The San Francisco call., 1897-07-08
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF,

Endeavorers have captured the City ana its
people.
Fair Thursday, with fresh winds and prob
ably light fog in the morning.
Jefferson G. James has sued William Craig
TO recover 500 due on a promissory note.
large number of tourists were compelled
to sleep in cars at the mole Tuesday night.
Christian Endeavor special excursion trains
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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 $40 pas
sengers.
The Lurline Baths postponed the polo con-
tests which were announced 10 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
lehind 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 expec ed soon, though not
OF prices for some time % 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 eautlfIllY decorated
Public Administrator Freese mas filed his
semi-snnual report He has on hand $780,
731 81 and has received $3903 48 in ices.
A missionary gospel wagon will be at Nc
chanies' Pavilion this morning an object
lesson OF the work being done IN California.
charge of murder for killing Joseph Knauer,
q barber, on Stevenson street Tuesday night.
T. F. Anguenet ssloon-keeper a; Seventh
and Stevenson streets, applied for warrant
yesterday, charging James Biggy an employe
Ii XII n' United states Laundry with threats 10
Special services were neld at Simpson Me-
mortal Church last evening, the principal
speak beiug ReY.W ]. McKittrick OF Buffalo,
Ny.
The advisory board of the American Kennel
CluD postponed d meeting which to have
taken place last evening until next Tuesday
evening.
Revs E. S Rowen Of Louisville, KY. and
George PenteCost of 4OnkerS, n. Y, addressed
a large audience in the First Presby terian
Church last night
Yesterday special meetings of the Christian
Endeavorers and their sympa thizers were
held at 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 Endeayorers.
Judge seawen has granted al injunction
restraining W. H. Nolan from using the trade
name "Nclau Brothers" in front of his retail
shoe store on Market street
Father Clark, the founder of the Christian
Endeavor Society, arrived in the City yester-
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
eloquent preacher from Madison, Wis.
At an annual meeting of the Eur, ka Society
for the Protection of Children Yesterday MS.
John Pattee was elected president Two
hundred new names were added TO the mem
Dership roll.
Rev. Cortland Myers OF Brooklyn, n. Y, one
of the most able pulpit orators in the Chris
tian Endeavor convention, preached to q
crowded house at the First Baptist Church
aStevenilg.
The taking of the dispositions of A. NJ Law
renee a7d T. T. Williams of the Examiner in
the $1,000 600 libel suit being brought by
Claus 'reckels was begun yesterday before
Notary Craig.
The appraisers of the estate Of Philip Rohr-
bacher have estimated its value at $50 'S23 90
OF 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, Will open next week with the vera
scope pictures or the great fight tne first
attraction. II will be under the MANAGEMENT
OF the Walter Orpheum Company.
Justice of the Peace Barry is administering
justice necessarily 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 dISlooated
The services at the Plymouth Conpreoa.
tional Church were addressed last evening by
Revs J. T. Tyler of Cleveland Ohio and G r.
Patterson of Toronto. Rev. Mr.. Tyler was
chairman of the '94 convention committee
Mrs. Benjamin Longneckers of Marysville,
KY, visitor among the Christ stian EudeAy.
orers, received an abrasion OF the right eye
yesterday morning at Lsrkin and Market
streets, where she was struck by q passing
cart.
To-day the Christian Endeavorers will get
downto 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.
teldily the Eastern delegations to the preat
Christian Endeavor Convention are rolling
into the depot at the Oakland mole and being
transpo tea to tuiS City The Massach usetts
contingent was one of the nota BILE arrivals
yes terday.
has been issued by Police Judge Campbell
Gillian is charged by Mrs. Anna NJ. Mahoney
with stealing her purse containing cents
ana pair q spectacIcs during fire on Sixth
street last Tuesday.
Emanuel Hart has filed his petition in in
solvency. He owes Collector j. S. Reid 1920
snd has 40 available assets. A. 6. Rous, a sales
man, IS also in bad luck. as he declares he is
unable 10 meet his obligations. His debts
amount 10 $3.50 46 and ne has no availabl
Assets.
William Smith, the aged resident of Acampo
who was arrested for raising a ST treasury
- n mi sod
United States District Court on a nolle pros-
equi His extreme age and the fact that the
evidence was none too strong had much TO do
with his dismissal.
NEW TO-DAY.