The San Francisco call., 1897-07-01
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

A cloudy Thursday with fog IN the morning
is what is TO be expected.
Divorce proceedings continue lively in the
Superior Court notwithstanding the hot
weather
Judge Slack he's ordered the sale OF the per
sonal property of the Fruitvale improvement.
Company, insolyent
Margaret Percy. violently insane woman,
wassent to the stockton Asylum by the In
sanity Commissioners yesterday.
The knights of Honor celebrated at the
Chutes Yesterday the twenty fourth anniyer-
sary of the founding of the order.
With a view 10 cut down expenses. the
Olympic Club directors have dispensed with
several old and esteemed employees
The California Commission for the Insane
met yesterday. An effort is being made to
reduce the expenses $4,000 a month.
Mrs. Viola F. KnaTstons suit for $4,000
against the Connecticut Indemnity Associa-
lion is on trielin Judge 4ebbard' scourt
Attorney Frank schilling has filed an answer
TO the petition to remove him from his posi-
tion as guardian of P. o. Matthews estate.
Charles j. stuckey has sued Broker Arthur ].
Wheelock for $l965 on account OF money lost
by Mrs. Stuckey in gambling on grain futures
j. The proposition to establish emission
Geological Park is exciting strong and di-
verse comment IN real estate circles in this
City.
A charge of burglary has been booked
against Albert Smith, who stole a pair of
trousers from tho store of J. Jonas, on the water
front.
The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, under
the name of the Santa Fe Pacific, today came
into the hands OF the purchasers under the re-
ceiver.
DR., E. F. Gardner of the U. S. A, Fort Grant,
who is here, says $4,000 cattle had thus ar
been marketed at Wilcox, twenty-five miles
distant.
At meeting of the Board of Education last
evening resolution was adopted favoring the
French metric system for study in the public
schools
The constitutionaIity of the Clark road law
is soon to be tested in the Supreme Court in
The case of Davis against Auditor Widen OF
Alameda County.
Mrs; Aubrey announces the marriage of her
son, Charles A Aubrey Jr., to Miss Edna Van
Pelt, daughter of Captain Dave Van Pelt of
the steamer Ukiah.
Policeman Graham is looking for the owners
oi'a gallon Divine, three cakes OF soap and
. package OF baking powder found in the cache
of some petty thieves.
The Golden Rule Bazaar will be united with
the Emporium, and the old bazaar building on
Market street, near Third, will be abandoned
about the LIST OF September.
Out of I52 cows at SmarPs New York dairy
the tubercuhn tests held during the past week
by the Health Department discovered twenty
one diseased, and they were killed asst even
ing.
.:z At the monthly praise service at the First
Presbyterian Church next Sunday evening
Miss Gussie Mast, the talented soprano, will
sing q solo, ana will also play an organ post
lude.
The funeral services of Edward D. Heatley
were held at St. Peters Episcopal Church yes
teTday afternoon. They were largely attended
by business associates of the deceased mer-
chant.
Estimates for wiring the Presidio and light
ing the post with electricity have teen pre-
pared by the Edison Light and Power Com
pany and submitted to the quartermaster's
department.
Charles A. Re. nolds, prosecuting attorney
in Judge Lows court, was notified yesterday
that he had been appointed on the board of
trustees of the State Normal School at Chico
by Governor Budd, vice Park Henshaw, re-
signed.
The Coal-dealers' Association of this City
gave Its first picnic at Shell Mound Park yes
terday. The event was everyth hing that could
be desired. Even Captain l.. Siebe, proprietor
of She'll Mound, was more than satisfied with
carried of everything worth taking where
power.
There were four interesting afternoon we'd
dings yesterday. Henry w. Spalding was
married TO Miss Marshall in the First Presty-
terlan Church; Herbert Younger and Miss
Miller were married at the residence OF Burns
Macdon aid; John w. HendeTson and Irene Z.
Allen were united al the BRIDES home, on Fell
street, and Major Louis Smith and Miss Ruth
Lange were married at tha residence of the
brides parents, ct Presidio Heights.