The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-28
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

\ new road will soon be thrown open to
eyeIers in Golden Gate Park
Donna Bella won the puppy stakes at Kerri-
gahs courslng park yesterday.
A. Spadina, ns successor of Fritz Scheel. acted
as conductor of the Park band yesterday.
Five deepwater vessels, four OF which were
laden with coal, arrived in port yesterday.
The ute of the '49 mining camp of the Mid
winter Fair Is being graded and will be set out
with trees.
ence has ceased in respect TO the shipping OF
"landsmen."
Yesterday was the thirtieth anniversary OF
the founding of Trinity Presbyterian Church
In California.
Trophies are to be offered soon to interest the
men OF the police force N rlne ana revolver
team competitions.
The newsboys as guests of THE CALL were
entertained al the Baldwin Iheater by Henry
L. DiXey yesterday
Redlight won first money in the finish of the
ffty-two-dog stake at CaSserlys Ocean View
coursing park yesterday.
F W Olmstead of Battery H of the Second
yesterday won the battery's first class medal
for the third ana last time.
Memorial services in honor OF Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Croker were held at the Old Peoples
Home yesterday afternoon.
A pickup cricket match between Messrs.
Cassidy and Lees teams yesterday resulted in g
victory Tor the former by So runs.
Local realty agents report q noticeably in
creased interest which is being taken in the
market, both Tor building and speculative pur-
poses.
Nicholas Denver az Mission Dolores parish
carried of the honors in the prize essay COM
petition at the League of the Cross district
rally yesterday.
Martin Giloyich, cook, ran amuck with q
huge knife at the corner of Jackson and Davis
streets yesterday. He was arrested before he
found victim.
In e game of football at the Recreation
Grounds, Golden Gate Park, yesterday after
noon, the Emmets defeated the san Franchises
by points to D.
Papa" Ehrenpfort, the veteran sharpshooter
scored nine bullseyes ct the San Francisco
SchuetZen Verein's monthly shoot at Shell
Mound yesterday.
Attorney Il. s. Maekaye explained some pecu-
liar phases yesterday IN the great patent suit
OF Walter 4. Freeman vs.. the Westinghouse
Electric Company.
The weather forecast for San Francisco and
vicinity shows that to-day viii be generally
Ialr, but partly cloudy this morning, cool and
with westerly winds.
-, Dep1ty-Sheriff Riley took to Folsom yester
day Charles Otterson, sentenced 10 fifteen
years for attempted burglary, and Knud Thor
sen, seven years for grand larceny.
Captain J. J. O'ConnelI, First Infantry, o. s.
A, delivered lecture last Monday evening on
the Art OF War;" the first lecture of the Sec
ond Brigade, \. G. c., lyceum course.
General Forsyth, commanding the Depart
1nent OF california, has returned fcom Sequoia
Park, where he went to inspect the troop OF
Fourth Cavalry, which guards the reservation.
Charles Reed of 1881 Suffer street, a medical
agent, while enjoying an outing with his
wife and sister-ln-law at Point Bonita yester-
day afternoon committed suicide by shooting
himself
san Francisco won the baseball game from
Oakland yesterday by a score of 10 TO 2. A
big crowd witnessed the game which was a
great smuggling match ana one OF the best OF
the season.
The hendball courts were crowded yesterday
ana among the attractions was 8 novel game
OF cutthroet at the Occidental, the players be-
ing Amateur Champion Donnelly, J. c. Nealon
and T. T. Bonnet.
The Durrant case proceeds tomorrow, when
General Dickinson is expected to close his ar-
,gunent IN strong peroration, on which he
has been working since the trial adjourned
Friday. Mr.. Deuprey is also expected to be in
court TO close for the defense.
About eighty persons, many OF them adults
received the sacrament Of confirmation at St
Mary's Catholic Church yesterday forenoon
Archbishop Riordan preached the sermon from
St. Pauls Epistle 10 the Ephesians, his theme
being The Christian Soldier"
The American Land and Title Register has
compiled statistics OF real estate transfers in
thirty-two large American cities for the month
of August, 1895. As compared with the CORE
spending month in 1894 the net increase
shows an average OF ID per cent for each city