Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-06-30
THE BAY"
Matters and Things from the
Metropolis.
THE MUNICIPAL POLITICAL POT.
Informal Meeting of the Prison Inves.isa-
tion Commission.

| SAN Francisco, June 29sh-The Repab-
lican County Convention is in executive ses.
sion this evening on the nomination Of Su-
pervisors, ard the proceedings have net yet
trsnspired
Messrs. Mills and Gibbs, of the Prison
Investigation Commission, held an informal
consultation this evening in the absence of
| Commissioner Watt, and decided TO hold the
first regular session tomorrow in this city.
The Greenbackers viii hold Municipal
Nominating Convention in July.
San Francisco News Items.
Of the six vessels which have arrived this
week, four were chartered before arrival. one
is for sale, and one is for charter.
Over one hundred firms have signed tie pc.
tition in circulation for the closing Of places
OF business next Saturday and Monday, the
I'd and 4th of July.
The French bark Chanaral. which arrived
in port yesterday afternoon from Bordeaux,
reports that one man died of natura, causes
and another was lost overheard during the
passage.
The Declaration Of Independence viii he.
read on the Fourth by Thomas c. Maher, the
| Bianchi Opera Troupe will furnish vocal
music, and the Rev. J. H. e. Bonte viii be
Chaplain of the Day.
| An examination of the two chronometers
of the wrecked ship Eranconia shows them
to be considerably out of the way. One gives
the position as so miles TO the westward, and
the other 20 miles to the eastward of q cor
| rect position.
| A private meeting of prominent Demo-
Gratis, opposed to the Yosemite Club nomi-
nees and in favor of the Alanhattanites, has
| koo, hold fo-f fba IS
plan whereby the Yosemite faction may be
defeated at the coming primary election.
The application of f. G. Marshall and f.
w. Cordan for bail after conviction was de-
MED by the Supreme Court yesterday. The
applicants were tried and convicted in Tu-
olumne county of having abducted one Helen
| Armand, minor, from her mother for an
immoral purpose on the Sth of April last
At an election held, Grant Lapham, Senior
First Lieutenant Company b. Light Battery,
was elected Captain, vice Brush, who de-
clined a denomination. Allen Knight, Junior
First Lieutenant, was elected Senior First
Lieutenant, and William Holt Aldrich was
elected Junior First Lieutenant Major y.
L. Hughes, Second Regiment. presided.
The completion of the seawall to the foot
| OF Front street is having a beneficial effect,
upon the business appearance of Front and
Battery streets, which extend through to the
wall on good grade. Between Battery
street and Montgomery avenne there is no
street which can be travelled extending to the
wharf. The grade of Battery street is in one
place about eight feet above the grade of
California, and Front is only three feet at the
highs st place. Sansone street is rot opened
through, and would have a high grade if it
was. These two streets will therefore be the
great thoroughfares for travel to the in
mense business which will be done at this wall.
A petition for a writ of review has been fled
in tie Superior Court in the case of the San
Francisco Gas Light Company against the
Board of Supervisors The petition il ac-
eompanied by the affidavit of Peter Donahue.
President of the Gas Company, which sets
forth that on june 25tb, defendants, acting
as Board Of Equalization, without notice to
plaintiff, considered an application Of one
John II. Burke To raise the assessment OF
plaintiff on its franchise from 50 Gc0 10 So
| 075 coo. and did 50 raise the assessment.
Plaintiff AYERS that the action of the Board
was in excess of its jurisdiction aud void, and
asks that it be 50 declared. Judge Allen
granted the petition, making the wit re-
turnable in Department 3. Superior Court,
July Slh
Andrew Williams, charged with assault to
murder his wife, Ellen Williams, and Duke
| Williams, their son, arc at present confined
in prison here. The father and son IKE latter
| the leader of the Bryant street gang of
| hoodlums) occupy different cells, the wife is
in the hospital. She tells The following tory /:
Six months since she was granted $50
month ahmory without divorce. TIVE months
| ago her husband returned TO her and has since
been living with her. On Sunday be attacked
her with carving knife. She defeated this
attack. but yesterday she left trunk open
| alter taking money from il to buy his dinner,
| and he, discovering pistol iG the trunk took
| it and shot her. The ball entered the left
breast, and after ranging about in the fesh
for some distance came out from her side,
making painful but not dangerous wound
Williams story is that his wife shot herself.
| They have been married twenty-five years
and have sixteen children. The eldest son,
| "Duke," is waiting trial on felony charge.