The San Francisco call., 1897-02-26
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Press Club Will give an informal smoker
tomorrow night
Four tins of opium were seized on the
steamer Acapulco yesterday.
George Barrata was arrested yesterday on
charge OF assault with deadly weapon.
Fair, with fresh northery to westerly
winds.-W. H. Harmon, Forecast ohclal.
Timothy Hopkins has mortgaged his prop
erty a. Tenth and Market streets tor SZ9O,OOO'
Mayor. Pbelan's committee to act with the
Cuban League will meet at California Hall to-
night.
Branch No. 7 of the Young Ladies' Institute
gave an entertainment in Native Sons Hall
last night
Douglass Talbot the missing lad, has bee
located I'm San Mateo, where he had gone to
visit his brother.
. William B. Gross, author of Europe for
$3.50" who came here first with the elder SAL
vini, is at the Baldwin.
Imp Ivy, salvable. Clissie B, Yemen, Ce-
loSo, Foremost and Magnet were the winners
at Ingleside yesterday.
Joseph Hlrsch bach, former director of the
TiYOh, was yesterday given highly success
fu benefit at that theater.
The Burns monument committee of the
Caledoniau Club held an enthusiastic meeting
in Scottish Hall last night
Carl W. Won Tiedeman is on trial for perjury
in Judge Wallace's court. At a former trial
the jury was unable to agree.
The Mechanics Pavilion is undergoing
preparations for the great tug-of-war which
viii begin tomorrow evening.
Dr. John Gallagher, the newly appointed au-
topsy physician of the morgue, viii assume
the duties OF his office March. !.
Indications now are that most of the East
ern people who come TO Nevada to see the
fight will come on 10 California.
The merchants to e unit exnress themselves
as in favor of a new postoffiee building at
once, and are surprised at the delay.
has interrupted the trial OF John Miller,
charged with the murder OF James Childs.
The Marin Development Association is or
ganizing committee OF fifty to push forward
the Identification of Marin County communi-
ties.
Jockey Club for $4,000 damages for being
elected from the racetrack at Iugleside on the
5th inst.
The distributing of the City for relief purposes
was finished yesterday and provisional COM
mittees were appointed to canvass for sub
scriptions.
The Merchants Association has sent to the
legislature several protests against bills that
are regarded by the local body as injurious to
public interests.
The remains of Thomas B. Shannon was in
tered yesterday at Masonic Cemetery. All he
left of once large fortune q policy for
$4,000 on his life.
Collector Wise allowed the schooner Una,
which left Panama without her papers, to en-
ter at the Custom house yesterday on in
structions from Washington.
The frst bicycle championship run of the Ac-
ademic hletic League will be run tomorrow
afternoon on the Velodrome track. There Will
be four races, ten heats in all.
Marshall Smith, ssloon-keeper, 1923 Folsom
street, was discharged by the Insanity Com
Inissioners yesterday and on going home fou nd
that his wife had deserted him.
Olga Tolner, young girl, is at the Receiving
Hospital as result of an unlawful oueration,
fnh cf NJ rSr crr-oo nod ~
Lean. The latter has been arrested.
D. F. Bean, a teemster living ct Twenty-irst
and Bryant streets, was held up By two foot
pads at Seventeenth and Bryant streets last
night and beaten into Inconsistencies.
The attorneys for the Fair estate will apply
: to the court this morning for a continuance of
The pencil viii case until March 15 on account
OF the illness of Attorney W. n. Pierson.
Warner W. Gaskn, John D. Richards and
Carl A. Henry have been sued by the Alliance
memoranda. the property OF the plaintiff COM
pany.
The entries for the cycle races at Santa Rosa
tomorrow represent the greatest fields of
crack riders ever gathered at a California race
meeting. There will be four professional and
two amateur events.
The police arrested william Warden and
Charles Harper. burglars, and three women
who acted as "fences" in the house of Mrs.
Frawley, 24S Tehama street, Wednesday night
after desperate struggle.
Right of Way Agent Young of the Valley
road has arrived here. He says the right of
way from Fresno 10 Bakersfield has been Sc
cured, and also on the Reedley and Visalia
line, except in four or five cases.
Al a special meeting of the Tyrone, Ferma-
nagh and Donegal social clubs held last even
ing at Coium bia building special preparations
were made for Father McFadden's farewell re-
CeDtion which will take place on March 10 at
Metropolitan Temple.
The Farmers Institute of this City closed for
the time being last evening with two interest
ing lectures by eminent scie ntists on the beet
sugar industry of California compe ting with
foreign productions, and the treatment of arid
and alkali lands IN this State.
Tomorrow an illustrated lecture will be de-
livered at the Mechanics institute by Willard
Beahan, C. E., on American Railroads and
Their Engineering" The public is invited.
Mr.. Beshan will deliver a series of lectures at
Stanford University on practical railroad con-
struction.
w. T. Bagle y % Liberty street, an employe
OF the Alaska Packing Com pany, who had a
fight with Conductor R. J. Jackson at Polk
and Union streets Wednes lay, swore to COM
plant In Judge Conlan's court yesterday for
Lhe arrest of Jackson on q charge OF mayhem.
Bagley alleges that Jackson not only hit m on
the lace with his DeIlpunch. but bit the little
hnger OF his left hand. Jackson was immedi-
ately released on $1,000 bonds.
NEW TODAY
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