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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-14
MR. FARRAND
SENT IN HIS
RESIGNATION
His Letter Held by
Elder Prutzman.
CONGREGATION WILL act
WAS FOUND GUILTY OF GROSS
INDIsCRETICN.
In Spit of the Division of Opinion
Among the Elders All = esire
That the Matter Be
Closed.
WAS FOUND GUILTY OF GROSS
INDISCAETILN.

Rev. Farrand has rendered his resigna-
ton as. pastor of the Howard Presbyteri-
an Church. Elder Charles w Pike is
authority for the statement. and Elder
Prutzman is in possession of the impor-
tant document and will. present it to the
congregation in due time.
In accordance with the rules of the
Presbyterian church there can be no dis
solution of the pastoral relation unless
a request to that effect be jointly presen-
ted by pastor and congregation. Letters
of resignation are usually filed by the
pastor with the congregation. Mr.. Far
rand, however, reversed matters and his
letter will have TO be presented to his
parishioners by the chairman of the
board Of elders.
Now that Farrand has gone and his
resignation is in the church members and
officers of Howard Church are inclined
to deplore the publicity given to the I'M
fortunate occurrence and unite in the de-
sire to close the matter now and for all
time.
Investigation of the charges brought
against the divine tend TO prove that al
though Mr. Farrand has undoubtedly
been guilty of indiscretion no charges OF
immortality have either been lodged or
proved against him.
In the board of elders there is divis-
ion of opinion as to Just how blame
worthy the reverend gentleman is. Some
incline to accept without mobilization
Farrand's defense that his natural bluff,
hearty and jovial ways ana manners
were misunderstood and unintentionally
exaggerated. Others again claim there
dienity of his office and neglects the high
code Of honorable conduct that shoulo be
a., q diIlnct TO the cloth. Those VINO have
taken the latter stand refuse TO aliow for
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at the same time biting her right hand
to compel her to release her hold of the
pistol She succeeded in breaking away
from him, and was running toward the
kitchen, where her sister was, when Ken
nedy made run at her. She wheeled
round, warning him to stop, but as he
kept on, she pulled the trigger, and Ken
nedy dropped on the floor. The bullet
had struck him on the left side of the
mouth.
Word was sent to the Seventeenth-street
police station shortly after 2 o'clock that
Kennedy had beeTsCthot at 232 Chenery
street, and. thinking it might have been
in a riot, Captain Gillen, accompanied NV
and Graham and Policeman Anderson,
drove TO the scene in the patrol wagon.
Meantime Policeman T. O'Connell had
been notified of the shooting, and wastthe
found Kennedy stretched on the floor,
grOaning with pain His head was sup
ported by pillow and blood was pouring
from the wound in his mouth. He was
conscious but could not speak.
Mrs. Regain and her sister, Mrs. John
son, were in the room, and to O'Connell' S
question as to who had done the shooting
Mrs. Johnson said, Kennedy shot him
don't you tell the truth? / shot him, but
was compelled to do it," O'Connell placed
her under arrest and secured possession
of the revolver. A few minutes later the
patrol wagon arrived with Captain Gillen
and posse, and Kennedy was sent to the
City and County Hospital where he died
while on the operating table. The body
was removed to the Morgue.
Captain Gillen and Detective Fitzgerald
took Mrs. Regain to police headquarters,
where she made a statement to Captain
Seymour, admitting that she had fired the
shot, but claiming that she was compelled
to do it in self-defense. She frankly adj
mitted her relations with Kennedy for
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-14
RAIN AND MORE OF 1T.
Hammon's Job of Forecasting Has
Been Made an Easy One.

The rain battered down again yester-
day, and Professor Harmon sat in his
sanctum and talked about it. He says
his job of forecasting rain has become an
easy one, and that scarcely has he time
to hang out the wet single when the
flood gates in the sky are opened and
the umbrellas are necessarily hoisted.
Never before has he known the condi-
tons more favorable to storms, and often
before the indications present themselves
that which they foreshadow has arrived
According to Hammon's statement the
spell of drought which commenced year
ago last April has been broken and none
need fear for failure of crops. The ele-
ments are once more settled back to their
normal condition and the ordinary season
of. the years past in California has been
rolled to the front. With little more
rain the crops could prosper without the
assistance of spring rains, as the ground
will have acquired sufficient moisture to
saturate it below the natural stratum of
dampness. Should the rains cease at the
present time, which is very improbable,
the professor fears for only two sections
of the State-the. upper San Joaquin Val
ley and the extreme Southern California.
To-day showers are billed for California.
1t will be- cloudy in this city and probably
rain will fall. The rainfall up to last
night amounted to III inches, against 475
inches last year on that date.
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AMATEUR ATHLETES
HOLD A POW-WOW
Pacific Association Elects New Off
GERS and Commissioner to
the Paris Exnosition

AT meeting of the Pacific Association
or the Amateur Athletic Union. held last
night, the following representatives were
present: w. r. Berry of the Reliance
Athletic Club, S. j. Pembroke of the Ala
media Boat Club, George James and Iulius
W. Morton of the Olympic Club, w. C.
Espy of the Pioneer Rowing Club, A. P.
Rothkopf of the Dolphin Boating Club,
j; r. Bockman of the Ariel Rowing Club.
II. A. Keller of the Academic Athletic
League, G. Dole of Stanford University,
A; H. Schimpf of ,4le Triton Boating
Club, and H. Hauser of the Grammar
School League. No delegate from the
south End Rowing Club was present.
Boys Club to be admitted to membership
in the association was read and favor
ably entertained. The Boys Club will
be requested to send a delegate to the
next meeting Of the association The res
ignation of w. r. Berry as president of
the association was read, and, after
vain effort to get him to reconsider it.
was accepted. Vice president j. r. Book
man thereupon took the chair The sec
Letary was instructed to write to the
South End Rowing Club, the Union Ath-
letic Club and the University of Califor-
MIA Athletic Association, informing them
that no delegates from their clubs had
and requesting them to send representa-
tiVes to the next meeting. A letter was
read from Russell Lowe Of the Ukiah
High school. setting forth Inat he had
played in a football match at Fort Bragg
against professionals and had forfeited
his amateur standing by, playing without
the sanction of the Board of Managers of
the Pacific Association. His request for
reinstatement was referred to the regis
tration commissioner, with a recommen-
dation that he be re-instated as an anna
teur. The following officers were then
elected: j. r. Bockman, president:
George James, vicepresident; Julius ".
Morton, member of the board of manag-
erS. II. A. Widemann, the holder of three
worlds records In swimming, was ap-
Paris Exposition, which he proposes to
attend. It is also likely that E. Hunter,
last years captain of the Alameda Boat
Club, will be present at the Exposition.
H A. Keller, H. .Hauser and George
James were appointed a committee 10
compare the constitutions of the Amateur
Athletic Union and of the Pacific &ssocia-
ton and investigate points of difference, If
any. The Reliance Athletic Club is to be
communicated with and notified of the,
election of w. r. Berry to the board of
managers. After a few graceful re-
marks from ]. R. Bockman in praise of
the retiring president of the association
the meeting adjourned
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the past five years, and said she did not
know whether her husband was alive or
dead. After signing the statement she
was taken to the City Prison, where she
was booked on the charge of murder. Her
sister, Olive Mclaughlin, and Andy Nc
Dewitt, a roomer in the house. were with
her She wept bitterly while making her
statement to Captain Seymour and sobbed
out that she wished she had received the
bullet instead of Kennedy. She is a hand
some woman, go years of age, and was
born in this city.
The police could find no one who saw
the shot fired. Mrs. johnson saw them
struggling in the dining-room for the pos
session of the revolver, and she ran
across the street to tell her sister, Mrs.
Dean. Another sister was in the kitchen
at the time. Mrs. Johnson told the police
that she had expected something of the
against Kennedy. Mrs. Regain said Ken
nedy gave her money at times, but she
gave him more than he ever gave her.
He used to give her few dollars a
month, but never more than ten. He
gave her so this month but borrowed
back 81 80 She helped to buy his uniform
when he Joined the police force
Kennedy Joined the force November 49,
1897. Previous to that he was one Of the
park police, and was considered a good
He was one of the four policemen tried
for cowardice at the time Lieutenant
Burke was shot and killed by the old man
Haynes, but he was saved from dismissal
He was a single man.
DIR. Zabala performed an autopsy on the
body of Kennedy last night He found that
the bullet entered the left cheek an inch
and half below the angle of the mouth
ranged backward and upward and lodged
just short of the brain at its base The
lower jaw was fractured the teeth
knocked out and the base of the skull
fractured.
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DESPERATE
CROOKS LANDED
BEHIND BARS
Arrest of a Brace of
Burglars.
CAUGHT WITH THEIR PLUMBER
ONE OF THE MEN CoNFEssEs
His GUILT.
He Tells How He and His Confeder-
ate Broke Into Shreve's Gun
smith Store Tuesday
Night.
CAUGHT WITH THEIR PLUMBER
ONE OF THE MEN CoNFESSES
His GUILT.

Through the efforts Of Detectives Ryan
and O'Dea the two desperate burglars
who broke into the store of George w.
Shreve at 739 Market street last Tuesday
night are locked up in the tanks of the
City Prison. They were arrested last
night while in the act of paWning por-
ton Of the stolen property. They gave
their names as Thomas House and
Charles Brennan.
House, who is an opium fiend, is a well
known thief Shortly after o'clock last
evening he visited a pawnshop on Fourth
street and offered for sale two revolvers,
which he claimed belonged to him. De-
tecuye Ryan and ODea happened to en-
ter the store as House was explaining to
the paWnbroker that he was hard up
and was anxious to realize q few dollars
on the revolvers. The detectives, suspect
ing that he had stolen the weapons, pro-
ceeded to examine them, when House ran
from the store and started down Fourth
street.
He was overtaken after a short chase
and taken back to the store. Ryan had
list of the reVolvers stolen from Shreve' 8
store, and as he examined the ones which
House offered for sale he at once recog-
nized them as being part of the plumber
that was carried off by the burglars who
entered the Market-street store
After being locked up in the tanks
House weakened and told the detectives
that he and Brennan had committed the
crime. He described in detail how they
had cut their way into the store, first
having destroyed the wires which con-
nected with numerous bells AS they
climbed through the hole which they cut
in the floor they tripped on a wire con-
nected with a loaded revolver, which
covered the Stevenson-street entrance.
Undisturbed by the discharge of the re-
volver the bold crooks broke open several
showcases. securing a miscellaneous as
sortment of pistols and knives valued at
$780,
House declared that the bloodstains
which were found on the showcase
were caused by his. accomplice having
his hand cut by piece of glass.
After listening to Houses confession
the detectives started out to find Bren-
nan. Thinking he would attempt to dis
pose of his share of the plumber they Wis
tied number of pawnshops, but failed
to find him. Just as they were about to
give up in disgust they saw the much
wanted burglar enter a Secondhand
store on Howard street. He had in his
possession thirty knives, including sew
eral costly daggers, which had been stol-
en- from Shreve. He was at once hand
cIiffed and taken to the City Prison. To-
day both men will be formally charged
with burglary.
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FIRE CAUSES
A PANIC IN A
CONCERT HALL
An Exciting Blaze at
the Oberon.
THE LIGHTS WERE ALL OUT
TWO employees OF THE HOUSE
SLIGHTLY INJURED.
The Fire Was Caused by an Accident
to the Moving Picture Machine,
Which, With Its Films,
Was Destroyed.
TWO employees OF THE HOUSE
SLIGHTLY INJURED.

A wild panic was created at the Oberon
Concert Hall on O'Farrell street late last
night by the burning of the moving pic
ture machine.
The accident occurred a few minutes
after midnight. series of moving pic
lures was being shown on the screen as
the last part of the programme. There
were about $50 people in the house, when
suddenly a flare of light burst from the
machine, which is on a platform near the
center of the room. Some one shouted
"Fire!' and a wild panic was the result.
Women screamed and sat motionless in
their chairs. Men sprang up and rushed
blindly for the door, upsetting tables and
scattering glasses on the floor. For few
minutes chaos reigned supreme. AS is
customary when the pictures are being
shown, the lights were all out, and the
only illumination came from the blazing
celluloid films of the machine. The room
was rapidly filling with a sitting, suffo-
eating smoke, and the shouts of the
frightened patrons of the house bewil-
dered. those who would otherwise have
kept cool.
The electrician finally came to the res
cue by turning on the lights, and order
was soon restored. A few firemen were
called in from the engine-house two doors
below, and the little blaze was soon eX-
tinguished. A laughable part Of the affair
was the conduct of some of the walters
and bartenders, who rushed in with 81
phons of mineral water and made futile
attempts to extinguish the blaze.
The only persons known to have been
injured were Henry Schroeder, the oper
ator of the machine, and waiter named
Campbell Schroeder attempted to ex-
tinguish the flames with his hands, and
as a result both hands and arms were
seriously burned. Campbell tried to climb
up to the machine on a ladder, but got
mixed up in the electric light wires. The
shock threw him to the ground and al
though severely bruised he was not seri-
ously injured.
Aside from the damage to the machine,
the loss will not be very great. The ma
chine and about 500 feet of films are COM
pletely ruined and the frescoed ceiling
overhead is badly scorched.
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DISASTROUS
RULING FOR
MAKERS
Restrictions on Leaf
Tobacco Sales.
AN ORIGINAL PACKAGE LAW
1T MAY BE FINALLY MoDI-
FLED.
AN ORIGINAL PACKAGE LAW
IT MAY BE FINALLY MoDI-
FLED.
If It Is Enforced Nearly All the
Shops Must Close and Eastern
Manufacturers Will Have
the Whole Market.

The retail manufacturers Of cigars and
the dealers in leaf tobacco were thrown
into a panic yesterday when they became
acquainted with the provisions of the
new ruling of the Commissioner of Inter-
nal Revenue regulating the sale of leaf
tobacco. This declaration of the depart
ment was the result of a letter of in
quiry from Collector Lynch to the Wash
ington authorities. The cold official state
ment of the conclusion of the Commits
sioner is as follows:
The Office has ruled that leaf deal
ers are not privileged to sell leaf to-
bacco loose in the hand from broken
packages, and this ruling must be
observed by dealers in your district;
and dealers in other districts who for
ward to your district leaf tobacco in
hogshead, case or bale, will be re-
ported to this Office.
On the face of it there does not seem
to be anything wrong in this proposition,
but when 1t is understood that the en-
forcement of the rule will throw out Of
employment in San Francisco and the
coast cities about two thousand cigar
makers the sweeping application of the
law will be appreciated. The ruling is,
of course, aimed at the leaf tobacco job
bers, but the blow strikes the small man
ufacturerS. In the event that they cannot
secure a modification of the ruling sew
enty-f1ve per cent of them viii be COM
PEELED to go out of business at once.
Under the application of the law up
to the present time these small manufac-
turers have been able to buy their stock
in five and ten pound lots. This required
very little capital The new ruling would
force them to buy the original packages
at a cost of from 5000 to $500 each. The
minor manufacturers cannot meet such
demands and If they could they would
suffer great loss by reason of the fact
that they could not work off such
large raw stock promptly. Furthermore
they have to compete with the products
of Eastern sweatshops, where wages are
down to a starvation basis. Edward
Kaeser of the firm of Friedander & Kae-
ser, 431 Montgomery street, voiced the
complaint of the small manufacturers as
follows:
This ruling comes like thunderbolt to
US" said he. IF 1t is enforced the result
will be that hundreds of cigar-makers will
be thrown out of employment immedi-
ately. There are no large factories here
where they could get work, and as a
consequence they will be on the town
without any resource whatever. should
say that three-quarters of these manufac-
turers will be ruined. OF course we can
not say of our own knowledge what has
brought about this sudden change, but we
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Was Running Too Fast.

Several months ago, Frank Clark, while
riding in the southern part of the city,
was run into by one OF, the cars of the
San Francisco and San Mateo Railway.
He was injured and the horse was killed.
Clark sued the company for damages and
was awarded $25OO The case was appealed
to the Supreme Court, the claim being
tributory negligence. The court reviewed
the evidence and said that Clark had
taken due precautions and did not OBJ
serve the car until 1t was within fifty feet
different between a case of a railroad
train and a street car, in this, that If the
street car had been running at a rate of
eight miles an hour, as allowed by law
it could have been stopped without run
ming into Clark's rig. The judgment was
sustained
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-14

n N OUNTED POLICEMAN THOMAS
N II H. KENNEDY was shot and
INE killed yesterday afternoon by
Mrs. Elizabeth Regain in her
fathers house, 232 Chenery street.
The woman was arrested and booked at
the City Prison on a charge of murder.
Mrs Regain is a married woman, but
has been separated from her husband for
the past nine years. She has a daughter
z years of age -Four years ago she start
ed a saloon called the Elmwood, at 1725
Mission street, but gave it up about
year ago. Then she started bakery on
Mission street, near Chenery, but retired
about two months ago and went to live
with her father at 232 Chenery. Her
father owns considerable property in that
neighborhood, and two of his married
daughters. Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Dean,
occupy houses near his own. He is
prominent member of the Paramount I'm
provement Club.
Mrs: Regan became acquainted with
Kennedy about five years ago, and since
then they had practically lived together
After reporting off duty at 6 o'clock yes
terday morning Kennedy went to 232
Chenery street and went to bed. He slept
till about ! o'clock. After dressing hip-
self he showed signs of jealousy While IN
the dining-rOom, and she began TO 1osn
him. He became eXaSperated and threat
ened to shoot her. She told him he was
too big coward to do it, and in his rage
he got his revolver and pointed 1t at her.
She grabbed hold of his hand, and des-
terate struggle followed for the posses
sion of the weapon. Mrs. Regan sue
ceeded in wrenching 1t from him and the
struggle was renewed. Kennedy forced
her against the wall, and placing his ell
bow under her chin, tried to choke her,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-14
DEFENDED HIS OWN CASE.
Manlio Parodi, a Boy Six Years OF
Age, Cross-Examines a Witness.

Manlio Parodi, a boy six years of age,
charged with petty larceny for stealing
some cigars from Carlos Sprana, 224
Broadway, conducted his own case in
Judge Treadwell's court yesterday, and
afforded considerable amusement to the
Judge. Prosecuting Attorney Carpenter
and the spectators.
The Judge took the little fellow on his
knee and the boy gravely assured him
that he did not steal the cigars. The only
witness against him was boy s years
of age, A. Saroni, and after he had told
sort of a shirt did i wear that night?"
Saroni answered, "a red one" and Manlio
triumphantly said: ut was blue one"
He thought he had cornered Saroni, and
asked the Judge not to believe what he
said.
Sprana insisted that Manlio should be
convicted and sent to jail, but the Judge
continued the case till January %, and
sent Manlio home with his mother
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Arrested for Embezzlement.

A well-dressed young man, giving his
name as George Florey. was arrested last
night by Detective Wren on a warrant
from Los Gatos charging him with fell
ony embezzlement. The police here know
nothing of the alleged crime. Florey re-
Gently came to this city and secured en-
ployment as a collector for a Post street
florist. He is at q loss to account for his
arrest.
ment that the arrest was made ON n com
plant filed by a DIR A. NJ. Barker of San
Jose. DR.. Barker. however at San jose
disclaimed all knowledge of Jflorey, his
ignorance being shared by the police and
Sheriff Of the Garden City.
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Governor Gage,

Judge Ferral, Congressman Kahn,
Humphreys Stewart. Charley Dryden,
Grant Carpenter and other well-known
men figure in the Looker-On; "Spooks"
hits off some gay and debonair char
actefs; the Cryer comments on a dozen
happenings and people; the Critic
writes entertainingly of the pianist, the
symphony and the theaters; the debt
ors law and the deadbeats it applies
to are reviewed, and stories, society and
and paragraphs complete an admirable
and interesting number of the News
Letter. Take copy home. Price 10
cents
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on warrant charging her with assault
with a deadly weapon. The complaining
witness is Mrs. Martha e. Brouhard Mrs
Brouhard's husband got an attachment
against Mrs. Walsh and when the Sheriff q
equities went there yesterday morning
Walsh was exasperated and attempted to
strike Mrs. Brouhard with a hammer and
later threw bottle at her, which missed
-AAANS~ ~
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For a Chinese Hosnital.

A meeting of Methodist and Presbyter-
ian clergymen was held last Thursday in
the Presbyterian Chinese Home Mission
for the purpose of discussing the FEAST
bility of establishing a hospital for indi-
gent sick Chinese The meeting favored the
project and it was said that the Chinese
Consul and the leading Chinese mer-
chants would subscribe literally to a fund
for the purpose suggested.
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Laws of China.

The second lecture on China in the in
teresting series now being given at the
Mechanics Institute by Professor Jonn
Fryer. LID. professor of Oriental Ian
Sers it will will be- given at the Mechanics
Institute Library building this evening,
The subject will be Government and
Laws of China" The lecture is free to
members of the institute and their