The San Francisco call., 1897-07-08
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF
Purple and gold are everywhere.

Endeavorers have captured the City and its
people.
Fair Thursday, with fresh winds and prob
ably light fog in the morning
Jefferson G. James has sued William Craig
to recover 800 due on promiSsory note.
large number of tourists were compelled
70 sleep in cars a the mole Tuesday night.
Christian Endeavor special excursion trains
poured into Oakland mole yesterday all Gay
long
Golden weather, peculiar to the Golden
Safe, is greeting the hosts OF young Chris
tians.
The Massachusetts special train which ar
rived yesterday afternoon brought 80 pas
sengers.
The Lurline Baths postponed the polo con-
tests which were announced TO take place last
evening.
The annual report of the president and sec
retary OF the United Society Will be features OF
to-day's sessions.
The Wagner special of the New York Central
arrived yesterday morning, seventeen hours
Dehind schedule time.
Numerous greetings from home and foreign
lands were received at headquarters from En-
deavorerS unable to be present.
The real estate market is rather dull, but
revival of sales is Xpec-ed soon, though not
OF prices for some time 10 come.
Superb decorations will meet the eyes OF the
great convention halls tomorrow.
The churches in which the opening services
of the Christian Endeavorers were held last
evening were beautifully decorated.
Public Adminlstrator Freese has filed his
semi-Annual report He has on hand $751;
T3l 81 and has received S39O3 AS In lees.
A missionary gospel wagon will be at Nc
chanics Pavilion this morning as an object
lesson of the work being done IN California.
Professor A. L. Knott has been booked on a
charge OF murder for killing Joseph KnRuer,
& barber on Stevenson street Tuesday night.
T. F. Anguenet a saloon-keeper a; Seventh
and Stevenson streets, applied Tor warrant
yesterday, charging James Biggy, au employe
OF the United States Laundry, with threats 10
kill.
Special services were neld at Simpson Me-
mortal Church last evening, the principal
speak. being Rey.W. j. McKttrick OF Buffalo,
Ny.
The advisory board of the American Kennel
CluD postponed q meeting which was to have
taken place last evening until next Tuesday
evening.
Revs E. s Roweu Of Louisville Ky, and
George Pentecost of Yonkers, y. Y, addressed
a large audience III the First Presby terian
Church last night
Yesterday special meetings Of the Christian
Endeavorers and their Sympa athizers were
held al the various churches interested
throughout the City.
Judge Campbell has declared he will Sc
vereiy punish all confidence men and women
brought before him during the visit of the
CHRISTIAN Endeavorers.
Judge Seawell has granted an injunction
restraining ". H. Nolan from using the trade
name "Nolan Brothers" in front of his retail
shoe store on Market street.
Father Clark, the founder of the Christian
EndeavoT Society, arrived in the City yesters
day and was assigned to beautifully decorated
apartments in the Palace Hotel.
One OF the speakers at the Christian En-
deavor meeting in the First Ba ptist church
lat evening was Rev. Joseph W. Cochran, an
Ell quent preacher from Madison, Wis.
At an annual meeting of the Eur, ka Society
for the Protection Of Children yesterday, Mrs.
John Pattee was elected president. Two
hundred new names were added TO the mem
DershIp roll.
of the most able pulpit orators in the Chris
tian EndeAvor convention, preached to
crowded house at the First Baptist Church
astevening.
The taking OF the dispositions of A. NJ Law
renee aid T. T Williams of the Examiner in
the 81 900 900 libel SUIT being brought by
Claus Sbrec&els was begun yesterday before
Notary Craig.
The appraisers of the estate Of Philip Rnhr-
bacher have estimated It's value at $50. S23 20.
Or this $4,000 is in real estate and improve
ments, and the remainder in notes, stocks
and personal effects.
The olympia Theater, formerly the Peoples
Palace, VIII open next week with the vera
scope pictures of the great fight as tne first
attraction. 1t will be under the management
of the Walter Orpheum Company.
Justice of the Peace Barry is administering
justice necessarily one-handed now, Tor he
has one of them in sling He met with an
accident while visiting Skaggs Springs on the
Fourth, by which his arm was dlslocated.
The services at the Plymouth Congrega-
tional Church were addressed last evening by
Revs J. Z. Tyler of Cleveland, Ohio, and G. F.
Patterson OF Toronto. Rev. Mr.. Tyler was
chairman of the "a conven tioG committee
Mrs. Benjamin Longneckers of MarvsviIle
KY, q visitor among the Chris tian Endeay-
orers, received an abrasion OF the right eve
yesterday morning at Larkin and Market
Streets where she was struck by passing
cart.
down 10 business. Opening business meetings
will be held at Woodward's and the Me-
chanics Pavilion this morning. Governor
Budd and Mayor Phelan will make welcoming
addresses.
Steldily the Eastern delegations to the great
Christian Endeavor Convention are rolling
into the depot at the Oakland mole and being
transpo tea to tuis City. The Massachus
contingent was one OF the notab bic arrivals
yesterday.
A warrant for the arrest of William J. Gillian
has been issued by Police Judge Campbell.
Gillian is charged by Mrs. Anna NJ. Mahoney
with stealing her purse containing cents
ana pair u spectacles during fire on Sixth
street last Tuesday.
Emanuel Hart has filed his petition in in
Soiyency. He owes Collector J. S. Reid 1920
and has 10 available assets. A. q. Roos, a sales
man, IS Also in bad luck as he declares he is
unable 10 meet his obligations. His debts
amount 10 Sl360 46 and ne has no availa BILE
Assets.
William Smith. the aged resident of Aca m 20
VINO was arrested tor raising a 81 treasury
note to $40, was dismissed Yesterday in the
United States District Court on nolle pros
equi. His extreme age and the fact that the
evidence was none TOO strong hud much TO do
with his dismissal.
NEW TO-DAY.