Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-25
MISCELLANEOUS


tured.
MISCELLANEOUS.
| Mrs Marian Todd has fled an application
! for examination for admission to practice law
in the Supreme Court.
Chief Engineer Seannell and Fire Commits.
sioner Flaherty have left the city for Hardin
Springs, and Commissioner Cotter fer Lake
! Tahoe.
Ex-United States Attorney. General Dey-
ems, Massachusetts, and Judge Stillwell,
United States District Court, Arizona, are
in the city.
John a. Moore, of the school question nc
| toriety, was in town last week, and sailed on
the last steamer for the Sandwich Islands,
where he will be engaged in teaching.
The Manhattan wing of the Democracy
had meeting Saturday night and nominated
Robert Howe for Mayor, j. p Dunn for
Auditor. and VIM. P. Humphreys for Sur
veyor.
Secretary Hoesch. of the Board of Health,
makes the following report of the city's NOR
tality for the week ending July 22d: Total
deaths, GA; male, 10; female, 10. Cores
ponding week last year, 81.
On Monday Alexander Ramsey, ex.Secre-
| taiy of War, appointed by Secretary of the
Treasury Window, will commence the inyes-
tigation into the charges preferred by Con.
gresham Page against the Superintendent of
the Mint.
Ca Thursday Edward Antonsen, n sailor,
while engaged uniurling sails upon an Amer
lean ship lying in the stream ready to sail,
lost his balance and fell to the deck, dis
tance of about forty feet, sustaining fracture
of the left leg, near the ankle.
The Taxpayers Convention, DR.. w. Ayers,
I l,- Al E-TI
County Clerk, David Wilder Supervisors
Second Ward, John Barbee Fourth. John
Lynch; Seventh, Calvin Ewing; Ninth,
| George G. ROBBERS Tenth, Henry Cromer,
Eleventh, MartinV. Taylor.
The Grocers' Union has adopted this reso-
luton Resolved, That no member of the
Grocers Protective y MON shall purchase any
goods from any merchant or jobber who has
| been guilty of accepting settlement for less
than 100 cents on the dollar, or allowing par
ties with whom they make settlement to con-
time in the same business.
Articles of incorporation of the Benieia
Agricultural Works have been fled. The
company proposes to enter into the business
of manufacturing and sale of agricultural ma
chinery. The Directors are L. l.. Baker,
Robert NJ. Hamilton and NJ. NJ. Estee. OF
San Francisc John H. Boalt, Oakland,
and +. A. Hill, of San Leandro.
John McInerny, husband of Margaret Nc
Inerny, alias the Roaring Gimlet," now in
San Quentin under sentence for robbery, was
arrested by officers Mics aud Egan Saturday
upon charge of robbery. The accusation
brought against him is that on last Thursday
night he and another man assaulted the mate
of the Rosario, while he was walking along
Beale street, and robbed him of S25.
| The Duncan Pioneer Bank sufferers have
met and heard the report of the assignee, II.
| G. Hyde. He explained the cause of delay
in settling up the matters of the bank. The
meeting was full of bitterness and the Courts
were denounced. The depositors resolved to
meet and march in body to the Court room
of Judge Ferral. Resolutions condeinning
Judge Ferral were adopted for reducing Dun.
| cans bail, and for his charge to the jury.
Judge Hayne has filed a decision in the
matter Of the application of the Spring Val
! ley Water Works and the San Francisco Gas
| Company, for writ Of certiorari requiring
| the Board of Supervisors, sitting as Board
| of Equalization, to show cause why the tax
assessment on the franchises OF the respective
computes have been raised from s., coo to
| $4,000 900. The c,-ion is given upon the
motion to quash the writs, which is denied,
and defendants allowed Eye days in which to
make their return.
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Dunlevy was IaToling his beat his attea
ton was attracted by police whistles being
Justify blown in front Of dive" of which
| the notorious Mrs. Finnegau is proprietress.
| On entering the place the officer found first
| class hoodum row in progress, during which
| Thomas Ryan had been badly cut by a sailor
named Thomas Clarke. The latter was
| locked up on charge Of an assault to kill
Ryan was taken to the City Receiving Hos
| al x,-ha I.
scalp wounds on the left side of the head, a
cut in the side and badly sliced hand.
About four months ago tie ship David
Crockett, Captain Anderson commanding,
sailed from New York city for this port.
Among the seamen who shipped on her was
man named Daniel Cummings, fellow of
herculean proportion and corresponding
strength, with q strong disposition to use it,
and before the vessel had been many days at
sea he had made himself the terror Of the
foTeeastle. On one occasion, becoming of.
| Tended with one of his fellow.seamen, be tried
to throw him overheard, and on the 9TH of
| last April he became enraged with the first
mate of the ship, Frank Jordan, and attacked
J him with the iron windlass brake handle,
beating him nearly TO death and cutting his
head in fearful manner. The Captain. as
sisted by some OF the crew, succeeded in
overpowering the giant, and he was kept
securely ironed until the vessel arrived in port
Saturday. Captain Anderson Immediately
went to the United States Marshars Office
! and swore out complaint against Cum
nnings, and Marshal Poole arrested him under
Subdivision 6, Section 1896, of the Merchants
Seamans Act, which provides a penalty, not
exceeding two years imprisonment, for an
assault upon master or mate upon the high
seas.
On last Tuesday evening, while Charle
Colby and family, col sisting of wife and
four children, were seated at dinner young
child was seized with fit OF vomiting, run
ming out into the yard, and was followed by
the remainder of the family in rapid success
sion, all similarly affected Mr.. Colby de-
| clared that they had been poisoned, and
| physician was sent for. In the meantiI e,
MIR. Colby, while in the yard, was seized with
! paralysis, and it was with difficulty that he
was removed to an upper apartment. The
| physician who was summoned became salts
| fed that the family had been poisoned by
arsenic. Mrs. Colby and her children. for
| tunasely, experienced no very serious results
| OF the poisoning. They are unable to explain
| how the poison was mixed with the food unleis
it was in some corn starch, of which pud-
| ding was made and partaken of by all at tie
table. The unfortunate man has been lying
| since Tuesday in a critical condition, his left
| side completely paralyzed, and, when not
aroused, in state of unconsciousness, unable
| to recognize the members of his family. He
has for many years been employed in tie
composing rooms of tie Alta, and enjoys the
esteem, and, at present, the sympathy of a
very large circle Of friends.
Articles Of incorporation of the Yuma, Port
Isabel and Guaynas Railroad Company have
been fled. The purposes of corporation, as
| set forth in the articles, are: "For the pur-
pose of constructing, owning, maintaining
and operating a line of railroad within the
republic of Mexico, and to that end to take
and receive from the Government of Mexico
or its grantees, such concessions as it has
heretofore or may hereafter make" Princi.
pal place OF business, San Francisco term
OF existence, fifty years. The Directors are
Charles Croker, George Croker, Timothy
Hopkins, W. V. Huntington and J.. STAN
ford, all of San Francisco. The railroad is
to be constructed as a first-class broad gauge
road. The route of the proposed road is in
tended to be from point on the northern
boundary line of the republic of Mexico,
south of Yuma, in the Territory of Arizona,
by way of Port Isabel, on the Gulf Of Cali.
forria. TO the city of Guaymas, in the repub-
lie of Mexico. The estimated length of said
road and branches is 400 miles The capital
stock is $4,000, 600, divided into 10000
shares of 500 each, and each Director has
subscribed for 500 shares, and there is $40, 600
in the Treasurer's hands. The articles of
INCORPORATION are signed by all the parties