The San Francisco call., 1897-07-19
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

The signal corps of the Third Brigade will
go into camp at Summit
Cloudy Monday in the morning.--A. G. Nc
Adle, local forecast official.
The naval militia Will soon elect an execu-
tive ana navigating officer
The Union Printers Mutual Aid Society met
ana elected officers yesterday.
The Fifth Regiment Infantry, n. G. c., has
gone into camp at Santa Cruz.
Fort Mason. where Brigadier- General Shafter
Is to reside, is being greatly improved.
The schooner Martha w. Tuft, which It was
feared was lost, arrived in port yesterday.
= smokeless powder is used at the target prac-
tice by the regulars at the Preside range.
A trisl by court-martial a the Presidio shows
desertion from the army in time OF pesce Is
punished.
VIII C. Bailey addressed the Theosophical
Society at Native Sons Hall last night on the
subject OF worship.
The eleventh annual picnic of the Journey
men Butchers Association was held yester day
at She'll Mound Park.
Yesterdays cricket game between the Bo-
hemtans and Pacifcs resulted In the former S
favor by six wickets.
Raymond Robbins delivered a lecture on
'Three Plans of Reform" last evening before
the Sing tax Society.
A convention echo meeting at Central Meth
odist Church last night drew throngs OF En-
deavorers to the services.
The sanitary corps OF the First Regiment, n.
G. c., has been furnished quarters in the regi-
mental armory on Page street.
All of the socialist organizations in this City
viii hold mass meeting in Metropolitan Tenn
pie on the night OF Monday, August2.
James Black, q Merchants Exchange boat
man, was nearly drowned last Saturday while
trying to board the steamer Point Arena.
A citizens mass-meeting will be held to-
5ohf forf al IIo1
invite President Mckinley TO visit California.
There was but little rife-shooting done on
the Shell Mound rife range yesterday. Only
three military companies shot their mon thly
records
The funeral services of John J. o. B Brien will
be held to-day at 10 A. NJ. in St Marys Cathe-
dral, corner OF OFarren street and Van Ness
avenue.
An evangelistic mass-meeting was held in
Scottish Hall Yesterday. to devise ways and
means for carrying on the WORK OF evangelical
ton in this City.
Twenty four men OF the Sixth Regiment OF
Infantry, Third Brigade, who failed TO parade
on the 9th and neglected drill, have been cited
before court-m artlaL
The handball courts were crowded yester-
day, and at the San Francisco court T. F..
Bonnet and A. Hampton defeated P. I. Don
nelly, the amateur champion, and E. Maioney.
Edward Donohue, a bookkeerper, living at
1860 Mission street. was stabbed in the left
chest with a hatptn by q woman Saturday
night, ana the point of the pin penetrated his
lung.
4 Chinese named Yung Chin was booked at
the Harbor Police station yesterday on q
charge OF assault to murder, he having during
a quarrel struck another countryman of his
on the head with an iron bar.
E A. Bozio of the Imperial Cycling Club
lowered the 20-mile road record yesterday TO
so min. 10 sec. over the officially surveyed
course of the California Associated Cycling
Clubs around the San Leandro triangle.
BY the capsizing of the sloop Comfort, OF
Fishermen's wharf yesterday, Allen Attridge
IN the employ OF the Harbor Commission let
his death in the waters of the bay Frank
More, molder, was picked up unconscious.
A mass-meeting, called TO enlist sympathy
in the cause of the Russian Jewish colon is ts
who arrived recently from Pennsylvania and
New Jersey to settle upon Government land in
this State, was neld yesterday afternoon at
B'nai Birth Hall.
At largely attended theosophical meeting
at the Academy OF Sciences last light the Rev.
J. S. David, the Swedenborgian pastor de-
livered a lecture on the subject of "The
Garden of Eden" In reply 10 a query as to
whether there were any persons living who
were conscious of life in previous lncarna-
lions, DR.. Anderson, the president replied
that there we're thousands, and many were
right. here in San Francisco. Some of these
he said, would not confess the knowledge of a
previous lie for feFr of being thought crazy
Or