Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-08
SAN FRANCISCO.
Items of Interest from the Me-
tropolis.
SUCCESSFUL ESCAPE FROM JAIL.
The Two Safes of the Absent County
Clerk.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Etc. Etc
SAN FRANo1sco, August 7th.-Edward
Gilfeather, the noted jailbreaker, made
another escape to-day from the Oakland j ali.
He has not been recaptured.
SAVED FROM DROWNING.
Three men and a boy in a boat going to
the yacht Midget from the wharf yesterday.
upset and would have drowned had not j. @.
Nolan swan from the yacht and rescued
them.
MISCELLANEOUS.
1t is said that hoodlum war is imminent
in Chinatown between contending factions Of
Highbinders.
The City Treasury has been replenished O
the ntof the collections of the tax on
personal property.
Three ex.convicts fell upon and severely
cut Joseph Murphy Friday night because be
would not treat them. Two of the men have
been caught.
A. I. Hyman, who had deceived Sadie
Langhren, has been arrested for felony for
having counseled her to submit to an unlaw-
full surgical operation.
W. G.. Talbot, we'll known merchant Of
this city, is reported to have died suddenly
at Astoria a few days ago. He was of the
firm of Pope & Talbot.
Friday night the Manhattan Climb (Deme-
cratic held close session and expelled twenty
members who favored acceptance of the PROF.
osition OF the Yosemite Club.
Scion NJ. Pattee, who has been making an
examination OF the affairs of the County
Clerks Office since the disappearance of WIN.
A. Stuart, will report to the Board of Super
visors that the accounts with the city are all
correct.
Rev DR.. johnson, Secretary of the Bap-
list Publication Society Of Philadelphia, has
arrived. The same gentleman visited the
city several years ago. He will present the
claims of his Society in all the leading
Baptist churches on the coast
The San Francisco Turn Verein has passed
resolutions approving of the action of Gov.
ernor Roberts, of Texas, declining to appoint
q day of Thanksgiving for the recovery of the
President, on the ground that Church and
State ought to be kept separate and apart.
At the monthly shoot of the San Francisco
Gun Club for the club medal, at II single
birds, q yards rise. the following was the
score: Traylor 8. Wilson T. Butler 9, Randall
III, MClntOsu y, nIcCDdne y, OrduQau .,
Coleman 8, Fuller 8, Fox Z, Orr II, Bacon z,
Titchner0.
The Supreme Court has affirmed the judg-
ment of the lower Court in the case of A. b.
Preston against G.. +. Culbertson. Plaintiff
contested the right of defendant to the office
of Supervisor 10 District No. 3, Tuolumne
county, alleging Illegal voting and malcon-
duct on the part of the Board of Judges in
township 4 of the district.
The Supreme Court has rendered its deci.
sion in the contest of Isadore Danielwitz and
Edward E. Harvey, for seat in the Board
of School Directors, which the former is hold
ing by reason of decision given by Judge
Lawler of the Superior Court. The decision
is conceded in by all the members Of the
Court except Justice Myrick. 1t DEGREES the
seat in favor of Harvey.
Henry j. Mccoy, the new Secretary of the
Young Mems Christian Association, selected
by MIR. Moody, made his first appearance in
the Society,s rooms Saturday, having arrived
the evening previous. Mr. McCoy was
heartily welcomed and introduced to large
number of ministers and others who were
present at the monday prayef-meeting. He
led in prayer, but took no further part in the
meeting. Mr.. Mccoy is from Lowell, Mass.
The right Of the Auditor to withhold his
signature to salary demands made out in pur-
suance and by right of Legislative enact
ment, will soon be tested in the Supreme
Court by ID. NJ. Cashin, Deputy in the Street
Department, on writ of mandate to compel
he Auditor to sign his salary demand for
July. The burden Of opinion among those
who have examined the matter is that the
SuperyisoTial estimate will have to give way
to State law.
The Captain of the British ship Cairns
more saw man floating in the bay, and
threw the ife-buoy to him. He seized it,
and afterward a boat was put off from the
schooner Stranger, Captain Atwood. The
sailors took the man in and rowed him
to Meiggs' wharf. On the way there he re-
fused to answer any questions, and as soon
as he reached the boat steps be ran up to the
wharf and put off for Powell street as rap.
idly as his legs could carry him. He was
chased by officers, but they were unable to
overtake him.
A Mrs. Louisa Frei is being cared for by
the German Benevolent Society. She SAWS
large ferryboat between Benicia and Port
Costa, last week, when she missed the boat
on its trip to Benicia and had to remain on IL
at Port Costa, assaulted her with indecent
purposes, and finally sought to rob her, and
then threw her into the bay, from which
Chris Hanley rescued her Then for several
days she remembers nothing, and awaking to
consciousness found herself on the roadside
ard woman trying to arouse her. She next
attempted to drown herself. but desisted on
someone approaching. Then the woman
brought her assailant to her and he sent her
to San Francisco. The woman's story is in
part cJrroborated. The woman's trouble has
affected her mind somewhat.
The late County Clerk, Stuart, left benin
him two safes in his Office. 1t being learned
that Stuarts brother in law had the key of one
and knew the combination OF the other, the
County Clerk yesterday sent word to that
person asking him to give them up. Mr..
Pedler, the man all..ied to, being in the
country, no answer has yet been received,
aad the safes viii not be broken open for q
day or two yet, to give Mr.. Pedler an op-
portunity TO respond. Chester Sseber, an
attorney, has placed on the safe with com.
bination lock a request in writing that he be
notified of the opening. Presumably his mo
tive is to claim the money which he supposes
the safe to contain. The Chisf Deputy
CLERK, Mr. Rugglss, says that he thinks the
safes contain nothing of much value. One
has been used for years by Stuart as private
DEPOSITORY, and the other contained, so far as
the deputy knows, nothing except stationery
stamps, etc, but no money Hor papers CT
value.
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KALAMAZOO {Alich.l February q 1880