The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-24
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF,


the theaters tonight.
Grand Marshal Forster has made ont his list
OF aids for the Fourth.
The Scandinavians held an ENJOYABLE picnic
al Shell Mound yesterday.
The weekly summary of news of the fraternal
orders appears in this issue.
The Gaelic football clubs are alresdy making
ready Tor the coming contest.
ladies' night viii be held at the Olympic
Cluo ON the evening of July 16.
Ihere was an interesting swimming exhibit
tlon at the sutro baths yesterday.
Mayor Sutro announces that he will appoint
Electlon commissioners on July /.
Smith o'Brien won the trophy at the Olympic
NluDs tennis tournament yesterday.
The local oarsmen have elected the crewr for
she fourth OF July regatta at Stockton.
The Olympic Ball Club will meet the Pacifics
On the diamond in Vallejo next Sunday.
Local items, bright and brief, can be found on
thls page OF the CALL every morning.
The annual picnic of the Californ Ia Associ-
eted Cycling clubs was held at Niles Yesterday
Rev. Anna Shaw and Miss Anthony will make
addresses at Metropolitan Temple on Thursday
night.
wants the bloomer girl represented in the
parade.
Business in real estate was quiet last week.
A full review of the weeks doings appears in
this issue.
Two Y. NJ. C. A. students have tramped here
from Los Angeles accompanied by a dog and a
rooster.
Annual memorial exercises under the aus.
pieces OF the 1. o. o. f. were held in this City
yesterday.
Basin yesterday was won by ]. Cousens' junk
sloop Mikado.
Companies B, C and of the Naval Battalion
Will be Inspected by Lieutenant-Colonel Jarvis
on Wednesday next
Henry Varley, the evangelist, in an address
yesterday, said that the return OF Christ to the
earth is near at hand.
Society is enjoying itself at the springs.
nevertheless, q number OF interesting events
On town are reported.
The contract has been let for Father O'Con-
nells new parochial home at st. Teresa's
Church on the Potrero.
The regalia committee for the Fourth of July
has selected the sashes and badges to be worn
by the officers of the day.
Time tables of the railroad companies are
published free of charge in the CALL for the ac-
commodation of readers.
Fair weather, slightly warmer, with fresh
Winds is the forecast of the Weather Bureau
for to-day in San Francisco.
w: Greer Harrison is writing a novel upon
local Bohemia. He intends to publish real
names and TO idealize facts.
The olympics returned from Vallejo yester-
day, where they had defeated the local team
al baseball by d score OF 2 to l.
In his address last evening Elder Capp Of the
recognized Mormon church placed the num-
Der OF that organization at 10000.
Rev. DR.. C. o. Brown spoke last night in the
Congregational church of Civic federation
and the danger to American liberty.
The Columbia Pistol and Rife Club held a
revolver contest at Shell Mound YESTERDAY for
monthly medals and other honors.
The police have given up the attempt to solve
the mystery of the Newman Il Levinson alleged
attempted robbery on Saturday night.
A number of monthly medal competitions
with rife and revolver were held at Shell
Mound Park, near Berkeley, yesterday.
Two American ships have an interesting
race in which remarkable sailing time was
made, between this port and Honolulu.
Ural S. Hughes and Louis L. Beers, Berkeley
university students, arrived in this City yester-
day, having tramped from Los Angeles.
Five thousand people witnessed the aquatic
exhibition at sntro Baths yesterday. 1t was
an ideal day for diving and swimming.
J.C.Clapp,an elder of the recognized Mormon
Church, is about to go north 10 take charge OF
the missions in Oregon and Washington.
Not only will California grow tobacco, but
hashish, the opium of Arabia, and it is being
raised near Stockton for local consumption.
The members of the olympic Club are consid-
ering the feasibility OF purchasing barges for
their oarsmen, who won the race last Sunday.
The memory of Sadi Carnot, the late French
President, was honored at the church of Notre
Dame des Victories yesterday with special
services.
of Sydney Saturday tells of the miserable mis-
management on board the Pacific Mail Com
pany's steamers
The funeral services over the late Judge E.
o. Crosby were held yesterday in Pioneer Hall.
The remains were consigned TO the crematory
at Cypress Lawn.
The scandinavian Society and several hun
dred OF its friends spent Yesterday in the pic
to inn at al Qff aj
was quite successful.
Ata golden Jubilee rendered Father Varsi
Yesterday at st. Ignatius Church, the aged
priest was presented with an engrossed address
and check for $1,000.
Mrs Annie McCoubrey, aged so, and ma.
tive of Canada, was found dead in bed at her
home. 313 Vallejo street, yesterday morning
Cause OF death unknown.
James Barbee of Vallejo came TO the City on
Saturday with George Grant to get married
and Yesterday he had her arrested on the
charge of grand larceny.
Impressive anniversary services in memory of
the late French President, sadi Carnot, were
held yesterday in the church OF Notre Dame
des victories on Bush street.
Green Majors. Mrs. Eliza Upper Wilkes and
Mrs. Anna F. Smith discussed Competition"
at the socialists labor meeting, in the Metro
politan Temple, last evening.
Fifty-four of the boys of the League of the
Cross took the pledge of abstinence from intox-
icants until their minority during the League
of the Cross rally yesterday afternoon.
The latest hero is Andrew McKinstry, a
sailor with a claim against the Chilean Gov
ernment He saved Mrs. He from death bv
burning at her residence in the Mission
Elder ]. G. Clapp spoke at Red Mems Hall
last evening upon the difference between the
Mormon church in Utah and the Reorganized
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
A number OF Arabs and Turks near Stockton
are raising hemp and making hashish, the Sc
ductive drug of the Orient S. A. Nahon, to-
m cfa art acir, iIar
try soon.
Elder Henry Tanner OF the Church of Christ
of Latter-day Saints delivered an address last
evening in Pythian Hall, in which he predict
ed the second coming of Christ at no very dis
tant date.
An alarm from box 237 about IL O'Clock last
night called the department to a fire at ia
Church street two-story building, occupied
by H. Munger, was damaged TO the amount of
$500. Cause unknown.
John J. Eagan, a 7O-year-old bootblack, wan
dered away from the Almshouse and died May
80, His headless body was discovered on the
18th inst. Yesterday skull supposed TO be
the remains of the head was found.
william Flynn, formerly a saloon-keeper on
ID street, near the park, was attacked by hang