The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-21
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Chrvsanthemums as big as head OF lettuce
are an attraction at the Park.
Ans annex is to be built TO the museum in
Golden Gate Park for additional exhibits
Eighty men and teams are at work grading
the Site on which the affiliated college is to be
built
The Lake County cricket team was defeated
BY the Pacifcs yesterday at Alameda by seven
wickets
San Francisco defeated Los Angeles in the
baseball game at Central Park yesterday; score,
Is to 10.
The British ship Clan Robertson, which
sailed from Liverpool May %, arrived in port
yesterday.
Minnie Lawrence was arrested Yesterday in
Stockton for stealing $50 from w. A Tubby
last september
A new wharf for the accommodation of large
vessels will be built at the quarantine station
at Angel Island.
Occasional light showers" are prophesied
for to-day by the official weather forecaster,
W. II. Harmon
The handball courts were crowded yesterday
and several exciting and closely contested
games were played.
An old Californian will give the Park Mu-
scum collection OF oil paintings when there
is room TO hang the pictures.
At the last general shoot of the season by the
California Club at Schuetzen Park yesterday
Philo JacOby won the diamond medal.
The National Labor Army has been growing
in numbers on this coast, though it has had 8
difference with the local Trades Council.
The United States Fish Commission steamer
AIbatross, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Drake ar
rived from the north yesterday morning.
Young rowdies broke the jaw of George P.
Wilson, an old sailor living at 32S Spear street,
yesterday by hurting stone al his head.
Several very good scores were made by the
rihemen at the Shell Mound range yesterday,
although the light was a times poor and very
unsteady.
Announcement is made of the fall term of
university extension lectures to be delivered
this season under the auspices of the Univer-
sity OF California.
The heirs of the late Commodore Macdon-
ough have decided to offer trophy valued at
$500 TO be competed for by yachts of thirty
five feet and over.
Samuel Porter, who accidentally shot himselt
while hunting on the South San Francisco
marshes last Thursday, died in the Recei wing
Hospital last evening.
Captain Whitman has introduced several i'm.
portant reforms in his division OF the Police
Department, with view to making it second
10 none on the continent.
The Gaelic football match between the En-
NETS and san Franciscos, which was to have
taken place on the recreation grounds, Golden
Gate Park, yesterday afternoon, had to be post
poned owing 10 the rain.
Eddie Shea, a lad who recently escaped from
the Boys and Girls AidkSociety, was arrested
last evening sleeping in a box on Broadway
and Sansome street by Officer Boyd. He will
be sent back TO the home.
The League of the Cross Cadets of Mission
Dolores parish had a rally at y. S. q. w. Hall
Seven teeuth street yesterday afternoon at
which Esther Organ talked on Temperance"
and Nicholas Denver won the prize essay con-
test.
The prosecution in the Durrant case intends
TO put g colored bootblack called "Budd'
Wilson on the stand to show that Durrant and
King were in the habit OF taking young girls
into Emmanuel Church. King contradicts
Wilson'S story.
The fire alarm turned in at A 81 yesterday
afternoon from box 395 was for a fire in the
twO-stOry frame dwelling of DR.. Strickland at
15 A and Belyedere street The blaze was
caused by burning SCOT falling on the roof
from defective fue. The loss was nominal.