The morning call., 1891-07-04
ACROSS THE BAY.
Oakland Will Have No Celebra.
ton of the Day.
Comforting the Black veil-Federated Trades
Committees joaquin Miller Sued
Family Mired in the Mud.

There will be no celebration or parade
to-day in Oakland. but the members of the
Grand Army posts, Ladies' Relief Corps,
Ladies of the Grand Army and Sons of
Veterans will celebrate at Laundry Farm.
The Gentlemen Drivers Association will
have programme of races among the road
STEERS OF the members at the Oakland Trot-
ting Park. Fireworks will be discharged
in the evening at Market-street Station and
at 1ubbs Hotel. The stores will generally
be closed.
Emile Mercier reports that the house at
the corner of Eighth and Chester streets
was entered by burglars and S160 worth of
jewelry stolen.
The new manual Of the Alameda County
Board OF Education has been issued for the
benefit Of teachers in the couny.
THE BLACK VEIL CONFERRED.
AT Sacred Heart Convent on Thursday,
Archbishop Riprdan conferred the black
veil on Misses Charlotte Pouiter, Ellen
Boyle, Christine ONeill and Maggie Kerhes.
A large number of friends we're present and
flowers ab0unded in the auditorium. Rev.
Thomas insolvency of ST. Francis de Sales
Church ofciated as celebrant of the mass
that followed. His Grace, the Archbishop.
delivered an eloquent address to the new
Murray were given the white veil, and
candidate, Miss n. Hanrahan, was given
the cape and robe of pOstulant
Key Frank Bell Murch, the young minis
ter who has been appointed by the Board
OF Home Missions of the United Presby-
terrain Church to take charge of the congre-
CATION OF this city, will arrive with his wife
and children this forenoon.
The second band concert in City Hall Park
was not SO largely attended last evening on
Arnnnnt nF hn ion hpi nj md thn
approach OF to-day's holiday.
FEDERATED TRADES.
The Alameda County Federated Trades
has referred the controversy between the
Oakland Typographical Union and the En-
quirer over the use Of stereotyped plate-mat-
ter TO the Executive Committee for inyeSti-
CATION. The following new committees
have been appointed: observation-disclosures.
Soule, Finney, Hough, Orr, Wayne Miles
and Couch. observation-disclosures. Kaufman,
Cole, Thurman. Hough, Finnigan Eand
Lewis.
Quite rumpus has been made over the
refusal OF a. G. Dietz to put down cement
or poultice pavements in front of his
theater property on Twelfth street He
asked for and received permission yesterday
to put down the poultice by private contract.
Miss Marietta Kies, AN. Ph.D., has
resigned her position at Mount HoyOke to
accept the position of instructor in mental
and moral philosophy at Mills College.
SUIT AGAINST TIE POET.
o. c. Logan yesterday sued C. H. Miller,
the Poet of the Slerras," to compel him to
pay back S525, which he says he paid to
Joaquin for three acres of ground at East
Thirtieth and Commerce streets. He wants
the contract to purchase which he signed
rescinded
The old brick building on Seventh street,
near Pine, fol nerly headquarters for the
track-master o the Southern Pacific Com
pany, but lately used as a mandatory of
fireworks, was Quilted by fire on Thursday
evening. The loss will be about $1,000
The will of Louis George Kohler was filed
for probate yesterday by the widow, who
applied for letters testamentary. The
estate is valued at SIG, 900, and is devised to
her.