The San Francisco call., 1896-08-11
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

The arguments OF counsel in the Oakland
water front cases closed yesterday.
Every evening during the coming fair in the
Pavilion there viii be special attractions.
The Olympic and Empire gun clubs held
their regular bluerock contests yesterday.
Other witnesses than P. B. Cornwall will
testify at the next session of the Grand Jury.
Dennis Murray was yesterday appointed ad-
ministrator OF the estate OF Margaret Murray.
Partly cloudy Tuesday. with brisk westerly
winds, is the weather Offices prediction for to-
day.
J. D. Phillips, a pioneer and prominent hor-
ticuluurist of Yuba County is staying at the
Lick
Workmen are busy preparing the Mechanics
Pavilion for the coming exhibition OF Call
fornia products.
Recent cloud bursts in the Yosemite Valley
and surrounding country did great damage to
the mountain trails.
Eleven jurors have been secured to try Leon
Meyer. This is his third trial on charge OF
tampering with young girls.
The Cato cure for leprosy, imported from the
Hawaiian islands, is working great relief TO
the sufferers out al the Pesthouse-
The remains of the late Captain William E.
Van Reed were escorted to Cypress Lawn Gem
eteTy yesterday and will be cremated.
Mrs Nettie R. Craven continued her deposi-
tion in the Fair viii contest yesterday. She
will probably complete her testimony to-day.
Walter jerks yesterday began q contest to the
probate OF the will OF his mother, Sarah JenKs,
who. he claims, was insane when the document
was drawn.
CAPTAIN John Tuttle disclaims the charge
made BY the Labor Bureau inves tigators as re-
CARDS compelling his help to sleep in IN
hea thy quarters.
Marie Morero, the daughter of 9 fisherman
at Sausalito, broke open the trunk OF one OF
her fathers TOOmers yesterday and dlsap-
pcaTed with SZ30-
Stephen laden, otherwise known as Rokaz,
was arrested esterdRy by 9 United States Mar
shal on q charge OF sending obscene matter
through the mails.
Precinct registration closed at 10 o. clock last
evening the total number, including central
gistration, showing an increase Of over 1000
votes over last year.
AnumDer OF the retail dry goods merchants
OF this City have decided not to allow their
customers any more commissions or discounts
on goods purchased.
The viii OF John Siegfried Asset has been
fled for probate. Deceased leaves all his es-
tate, valued st $500, 10 his wife, who is
named as executr1X.
The Yosemite Valley Commissioners have
hired e special attorney to prosecute men ar
rested fer stripping bark from the trees at the
MaripOsa Big Tree Grove.
Collector Wise determined yesterday to in
stitute a searching inquiry into the cause
which impelIed the Chinese, ong Sing, alias
All Sim, 70 commit suicide.
Patrieio Marsicano makes a statement with
reference 20 the attachment on the American
Salt Company in which he says he was the at
uacher and the sole creditor.
John Brown, sailor, was yesterday held to
answer before the Superior Court in $1,000
bonds for slashing Ed F. Seully, a longshore-
man, over the eve with knife
The contest over the fortune of Cornelius
King was begun in Judge Coffey's court yester-
day The entire day was consumed In getting
jury. The case goes on to-day.
Mrs Laura Riddell, having finished organiz-
ing woman suffrage clubs in all the voting pre-
eincts OF san Mateo County, left yesterday for
Los Angeles on a similar mission.
Jeffries, who is matched TO fight Van Buskirk,
will train at the Seal Rock House. Barney
Farley is OF the opinion that his boy McAul1ffe
can whip any man in the business.
From the latest accounts there viii be over
125 delegates to the Merchants Association
charter convention, which will be held at 26
O'FarTeu street tomorrow evening.
WI Gannett, an old carpenter, and Miss
Mary Wentworth, a relative OF his, were thrown
ont OF q buggy on Douglass street yesterday,
and the former was serlouIy injured.
Mrs Nettie Ham brock, formerly Nettie
Havens, nurse for the notorious Dr.. Beale, had
A. P. Kelsoe, a barkeeper, arrested yesterday
on a cnarge OF felony embezzlement.
It is shown that Bryan's ideas OF free trade
have ruined the glass industry, because Ameri-
can manufacturers ana workmen cannot COM
pete with the pauper labor OF Europe.
The work of taking the engines and boilers
out of the steamer Colombia was begun yes ter
day. The machinery viii be put on the schooner
Free Trade and towed 10 San francisco.
The Mckinley Club Of the Forty-s econd As
sembly District held a ratification meeting
last evening. The speakers were Colonel
Eddy, Major Kyle and George ". Elder
Professor William Manning claims that his
modern discovery, known as "Sanieult," will
do away with the time -honored training OF
lighters when getting ready for a match.
At the ministers meeting yesterday DR.. c.
C.. Herriott discussed the idea of g biblical in
stitute in California, and Yoitsu Honda re-
~ Iath hOdic t0bT nfa1s IN
Mrs Ane Herzo-Kenny and J. J. Clecak were
declared the most popular of the Austrian
Slavonian colony on this coast, as the result of
q newspaper voting contest, conducted in the
columns of the Sloga.
The hearing of the Fair will case has been
postponed for q week to give Judge Slack time
to consider the arguments as to Judge Pater-
sons standing in court as legal representative
of Herman Oelrichs Jr.
The British bark RavenscouTt was the star
attraction on the bay yesterday afternoon.
She presented very pretty appearance while
her crew was unbending the sails after her
long voyage from London.
Chief Engineer Kress of the steamer State of
California was attacked by three of the fremen
last Sunday night. He was rescued by the crew
before much damage was done. The firemen
had been discharged for cause
J. Corbett, livery-stable keeper, 53S Hayes
street and father OF champion Jim,'' swore
to a complaint in Judge Joachimsen's court
Yesterday afternoon charging William Nc
u.
The TYLER Mining Company of Oregon, plain-
tiffs in an action to recover $500, 900 from
Charles Sweeney and others, filed writ of
error in the United States Court OF Appeals
Yesterday, asking for q rehearing OF :heir
cause.
Mrs. Mary Sumers, wife of q grocer and
galoon-keeper on Brady street, and the noto-
rious Kate Gallagher, both arrested as COM
mon drunks took the pledge before Judge Low
Yesterday TO abstain from liquor and were dis
charged.
The business of the Government temporary
Indian supply warehouse in this CITY, worth
over S75, 600 a year TO local merchants and
with prospects of much greater trade, is
threatened for the first time in fourteen years
by Portland.
August Florentine, the proprietor of the
Four-rnile House in South San Francisco, was
shot yes terday noon while standing at his own
bar BY Arthur A. Jackson and instantly killed.
Jackson subsequently gave himself up dis
pute about drinks seems to have been the
cause of the killing.
Dr. Marc Levingston, as one of the executors
OF the Fair 'pencil will,'' has notlhed the at
rorneys in the case that he viii ask to have
the names of the Fair sisters stricken out OF
the court record as petitioners Tor the probate
OF that viii. The ground OF his motion viii
be fraud and eollusion.