The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-22
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

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will remain so until Ma! To-
A++rsc+fva performances will be given In the
saversI theaters this evening.
D. G Hirst preached last night on the
law of life and the duty OF man.
The Rock-cod Fishing Club had an enjoyable
fishing trip on the bay yesterday.
PHOTOGRAPHERS and policemen attended EN-
manuel Baptist Church yesterday.
The Cross-country Club returned last even
ing from tramp in Marin County
A bicycle club has been organized in Red
wood City and new track is being built.
The Young Mob Hills defeated the sansome-
street Baseball Club yesterday by d score of IT
to 9.
The weather to-day viii be fair and probably
cooler. with Jog at night and fresh westerly
winds.
Rev. Alfred Williams Momene, the noted
English divine, is stopping in this ity tempo
TaTily
There was an unusually large crowd of
IlessUTe-Seekers in Golden Gate Park yes
terday.
h bow Ss.ns Hi'su win rare anu Os"u'''u'
DR.. Gibson attended Grace Methodist Church
last night and listened to a sermon on the
tragedy.
Police officers are guarding the Presbyterian
Saturday morning.
The handbau courts were crowded yesterday,
and several exciting and closely contested
games were played.
The Emmanuel Baptist congregation has de:
termined nothing about its future or thaV OF
the church building.
young woman riding astride was con-
spicuouS figure on the main drive IN Golden
Gate Park yesterday.
The Corinthian Yacht Club has made full
preparations for next Saturdays opening OF
the season at Tiburon.
Mrs Durrant displays considerable satistac-
ton over the finding OF blood-stalned shoe
belonging TO Pastor Gibson
A hack was seen standing. in front OF
Emmanuel Church at 10 o'clock on the night
Minnie Williams was murdered.
Mrs. Durrant has learned to keep her own
counsel and is interviewed by reporters now
only through crack OF her front door
Feeney and Linehan OF the Union Handball
Court are out with a challenge to play any
team on the coast for a valuable trophy.
The Rev Mahlon H. Wilson delivered stir
ring lecture on The Church and Social Re-
form before the Good Citizenship CLUB
General Dickinson thinks that public senti-
ment will come over to the side OF the accused
without any effort TO mold ii on the part OF the
defense.
Edward Fischer, cook, living at 81 Harrison
avenue, fell of train near Los Gatos yesterday
face badly cut.
Rev. Father Kirby has been appointed parish
priest OF ST. Agnes and Rev. Father Nyman
Will succeed the late Father Brady as superior
OF the Pauists.
Dr. Brown of the First Congregational
Church addressed a large audience on the
teachings of Dr.. Heron, whom he Is pleased to
call an anarchist.
Little May Kingsbury, 13-yesr-old niece OF
Alice Nielsen, and Elite Robinson, another 1T
T tie girl, prevented the kidnapping OF Tommy
Gavin last Friday.
John Howard and Frank Barlane, alias c. E.
Seymore, two Eastern cracksmen, were
booked at the City Prison yesterday on five
charges OF burglary.
Marksmen were not very numerous at the
Shell Mound range yesterday but despite this
fact there was some lively shooting done, and
some good scores made.
Captain Lees has returned from Los Angeles
ana spent an hour yesterday making himself
familiar with the scenes OF the murder OF
Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams.
The British steamer Chittagong will leave
Hongkong the 18th of May on her first Yoy-
age TO Victoria and Portland She viii be-the
freight boat OF the Canadian Pacific Steamship
line.
John Mcouiuan, aged 81 years, an ex-con-
vict, was arrested by Police Oficer Ellis on the
water front yesterday and charged with lar
ceny in stealing pair Of shoes and two cans OF
tomatoes,
Two footpads held'up John Cooney, a section
TWenty-fourth and Capp streets on Saturday
night, but were scared away before getting
any ptunder.
Rev. Dr. Eli McClish preached last evening
In Grace NJ. E. Cherch. His sermon was upon
the inscrutable ways OF providence, and before
the closing OF his address, he spoke OF the re-
cent Mission tragedy.
Elmer A. Wolfe has not explained the dis
crepGncies in his statements concerning his
actions on the night Minnie Williams was mur-
dered. He keeps himself IN strict secluslon al
the Guadalupe ranch.
The Garden Citys defeated the Potrero Mas
cots by score OF is to 2 yesterday. The teat
uTes OF the game were the battery WoTK OF NC,
Cornick and Busel and the heavy batting OF
Connolly and Johnson
William S. Ballard and E. A. Crennan
whose boat was overturned by squat on
Lime Point were rescued from death by John
Gormley Charles Wedde and w. T. and II
Koch yesterday forenoon
Rev T. L. Higgins of the First New Jerusalem
Church. on O'Farreu and Webster streets, de-
livered discourse in which he endeavored TO
make it appear that the doctrine OF ylcaEous
atonement leads TO crime,
The theory that footprints in the belfry OF
Emmanuel Baptist Church would be OF use to
the police has been abandoned, as the dust was
not sufficiently thick 10 outline footprint
well enough to furnish cleW.
To prove Theo Durrants good character fe-
male member OF Emmanuel Church Will testify
thathe once saved an mex erenced girl in that
congregation from ruin at the hands OF an IN
scrupulous youth who attended that church.
Crowds Of people still flock in front of En-
manuel Baptist Church, though no one can
gain any knowledge whatsoever OF the terrible
crime committed therein by simply gazing
from the outside with feeling OF morbid
curiosity.
Chief OF Police Crowley still retains the
blood-stained shoe belonging to Rev. DR.. Glib
son, which was found week ago in the pas
tors study. He claims that no evidence of i'm
portance has been learned from an examina-
ton of the shoe.
The American bark Melrose recently shipped
five union sailors at Esquimalt who at the
sailing OF the ship bound for Mexico, refused
to go in her. The captain carried four of them
to sea in irons. The other jumped the vessel
after receiving h is advance.
There was a small blaze in little cottage on
Mission street, near Fifteenth, at o'clock last
evening, caused by the upsetting OF a coal-oil
lamp. An alarm was sounded from box 14S,
but before the hremen arrived the fire was out.
The damage was not over $50.
The strict iniunctions of Durrant's attorneys
have closed nearly every source of information
from which any evidence concerning the pris-
oner could be learned. From now on nearly
all the evidence gained by both sides of the
case will be reserved for the trial
Alexander Il. Burton, son of ex-Supervisol
Charles II. Burton, was arrested on Saturday