The San Francisco call., 1896-04-16
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

"Fair Thursday" the prediction issued last
night by Forecast Official Hammcn.
The new mailcar. 4o6s. made its trial trip
over the Central Pacific last evening.
Bishop Johnson of Los Angeles will attend
the Episcopal Convention in this City in May
Deputy superintendent Stone has begun the
work of redistricting the City for school. pur-
poses.
The will of Alexander P. Boyd, leaving a
SIC, 900 estate to his widow, has been filed for
pro bate.
movement is on foot to effect an organiza-
ton OF the Republican women in the Assembly
districts.
The Martin case will be closed to-day, except
as 70 the arguments. which will be reserved
for Monday.
Butchers Day" will be celebrated on the
goth of May at Shell Mound and the Oakland
Trotting Park.
Alvero, Uncle Giles, Cabrillo, Olive, silverado
and William inkerton were winners at Ingle-
side yesterday.
The Protective Society of Retail Fruit and
Poultry Dealers has resolved to put bad Gus
toners on the blacklist.
Edward McDermott, a carpenter, was ar
rested yesterday on the charge of grating
around the Police Courts.
The body of an unknown man with a sack
OF rocks tied about the neck was found in the
bay near Baden yesterday.
The Carpenters and Painters unions are pre-
pairing for their picnics, which will be held at
Sunset Park in the near future.
The jury in the case of ex-District Attorney
Page returned a verdict of guilty last evening,
after being out fortY-fiYe minutes.
Attorney Hayne continued his argument in
the Southern Pacific case during yesterday S
session OF the United States Circuit Court.
The State Fruit-growers will convene this
morning at the Chamber of Commerce to dis
cuSs the proposition of a waterfront market.
Professor Francis Angel of Stanford Uni
verslty lectured at the Academy of Sciences
last night on illusions and Hallucinetions"
The Supreme Court has granted a new trisl l
10 Charles Marshall, who was sentenced to
dea tn in Riverside for numbering Frank Hamil-
ton.
mass-meeting of improvement clubs was
held in Richmond district last evening. All
OF the clubs advocated reduction of streetcar
fares.
S. A. Howard, q wealthy pioneer of Wood
land, well known in Democratic politics died
at the Grand Hotel yesterday OF a complica-
tlon OF diseases.
70 remove Superintendent Weaver OF the Aims
house yesterday, Mayor Su tro and DR.. William
Son refusing to vote.
Fred Potter. 10 salina street, swore out
warrants yesterday for the arrest of Mrs. Lind
the mother of the girl he loves, and her son,
on the charge OF battery.
The newly born baby boy found in q satchel
Monday evening IN vacant lot on Twelfth
lum yesterday afternoon.
The carpenters at work on the building on
FIRST and Market streets went ont on a strike
yesterday rather than work with P. N Kuss'
gang on non-unlon painters.
The report of the several committees SUBJ
mitted and filed by the presbytery at its session
yesterday showed healthy condition of Pres
byterianism in San Francisco.
John Creighton, Mission "tough, ;" was con-
victed of battery upon c. H. Crowell, an aged
teacher, by Judge Joachimsen yesterday and
ordered TO appear for sentence to-day.
Six of the minor inner corporations of the
Southern Pacific Company, yesterday elected
,ot1cers and directors. With but two excep-
itions all the old officers were reelected.
The police are searching for Miss Maud
Morse, who sappeared from her home, 3Ol3
Buchanan street, last Thursday. She started
tfor the bakery and has not been seen since.
The jury IN the damage suit of Frank Law
9or against the Southern Pacific rendered q
verdict for the defendant yesterday. The de-
.fense was negligence on the part of employees.
Judge Coffey has refused to settle the bill of
Iof distribution to Mrs. Hinckley, on the ground
that the Blythe Company has no standing in
icourt.
Two magnificent stained glass pictorial win
Edows are being placed in the chaneel of the
tPaulists' church on California street. The
whole exterior of st. Mery's will be renovated
Immediately.
Dick Mcdonald has been acquitted of the
HdeI unJIleu C0dTge against MIN. 1here now
Eemains but the perjury case, the first one
fried. in which the jury disagreed. His bail is
NOW only $1,000.
A baby girl about dav old was found in a.
lstep of Mrs. Stewards residence, i6I5 Oak
Grove avenue and is now in Mount st. Joseph's
Orphan Asylum.
The American Womens Liberal League has
arranged for q course of lectures on civil and
religious liberty, to be delivered by Rev. Peter
C. Yorke IN Metropolitan Hall, April 20, %, 81
and May 8 and IL.
Secretary Leloug of the State Board of Horti-
culture, received from the Northwestern
Grocers' Association yesterday protest against
the indfscrtm1nate shipment of dried fruit by
individual dealers.
The Guild of Arts and Crafts has designed
new monument TO Stevenson for the plaza.
This latest idea is simple pedestal twelve
feet high, OF white marble surmounted by
ship. The money for its erection is nearly all
subscribed.
Thomas Mullen, the circus performer, ar
rested for selling pools outside the Ingleside
Facetrack to newsboys and messenger-boys, was
convicted by Judge Low yesterday and SEN
fenced to pay fine Of $40 or spend ten DAYS
in the County Jail.
Official figures of the operation of the Pacific
system of the Southern Pacific Company for
the year ending June 80, 1895, show a net de-
'icit Of more than a quarter million dollars.
Those of the year previous show u net surplus
OF nearly 81 100000.
Captain A. Doolittle, owner of the Doolittle
consolidated hydraulic mines at Happy Camp,
Siskiyou County, is in the City and reports that
mineral discoveries OF considerable impor-
tence have lately been made.
J. NJ Barratt, manager of Garfield Beach,
Salt Lake for the Union Pacific Railroad, is
here accompanied by several friends. Heseys
the gold mines of Mercur and Tintic are devel-
oplng rapidly. The cyanide process is being
used IN the treatment OF the ore.
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