The San Francisco call., 1897-05-14
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Odd Fellows and the Rebekahs elected
officers yesterday.
Cloudy Friday and continued cool weather
Is to-day's prediction.
St Andrews Society held a successful social
In Scottish Hall last night
Ed J. Smith, secretary OF the State Agrlcul-
" tural Society, is in the City.
The benefit for the free ward OF ST. Mary's
Hospital was decided success.
The concert given by Frank Biggerstaff at
Golden Gate Hall WAS well attended.
The Valley road will be completed to Han
May %.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Clack celebrated the
twenty-ffth anniversary OF their dding last
evening.
The Southern Pacific freight agents expect
: that fruit shipments this year Will exceed
last seasons naul
Rosalbra, Devault. Socialist, The Roman,
Colonel Wheeler and Earl Cochran were the
winners al Emeryvihe yesterday.
An execution was served on the Union Trust
Company's Bank yesterday IN the case OF
Michael Keegan against John Il. Kelly.
Antonio de Froneo, boy living al 36 Pres
cott place, was yesterday struck on the head
with stone thrown by another boy, fractur-
ing his skull.
peared in Judge Joachimsen's court yester
day to answer charges of drunk" and dis
turbing the peace.
Mrs. Frances Goldstone has been granted q
divorce from Peter B. Goldstone because he
left her between the acts ST theater and was
gone for three years
Nike Bratt, q bootblaek, was arrested last
night for stealing gold watch and SO from
customer, James Hanley OF Oakland, at the
ocean beach Tuesday.
". B. Bradbury was committed to the County
jail for twenty-four hours for splitting in a
streetcer. He was released on S25 penang
hearing before Judge SeaweH.
Attorney-General W. F. Fitzgerald has just
rendered a very important opinion upon the
new county road law that win be of interest 10
every county official in the State.
Prescott Sawyer, the well-known yachts
man. is out eleven days from Tacoma in his
schooner Josephine, ana his friends are be-
ginning 10 feel anxious for his safety.
Fred Nicholson, who stole several razors and
revolver from q barber-shop a IA Montgom-
cry avenue, was sent TO the County Jail for
six months by Judge Campbell yesterday.
A. J. Meadows viii be cited by Judge Slack
to show cause why he should not BE- punished
for contempt of court for certain transactions
in the OC0nnor & Lewis insolvency matter.
j. E. Garlick, the two Freer brothers and E
J. Crabtree, who have for five months been
hunting egrets IN Chispas, returned here yes
5000. -'H H-'''- p1r1' u '-S-'' worm
mass-mceting has been called by the
Richmond Improvement Club for next
the removal OF the City Cemetery viii be dis
cussed.
meeting OF the residents OF the Mission
favoring q smaller park than the one pro-
posed for geological purposes viii be held To-
morrow evening at Twentieth and Guerrero
Streets.
Nicholas Brennan, convict at San Queu-
tin, has filed his bill of exceptions 10 the ruling
OF the court in the trial which resulted IN his
conviction and sentence to three years i'm
prisonmenL
The first steps have been taken in the Saliva
tion Army colonization scheme for the unem-
ployed, and a special committee has been
appointed 10 carefully investigate the pro-
posed plans.
The miners of the State are reused to the
highest pitch over the action OF the Anti
Debris Association in suing out an injunction
against The Goodwin ground-slUicing mine in
Nevada County.
At e conference held Yesterday the tele-
phone, telegraph and electric light and power
Companies agreed TO put ther wires in under
ground conduits If given sufficient time to
range the matter.
Expert Williams of the Board of Supervisors
has finished bis examination OF Spring Valley
books, and from the tenor OF his report it is
prOba BILE tnat the cut in re tes, If Is made,
will be horizontal
c. y. La Barge OF BAL Fifth avenue. in
jured seriously, as he says, from q fall and tax
en- to the City and County Hospital aud after
ward expelled, viii, he declares report the
matter TO the Grand Jury.
D. c. Wheeler, q prominent business man of
Reno, New, arrived in this CITY yesterday.
He reports that the SagebrCsh State is in
satisfactory condition so far as commercial
affairs re generally concerned
The Building Trades Council h as condemned
the work on the roof OF the City Hall
unfair job because the contractor has dis
charged all the union metal-rooiers and filed
their places with non-union men.
william a. Van Pelt, who was captured by
Oficers Long and Caples last Wednesday even
ing while attempting 10 burglarize the resi-
dence of Ernest A. Denicke, had just finished
a three years term in the Folsom peuiteniary
for burglary.
School Superintendent Webster rendered
report 10 the Board OF Education on Wednes-
day evening III which he accused former Off
cials OF II ismana cement of Iunds and warned
the School Directors that teachers salaries
must not be held out during lis term.
A debate over the admissibility or inadrnissi-
biiity of The so-cailed ''penciI' wili as evil
dence in the Fair-Crayen trial, occupied nesrIy
all OF yesterdays session OF that case. The
plaintiffs are seeking TO attack this instru-
nenI as well Mrs. CraYen's deeds, but are
being opposed py the defense on purely legal
grounds. The defense claims that the Will has
nothing to do with the present suit 10 quiet
title.