The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-28
HISTORY OF A DAY.
AIameda County Happenings Told in
Brief Chapters.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, !
40S Broadway, August q. I

OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL
9oS Broadway, August q.
J. W. Ledgett, whose wife is suing him for
fees and So for costs. The motion for alimony
was dismissed without prejudice.
Rev. George ": Henning will repeat his San
Francisco lecture on "a Fallen Nation or Our
National Danger and It's Remedy" ct the Tab
ernacle, Sunday at 3 P II.
An entertainment will be given at Military
Hall, corner OF Twelfth and Franklin streets,
this evening, under the auspices of the Fed
eral Labor Union, Tor the benefit OF E. W. Thur
man.
Some sacks in the Mills Tabernacle were
turned in and the blaze was extinguished by
the chemical engine before it had done any
damage.
The entertainment for the benefit OF the
Sunday-school of the First Hebrew Congrega-
ton will be held in the lecture-room of the
Synagogue at o'clock on the evening of Sep
TENDER s.
Pleasanton is preparing for grand time on
Admission day. There will be bicycle races, a
barbecue and social IN the evening, so that
all will have chance to participate and enjoy
themselves.
Street Superintendent Miller has changed his
force of men, about sixty in all. There are 49,
900 applicants for work on the streets, and it is
The intention of the city to divide the work as
equally as possible.
The committee canvassing for subscriptions
for the W1lmerding school has reported that
between $1,000 and $4,000 has been secured.
They will hold meeting tonight or tomorrow
evening to report progress and plan future
work.
The motormen, gripmen and conductors of
the Piedmont electric and cable system are to
meet reduction in wages the first OF the
month. The scale now being paid is % cents
an hour, which will be reduced to 20 cents an
hour.
Late last week big shipment of peaches " as
made from Butte County to the Oakland Pre-
serving Company. To save them from spelling
the factory was run all day Sunday, but never
theless eleven tons, which had cost 1915, had
TO be thrown away Monday.
A railroad bar fell ON the leg of George James
this morning at the roundhouse in West Oak
lana. The patrol wagon took the injured man
TO the tabiola Hospital, where medical exam
nation showed that while the limb was badly
bruised there were no bones broken.
Goldberg, Bowen Lebenbaum have denied
In an answer to suit that they are liable for
any injuries Mrs. Elizabeth Kuenzel NAV have
sustained IN collision with one of their wagons
with an electric car of the Alameda and Oak
land line at Eleventh and Jackson streets last
November.
K. K Clements has applied to have an execu-
ton against $4Z OF the money due him from
the Southern Pacific Railroad Company re-
leased on the ground that ais earnings are
necessary Tor the support OF his family and
that the attachment is on account of q loan for
an attorney fee which it is alleged was not one
of the common necessaries of life.
The police would like to locate Mat Ken
nedy, San Francisco gambler. He was ar
restedf or disorderly conduct and Special Off,
Ger Goodwin was detailed TO go with him to get
bail money. AS they passed the corner of
Eighth and Washington Kennedy suddenly
turned and struck Goodwin blow full in the
face, temporarily stunning him. Kennedy
then ran and has not been seen since.
About twenty gentlemen, including Dr. Nc
Lean and the deacons, trustees, church COM
NIT tee and committee on new pastor Tor the
First Congregational Church, sat down to din
hour Many "reminiscences of stirring events
in the history OF the church were recalled, and
DIR. Mclean narrated some OF the financial
troubles IN the early history OF the society.