The morning call., 1890-07-07
ACROSS THE BAY.
Oakland to Decide Whether She
Will Issue Bonds.
The Journeymen Plasterers Will Probably
Sand by the Carpenters-Ths Society
Of Alameda Elects Officers.

The preliminary ordinance for the issu-
ance of bonds for municipal improvements
should come up for final passage in the City
Council this evening" and it is anticipated
that there will be considerable argument.
1t viii require two-thirds, OF nine members
of the council, to pass it, and order the
election.
a meeting of Live Oak Lodge Of Jour
neymen Plasterers of Oakland is called for
this evening. 1t is understood that the
question of standing by the Carpenters
Union in its difficulty with the contractors
and builders will be discussed. 1t is said
there are members of the Plasterers' Union
who are in favor of refusing to work on
any buildings where non-union carpenters
are employed.
The annual meeting of the Society of
Alameda, Contra Costa and adjoining
counties was held in the City Council
Chamber Saturday event ng. The Illness of
Hon. J. NJ. Burlington and Rev. DR.. o. G.
Wheeler was reported. The following off,
GERS were elected for the ensuing year:
President, Colonel Joseph Stewart; Vice
Presidents-D. w. c. Gaskill and G. II.
Fagg, of Oakland, a. 3. Montross Of Irv-
ipgton and Augustus Moore of Sunol; Sec
rotary, e. A. Sherman; Treasurer, Newton
Sewell; Marshal, John l.. Bromley; Ex-
ecutive Commlttee-William Winnie, A. A.
Williamson, Mrs. f. Frink, Lorenzo Dris-
coll, Erastus Kelsey. Retiring President
William L. Gibbs made an address.
THE WORLDS FAIR.
A meeting of the ladies of oakland will
be held at Grand Army Hall this afternoon
to take steps to form an organization for
the purpose of assisting in having a proper
representation of the products and indus
tries of Alameda County at the Worlds
Fair in 1892.
A verdict of accidental drowning was
rendered by the Coroner's jury in the case
OF the boys, John aud Josephus Peterson,
who were drowned in the estuary at East
Oakland while bathing.
Ferdinand Sach, an employe in Broad
way restaurant, missed his footing yes
terday and fell into the cellar, a distance of
about fifteen feet, and was badly bruised.
lie is at the Oakland Receiving Hospital
Antoine Courant, an old resident of Oak
land, died at his residence on Saturday.
lie was 70 years of age.
The annual camp-meeting of the Spirit
ualiSts Will open at the grove near Fruit
vale Station on the 2lst inst.
IN THE CHURCHES.
Professor George OF the University OF the
Pacific, San jose, occupied the pulpit Of the
First Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. DR..
Ollie having not yet returned from the
East. AT the Brooklyn Presbyterian
Church last evening Rev. DR.. Chapman
preached a sermon referring to our country
aud State. Brooklyn parl0rs, n. S. G. W.,
attended in a body. At the Twentieth
street Baptist Church the subject of Rev.
George Il. Rieman was columbus, 1882 :;
America, 1890" Rev. S. Goodenough OF
the First Universalist Church took for his
text Say among the nations: the Lord
reigneth." Rev. DR.. NJ. NJ. Gibson of San
Francisco preached at the First United
Presbyterian Church on Harrison street
yesterday morning on 1.-The Christian Vic
tory" and in the evening Rev. J. c. Hanna
on Love and Patience" "That Bad Boys
Brother" was the title of chldren's ser
monette by Rev. George ii. Merrill at the
Market-street Congregational Church. Rev.
G. w. Henning, blind preacher from
Kansas, occupied the pulpit of the Chester
street Methodist Church, West Oakland,
yesterday and preached two interesting
sermons. AT the Tenth-avenue Baptist
Church the subject of Rev. Frank Dxon's
sermon was THE Authority of Public
Opinion" Rev. c. T.. Weitzel of Santa
Barbara occupied the pulpit of the First
Congregational Church yesterday, the pas
tor Rev. DR.. Mclean, being still at the
East.