The San Francisco call., 1897-05-22
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Grand Jury yesterday declined to in
veStigate Hale & Norcross affairs.
The Labor Council will issue a warning to
American laborers not TO go TO The Hawaiian
Islands.
Fair Saturday, with fog in the morning;
warmer in the afternoon and night.-A. G.
McAdie.
The California branch of the Women's Aux
Hilary held its annual meeting al ST. Paurs
yesterday.
Isadore Simon's contempt of court case has
been tsken under adyisement for week by
Judge Wallace.
AS Attorney Ach expects to be absent from
the City the Blair case has been postponed un-
til next Friday.
Warrants have been issued for the arrest Of
the leaders in the Cooperative Penny, Pur-
chasing Company.
A lot of impure milk from Berkeley was
dumped into the bay by Health Inspectors
yesterday morning.
Manager Wight of the Wilder Steamship
Company is here 10 order new steel steamer
of the Union Iron Works.
The State live-bird tournament opened at
Ingleside yesterday. The attendance Of shoot
ers and spectators was good.
l. jacob has sued w s Nolan and others to
compel payment OF $4,000 debts due the
creditors of said w. S. Nolan.
J. D. Lee, general agent in the Orient of the
American Tobacco Company, tobacco trust,
arrived on the Bell glc yesterday.
The twenty-ffth anniversary of Fathe
Nugenrs ordination will be celebra ted q [ 81.
Brendan's Church next Tuesday.
NJ NJ Essner, hotel-keeper of Novato.
Marin County, has been arrested on a charge
OF obtaining goods by false pretenses.
Frederi OK Belasco of the Alcazar Theater is
on trial for allowing three-month-old child
to appear in performance at his house.
Articles of incorporation of the Society OF
Old Friends dated September %, 1892, were
fled in the County Clerks Office yesterday.
The Manufacturers and Producers Associa.
ton has adopted q resolution of censure in the
case of the expectation of adulterated brandy.
sharp letter has been sent from the Treas.
ury Department to the Collector of Customs
demanding the abolition of the thirty days
rule.
Louis Bertos. a hostler, broke both wrists in
q fall out of a secnnd-story window of the
Adelphia House, on Kearny street, yesterday
morning.
Naval officer Irish has wired the Secretary oil
the Treasury 10 stop the export of The 105 ba r
rels of adulterateG brandy when it reaches
New York.
Mrs S Mcclure was hit over the head with
a billet OF wood during quarrel with Mrs.
Johanna Gum over the height of their back
yard fence.
Matte Bryant pleaded gsilty to petty lar
ceny in Judge Dunne's court yesterday She
was sentenced to serve six months in the
County jail.
The Supervisors are invited by the claimants
OF ffty-vara lot in North Beach to commence
suit TO set aside deed given by the City TO E.
s. Palmer in 1870.
James D. Pages trial on the charge of EN-.
bezzling funds belonging 10 an insane Ierson,
for whom be was acting aS guardian, has been
set for the 28th inst.
Mrs. West has sworn to a warrant accusing
her husband of assault TO commit murder
q of fo6 NJ hNly hart n Iao
while she slept yesterday morning.
Steady preparations are being made by the
California Christian Endeayorers to re ceive
the Eastern delegates who are to attend the
National convention here early in June.
Charles Erhardt was before United States
Commissioner Hancock yesterday for exami.
nation on the charge of passing counterfeit
half dollar William Peru. The Commits.
sloler withheld his decision.
The Finance Committee of the Board of su-
pervisors has decided to recommend the sus-
pension of the one-twelfth act in order to al
low the City and County Hospital and Aims.
house to procure medicines.
War to the knife between the North Califor.
nj a Division OF the League ef Anne rican Wheel
men and the Ca lifornia Associated Cyclists
has been preeipita ted hy circular letter
issued by President Po tier of the league.
John Black and Edward Johnson. charged
with stealing 1ewelry and bringing the same
into this City, have interposed a demurrer to
the Indictment. They contend that the action
charged does not constitute public offense.,
Attorney Joseph c. Bates has sued Adrienne
Thompson, Nellie f. Thompson and Charles
Z. Thompson, executors of the estate OF Mrs
Ellen Bolton Thorn pson. for $877. with inter
est at z per cent a year from December II,
1895 for legal services performed for Mrs.
Thompson during her lifetime.
The United States Grand Jury yesterday
made partial report to United States Circuit
Judge Morrow. They ignored the charge
against Oscar I. Shuck Tor sending a dunning
postal card TO E. D. Dement, An indictme
was found against person not yet arrested
and whose name is therefore withheld.
There was only short sess ion of the Fair
Craven trial yesterday morning. and tn en- an
adjournment over until Monday. Max Gum
pei, the handwriting expert, occupied the
stand and gave some additional reasn ms fol
believing that the signatures of Senator Fair tt
the ''pencl' will and deeds were fabrications
About 1S0 conductors OF the Pennsylvania
Railroad and their wives and lady friends ar
rived here yesterday in special Pullman
train. The train slapped at the Oakland side
of the bay and later the visitors came over tC
the City and visited the different places of IN
terest. They did not register at any hotel as
they are stopping aboard the train.