Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-05-17
San Francisco News.

SAN FRANCISCO, 16th.-At 1915 o.
Leary completed his l27th mile in IA
minutes and seconds. Schmehl fin
ished his 109th mile after IL and then
rested. Both men rested from III to 2
last night.
1t is announced that in the coming
Fall there will be four mile race at
Bay track for $4,000.
A boy named HI. Perkins, IA years
of age, was accidentally shot and
killed last night on Bush street by a
man named Conners.
The steamer Quang Sc arrived from
Hongkong at P. NJ. with 100 coolies
on board.
At the fire last evening Chief Sean
mel slipped from ladder and broke
his wrist.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 16.-OL Leary,
at s p. NJ, finished his one hundred
and f1fty-second mile in two seconds
less than thirteen minutes. Schmehl
was twenty-five miles behind and is
visibly weakening.
James Cunningham and Richard
Mccall, the hoodlums who cut a
China Boy with hatchet and robbed
the house he was guarding were
bailed by the Police Court to-day in
the sum of $4,000 each to answer be-
fore the grand jury.
Tickets for numerous Peter Funk
lotteries located in places east of the
Rocky Mountains are numerously cir
culated in this city.
Investigations will be Immediately
held into the collision of the steamer
City of Panama with the Seeavdi last
Sunday.
The steamer Quang Sc arrived from
Hongkong via Yokohama to-day
bringing nearly 1000 coolies. No tea
was in the cargo which was principally
rice and sugar. The news is meagre.
In Japan no political event of an i'm
portant character had transpired.
Mr.. Wagner, late Commissioner to
Vienna, has been appointed to the
same position at the Centennial.
The U. S. steamer Saco sailed for
home April 18th from Yokohama, but
sprung a leak suddenly and put back
in dock at Yokohama. The leak was
dangerous, taking all hands and the
steam pumps to keep her afloat.
(Signed) MCCoMB.
The injunction case of Anthony
Coolot against the Central Pacific rail-
road ct ais. was on trial to-day before
the 4th District Court. Plaintiff want
ed an injunction to restrain defend
ants from paying interest on a million
six hundred thousand dollars of Cali
| fornia Central bonds. In the argu-
ment defendants Attorney raised the
point that plaintiff is stockholder in
the Central Pacific and was present in
person or by proxy when the vote was
taken to purchase the California Gen.
trail and by said action acquiesced in
all the acts of the company. Plaintiffs
Attorney could not get over this
stumper and asked further time to see
| if it was a fact, saying if such was the
case then plaintiff had no cause of ac-
ton.
TRENTON, N. Y, May 16.-The Re-
publican Convention for the selection
of four senatorial Eighteenth District
delegates for the convention of the 14th
of June, which meets at the Opera
House in this city, tomorrow. The
probabilities are that the delegation
will go uninstructed but will cast a
solid vote for senator Frelinghuysen
and will fall back on the choice of
the convention.
The mustang race to come off at
Fleetwood Park has been postponed
until Thursday on account of the bad
state of the weather.
The steamer Frazer from Hamburg
has arrived at Sandy Hook.
The Melbourne Rife Team.
LONDON, May 16.-A dispatch from
Melbourne, Australia, announces that
the Melbourne Rifle Team have deci-
ded to compete with the City the Can
! adian at the ensuing week for the
prizes.