The San Francisco call., 1897-02-10
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Fair wednesday-AIexander McAdie, local
forecast official.
James Mclean has petitioned to be declared
an insolvent debtor.
Mrs. Hannah Gibson has been. granted q
divorce from Jesse Gibson for cruelty
1t has been positively ascertained that the
powder found in Buffers hatband Is strych-
nine.
Thomas NJ. Quackenbush reiterstes his state
ment that he was never married 10 Mrs. Nancy
Abbott.
In Judge WaIlace's court to-day jury will
decide the case OF Meyer Liv ngston, charged
with perjury.
About 125 families of Russian Jews have de-
cided TO settle in the Salinas Valley and to
form colony there.
Edward Fisher has been convicted of assault
with q deadly weapon. Judge Cook viii pass
sentence next Saturday.
Frederick Hellmuth. merchant of Gala
hans, Calayeras County, died suddenly on
Mission street yesterday.
- Dr.. Williams successor at Plymouth Congre-
gational Church will most likely be chosen
from the Eastern pastors.
Richard Bolir charged with robbery, has
been acquitted by jury in Judge Cooks
department OF the Superior Court.
Jones and Mascherini. leaders OF the local
Cuban League, are planning mass-meetings
and monster petitions to send East.
Judge Hunt has handed down q decision in
the suit OF ?. T. Dundon against J. NJ. McDon-
aid, giving judgme Mt for defendant.
Sunset Improvement Club al its meetiny
last night passed q resolution in opposition to
the }5-eent carfare rate for this City.
John J: fovrigan. a lodging-house keeper,
utlon 10 be declared an insolvent debtor.
This evening the Board of Education will
meet TO consider the carrying out of an ar
ranged plan which IS large and far-ree ching.
The winners at Oakland track yesterday
were: Roadrunner, Count OF Flanders, Rol-
taire, Morte Fonse, Scotch Rose and Rejected.
a wife's good temper is worth $4,000 in San
Francisco according TO q damage suit filed yes
terday by Peter Henderson against Ferris &
Davidson.
An incendiary attempt to destroy the Boston
Farm Dairy, 2l7 Seventh street early Monday
morning is being inVes ligated by the police
and Fire Marshal Towe.
Taylor Rogers will lecture before Liberty
branch OF the Socialist Labor party at the
Temple, 115 Turk street, this evening on the
Economics OF the Sermon on the Mount"
Mrs Maud Owens. II Russ street. swore to a
complaint in Judge Lows court vesterda z
charging her husband, ELMER Owens, a
Hthographer, with threatening 10 kill her.
Old man Reynolds, father of Thomas Rey-
nolds, convicted OF burglary in the second de-
gree, assaulted member OF the jury and will
be called TO account by Judge Carroll Cook.
At regular meeting of the board of direct-
ors of the Merchants Association a resolution
was adopted pettioning the Legislature to
make no increase in the salaries of Off cisls.
The California State Board of Trade will,
through the Governor, try to induce the Leg
1slature 10 make an investigation OF all colo
nfzation schemes in California in the future.
Chicken-thieves have been plying their Pc
culiar vocation in the Potrero. and they have
about worked out the field. Eggs are scarce
out there and lows are a comparative rarity.
The funeral of the late Captain l. c. Won
Buncken will take place to-day from his late
residence, $50 Post street. Il viii be con:
Quoted by Comp Johnson, Confederate Vet
Grams.
Charles B. Tarkins, an ex-Deputy County
Clerk, was arrested yesterday and charged
with having swinded T. Z. Blomross a shi o.
carpenter, out of $50 in the City Hall Monday
morning.
Two sessions OF the Farmers Institute. nm
der the auspices of the University of Califor-
MIA, will be held in this City, the first to-day
and tomorrow, and the second the oath and
25th inst.
Business men of Sacramento are actively in
teresting themselves in a scheme to esta blish
an athletic park in that city. An agent was in
town few days ago closing contracts and en-
listing capital.
The libel suit against John Craig at the in
stance of Captain ]. F. Anderson OF the Pacific
Mail dock was called in Judge Conlin's court
yesterday afternoon, but by consent was con-
ttnued till Friday.
II was announced at last nights meeting OF
the Theosophical Society that the crusaders
who set out from New York some months ago
to circle the globe will arrive here toward the
middle OF next month.
The San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley
Railroad directors have let contract for
thirty miles OF grading from Fresno to Han.
ford, and work Will begin at once, followed
closely by track-laying.
B. Moltnaro, shoe-desler at 507 Montgomery
avenue was yesterday held to answer be fore
the Superior Court by Judge Cam Dbell in
$4,000 bonds for secretly disposing of his
goods TO defrsud his creditors.
Supervisor Rottauz:of the Finance Commit.
Zee Of the Board of Supervisors has held up
The January bill of the telephone company.
II costs the City $40 per diem for every busi
ness day in the year to shout Hello"
The directors of the Chamber OF Commerce
met yesterday afternoon and discussed several
bills now before the Legislature. The measure
empowering three-fourths OF jury to return
verdict in criminal cases was Endorsed.
Frank Marty W a. before the Grand Jury yes.
terdey apd was given an opportunity to ex.
plain about that $1,000 offer he made 10 Super
visor Dodge in hopes of securing the contract
Tor delivering milk 10 the City and County
Hospital and Almshouse. He did not explain
II satisfactorily.
The Hahnemann Hospital College of San
Francisco was Yesterday, al n meeting of the
California an affiliated college for instruc
lion In homeopathy. The college Is free from
debt and has been organized many years.
Prominent wealthy citizens favor It's recogni-
tion by the State as an important school for
medical instruction.
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