The San Francisco call., 1897-07-30
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Weather prediction for San Francisco-Fair'
warmer, soCthwesterly winds.
T.. A'number of physicians viii be arrested to-
day for falling 10 reg sier births
Lawyers in the Jacob T. Davis will contest
: expect TO conclude the trial ii TWO weeks.
] -. Twelve additional charges will be preferred
against Oscs NJ. We burn b-tOre the United
> States Grand Jury to-day.
- Mrs. Amanda Fennen formerly Mrs. Theo-
dore MaEceau, has been sued and attached by
: J. J. Rauer on a claim OF S231.
: shipments Of dried fruit are being carried
blythe Valley road into Dakota. This is its
first move for interstate business.
Edward Lanuigan, Clyde Welburn and
others, have b .en ordered dismissed from the
<1nteTna Revenue Collectors office.
= In Japan and Korea the Americans are hold
.ing their own against English and German
.competiroTs for trade in the orient.
d. e W: C.=Andersop, 419 Geary street, was az
re&ted:tn salinas last light on a warrant from
. this. City: charging him with grand larceny.
>. AnQther will 5of the late Edward D. Heatley
: las been hled in the Probate Court Tne estate
; ;w1Fl=haHe very Hitle coin after the debts are
paid i; r..
Theodore Appal, an sged German, COM
nit led sui eide. last Wednesday night by hang
ing htuiseli tc q bedpOst. He was temporarily
:lnsane.: =:
=. The han dwr(ting experts in the Figel case
disagree. quite materially in regard 10 the
: manneF:in which the Isaac Hoffman signature
:Wgs written.
,. The quar- lerly meeting OF the German Cen
.eraf: Benevolent Society was held last night,
%hndstep5 ~ ere taken to erect suitable build
: ing foE0ffiCes.
=: School Directors Head and Derham give the
methods of the SOLID Nine" little more ven
tilation and promise new developments at
Saturdays meeting.
=. W4llfam Macdonald was elected president OF
the National Repn bhcan League of San Fran
cisco at--I nieettug- held last night in Judge
Hebbard courtroom.
> The new Sierra Railway will greatly curtail
: the COS tot freight and passenger transporta-
. ton and .iacililste the carrying of the mails
eetweeI several towns.
sGeorGe Keifter was last night arrested on
complaint OF the Bowers Rubber Company for
7 Tetty.larcenS. He had been purloining small
articles from their store.
.. The Federal authorities are on the trail of q
gang OF counterteiters who passed a large
n UNI DER of counterfeit dollars during the
Christian Endeavor convention.
:. B. F. Mckinley has been appointed Assistant
Postmaster, as was predicted in THE CAII,
three weeks ago, and he will assume the
duties: OF the Office on Saturday at midnight
Collector o: the Port Jackson has notified
e his deputies 10 allow no drawback on bitumin-
Gus coal to steam vessels plying between coast
ports within the jurisdiction OF the United
States
Acting Postmaster R. E. Doyle was presented
yesterday with a watch fob chain and topaz
charm by the employees OF the department as
mark ot their esteem. He goes out OF Office on
August.l.
:: The preliminary examination of J. D. HUI
bert, Van A. Shafer and J. NJ. Woods on the
charge OF criminal assault was concluded be-
: fore Judge Joachimsen yesterday and Hubert
was set at liberty.
Suit has been ms stituted by the London,
Psrs and American Bank against Charles p.
Harris aud Thomas T. Atkinson Tor $l357 20
on account Of checks drawn by Atkinson and
indorsed by: Harris.
= Frank Brown. 1896 Union street, was anus
Ing hlm,e by shooting at rats last night, and
e. by. mistake shot himself in the left ankle.
the wound was treated by DR.. Torney at the
Re teiting Hospital.
: At q meeting held yesterday the report Of
the ways and means committee TO invest tigste
: the matter OF .colonizing the unemployed was
adopted. 1t fav0rs the col onization OF sugar
=. beet lands in the Salinas Valley.
Etnnk r. Johnson was found in the room OF
slodGeI in the New Western Hotel yesterday,
and was arrested by Officer Conway of the Cali
.fornia-street station. A kit OF burglars tools
was found on his person. He was charged with
= burglary.
There yas.a lively row in the Eureka So
ciety for the Protection OF Children vest erday,
and Mrs. John Pettee, the president, was ex-
pelled from office and from mem bership be-
cause she had talked too much agai INST the
Officers and members.
was consumed for the greater part by argu-
ment.. The point under discussion as TO
whether or not Attorney Reuben II. Lloyd
could be com PEELED to produce in court his
contract with the Fair heirs.
= William Burgess, alias Waldron, the colored
:sailor who fred TWO shots early Wednesday
morning a Arthur Lindsay. sailor boarding
: house keeper, was yesterday, held to answer
}: be lore the Superior Court by Judge Low in
$4,000 bonds on the charge OF assault to
murder.
" The case against Frank sigmonde, charged
with. having received stolen goods, has
been dismissed by United States Commissioner
Heacock, the prisoner having testified that he
was not aware that the goods had been stolen.
"Hehad sold some brass castings stolen from
the snip Omaha by Charles Olcott.
. John H. Wise, ex-Collector of the Port, is in
Oregon and viii not BE- able 10 attend the pre-
liminRry examination OF Chief Food Inspector
:DoekeTy this morning. Mr.. Wise, having been
suhpenaed, will be in contempt OF court. As
s. stant United States Attorney Schlesinger de-
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