The San Francisco call., 1897-03-13
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

new FEDERAL Grand jury was sHotA III
yesterday.
Judge Slack will hear argument in the Hale
d Norcross litigation to-day.
The saloon of William Purnhagen was en-
tered and looted yes terday by burglars
The sailors celebraie e The twelfth anniversary
OF their union on the water front this even
ing.
Stage fright caused George Heinicke to lose
q game in the billiard tournament las
evening.
Lillian NJ. Hollister, supreme commander of
the Order OF Ladies OF the Maccabees, is ct the
Baldwin.
The Musicians Union complains that non
union orchestra is still employed at the Bush
street Theater.
The California wine-makers' corporation has
decided raise the price of wine from 15 to
20 cents per gallon.
Mrs. Louisa Paiva has been granted d.
vorce from Je Sc Paiva on the grounds OF will
tul neg lect and cruelty.
The James will contest is approaching a
close in Judge Cofey's court. The lawyers are
making their arguments.
Presiding Judge Seawell has granted a writ
OF review in the case of J. S. Reid against JUS
tce OF the Peace GroeZinger.
The Knights OF St Patrick will celebrate the
twenty-second anniversary of their organiza-
tion next Wednesday evening.
Butler, the Australian murderer, is 6esirous
OF end ng his life and 10 this end made an ef-
fort Thursday 10 commit icide.
Bourbon, Dolore, Rey Ell salto, Judge
Denny, Cash Day, Lincoln II and NJ. Clicquot
were the win ners at Oakland yesterday.
The death of Gustav sutro removes from
among the pioneers man long identified
with the banking and brokerage business of
this City.
SUITS for divorce have been filed as follows:
NJ rgaret Bradley Brown against Charles
Brown; Marian Valentine against Richard V.
Valentine.
sad case of five destitute children in the
rear of S34 Missio on street was reported to the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chill
dren yesterday.
have received important Instructions regard
ing vessels propelled by gas, naphtha and
electric motors.
John Felix, 75 years old, and who wants
TO again marry, has been sued by the
guardian of his feeble-minded daughter for
the latter's support.
Colonel Mendell and J. S. Emery, ex-presi-
dent OF the Blue Lakes Water Company, were
among the witnesses who testified at the water
rates inquiry last night.
The body of William Freese, with bullet
hole in the right temple, was found in Golden
Gate Park last evening, and 1t is presumed
That the deceased committed suicide.
The final meeting of the committee ap-
pointed by Mayor Phelan to call mass-meet- +
ing in favor OF Cuba will be held at California
Hal Bush and Powell streets, this evening.
The Grand Jury was engaged nearly all yes
terday afternoon in taking testimony in The
depositions previously taken were read to the
jury.
Fair Saturday, but cold with killing frosts
Saturday morning and possibly Sunday, is the
Weather Bureaus prediction, and there is
added The significant advice "Smudging neces-
sary.''
Mrs. Mary Hoffman, National treasurer of
the w. c. T. O., spoke in the First Congrega-
,s-l,r
woman's suffrage as a check upon the liquor
traffic.
Frederick Alton was taken to the Receiving
Hospital last evening to be treated for scalp
wounds sus aimed in being knocked from
wagon, the owner OF which caught him driving
off with it.
The story sent 10 a morning paper yesterday
morning of the arrest of man in Por tlano,
Or who claimed TO have murdered Blanche
Lamont, is declared in dispatch from that
city to be a lake.
Julian Pinte. Police Court lawyer, was
shot in the mouth and seriously wounded by
Mrs. Latham, his mother-in-law, at 1928 Mar
ket street, yesterday as the result OF series of
domestic quarrels.
George McGregor Deacon, late bookkeeper
for W. r. LarZelen. was arrested yesterday af-
ternoon Ly Captain Cullundan OF Harry
Morse's detective agency OF the charge of
felony embezzlement.
Adolph Sutro's deed to strip of land 100
feet wide, for a boulevard, was considered and
ecce pted yesterday at conference at whlcn
Mayor Phelan and City and County Attorney
Creswell represented the municipality.
The registration Office for unemployed seek
ing work on the proposed boulevard was
. opened yesterday forenoon and $40 applicants
registered, most OF them being middle-aged
men of many years residence in this City.
The petition of the District Council of the
Carpenters and Joiners of San Francisco, In
reference 10 the emp oyment OF policemen to
work on municipal buildings, will come before
the Board of Supervisors at the next regular
meeting of the board.
United States Attorney Foote has wired to
the Treasury Department that In his opinion
there is not sufficient evidence to begin pro-
ceedings against the big shipment cf opium
recently tied up by Collector Wise at the re-
quest Of the special agents.
Peter Franz was arrested on Thursday night
by Customs Inspector Leddy for having twenty
tins of opium in his possession. On exam1na-
ton il was found that the drug had paid duty,
and Franz was released and his opium re-
turned to him. Franz once served term In
the Alamo da County Jail for smuggling opium
from the steamer Monserrat, since lost on the
northern coast, and 1t is suspected that ne In
tire W. 81. Dimond, OF which he is watchman.
and smuggling 1t into Honolulu.
Judge Slack yesterday ordered that the de-
position of Mrs. n, title r. Craven, the de-
fendant in the suit OF the special administra-
tors OF the estate of James G. Fair, be taken
before Notary Eugene W. Levy. No time was
fixed for the taking of the deposit tion. IL is
alleged by The attorneys representing tne
plaintiffs that II is important for them to
know what Mrs. cravens testimony is to De
before they go to trial The order Is made on
the application OF MISS Virginia Fair, who has
filed O com plaint in Intervention, charging
that the so-called pencil d eds are forged