The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-11-03
ACROSS THE BAY.
A Very Peaceful Sunday in the
"City of Oaks"
Sermons Preached to Congregations Four
Churches Without Pastors-Fined for
Attending Dog-Fight.

The closing meeting Of the campaign at
the Oakland Theater this evening promises
to be very enthusiastic one. The Alliance
boys are making extensive preparations.
They will turn out in force, with uniform
and torch. to escort Congressman McKenna
and Morrow to the theater.
A suit has been filed against ii. L. Chap
man to recover $3.50 ON a promissory note
and foreclose mortgage on 243 acres ON
the road between Haywards and San Ra-
mon. The Union Savings Bank is the
plaintiff.
attended the interrupted dog-ight at Johnny
Makers, at the Stockyards, two weeks ago,
has pleaded guilty and Justice Shook fined
him $15. There are about twenty others
who we're arrested at the same time.
Valentine Dervin, living at 922 Third
street, was caught between the driving
wheel and floor of the steam dredger in the
estuary yesterday and held for half an hour
unable to get out. A search was made and
the engine stopped, when Dervin was taken
out more dead than alive. He was taken to
the Receiving Hospital and treated. After
ward he was removed to the Oakland Gen.
eral Hospital on Eighth street. He was
will recover in a few days.
DR.. II. C. Stanton of Albany, n. Y, con-
tinues to supply the pulpit of the First Pres
byterian Church. 1t is not known whom
the officers have in view. if anybody, for the
pastorate. The action of Rev. Dr. Coyle of
Chicago in refusing the unanimous call may
deter them acting hastily with reference to
any other clergyman. Many of the MEM
beers have not yet recovered from their dis
appointment at Dr. Coyle's refusal of the
call.
secretaries of United Presbyterian Boards
of Home Missions and Church Extension,
express themselves as favorable to their
boards assisting the new congregation of
their church in Oakland. DR.. Wallace will
probably recommend to the Board of Exten-
sion an advance of $4,000 for the purchase
of lot. and both may recommend that the
Oakland church be made one of the memo
rial churches for 1891. Two memorial
churches are built annually by the contribu-
tionS of the various congregations under the
General Assembly.
Pilgrim Congregational Church, East Oak
land, is yet without pastor. Rev. DR.. Nc
Mutt Of Indianapolis, Ind, and Rev. J. ID.
Eddy, returned missionary from Central
Africa, occupied the pulpit Yesterday.
There are now four churches in Oakland
without pastors, the First and the Prospect
Hill Presbyterian, the Pilgrim CoDgrega-
tonal and the First Free Baptist.
Rev. Philip Graft of the Pennsylvania Lu-
theran Synod conducted a service in conf
memoraton of the reform alton of Martin
Luther at California Hall, on Clay street.
An effort is being made by DR.. Graft to es-
tablish an English Evangelical Lutheran
Church in Oakland.
The work ON the First Unitarian Church
edifce at Fourteenth and Castro streets is
advancing rapidly, and hopes are enter
tanned that the rains may hold off until the
structure is enclosed. The subject of the
pastor, Rev. C.. w. Wendte, at Hamilton
Hall yesterday, was "A Modern Saint
Dnrothea l.. Dix"
Rev. DR.. Dille's subject at the First Meth
odist Episcopal Church last evening was
.Gnoa Men in PubIic Life"