The San Francisco call., 1897-03-16
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Increasing cloudiness Tuesday, with fresh
winds.
The High School Cadets are testing military
life at Camp Duboce in Niles Canyon.
The ironmoIders and bricklayers expect
more work and better times next spring.
About thirty men in the employ of the
Board of Education viii be put on half time.
The .Seattle-owned tug Oceident is reported
as total wreck Off the mouth OF the Nehalem
i River.
unemployed 10 work this morning on the new
boulevard.
q George Dougherty. the policeman who killed
H. E. sullivan. has been charged with murder
by Coroner's jury.
The Bohemian and Pacific Union clubs each
have car engaged for this evenings train 10
, Carson TO see the fight
IA The will of the late Gustav Sutro was filed
yesterday. 1t bequeathed the entire estate to
the widow and children.
Bishop. Clinton addressed the Methodist
preachers meeting yesterday on his expert
enceS in the South and East.
An enthusias tic meeting of the Anti-Saloon
League was held yes sterday at the y. NJ. c. A.
4 plan OF work was outlined.
Professor W. E Ritter delivered an instruc-
tive lecture before the Academy of Sciences
last evening on 1.-The Life of the Sea-"
The Produce Exchange has taken up the
cudgel against the bueket-shop sharks who
prey upon the unsophisticated public.
The Velodro1ne Company failed to file suit
for injunction against Groom and Gibbs of the
San Francisco Amusement Association.
The Panama Railroad Company has sued a
mum Der of local merchants as stockholders of
the North American Navigation Company.
Attorney W.. D. Grady. charged with may
hem, fled an affidavit before Judge Joachim
Sen yesterday asking for a change OF venue.
The papers in the injunction suit of NJ. W.
Fox 10 restrain certain Hale & Norcross stock
holders from holding meeting are missing.
Richard Henry stubbed his toe in front of
the Fa1r-estare property at Is Post street, aud
in falling broke the patella OF his right knee.
A movement is on foot in the Paper hangers
Union TO reorganiZe the local painters. The
union OF the latter disbanded three weeks ago.
Velox, Altamax, st. Distsff, Rey Ell Salto.
LOvdal, Scotch Rose and Howard were the
winning horses at EmeryYille track yesterday.
John Miller, who murdered James Childs,
yesterday sentenced by Judge Carroll
Cook to be hanged at San Quentin on May 1S.
Mayor Phelan championed the cause of the
Tailroad-tieket brokers before the Law and
Order Committee OF the Boa-d of Supervisors
yesterday.
A suit was fled in the Superior Court yester-
day in which Mrs Nettie r. Craven is named
as a co-defendant with the heirs of the late
James G. Fair.
Supervisor Rottanzi introduced an ordi-
nance at the meeting of the board yesterday
prohibiting the wearing OF bonnets and hats
at the theaters.
W. D. Stratton, discoverer ana owner of the
celebrated Independence mine at Cripple
Creek, is here and viii examine some of the
mines OF California.
The twenty-second annual convention of the
Railway Mail Service Mutual Benefit Assoc1a-
tion will begin lis session at Y. NJ. c. A. Audi
torium this morning.
The members of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the
Cuban League presented the organization
with handsome Cuban banner last evening
before g big audience
n
and banquet last night to Martin P. Stein,
grand president of the order. ou the occasion
OF his first visit 10 this district
Heinecke defeated Lewis and Mudgett de-
fea ted Burns in the Brunswick, Bake Collen-
der Company amateur tournament games at
the Occidental Hotel last night.
William Cline, grocer. was convicted by a
jury in Judge CsmpbelPs court last night OF
violating the adulterated food act by selling
an imitation of raspberry syrup.
A workman employed in laying a cement
roof on the City Hall amused himself yester-
day afternoon by throwing chunks of mortar
down the chimneys with disastrous results
Patrick Conway, teamster, % years of age,
died Yesterday at the City ana Count- Hos
pital from the result OF injuries received on
March 1, when he fell from ten-foot fence.
Thousands attended the three services held
Yesterday in old st. Patrick's Church in con-
nection with the present cele bration Of the
silver jubilee anniversary OF the erection OF
the building.
Messrs Hillyer and Jacobs have given up
their efforts to explain to fair young client
the causes which led the Probate Court to
der deposited in bank the funds of her
mothers estate.
John TuttIe has sued Albert Gallatin, Mrs.
F. Mears c. A. Warren and E. Malley, doing
business under the firm name of Warren &
Malley, for $4,000 worth of property said 10 be
due 10 the plaintiff
The English tramp steamer Amarapoora
arrived from Central American ports with
coffee consigned TO e. d. Bunker d Co. The
crew deserted in San Jose de Guatemala and
the captain had to take all the riH-rah on the
beach to fill their places.
John Mclaughlin, drunk. passed himself
off as his cell mate in the Oakland city prison
while the latter was asleep, and not only Sc
cured his release but also the sleeping mans
money from the prison-keeper. he was
arrested on this side Sunday night, drunk
again.
Fifty of the eighty-five students of the Col
kge of Pharmacy think that they have been
-Tfstreated by the veteran Professor Calvert,
tho has served the college for twenty-five
PEARS, and they have filed complaint with
the board OF directors, who in turn treat IL
lightly.
Mrs. Egedia Lucchesi has applied for per-
mission TO do business on her own account as
sole trader She says she is the vile OF Cesar
Lucchesi, who owing 10 his i'll health ana IDLE
ness engendered thereby. Is unable to support
her. She has $500 capital with which TO start
bakery.
Harry Nelson, boy years OF age, living al
625 Hayes street, was stealing ride on car
in front OF his fathers house yesterday after
noon, when he fell, striking his head. He
wns picked up unconscious and taken TO a
drIIp store. where he gradually recovered. 1t