The San Francisco call., 1896-04-02
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

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labor union soon.
The Plumbers Union will probably send
delegates to the Building Trades council.
The weather predictions for to-day are:
Fair; brisk westerly winds in the afternoon.
Lisle Leigh, the new leading lady at the
Grand, went on the stage when four years old.
An entertainment was given last night at
the Bush-street Theater to aid the striking
painters.
Policemen Gilheaney and Tanning were last
night dismissed from the force by the Police
Commissioners.
Several hundred young men were made the
victims OF an April-fool joke at the Athenian
Club last night.
The settling of the estate of Denis Gore before
Judge Slack has unearthed some queer matri-
nonial tangles.
a benefit viii be given at the Y. NJ. C. A Hall
on the 21st inst. tor the Newsboys' Home at
112 Powell street.
A mob OF curious people viewed the remains
of Mrs Olga Deuss and her three babies at the
urdertaker's parlors.
The twentv-third annual meeting of the
Womah's Occidental Board TOOK place yester-
day at $50 sacramento street.
Secretary Holbrook of the Society for the
Prevention OF Cruelty TO Animals, says sports
men have mouse Tor coursing.
Johnny Capron, Unity, Elmer F, Bellicoso.
Sir Reel, Road Warmer, Crescendo and st. Lee
were the winners at the Bay District
The Point Lobos- s-avenue Improvement Club
scored superintendent Vining of the Market
street Railway at last nights meeting.
The Building. Trades working-card syste m
went into effect yesterday. So far the con-
tractors have manifested no opposition.
Professor Harry Huntington Powers of STAN
ford lectured last night at the Academy of
Sciences on "The Evolution of Happiness"
Attorney General Fitzgerald, in answer to q
dispatch from Sacramento outlines his official
r.nllrV a nf q a fy1nd
The bride of Captain Harry Johnson OF the
bark Enoch Talbot attempted to commit sui
eide on Tuesday night through disappoint-
ment.
A musicale will be given at the Occidental
on the evening OF the 18th inst. tor the benefit
OF the san. Francisco Training School for
Nurses.
Mrs, Susan Martin had bad spell IN the City
Prison yesterday from neart failure, and the
condition OF her husband was much improved
last night.
Dr.. P. E..Wolff, now here from Fiji, reports
the finding. by him OF a temple centuries old in
the mountains OF the largest island, used by a
native secret society.
Mrs VI. A. Stockton was excommunicated
last night by DR.. Browns CONGREGATION Thir-
teen new applications for membership were re-
ceived, all from abroad.
DR., Ellinwood has recently performed a
surgical operation on patient in the City and
County Hospital which is almost without q
The depositors of the Peoples Home Savings
Bank viii hold nass-meeting Friday night TO
protest against the removal OF John Fournoy
as attorney OF the directors.
Ricnard Cody, a boilermaker, was arrested
Yesterday afternoon for stealing a horse and
buggy, which he tried to sell to the gypsies at
Fifteenth and Folsom streets.
DR.. w. F. Parke OF Oak and Franklin treet
was yesterday convicted by Judge Joachimsen
OF pracucing medicine without certificate
and will be sentenced on Saturday.
The directors of the Merchants Association
have been invited to confer with the City Hall
Commissioners regarding the placing OF a
floor directory in the new City Hall.
N. E. Jaffa, assistant professor of chemistry
at Berkeley, showed the Microscopical Society
last evening how adulterants of paris green
can be detected through the microscope.
Professor Cory of the University of California
has made a statement to THE CALL setting
forth the result OF his experiments which have
proven the source OF the Roentgen rays.
Great interest is being taken in the forth.
coming debate between the Lowell High School
OF this City and the Oakland High School.
The debaters are not definitely selected.
fttle girl in st. Francis Girls Directory
orphan Asylum, named Angy Angeloponte,
aged IA years, has a bad cold and is very iii.
The Sisters request her parents to go to see her.
Frank Healy, son of Captain Heely, left on
the Tropic Bird yesterday for Tahiti. He mar
ried Miss Lucretla NJ. Carpenter last Saturday,
and wearied OF her in four days. She remains
here.
of the executor of his fathers estate to several
checks, was yesterday held by Judge Conlan
TO answer before the Superior Court in $4,000
bonds.
1t was stated last night at the meeting of the
executive committee OF the Folsom-street I'm
provement Club that bids would be advertised
in July for bltuminiZihg Folsom street to the
water front.
The Merchants Association has issued call
for meeting TO be held at 2:3O O'clock tnjs
afternoon in the Mills building, Tor the pur.
pose OF bringing about a reform in the street
sprinkling service.
The yacht Coronet, owned by Millionaire A.
Curtis James, arrived. from New York yester.
day. She viii take a party OF scientists to
Japan to observe the eclipse of the sun that
occurs next August.
A jury to try Nicholas Claussen was secured
yesterday before Judge Wallace Claussen is
charged with murder for the cold-blooded kill
ing OF his wife. The crime was committed in a
house on Everett and Third streets.
James Johnson, an. ex-convict, died at the
Receiving Hospital yesterday morning from a
fractured skull, and Hugh Smith, a teamster,
living at 81 Hunt street, was arrested on the
charge of mansiaughter in causing his death.
A special agent oE the Treasury Department
quietly slipped into town lew weeks ago and
after securing Information regarding the Gus.
ton-h house scandals. he disappeared as quietly
as he came. Collector Wise and Maior Moore
did not know he was in town.
Nonsuit was allowed by Judge Hunt yester-
day morning in the case of Gardner Landon
agains the Tallant Banking Company TO re-
cover damages for alleged malicious persecu-
tioH. The motion was made by the ATTORNEYS
for the bank Immediately upon the close of the
plaintiffs case.
Attorney-Genera1 Fitzgerald yesterday in his
argument before United States Circuit Judge
Mckenna showed that the report of the rail-
road com pany for s94 had been doctored TO
make 1t appear that the company was doing
business at loss, and that the value of the
roads was equal to the bonded Indebtedness.
he showed thatthe Indebtedness exceeded the
value OF the properly. and that the California
@ roads had netted proht of more than So, ,O0O,-
900 during the strike year of 1894
Tonsorial Artists Organize.
The Boss BARRIERS Protective Association wa