The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-06
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.


Tbere.wIll be considerable rife shooting at
the Shell Mound range to-day
A GENERALLY fair Sunday with brisk westerly
winds" IS iorecasled for to-day.
A moyesnent is on foot to cut Suffer street
through Laurel Hill Cemetery.
.Arnold Kiralfy one of the Kiralfy brothers.
ofIond6n, arrived in this City last night
Sanford and California varsity football
p!a5ers were dined last night by the OhlFei-
sity'Club
T-appeaIl. Grady, Ruinart, James II, Captain
Rees .,tnd Preston were the winners al 4heie-
sde:tEack yesterday.
o. Fully &c, 600 persons viewed the inumlna-
ton and decoration of Sixth street last night
The spectacle was brilliant.
: George E: Martin has arrived here to start
in search OF a lost phosphate island that was
once seen by his uncle. sea captain
.fba San Francisco Nursery for Homeless
Children held festival for the beneht Oh the
institution yesterday al Golden Gate Hall.
-Fung All Get, Chinese accused OF murder,
hanged Himself by using his queue IN ms cen
al $he City Prison early yesterday morning,
Charles Manner is waiting for Judge Coiey's
.dec!sion.to learn whether he IS 10 nave Sou,-
only $4,000:
. Divorce suits have been filed in the County
Clerk $ office follows: ReoecCa oihgerman
VS.. S1muel Singerman, Lenora Ettlnger vs.
Isaac 4. Ettinger.
q, George TAYLOR and George Willisms, while
being taken to Judge Conlan'S court yesteT-
dSy to be sentenced, made their escape, but
Taylor was recaptured.
The regents of the State University Will
probably elect a secretary 10 fill the vacancy
caused by the death OF Mr. Bonte at their
meeting on next Tuesday.
The Market-strset Railroad Company placed
two electric cars on the Masonic avenue and
Fkeierick-street line yesterday TO give regu-
IA ,eryieeon that branch.
81 Judge Bahrs' court yesterday William
Bowling entered a pea OF guilty to charge
OF assault with deadly weapon. He Will be
teAced on The 18th inst.
Judge Hebbards effort to convict Thomas S.
Williams OF libel has failed. The jurors alter
be ng ont tweuty-tour hours were discharged
lecause they could not agree.
lanes P. Dunno and Others of Lodge No. oil
Efhs speak in defense of Grand Exalted Ruler
Detweler. The suit OF Lodge No. g promises
10 str up unfraternal feelings.
Four new coast records and one world s
record marked the cycle racing at the new
Nelodrome track yes. erday afternoon. The
sport Vas the best seen here Tor many day.
Thesteamer Australia sailed Tor Honolulu
yesterday with an unusually heavy passenger
list. II. K. James, who leaves for New Orleans
in few days, was down TO see his old ship off.
Judge Seawell has decided against Joseph
Eam5l, who claimed the real estate of the
lale Margaret Buckmaster by virtue OF deed
given III consideration OF Glove and affection"
: The New York Journal gives full credence
to he story OF the San Francisco airship. It's
article was written in the Examiners Office in
this City. though that paper pooh-poohs the
story.
The Supreme Court yesterday refused to
grant i rehearing in the case of Rank in
Agatast Newman. This finally ends the suit
VIII oh, incidentally, led to the disbarment OF
: 'H6rgcS W..Philorook.
=. The California Homing Club last evening
a. Gov, dor Of fha Tr,5fo
States navy an honorary member and pub
l+cly thanked him for establishing the homing
pigeon service at Mare Island.
. Ralph Duncan, a clerk from Omaha, told the
pQdCe yesterday that he had committed a
crime and as he felt like committing another
he waH'ted to be restrained, and was accord.
insly locked up in the City Prison.
The bark Invercoe and the scow schooner
Erie were in collision near Port Costa yester
Go day. The schooner sprang leak and was ruI
on rfe Benicia mud fats by the tug Vigilant
o The cargo OF wheat has been ruined.
. lie Roy u. Harvey, who got away with $50,
600 belonging to Mrs. Emily A. P. Smith and
Miss Maude A. Smith, has been discharged
Sfrom'custody. as the complaining witnesses no
longer wished to prosecute the charge OF grand
larceny
The nsw steamer Hum boIdt was !owed from
sHumboldt yesterday by the tug Rescue to get
her machinery at The Fulton Iron Werks. The
Rescue iheucOaled up and Immediately started
e,Ssgk for Eureka with the barkentine C. C..
K.nk III tow.
y Fhg xour great stained-glass pictorial win.
ssdows in the facade of st. Ignatius Church
'Nav@ been seriously damaged BY boys shooting
; q pigeons In the caves of the church. and they
are. now being repaired at considerable ex-
pense by local artists.
o. = Attorney George P Golf has sued Mrs Flor
Blythe-Hincklev for $50 900, which he
lays he earned by writing brief in her behalf
Or'her chief counsel, Attorney w. H H Hart
by which she won the Thomas H. Blythe es
tate, valued at 100000.
al .
9, was he result of the final inter-high schoo
football match played at Central Park yester
day. afternoon TO settle a tie and to decide
which team shall contest with San Mateo for
the State'acaCemic cham pionship.
The.Dresden Keramic Club, n woman's art
'SocLety OF this City, held in the Occident tai
Hotel parlor yesterday afternoon and evening
its second annual exhi bit of work, com prising
about 800 pieces of eXquisitely tinted and
painted chInaware of various designs.
Suit has been commenced by the Mutual
Savings Bank OF San Francisco against the San
Francisco Church Extension Socie ty of the
mortgage OF $4,000 on q lot 73xl37 6 in size
at the corner.of Oak and Ashbury streets
{: Captain Hicks of the British ship Manches-
Ter is a [ outs with Balfour Guthrie q Co He
says'rhey are putting the grain aboard in bad
sacks, and threatens 10 dump il all on the
wharf again tomorrow unless better ones are
supplied. Balfour. Guthrie & Co. insist upon
hfsstaking whatever they send down.
Mrs. Marie Viola Keller appeared before
Notary Levy in Samuel ST. Shortridge's office
yesterday to continue her deposition and pro-
duce any letters addressed to her by Judge
Hastings as my dear WIFE" The deposition
was continued, but she declared she had
searched her trunks in vain for the letters
Jim Cerbett replied last evening to the offer
@ that was made him by the Olympic Grub oil
this City, that he would meet Fifzsimmons in
ten-rouud contest if Il SIS 900 purse was
given. FitZsimmons says that the contest
must be TO finish and that he has alread '
agreed TO Dan Stuart's terms 10 fight Corbett
somewhere in Texas.