The morning call., 1895-02-11
LOCAL ITEMS IN BRIEF.

Fair weather predicted.
There was a $500 FIRE in Chinatown yes
terday.
Cafifornia vineyardists send wine to the Bor-
deaux exhibition.
The Art Institute has framed rules for the
election OF its jury.
The rain prevented the Scheel concert in
Golden Gate Park yesterday.
The Columbia Pistol and Rife Club held
shoot st Shell Mound yesterday.
The Andrews estate contest develops an Enoch
Arden story In she Probate Court.
Bishop Nichols pastoral letter was read in
the Episcopal churches yesterday.
The new valley road committee will hold an
important meeting this afternoon.
Ed J. McGivney fractures his skull by falling
downstairs at 536 Merchant street.
Industrial General Kelley is trying TO drive
the chinese laundrymen out Of Oakland.
William Greer Harrison entertained Frederick
Warde at breakfast in the Bohemian Club.
The pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church
on Bartlett street sings solos during the service
The Theological Seminary of the Christian
Church at Berkeley will be opened IN August
The California Yacht Club viii give yachts
mems night at the TiYoh Theater on the 10th
inst.
Franz schmole died from an overdose of
morphine in a room at 21318 Mason street yes
terday.
Two undertaking houses had contention
over the burial OF the body OF George Tomk1ns
yesterday.
The first steps toward incorporating the San
Francisco and San Joaquin Valley road Will be
taken to-day.
Thomas Agnew. Oakland, agent OF the Lon
don and Lancashire Insurance Company, has
been suspended.
The annual meeting of the Mercantile
Library Auxiliary Association VIII be held on
Thursday evening.
Nicholas Emory Boyd was ordained a
Unitarian minister in the First Unitarian
Church of this city.
4 Coroner's jury in the case of William Hol-
land, the suicide and wOuld-be murderer, viii
be impaneled to-day.
The widow of Hunt. fireman who perished
al the Page street fire, was brutally beaten by
her second husband.
seven young men were arrested for breaking
into the saloon of James Clune, Manchester
street, Bernal Heights.
NJ. +. Rose won the time prize in the Acme
Club road race over the san Geandro-hay-
wards course in 14:32.
The rector of the Church of st. Mary the
Virgin gives his views on the use OF pictures
and images in the sanctuary.
WE. Whittier expects that another two mil
lions viii be subscribed to the new valley road
enterprise within thirty Gays.
Mayor Sutro was i'll at his ranch near CAL
istogs and the jubilee mass-meeting at the
Sutro baths did not take place.
The once famous lugger. yacht Cyclone will
be sold.to an Italian syndicate, to be fitted in a
novel manner for fishing on the banks
The. Oakland navy. regatta, which was to
have been sailed on Sessions Basin yesterday,
was called off on account of a lack Of wind.
F. NJ. Byrne was badly bruised during the
Acme road race on the San acknowledgements
course yesterday afternoon BY striking the
curbstone.
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built with cash subscribed and the issuance of
as few bonds as possible. cash basis is the
wRtchword.
Governor Budd grants to W. r. Hazel, joint
lessee of the Alcazar, the unique privilege OF a
hearing before signing papers for his e1tradi-
tlon to New York.
General Stone says Folsom can supply all the
roads of California with rock for macadamizing
within few years at the lowest cost known in
the United States.
Three new rife guns for harbor defense viii
srrive here this week from the East. They
aggregate in weight more than go, 900 pounds
and are each forty feet long.
Charles Holbrook saws that the new. San
Joaquin Valley enterprise viii not only keep
California capital here, but offer irresistible in
ducements TO foreign capitol.
NJ Carrillo, the new Consul-General of Guate-
msla TO this city, does not believe there viii be
war between Mexico and Guatemala He
doubts the truth OF recent dispatches.
The Gaelic football match between the En-
NETS and Parnells, which was to have taken
place yesterday afternoon at Central Park, was
postponed until next Sunday owing to the
rain.
John W. Jefferson, an attorney, says that he
told William Holland, the man who shot at
Banker 1. W. Hellman, Friday, the day before
the shooting, that he (Holland) had ample
provocation TO kill Hellman.
The funeral of the late Ralph selby will take
place tomorrow forenoon from his mothers
residence, 2119 Buchanan street. The inter
1nent, which is to be private, will be in
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland.
The Good Government Club of Alameda
fsvors the election of women to the Board of
Education. . 1t will ask the Legislature TO add
section in the town charter giving women
the right to membership in the board
In laying the proposed cable 70 the Hawaiian
Islands, the route selected will probably be
that surveyed by Lieutenant Clover in the AL
batross extending from Honolulu TO Monterey
Bay on this side, with a change on this end
dverting the terminus OF the cable direct to this
city.