Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-02-02
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SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. lst.-John
Nicholson, conductor on Central
street railroad, decoyed Josie Green, q
girl fourteen years old, into an assigna-
tion house on Market street last Fri
day and by threatening her with a
pistol succeeded in accomplishing
rape. The fellow was arrested, but
the friends of the girl, not wishing to
make matters worse, let him go.
The Japanese commissioners to the
Centennial reached here yesterday in
the Belgic. They have taken rooms
at the Palace Hotel and will remain
in this city several days.
The steamer Congville i'm coming up
the harbor last evening struck on a
rock. She fioated off on the flood
without serious damage.
DIR. Gibbons report to the Board of
Health on the water supply stated
that on the land of the Spring Valley
Company on the San Mate0 creek, he
found several dairies, the refuse from
which ran into the creek polluting
the water. To counteract the effects
of this filthy water the San Fran
cisco people drink, man namedShad-
dock who has a ranch on the same
creek threw dead hogs offal and 9TH
er things of the same nature into the
stream, and yet his report winds up
with the assertion that the city IS sup
piled with far purer water than most
towns in the county. In fact the wa
ter is purer than from wells.
A drunken woman living on VAL
paraiso street, Saturday afternoon, beat
her son, 9 years old SO severely that in
his terror he climbed out of a second
story window and dropped in the
space between two houses. He was
jammed so tightly between the walls
that to save him from suffocation car
penters had to cut away the walls to
eXtricate him.
Resolutions was adopted by the
Board of Supervisors last night au-
thorizing the appointment of II COM
mittee of three to make arrangements
for the proper celebration of the Cen
tennial.
Judge Daingerfield to-day dismissed
the information laid against Alex.
Austin, late Tax Collector, by Caleb
r., Foy, stating that there was no cause
of action against Austin.
A messenger in the employ of HI. w.
Plummer 4 Co., stock brokers, named
John Seely, distracted 81, 600 from his
employers. Seely used to be tele-
graph operator in Utah. About the
middle of last week he took 500. The
error was found in the books, but
the cash was not discovered. On the
Friday following the Juvenile pecula-
tor made the deposits at the bank and
took 81 500, returning the hank book,
thereby preventing the immediate dis
cOvery of his crime. He was not seen
thereafter, and the theft was not found
out until Monday. Search was made
for him by the detectives, and it was
found that he left for Panama on the
last steamer under the name of John
Clair.
EX-Rev. II. NJ. Dawson filed another
affidavit to-day against the Evening
Post, asking the 10th District Court to
hold the publisher for contempt in
printing the affidavit of one of the de-
PENDANTS on Saturday last. Judge
Wheeler issued an order to Goodman,
publisher of the Post, to show cause
why he should not be punished for
such contempt, returnable on Friday
next.
Singe Robbed.
MARYsvILLE, Cal, Feb. lst.-
About P. NJ. to-day the Compton
vile stage was stopped about four
miles from Comptonville by two
masked men and Wells, Fargo & Co.'S
box robbed. Loss, 1920.