The San Francisco call., 1896-07-06
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Sutro Baths yesterday.
"Cloudy weather Monday; probably fog in
the morning. Local Forecast Official.
A committee will meet this afternoon to con-
slider designs for Golden GAZE carnival badge.
Several exciting ana closely contested game.
were played in the handban courts yesterdays
Yesterday another baby elk and baby
buffalo appeared in the Zoo in Golden Gate
1 SIX.
There are large number of aspirants for the
position OF maior-general in the National
Guard.
Professor G. F. Kunz denies having depre-
Gated the chrysophrase found in Tulare
County.
The friends of the late George wallenrod are
still at loss to understand why he committed
suicide.
William D. Flynn of this City mas been nomi-
mated cadet at West Point by Hon. James G.
Mcguire
Rev. W. W. Case preached last evening at
Howard Methodist Church on sour Courts IN
Disgrace
Henry Dixon, morphine "hend," attempted
to commit suicide in a cell in the City Prison
yesterday.
James Dustin, well-known driver of trotting
horses, was taken home very i'll from the Ingle-
side Track.
"Crispiua Ia Comare,' an Italian opera,
was sung last night at the Standard Theater
by local performers.
A new branch, number 5, of the Free Public
Library has been eSta aDilSheQ at 1ZO hdrFlsOu
street, corner OF R1tch.
Governor Budd has long list OF applicants
tor the vacant major-generalship OF the Ma
tional Guard of this State.
Adiutant-General Barrett is said to favor the
promotionof General Warfeld to the position
OF malor-general OF the y. q. G.
Forty-ffth Assembly District Republican
Club has reorganized with an increased men,
Dership for the coming campaign.
Captain Benjamin K. Roberts, Fifth Ar
tillery, is commanding the post at the Presidio
in the absence OF General Graham.
The lepers at the Pesthouse are getting along
nicely with the Goto remedy The blood of q
dog once came near being specific.
The only work in Golden Gate Park being
done at this time is the building of the bicycle
road and the filling up OF the Park annex
Policemen Eskew and Dougherty arrested
Patrick Donovan and Thomas McGrath for a
double burglary early yesterday morning.
Sunday visitors were received aboard of the
Charleston and Comanche yesterday, both
vessels being prepared tor their reception.
Eight Baldwin bellboys waited in vain
Saturday night to catch their leader, who lost
his nerve and did not quit work with them.
Colonel Alexander G. Hawes has returned to
San Francisco after a years sojourn in Lon
Elder Henry S. Tanner OF the California Nor
mon Mission spoke last evening at Pythian
Castle upon the text, ''Seek First the King
dom of God"
Late aQVlceS from Japan state GnaJ the UnlIeQ
States flagship Olympia recently had speed
of four hours, making an average of 204
knots an hour.
Rev. DR.. S. G. Mcfarland, a resident of Siam
for thirty-siX years. founder of a school and
author of Siamese textbooks, has come here in
search OF health.
The State central committee of the Populist
party at meeting last saturday passed resolu-
tions against every ything like fusion with the
Democratic party.
The Salvation Army Woman's Shelter, So
Stevenson street, was almost totally destroyed
by fire yesterday afternoon and over a score o
women are left homeless.
The Board of Pension Commissioners viii
meet this morning to consider the advisabilit.
OF pensioning off a number of prominent mem
bers OF the police department.
The cricket-match played at San Jose yester
day between the Garden City eleven and ,
team from the Pacific Club resulted in vic
tory for the latter by 121 runs.
The Pacific Mail steamship City of Pekin,
arrived early yesterday morning from tn
Orient with twenty-eight cabin and 112 Chi
nese passengers in the steerage.
The 0aklands defeated the San Joses in
ball game at Folsom-street grounds yesterda!
by score of IL TO 2. The Imperials beat the
Paciics at Presidio Park, 8 to z.
''The A. P. A. Sold Out'' was the subject of ar
interesting lecture delivered by DR.. George II
Derrick before the GOOD Citizenship meeting a
Metropolitan Temple yesterday.
s. Hayakawa, the private secretary of thu
esling statement of the national debt anC
future policy OF his island country
Angel Island will be abandoned as a militar.
post and the Marine Hospital placed there
the Secretary OF War and the Secretary Of th'
Treasury adopt plans recommended.
The parishioners of St. Francis Church held
Fourth of July. picnic at Plittsville Park
Fruityale, Saturday. There were athletic
games, music and patriotic exercises.
Mrs. Allie Gender, a widow who roomed a
23S Sixth street. is in padded cell at the Re
ceiving Hospital charged with insanity, but
the doctors say she appears perfectly rational
The German ship Christine arrived yester-
day from Sidney. Last Friday she came near
going ashore forty miles north OF Point Reyes
in dense fog, but was warned by the steamer
Mineola.
The Socialist party intends to fight to the
bitter end the case of William Cortley, who
was arrested on Seventh street last Thursday
night while conducting an open-air socialist
meeting.
Mrs. James W. Manning, whose little son
Watson was killed by a Mission-street trolley
car Saturday night threatens to kill the mo-
torman and to begin suit for damages against
the company.
Virgtlio Lucazzi, boy aged years, was
badly burned about the face and limbs by the
explosion OF gunpoWder, which he had placed
IN beer bottle Tor the purpose of celebrating
the Fourth of July.
The ambitious little brown men who cut
such swell figure in the National celebration
on Saturday last are not satisfied with the
laurels earned on that OCCASION They will en-
oeaVor 10 JOIN the National Guard of Cali
fornia.
The feast of ST. Peter was celebrated with
impressive services az ST. Peters Church yes
terday. Rev. 7. G. Yorke preached a sermon
in which he pointed out the necessity of an
authoritative head IN spiritual as well as in
civil and temporal matters.
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