Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-15
SAN FRANCISCO.
Items of Interest from the Me-
tropolis.
A soURvY STRICKEN VESSEL.
Sixteen Cases Out of a Crew of
Eighteen Men.


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scurvy ont of crew of eighteen men. On,
died, and four are now on board. The res
are convalescent. The case was reported t,
the Health Office to-day for the first time
The Erin's Isle was from Shields, England
and the scurvy was caused by bad and insuf
ficient feod, bad water and absence of anti
scorbutics.
| TONNAGE IN PORT.
| Some twenty deep sea ships arrived in por
since last Friday week, mostly suitable fo
wheat, but this addition to the fleet has hat
no peroeptible affect upon freiehts, as nearl,
all were chartered priorl to arrival. Olsen
gagged tonnage in port is less than 4, 900 tons
while there are enough ships engaged to carry
125, 900 tons of grain. The spot engagement
this week embrace a wooden ship to Liver
| pool direct, at e3 17s. g., and an availabl,
iron chip could get Ga per ton. An iron ship
to arrive, has been chartered for Cork or thu
United Kingdom at e3 12s. g., November
30th cancellation.
| THE STOCK MARKET.
| There is no stock market to speak Of, the
quotations announced being made on small
| sales-wash, for the most part, merely tt
make figures for settlements. The impend-
ing assessment on Consolidated Virginia is a
! wet blanket on operations by small dealers.
and outsiders never buy when stocks are dull
and low.
MISCELLANEOUS.
| A dummy engine on the Sutter-street road
Saturday night ran against and badly bruised
J. J. Corrigan.
| The Superior Court Judge Haynel has
denied the application of the Spring Valley
| Water Company for reduction of its assess.
ment.
| The original Tenth Ward Club of the w.
P. c. held meeting Saturday night and
indorsed the Republican local ticket headed
| by Judge Blake
Wong All Teak, convicted of the murder
| of q countrymsn on the 1st of February OF
last year, has been sentenced by Judge Free
! lon to suffer the death penalty. The day fol
the execution has not been set.
Ex-Congressman j. K. Luttrell has com.
menced suit against i. B. Perrin and John
S. Wood for an accounting and 800 000
| which he claims is his share of the proceeds
| of certain Arizona mining speculations.
| The Supreme Court has decided that Judge
Edmonds obtained majority of one vote
over James V. Ccffey at the last election for
Judges of the Superior Court. Edmonds
therefore is entitled to seat on the bench.
During the week ending Friday night at {
| o'clock, there were GA deaths in this city, Of
| which 81 were males and 33 females. Natives
of the Pacific Coast, 81 of other parts Of
| the United States, II, and 90 were of foreign
| birth.
In the case of Ernest Rieux, who committed
suicide in 1879, and was found by the Coroner'l
| jury to have done so while insane. the Supe
rior Court has decided that the Pacific A1u
tual Life Insurance Company must pay the
policy issued on his life.
| In the case of the death of Mrs Wellsford
the Coroner's jury found that she died from
natural causes and not from the beating given
| her by her father. One of the Jurors dis
sented, and found that Holland, the father ol
deceased, was guilty of manslaughter. Hol
| land is in custody and to be examined before
magistrate.
The Superior Court Judge Hunt has de
| cided that a transfer of stack on the books oi
| the company, while required by the policy Of
the law for the protection of creditors, is not
necessary to pass the title as between the par.
| ties. The mere indorsement and delivery Of
the stock itself passes the title against all the
world, except bona fide purchasers without
notice.
Charles f. Locke, the theatrical manager,
had narrow escape from drowning. He took
swim in the bay, opposite the Newport
| Baths in Alameda, and on reaching out about
hundred yards found that the current was
so strong that he could not return Becoming
exhausted, he cried for health, and was
speedily rescued by Joseph p. Fleming, the
noted swimmer, who happened to hear the
cry of distress, and instantly plunged into the
water and with difficulty brought Mr.. Locke
to safety.
The body of George Walker the footpad
who was killed while attempting to escape
| from the Folsom branch prison week ago,
was disinterred shortly after burial and
brought to San Francisco, where it lay in
state until Thursday, while his grief-stricken
| friends have INDUCED in a wake. Nollie
| Kenevan, Walkers former paramour, acted
| as chief mourner. On Thursday afternoon
| the dead desperate was buried in Laurai Hill
| Cemetery, plain headstone, bearing the in
scription, Life's Prisoner Set Free mark
ing the grave.
The Boea Ice Company has sued the Pacific
| Ice Company for the value of 766 tons of ice
| it was entitled. but not permitted to deliver
| for sale by and according to an agreement
made by the Union of the Boca Ice Company,
| the Pacific Ice Company, the American Rus
| sian Commercial Company, the Summit Ice
| Company, the Nevada Mountain Lakes Ice
Company, the California and Nevada Ice
Company, the Peoples Ice Company, T..
McCauley and the Mutual Ice Company, a
company for mutual protection, and to in
crease their facilities for buying and selling
| ice, under the name of the Pacific Ice Com.
pany, with Lloyd Tevis as President and
Jacob Hoshn as Superintendent.
The Gutta Percha and Rubber Manufact-
uring Company has commenced suits against
three faro game proprietors-A. j. Bailey for
$3.50, Henry White for $3.50, and Henry L..
Garfield for 1929. The suits are based on
the information and belief of the company
that former collector in its employ, VIM. 3.
Turner, bucked so unsuccessfully against the
tigers owned by the defendants as to deposit
without value received, the amounts set op-
posite their names, in the banks guarded by
said tigers. Said Turner, the complaint al
leges, did not own in his individual right and
title the total S759 swept in by. the velvet
paws Of the avaricious tigers, but held it in
transitory trust, in his duty as collector.
DR.. Stout, scientific gentleman of San
Francisco, and DR.. William Jones, the gen.
tlsman who presented the celebrated post
pliocene skull to Professor Whitney, have ex-
amlned the human remains IN the State
Museum brought up from the Calaveras
cave. They give it as their pronounced opin-
ion that the bones belong to a prehistoric
period, and the formation of the skulls indi..
Gates an advanced intellectual development.
Mr.. Hanks has recently learned OF several
other caves in the State containing large
quantities of bones, and will soon make com.
plete explorations in the interests of the
State Museum. Everything seems to indi-
cate that the skeletons ara those of some for
gotten and unknown race, of a higher type
than the Indians, and who preceded the lat
ter race in this country, being probably iden-
tical with the mound builders, the architects
of Casa Grande, aud the cliff jewellers on the
Colorado.
Friday night the Democratic City and
State Central Committees met and resolved
to name eighty delegates to form Demo-
cratic Convention to supplant both the Man.
haitian and Yosemite Conventions. The
Msnhsttans thereupon fled this news until
it could hear what action the Yosemites
would take. The latter body, by 105 TO 10,
thersupon adopted a resolution declaring
THAT the regular Democratic Municipal
Nominating Convention and the delegates
who ran upon the Manhattan ticket at the
last primary election, be entitled to seats in
the Convention, for the purpose of placing
before the people in September next ticket.
They shall ratify and declare the compro-
mise heretofore existing between the Demo-