The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-30
OAKLANDALAMEDA.
Engineers Must Slow Down ut
the Local Station.
Light Showers Of Rain-Total Registrations.
Damage Suit Threatened-Mcney
for an Assistant Pastor.

1he Alameda County Board of Supervisors
yesterday rejected the petition of J. W.
HartZel for an electric street-railroad fran
chise on the ground of its informality. A
resolution was adopted appointing Robert
4. Hughes TO make the annual examination
OF the books of the various county officers
Supervisor Martin was appointed special
committee with power TO act on petition of
a number of property-owners on the Red
wood Canyon and Moraga Valley road The
petitioners requested the board 20 haul 500
loads OF gravel on the road and they would
spread it at their own expense. Supervisor
Martin stated that the gravel is needed, and
if the road is not repaired it would be i'm
passable this winter.
The charge Of criminal libel against III.
\. Marquand made on the 31st OF last Octo-
Der for alleged defamation of c. II. Spear,
Town Clerk of Berkeley, in the Berkeley
Herald was dismissed yesterday by Judge
Gibson.
Light showers of rain fell yesterday, regis
tering ~ Of an inch, making 10 of an inch
for the season.
THE LOCOMOTIVES AND STEAMERS.
A large pair of shears and punch made at
Sacramento for the boiler department OF the
machine-shop at West Oakland have been
put III place Ill the new duulllbu ItCtHtiJ
built at the shops. They will be used pTin-
cipslly for locomotive and steamer work.
The shears and the punch are capable of
cutting plate iron an inch and half in
thickness and of four feet four inches in
depth. They have been constructed with a
new line of betting and shafting.
The registration of voters in Alameda
County up to yesterday afternoon was about
1860. 1t is believed that about 1900 are
entitled to registration, and that about 1000
to $500 are vet unregistered. The registra-
ton will close on the 18th proX.
The annexation suit of The People on
relation Of Edison Adams VS.. The City Of
Oakland was yesterday set for argument
before Judge Greene on November 9th
HE NOW THREATENS TO SUE.
Peter OLaughlin, who has completed
term of sixty days in the City jail on
charge of receiving stolen goods, threatens
to sue Mcmillan " Cox for. damages for
false Imprisonment He claims that he can
prove an abb, that he was al Port Costa on
April 20th, in the employ of the railroad
company, the date on which he was accused
OF obtaining the goods. He also claims that
he would not have been found guilty If his
attorney had appeared to defend him.
The Seventh-day Adventist camp-meeting
Will close with tO-days services. Elder j.
y. Loughboruugh, who has been President
of the California Conference for five years,
has been changed to District No. OF the
General Conference and preached his fare
well sermon last evening.
Z. Connally, one of the ,opum-smugglers
sent TO the Alameda County Jail by the
United States Distri Court, was discharged
yesterday by reason by expiration of term
If sentence.
j. G.. JENNINGS WILL.
The will of John q. Jennings was fled yes
terday for probate. The estate is valued at
so, 600, and Is devised to the six children and
grandchildren. requests are also made to
Bishop William lngraham Kip, the Ameri-
can Bible Society, the American Foreign
Missionary Society, and TO the American
Home Missionary Society. Stephen q. Nye
is nominated as executor and has applied
for letters testamentary.
John Gallagher was restored to capacity
yesterday. He was adjudged insane five
years ago and sent to the asylum, but dis
charged cured year later. The account of
Ned Gallagher, who was appointed guard |
I'm duIlag his iucapacity, was approved.
County Clerk B0aTdman is reported as
seriously i'll from blood poisoning, occa-
stoned by the removal Of a corn from one of
his teet at the Hamman baths some five or |
six weeks ago
ENGINEERS WILL SLOW DOWN.
Division Superintendent A. u. Wilder has
issued a notice to engineers of mainline
sra1aS c2iii Il 1871 recurring them tCeTr q
1own in passing the iwenty-third avenue
oral station TO not exceeding ten miles an
lour He states that the order IS still in
oTer, though some engineers have evidently
forgotten ii or are regarding 1t.
Two weeks ago Rev. DIR. Mclean gave
notice to his congregation that he would
IA ks up special collection to defray the ex-
psnse Of the new assistant pastor for the
Cyging year, and last Sunday morning the
sum of Sl234 was contributed for the pur-
Jose.
The divorce suit Of Annie vs. John Web
ster has been dismissed. They have been
married seventeen years and John has
promised to treat his wife better and she
has condoned his past cruelty.
RETURNED FROM MODESTO
L. ". Pierce, the United States prisoner
serving a term in the Alameda County jail
on account OF difficulties growing out of the
| money order department while he was Post
master at Turlock, Stauislaus County, was
| returned from Modesto yesterday by Sheriff
! r. b. Puryis Pierce was witness in
! case of a man charged with arson.
J The Geographic viii OF Frederick r. Cat
/ ton, late of the firm of Cation, Bell IL Co,
was filed for probate yesterday afternoon.
| The estate is valued at $500, and it is left
To the widow, Elizabeth Wheaton Cation.
! She renounces the eXecutorship and asks
| that her brother w. X. Wheaton. be APP
| pointed administrator with the VIII annexed.
The meeting of he Oakland Associated
| Charities last evening was well attended,
| and interesting reports were presented by
the officers. Rev. DR.. j. X. Mclean pre-
sided.