The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-23

Tuesday. In this city churches of all denominations joined in the movement.
 By request of Bishop William Law renee, of the Episcopal body, all of the IFS churches in the diocese of Massa- chusetts, which embraces that part of the state east of Worcester, took spe- cial collections.
 The Unitarian churches of the coun- try, the headquarters of which are here, took relief collections, and these will be distributed by the head officials here.
 The Roman Catholic church has also established a relief system. In the de- nominations other than those named, most of the individual churches are acting independently of a governing body.
 The San Francisco horror was the topic of hundreds of discourses in the pulpits of Boston and vicinity to-day.
 It is estimated that more than half a million has been contributed by Boston and vicinity, exclusive of the church collections.
 Pittsburg, April 22.-Greater Pitts burg's churches responded to the needs for aid of the earthquake sufferers to- day. and about $6,000 was taken up for this purpose in the collections. From almost every mining, milling and agri- cultural town in western Pennsylvania also reports tonight state that collec- tions were taken in the churches for the same, purpose, but as yet 1t is impos- sible to estimate what these will amount to,
 Los Angeles, Cal, April 22.-A great boxing tournament for the benefit of the San Francisco sufferers, destined to eclipse anything in that line ever at- tempted in this country, will be held at the pavilion of the Pacific Athletic club next Tuesday night under the auspices of the chamber of commerce relief com mittee.
 By a coincidence practically all the champions of the fistic arena are in training in and around Los Angeles at the present time preparing for the series of fights to be brought off here in May. In addition Jim Jeffries, re- tired heavyweight champion of the world, will appear in an exhibition bout during the evening. Battling Nelson Aurelio and Mauro Herrera, Abe and Monte Attell, Kid Herman and Tommy Burns, as well as several other promi- nent pugilists, will box in the cause of charity They have been paired off so as to make the most scientific boxing possible.
 Los Angeles, April 22.-Among the hundreds of carloads of assorted provl- sions that are being sent out from Los Angeles for San Francisco sufferers are several carloads of lemons and oranges.
 Manager Woodford of the California Fruit exchange has issued an appeal to | fruit growers to send large shipments of both lemons and oranges at once The lemons especially are desired for use with drinking water to purify it and to lessen the danger of possible ep- idemic from that source.
 What is perhaps the largest commits | adTy tFdlIl III tIle WOTlu Has Oeel ruSn- ed north over the Southern Pacific from here, This huge restaurant, destined to cater to the hungry refugees of.Sar Francisco, is the Shattuck and Des mond emess" outfit enlarged to a guar anteed capacity of 10000 meals a day It was made up of thirty cars which are all Kitchens and pantries
 This train is expected to be in Oak land in time to serve early morning breakfast Monday.
 l 4 carload of food, intended for tn, use of the babies has been. gathered by the local committees and dispatched north.
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 Hartford, April 2-Hartfords sub scriptions to the San Francisco relic fund already amount to $12,000 and vii be sent through the Red Cross. society A mass meeting will be held in th' Parsons theater tomorrow night al