The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-11-11
LOCALS IN BRIEF.

| A Gospel mission, with meetings every night
| except Monday, is to be held at 70S Grant
avenue, commencing tonight.
Lies Dragons de Villars" will be given by the
| French Dramatic and Opera Company at the
| Standard Tbeater tomorrow evening.
The leiter-carriers will meet In Judge Da in
] gertield's courtroom next Friday 10 arrange for
| The postal service at the Midwnter Exposition.
Jacob Underhill. the pioneer hardware mer-
! chant and later an insurance broker, died yes
terday at his residence, 613 Eddy street. He
| was 20 years OF age.
| "The Customs of Ancient Rome" will be the
| title of an illustrated lecture by Charles III.
| Steele before the Camera Club in Metropolitan
| Hall on Friday evening next.
The Business Mems Democratic Association
will enjoy trip TO Mare Island on the tug
Fearless to-day. The start will be made from
the Washington wharf at l p. NJ.
The audience. room of the Emmanuel Baptist
Church on Bartlett street. between Twenty
second and Twepty-third, Will be reopened at 3
O'Clock tomorrow with special services.
Suits for divorce have been filed by James
Cairns against Kate Cairns. Eugene NJ. Vignos
against Jean VIgnOs "a second suit. q. B. Scott
against F. T. Scott, aud Julia S. OBrien against
Michael OBrien.
.'The Columbian Exposition Through the
Camera" is TO be given at the First United
Presbyterian Church, Golden Gate avenue and
Polk street, by Rev. b. Il. Rice, next Thursday
and Friday evenings.
Mabillon McCracken, whose disappearance
from Chicago ON October Is caused a sensa-
ton in the East, was sent home to Cincinnati
yesterday by Chief Crowley by the steamer
Columbia via Portland.
The Masonic Widows and Orphans Home
directors have elected the following officers
President, Edward M. Preston; vice-presideDt,
j. l.. Spear; treasurer, Edward Coleman; sec
rotary, George johnson.
Charles Garcia, who was arrested for vag-
rancy Tuesday night and incarcerated in the
old City Prison, was Identified yesterday by
several Chinese as robber who had held them
up on Clay street some time ago.
Frank Gerbart. West Berkeley butcher.
was lodged In the county Jail CT Alameda last
evening, by Constable Page. He Is charged
with committing perjury while testifylng in a
case on trial before Justice Bennett of Berkeley.
Thomas p. Mcguire and William NJ. Ken
uedy of Oakland got into dispute on Second
and Mission streets about O'Clock yesterday
morning over woman, when Mcguire drew a
| knife and stabbed Kennedy In the side. Ma
| gure was arrested.
joseph Bigger and Arthur Watcher, two
| boys, were arrested yesterday on suspicion of
having broken INTO the basement OF 71S Turk
| street and stealing some clothes wringers be-
| longing to S. Il. Williams. They were con-
| fined in the Central station.
| E. A. Beale cOntradicts the statement that his
| wife abandoned their children. He says they
| wandered from the house where she had placed
| them, and that when she ascertained they were
| In the City Prison she removed them to the
Boys and Girls Aid Society building.
| Charles S. NJ. Bartlett and Mary Bartlett have
filed sui in the Superior Court against the Pre-.
| sidio and Ferries Railroad to recover $50, 300
| for injuries sustained by Mrs. Bartlett on May
| ID, 1892, while riding on one OF tho defendant
| company's cars on Union street, near Hyde.
Superior Judge HebDard yesterday ordered
| John q. Sch0wtZ TO pay S15 week from the
| 18TH inst. toward the support OF his wife,
| Della, and her 15-year-old daughter pending an
| action for divorce on the ground OF desertion.
| Schowtz was further ordered to pay SlO0 costs
| and counsel fees.
| Tomorrow will be the day OF prayer for young
| men, and the work Of the Young Mems Chris
| tian Association, and wherever civilization
| reaches this day of prayer will be observed
| There will be special service al the Young
| Mems Christian Association tomorrow after
noon at 3 O'Clock, addressed by Rev. w. A.
| Gardner.
| George Wetter has nled suit IN the Superior
Court against Matilda Cr0well to recover
] $4,000 for false Imprisonment. The plaintiff