The San Francisco call., 1897-07-24
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

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There is warrant out for the arrest OF Rev.
Kenneth Duncan on a charge OF burglary.
The Grand Jury recommends the repaving
Oh Market street from Montgomery TO Ninth.
Benjamin J. Green has sued for divorce
from Mandy L. Green on the ground OF deser-
lion.
Dee was damaged to the extent of $50 900 by
tire last vening.
Judge Trout will hear argument in the
semi-Tropic Land and Water Company ntiga-
urn next Monday.
The Spring Valley Company has asked the
franchise 81 100000.
Frank Seabury. machinist has fled q
p9ution in insolvency. He owes 1858 so and
has no available assets.
regular session OF the Grand Jury was held
yesterday and several important committee e
reports were submitted.
Eugene Ghirardell's soda water manufac-
toy was attached yesterday on a note for
$4,000 held by V. J. A. Rey.
san Francisco Labor Council held its regu-
lar meeting last night. Business OF interest
10 union men was transacted.
fire which broke out in Hobsrrs Suffer-
street building at 10:45 O'Clock last evening
caused oss u about $4,000.
William Wolf has sued B. Croner for $4,000
damages for alleged false and malicious prose
Cution on charge OF larceny.
Little Tsau Kuk, the tortured Chinese slave
g!rl yesterday told her story of wrongs sui
tered to reporter Of THE CALL.
The Dry-Goods Commercial Baseball League
has reOrganlzed a three-club league and
Will play its first game tomorrow.
1t is estimated that each of the three chill
dren OF the ate c. F. Croker inherits under
his viii a. least four million dollars.
Dr.. W. P. Cool, a Ke4rny-street dentist has
sworn o warrant CHARGING / F 1urupr
sgent, with the embezzlement o. $110
Mrs. Arvilla Williams and her sons object to
the claim OF DR.. Marx Wooisey for $1,000
against the estate OF the late DI. James VII
liams.
Miss Birdie Fox, new arrival from Denver
has caused the arrest OF Clerk Hubert and two
Others on dual charge OF robbery and Grim
iual assault.
Harrison Jones has been appointed CON-
missioner to take testimony in the litigation
growing out of the settlement of the estate OF
L. D. Quigley, deceased
The mass meeting at Sunnyside tonight is
Tor the purpose of advocating the purchase OF
the new park and geological gardens on the
sunny slope of the Twin Peaks.
The British ship ComliebaDk will get away
for Rio de Jsneiro to-day. The ringlesders of
the mutineers were put ashore Yesterday and
tour men shipped in their place.
The gasoline boats Chetco and Hettie ere
10 be put on the run to Alaska. The Hettie B
sels will go direct 10 he god fields.
7. w. Hubbard WAS admitted yesterday in
the united states ID strict Court 10 practice
law in the Federal courts as attorney, solici-
tor, proctor, advocate and counselor.
W. F. Rodgers the old man, lesder of the
Rodgers-Stark gang OF counterfeiters, pleaded
not guilty yesterday in the United States Dis
trlct Conrt and his trial was set for August 4.
I. de yer Warner and Lucien C. Warner have
sued Jacob Richard Freud and Milly Freud to
1oreclose mortgage for $40, 900 on real estate
in this City, with interest from May %, 1894.
Eight thousand gallons Of milk from bay
counties were seized al the ferries yesterday,
because the cows from which it was derived
had moi been su omitted 10 the tu beTcu in test
The eleva tors in the new City Hall we're out
of orr er again yesterday, and il was only by
careful handling of the machinery in the base
m ent that the eleva tors were kept in opera
ton.
Charlotte Windhsus has sued Frederick
for the partition of certain valuable real
estate on Haight street, near Fillmore, in this
City.
The Health and Police Committee of the
Board OF Supervisors hss decided to recon-
mend that Morton street be kept closed to i'm
moral persons by the use of police resiric-
tIOns
Eight thousand gallons OF milk were quar-
antined at the Tiburon ferry depot last even
lug by Chief Food Inspector Dockery. II was
all released later, except that from Alameda
County.
The stern-wheeI steamer II. C. Grady that
is TO run between Oakland and Sacramento
River points, is expected to arrive here to-day.
She passed Eureka at 2 P. NJ. yesterday, and
was making fair time.
A warrant has been issued by Justice Groe-
Finger for the arrest of William Dohrman on q
charge OF grand iarceny. The complainant is
Mrs. Mary Dohrman OF Oakland. close rela-
tive, who alleges the theft of 800
Three-year-old Lottie WALL thrown on the
mercy of the word twice before on account of
domestic trouble, is there again. The Califor-
MIA Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children will try to secure a home for her
Isabella Williams, wife of the ex-Inspector
OF Customs, was regularly charged at the City
Prison yesterday with having assa ulted her
husband with intent to rcduce bodily harm
TIE story of how she threw pepper IN mis- eyes
was published in yesterdays CALL.
A carrier pigeon in a completely exhausted
state aligbted upon the yards OF the German
ship Ferdinand Fischer last Friday evening
and was captured. 1t carried no message, and
can be identified only from the fact that the
left toe of the right foot is missing.
England has the greatest number OF
lighthouses and ightships-one every
fourteen miles OF its coastllne.