The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-22
OAkLAND-ALAMEDA.
Investigation of the Charges
Against Rev. MIR. Liljegren.
Stenographers After Colvin's Place-Golden
Gate Fair-Another Ferry-slip-Da
Hughes Fair Promises.

Inc charges of Mrs. Liljegren against her
husband, the Rev. F. U. Liljegren, pastor of
the swedish Methodist Episcopal Church,
are being investigated at his request. The
Presiding Elder, Rev. Robert Bentley,
u. u, appointed a committee consisting of
Rey Dr. Heacock of East Oakland, Rev.
George Larkin, retired preacher residing
In THIS city, Rev. 6. r. Stanley of West
Berkeley and Rev. L. II. Woodward of
berkeley. The Rev. A. Lemsau of the
German Methodist Church is clerk of the
committee. Rev. Mr. Andrews of the Swe-
DISH Church of San Francisco was appointed
TO act as counsel for the church and Rev.
Mr.. Anderson of the Danish Church of San
FRANCISCO to represent the defendant. The
proceedings are behind closed doors. The
committee met on Tuesday afternoon and
organized. At the evening session Rev. j.
Ii. Wythe, MD. d. D., testified, also Mrs.
LHlegren. The proceeding progressed very
slowly, as all testimony was transcribed in
long hand. The investigation was pro-
ceeded with yesterday with closed doors.
1t IS said that S. Sandholdt, who at the in
stance of Liljegren played the detective, is
~ ing at deaths door and has made state
ment IN substance that he could not die
with the burden upon his conscience of
having done the woman a wrong, and that
he believes that she was innocent of wrong
intent and was led into an appearance of
evil by him at the instigation Of her hus-
band. 1t is also rumored that smoldering
scandal In his record in Texas is being
brought up at this time. Mr.. Frey and
several other witnesses have been sum-
moned. Mrs. Lljegren stated her grievan-
ces 10 the committee. 1t is stated that the
/. trial takes the form of a judicial examin-
atlnn with cross-eXamnation of witnesses.
Progress Is not rapid, and the examination
Will not he over until this afternoon. A re-
port may be expected on Monday. The
committee holds three sessions day
morning, afternoon and evening. The find
lngs OF the committee are not final and are
subject TO review by the conference, to which
the committee will report. In the event
that the testimony is such that the COM
mittee deems it advisable it may suspend
the party tried from preaching until the
matter IS finally adjudicated by the confer
ence. 1t will be remembered that similar
commission investigated the charges against
KeY. DR.. I. Z. StrettOn and eXOnerated him.
THE CoLvIN HOMICIDE.
The testimony in the ease of John G.
Howell in the Police Court at the prelm-
mary examination has been filed in the Of
flee of the County Clerk, and there is no
reason why the information should not be
filed Immediately by the District Attorneys
ONCE, though 1t was intlmated that it would
be held over until after September 1st that
It NAV be in Judge Greene's department.
The District Attorneys office, however,
does not intimate that any delay will be
made IN filing the information. The exam
ination of Perrie II. Maxwell was post
poned in the Police Court yesterday until
September 1st on account OF the illness of
Court Commissioner III. s. Foote, at whose
bedside was w. w. Foote of counsel for
the defense. There was a large attend
ance in the lobby, which was disappointed,
as sensational developmentS were expected.
A boy named Vivian Jones was struck On
Thu rSday night by an engine at the Six
teenth- street depot. He was brought to the
Receiving Hospital and was unconscious
nearly all night Yesterday forenoon he
recovered consciousness. He had slight
conclusion OF the brain.
A. Marsh, the proprietor Of the hotel at
Dublin. whose dog bit ii. X. James, has
filed his answer denying that his dog is
vicious, and stating that James was teasing
the dog when 1t bit him on the hand.
AFTER COLUMNS PLACE.
There were three shorthand reporters in
the Police Court yesterday to take the testl-
mony In the Maxwell examination. Colyin,
the deceased stenOgrapher, killed by
Howell, was the official stenographer, and
the three are after his place. John Allen
reported the Howell examination. He is
Ouo OL Iu6 CaDuludItS IOT LHD vacancy.
which is filed by the Police Judge. 1t is
said that Judge Ogden fayors Allen. but
the other court officers are understood to
favor young man named ThwottS. MIR.
Darneal has done considerable work in the
Superior Court, and is also a candidate.
special school election will be held here
to-day in the Union School district in the
town of San Leandro for n tax to raise
5000 TO build a new school and repair the
old one. The election will be held under
the new law, with the ballots prepared
through the County Clerks office.
The Oakland Consolidated Street Railway
Company has purchased a lot, 115x19O, at
West Seventeenth and Wood streets, West
Oakland, for site for the cross-town cleo
trio line. The company is the owner Of the
Oakland and Berkeley Rapid Transit line.
GOLDEN GATE FAIR.
Active preparations are being made for
the annual fair of the Golden Gate Fair As
ISOLATION, which will open in Oakland Trot-
ting Park on Monday, August 3lst, continu-
ing through the week Particular attention
has been given to the speed programme
this year, and 1t is expected that the stock
exhibition will also be better than usual.
1t is said that another ferry slip will be
constructed by the railroad company at the
foot OF Peralta street to accommodate an
other freight steamer. When the big
dredger which has been engaged on the
tidal canal has finished the contract it is
engaged on it will be employed in dredging
the proposed slip, and then the piles'will be
driven.
The case of the defense In the suit of Miss
Nichols for S25, 0G0 damages from theSOuth-
ern Pacific Company was commenced yes
terday. 1t was very warm in the court
room, however, and an adjournment was
taken early in the afternoon until Tuesday
morning.
About 400 feet of brick wall twenty feet
high Is being built about the jail-yard.
WILL PAY DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR
David Hughes, the clerk of the Southern
Pacific Freight Department, recently dis
charged, and who has recently gone in to in
solyency, was seen in Oakland yesterday
and said he had no intention of going to
Denver. He says that his assets may not
quite pay dollar for dollar, but he thinks
they Will almost do so. He does not blame
Mr.. Smurr for enforcing the rules of the
company. He IS making his headquarters
at Tubbs' Hotel
Edward }. Rodgers, the attorney, has re-
covered Judgment for $40 each against Gus
Brown and Frank Wilmer for appearing in
the Police Court for John Doe and Richard
Roe, with his arms full of authorities on
fast driving, to find that no such parties had
been arrested for any such oifense. He says
he Will not collect the judgment.
Mrs. Bacon yesterday affirmed that Mr..
Townsend, the brakeman, is her half
brother, and denies all the stories circulated,
as she says, by slanderous gossips. She will
return shortly with her daughter to her hus-
band in the East, the time of her visit having
almost expired.
Caroline NJ. Ingram, a magnetic healer,
has sued her husband, Adam j., carpen-
ter. Tor divorce, on the ground of his ex-
treme cruelty. They were married in 1877
and have no children.
The thermometer rose to 800 in the SHADE
IN Oakland Yesterday.
Alameda.