The San Francisco call., 1897-05-31
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Fair and warmer to-day, with fresh winds
from the west.
Many graves were decorated yesterday. The
decoration was, however, not general
l. Grothwell, the pioneer real estate man OF
Stockton, is visiting friends in this City.
The final straw upon which hangs the life Of
Theodore Durrant Is writ of supersedeas.
The First Baptist Church celebrated the
eighteenth anniversary OF its Sunday-sehool
yesterday.
There was an ambitious scramble among the
divers at Sutro Baths yesterday for coin tossed
into the water.
DR.. E. H. jerks preached on the subject of
Memorial Day" at the First Presoy terrain
Church last night.
George Schultz defeated William Glinde-
mann in a tifty-sh handicap rifle match yes
terd6y at Shell Mound.
The independent Order OF Red Men held its
annual picnic and ri1e-shooting festival at
She'll Mound Park yesterday.
A good performance of LA Traviata' was
given al the Baldwin Theater last night by The
Italian Philharmonic Society.
Eintracht Bund held its annual convention
Yesterday afternoon, at which new oneers
were elected for the ensuing year.
Professor David Starr Jordan of Stanford
University will lecture before the socialists al
III Turk street next Wednesday evening
The British ship Matterhorn arrived in port
Yesterday and was placed in quarantine at
Angel Island, as she had a case OF smallpox on
the voyage.
Rev. J. George Gibson and Secretary. Lynch
ignore the charges of Attorney Montelth that
the pastors writing and that on the package
OF rings are the same.
Rev. w NJ. Reilly preached last night at ST.
Paurs Episcopal Church upon "The Joyous
ness OF Christs Victory over Death ana Inc
Sorrows OF Parting.
At Howard NJ. E. Church last evening Miss
Belle Kearney, State Organizer of the W. c. T.
O., delivered most interesting and brilliant
address on temperance.
BY special request OF many members of the
Grand Army the spring exhibition OF the Art
Association will De kept open to-day-Memo-
rial day-from to o'clock.
Several exciting handbalI games were
played in the San Francisco and Occidental
courts yes terday, the latter having been re-
opened under new management
There is little money being wagered on the
Slavin-Butler fight, the odds on the former
being held too high and the latter being COM
parauvely unknown on this coast
Rosie Prunty. an old woman, tried to alight
from a moving Suffer- street car near Van Ness
avenue yesterday and fell Her forehead was
bruised. she was taken 10 her home on M1nna
street, near Sixth.
Four crab-fshermen's smacks capsized off
the heads Yesterday Three men were pick
up by another fisherman and the tug Sea
Witch, while Life-saver Harry Hawken nearly
lost his life in rescutng another.
Joseph Leuiani, a gardener living on the San
Bruno road, was riding on an electric car OF
the Guerrero-street line yesterday when his
hat blew off. In jumping from the car to get
his hat he fell, and his skull WAS slightly frac-
tured by the fall. He taken TO the City
and County Hospital for treatment
The fourth annual tournament of the Cali
fornia Inanimate Target Association opened
at Alameda Junction yesterday and viii be
continued to-day. Mason, the Los Angeles
crack. won the coveted Allen cup, while c..
Merrill and Ralphs are tied for the God Dust
diamond medal, and Will shoot off to-day.
stockton and Los Angeles will also settle their
tie to-day for mrs and second place in the
team competition.