The San Francisco call., 1897-04-21
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Fair; warmer Wednesday-W. II. Harmon
The Grand Lodge of the Knights and Ladie:
OF Honor wss in session yesterday.
Several Police Court attorneys have formed
themselves into q combine 10 secure ell the
business
On Monday evening the drill corps of Cali
fornia Commandery gavea reception in Colder
Gate Hall
Mary C. Robb has sued Joseph Feeny tc
quiet title 10 lot AZ, in block II, in Columbia
heights Tract.
William A. Parslow has been granted dI
vorce from Amelia Parslow on the ground OF
extreme cruelty.
Philip Collum, a former proprietor OF the
Woodland Woolen-mills, has been arrested on
charge of arson.
Torsida, Santa Paula Reddington, Morte
tonSe, Tulhre and Howard were the winners
Al1ngleSlue Y yesterday.
There is an old streetcar-switch on Second
Rno Howard streets that is causing great dam
age 10 passing vehicles.
F, Mecchi, grocer, who pleaded guilty to
selling aduIterated Jelly, was yesterday nned
SO by Judge Campbell.
Schoo Directors investigated the water sup
ply of the South san Francisco Primar School
yesterday and found it good.
The First Christian Church Will hold picnic
with q basket lunch some Sunday. commit
tee is now making preparations.
Mayor Phelan has called the attention of the
Board OF Health to violations of the law re-
garding burials within the City limits.
The Technical Society of the Pacific Coast
gave its monthly entertainment in the Acad-
emy OF Sciences building last evening.
William Fulton OF 1923 Vallejo street has
filed petition in Insolvency. He owes
$5142 IL and he has no available assets.
Judgment was given for the defendant V es-
terday II the suit OF Arthur Sears and Mrs
Nellie Covington against Frederick Belasco.
The Supreme Court has sustained the judg-
to : II.
Company against the Auditor of San Diego
County.
George Mudgeth, proprietor of a drugstore
on Fourth street, was yesterday fined $50 by
Judge Campbell Tor selling medicine without
a certificate.
The ladies' of St. Agnes parish are now hold.
ing fancy bazaar at the Mechanics Pa
vilion TO assist in raising the debt on their
new church.
The Board of Health has taken cognizance
OF the rapid spread OF diphtheria- In future all
cases O. mem branous Group must be reported
by physicians
The case of Editor F. Marriott of the News
Letter, charged with publishing a libel on
Judge Hebbsrd, is being tried in Judge Dain-
gerfield's court.
About 400 members Of the Grand Chapter of
Royal Arch Masons began its annual session
here yesterday. 7. H. CaswelI was elected
grand secretary.
The teachers of the City met in the Girls
a.
tion 10 the legislators for their efforts on be-
half OF the annuity bill
William H. Chapman has sued Mendell
Weicker for 1913 % due on note drawn in
favor of Charles Orpin Decent Der 9, 1895 with
interest at q per cent year.
Robert Lawless, the ra cetrack tout, is again
being sought by the police. He is charged
this time with obtaining money by false pre-
lenses from Mrs. Mary K. Smith.
. The Board of Health has created the off &C
NJ cfcr ant OF
Auditor Broderick has intImated that he will
refuse 10 sign his salary demands.
J. R. Sovereign. head of the Knights oi
Labor, and Agnes Hit. National president O.
the Woman's Relief Corps, indorse the Lincoln
monument and Lincoln day movement.
Carrie c. Sankey has sued Charles S. Cog
gins and Mary E. Coggins, his wife, for an ac.
counting and for restitution of her fortune OF
which she AYERS they have swindled her.
DR.. Jerome A. Anderson lectured on the
first consideration contemplated in the es
tablishment OF the TheosophicaI Society in
the Academy OF Sciences building last even.
ing.
Rev. DR.. Philip Axis Hubert, financial Sec
retRry OF Livingstone College, n. c., is here
arranging for a lecture in aid of the instftu.
ton. 1t is free college for colored boys and
girls.
DR.. RAIDER at the Congregational Bay Confer.
ence last night commended the opinions OF
Lyman Abbott, ana said that common-sense
and reason should be used in Interpreting the
Bib.e.
The Board OF Health Will probably have to
pay for its lobbying junket TO Sacramento
during the legislature and for Attorney
Reinstein's engrossed resolutions out of its
own pocket.
The San Francisco division OF the Christian
Endeavor chorus. which viii render the pre-
liminary concert of the International conven-
uon, held a rehearsal IN Calvary Pres byterian
Church last evening.
Inspectors Dockery, Hamlin and Harrington
OF the Board of Health, accompanied by Spec al
wagons on Monday night and examines their
contents. No impure milk was found.
Andrew c. Freese, administrator of the
estate OF Emma a. Curtis, deceased, has been
sued by &. l. Page to quiet title 10 valuable
Teat property on Ellis street, near Webster
+. ). Castlehun is attorney for the plaintiff.
Another session devoted to securing a.
jury for the Fair case yesterday, but as vet
none have been finally accepted. There are
eleven Oh the temporarily passed" list, but
they may De retired On peremptory challenges
At yesterdays quarterly meeting OF the
Cham Der OF Commerce Congress was memo
rlhllZed 10 grant rebate on the importation
OF gram bag and on in plate used in canning
ana 10 pass ElkIns' bill Tor he rehabilitation
OF the American merchant marine in the for
eign trade. 1t was also decided 10 send a peti
ton TO the Secretary of the Navy to establish a
compass-swinging station at this port, and to
lnYes tlgAte the causes OF the delay of the China
mails by oveTlong quarantine.
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