The San Francisco call., 1897-03-02
CITY. NEWS IN BRIEF.

larceny in Judge DUNES court yesterday.
I Partly cloudy Tuesday but generally with
3 out rain-W: II: Hammon, forecast ofhcial.
discharged waiter OF the steamer Daunt-
=. less has charged captain Uoodel Win heglet'
= of duty. 80
st. David $ iaysMas celebrated by the natives
of Wales by a concert and ball in Odd Fellows.
Hall last nigat.
-Four people. bad an exciting experience in a
ARr5cked hack at Clay and Kesrny streets yes
AsEtay afternoon
:. S"At thesPresby Ministerial Association
:: yesterday, Rev DR.. Fraser made plea for re-
=. ligious educauon,
r.: Rev j. NJ Buehler addressed the new Ger
-. ma n Preachers Club yesterday on the theme
= % religious liberty. ::
~ The winning teams of the tug of war last
.**eyeuing were: Denmark, Canada, Sweden;
..<:-Ffance and America.
!. !. Assessor siebe has. named his deputies who
are 10 assess personal property, aud they yes
:. teEday began their work.
::: : John Van Denburgh lectured at the Academy
-. Of Sciences. last night on as the Bite OF the
:. 'Gila Monster Poiscnous"
) :: Chartemagne, Camelia, Gutta Peroha, Mid
Eight, True Blue and Colonel Wheeler were the
j.: winners at lngleside yesterday.
: The delegates in aid of the Trans-Mssssippi
:: Exposition at Omaha arrived here yesterday,
= and viii. visit sacramento to-day.
:: - The funeral ef Police Sergeant Fitzgibbon
- took place yesterday afternoon, the remains
:: being inferred in Calvary Cemetery. 49,:
=: A number of workmen began excavations
= for the building of the new City Hall at WASH
!: 'ington and Kearny streets yesterday.
:.:::'. Christian: :Kirketerp, well.known pioneer
- :8Id Ca ptalist, died a. his residence 1017 Bush
:: street, at anearly hour this morning
:.:':: Thomas N Qusekenbush, the aged million
-: re; ;died from heart failure yesterday morn.
=: ::.ipgat his residence, oil Webster street:
:: ;. Drs B. Il. Lee and W. L. Brown were arrested
-: yesterday:on complaint of lady patient on
.Jh DrdctiClnP medicine.
-: The Australian mails will be day late aud
the steamer A Alameda will not sail until Fri
:. day, March ,, instead. OF Thursday, as adver-
- p. The Pure Food Committee are having the
= eases OF fifteen merchants considered, with q
E view 10 their arrest for selling adulterated
!. goods.
=. :. Mrs, .Magdelina Wittemeier has been SEN
) fenced 70 jail until she consents to pay an at
" ;torney' lees in the estate of j. G. Wittemeier,
=. deceased; .
=: A fire In the. e.basement of the California
::<.. Crocke!y.i Company store, at 212 California
stEeet. ulted III loss OF nearly $4,000 yester-
=: Dig neEnIHg.@ '.. ;.
(:- Tie preliminary examination of William
-A"Warden and Charles Harper on the charge OF
j:6urglary was commenced before Judge Con-
- IS ;artfng developments are expected in the
-: cas5.of The See YUpSeciety against the Chinese
.':CoDsul, which is before United States Conn
::mIssioner Heacock.
=, :: AMMAN. L. Steen was married. yesterday by
:~.Justee OF the Peace Groezinger 10 Paul Graves
= las Milton Berry, who is in the City Prison
.-:on charge. OF burglary.
-; Jidge .Hebbard has decided that the Leland
..<@sran1ord estate must pay taxes on certain
-: stocks, even though the certificates may be
*0eposi ted outside this State.
-: MARY. O'Connor has been granted divorce
Jerry o CoanoF on the ground OF cruelty
:. :prOpertyi in lieu OF aIlmony.
he SuDrerna Court has reversnd the iudR-
I. :: lneut tof ihe lower court in the case f:Jerome
=: A. Buckley who was convicted OF altering
..::>elecuoa tally sheets in 1894.
-: All day yesterday bsck-robed women passed
:: whose poverty entities them to be benefciaries
:: :-oj~ the Robinson bequest fund
=; News comes from London that the British
-: bark ,Yilialta, froa Tacoma for 'Freemantle,
:. Australia, rs ashore near her destination, and
-. thar the captain had been drowned.
:. The. newly chartered San FRANCISCO Kennel
- Club held It's first meeting last night, elected
'. '.'-AdOlph Spreckels president and decided upon
:. In : Ia iddle Of May for the dog show.
-: Elaborate Preparations are being made for.the
Mardi Gras ball at the Hopkins Institute of
= Art this evening. 1t is expected that there
" will be fully 400 maskers in:the grand march.
=: Captain Matson Of the Annie johnson goes
: 10 Hilo as a Messenger on. the Brftsh ship
:-Genesia He viii pilot the big ship in and'out
Of that portland viii then return to San Fran
- cisco. -.
. :parings tor the summer cruise, and in conse-
.quence.t the water front is busy. Over $500
- men Will ship for Alaska and the Arctic this
.. month
O. The Board OF Supervisors will visit the
Offices of the Spring Valley Water Company to-
morrow morning TO inquire into books and
:. accounts and to interrogate officers OF the
company.
Work on the exten sion OF the boulevard may
Legin today; thus giving employment to the
Autmployed.. The Spring Valley Water Com
8any has led a. deed for its half of the neces-
Afy land.
The Builders Exchange will join with the
five large commercial and industrial bodies in
The. Chamber of Commerce meeting, to be held
in the interests OF the Postofice building
movement.
John Hogan, charged with grand larceny,
failed to appear in Judge Conlan's court yes
terday and the Judge declared his bonds of
$1,000 forfeited and. issued bench warrant
for his arrest.
Full account of the loss of the British ship
Ulrica, from San Francisco to Queenstown.
Captain Johnston wrote to friends in this City
telling the whole story. She broached to in a
tide rip and went ashore.
Society amateurs presen ted Tom Robertson's
comedy of Caste at the California last even
ing for the benefit. of the Children's Hospital
and the Armitage Orphanage. The affair was
social, artistic and financial success.
The Countess Espanola and ]. NJ Oakley are
at the Palace. Oakley says he is a courier and
alleges that the lady is "a countess. of the
yesterday for $1,000 as part of the resources
The San Francisco Alerts- and the Young
Swins, juvenile baseball clubs; met on the
diamond at the athletic recreation grounds
Sixteenth and Folsom streets, yesterday alter
noon. The game ended in a tie, to 5.
The charge of felonious assault against
James O'Connell, an old man, dismissed
by Judge Low yesterday. The Complaining
witness Gussie Arnold, young woman
but the Judge placed no reliance upon her
evidence. .O'Connell attempted TO drown him
sell in pond in Golden Gate Park Saturday
night.
Manus Mcbride, was YESTERDAY held to-
answer before the Superior Court by Justice
Of The Peace Groezinger in Judge Campbefl's
cburt, on the charge of burglary in $4,000
ponds. Mcbride was cook in Terence Healey's
rbstauraut,s so Third street. and broke into
the basement of the shop of L. Jonas. .& Bro,
% Third street and stole several articles of
furniture. sHealey was also arrested on
similar charge and his preliminary examina-
tion will be held to-day
'fTURN IT UPSIDE DOWN, is a suggestion of
c. II. Evans & Sons TO impress the fact that
they have overcome the Objectionable dregs
and sediments commonly found in bottled ale.
Sherwood Sherwood, Pacific Coast agents.