
aroused antagonism at the meeting of Ameri-
can Socialists.
Mrs. Davidson's demurrer TO the information
against her has been overruled by Judge
hahrs, She was ordered TO plead, and her plea
was Not guilty"
tanpted TO steal the body OF Mrs. Rose Anna
taske from its last resting place in Mount
calvary Cemetery
The rumor that Mrs. N. J. Sexton is the
Young woman who committed suicide By
.mping from the Oakland ferry-boat is indig-
nautly denied by her reia uves.
Captain Lees thinks the Mendocino Deputy
sheriff who thought the girl killed on Morton
street was murdered by an eX-husband is mis-
taken in the identity OF the woman.
J. Mcmahon OF this City is making prepara-
uonS 10 bring suit 10 prove his title 10 an es-
tate worth $4,000 600 left by his brother
After Monday next only every second car
fOdd-numberedl OF the Sacramento-streetl line
viii go TO the park. Devisadero-street through
cars on the electric line viii not run on sun
days after tomorrow.
c. D. Weaver. one of the City's creditors, has
been allowed Judgment against the City by the
supreme Court, but he is directed TO cash it in
fund where there is money, so the value
OF the Judgment is problematical.
Rev. Father McKinnon OF Rio Vista deliv-
cred lecture last night in Metropolitan Hall
on Catholic Loyalty" The hall was crowded,
as the lecture was given under the auspices OF
the Young Mems Catholic Union.
The Young Mems Institute will celebrate Y
NJ I. day in Metropolitan Hall this afternoon
with literary and musical exercises OF a pa
triotic character. Rev. Arthur Clarke, the
eminent Paullst, will deliver the Grafton.
A Catholic colony has been established in
Mendocino County by Father Jeram, late pro-
curator OF Archbishop Ireland. The colOnists
are and Will be all Austrians from Slav prov
lnce, many OF whom have lived in America for
years.
The suit OF Charles B. Derrick to have his
wife, Helen Detrick. support their child, has
been ended by Judge Daingerteld. He
awarded the custody OF the child to the
mother, but the father is TO be allowed to see
II al intervals.
The Grove-street Theater, in charge of the
Veteran Guard of California, will present Fun
on the Bristol this afternoon, tonight and
Sunday night Miss Charlotte Sheldon of this
CITY making her professional debut on the
stage with the You and l Company.
Genevieve Rix, the Oldest daughter of Kate
A. and Gerard A RjX has petitioned the court
10 appoint her mother her guardian. Her
father and mother were divorced in October
ls9li and she was placed in care of her father
He married again, and she then went TO live
10 choose her own guardian, and so she petit
uons that her mother be appointed.