Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-10
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The California Six Manufacturing CON-
pany. whose buildings in South San Fran.
cisco were destroyed by fire some time ago,
has decided 10 dispose of the old site and
erect new buildings at the Mission. Ne.
gotiations are now being made for site.
The new buildings are expected to be
much larger and better than the old ones.
About SO. 600 worth of new machinery
has been ordered from the East
William Watts, the mate Of the Ameri.
can ship Gatherer, arrived Tuesday fore.
noon by the overland train. He was in
charge OF United States Marshal, and
was taken Immediately to the County Jail,
where he Will stay until called for trial, the
time OF which Is rot yet set. Watts is I'M.
prepossessing in appearance, small in stat.
urs, and apparently weak physically. He
Is not a. ali laxative. and what he did say
in relation to the Gatherer horrors was
substantially as told to New York re.
porter. He also said he was imprisoned
in the Clerkenweil Jail il London for five
weeks after his arrest at Queenstown. and
for several days was confined in the New
York Jail for safe keeping, en- route for this
city.
No licenses for maintaining Chinese
laundries were issued Tuesday Dy License
Collector Mcneil, and it is reported there
will be an application for q rehearing in the
case recently decided in favor of the Chi.
nese by Judges Field and Sawyer, it being
considered that there is sufficient evidence
now in the hands of the Supervisors, in
the form of protests from property. owners
| against the maintenance of the wash. house
nuisances, to cause a different termination
OF the case, by proving the opposite of
the opinion of the Court, that "the bus
mess of a laundry is not against good
| morals it is not offensive to the senses
it disturbs not the neighborhood where
conducted, nor is it dangerous to the pub
lie safety or health" The numerous pro.
tests set forth that opium ia smoked in the
Chinese wash-houses, that their proximity
| increases the rates of insurance, and that
in many cases insurance is refused by rea.
son OF their presence, and that they are
further nuisance by reason of the noise of
pounding clothes and the noxious smells
issuing from them.
Tuesday evening at $50 o'clock John
McAdoo, of 27l5 Mission street, and EN-.
ployed as machinist by the Pacific Mail
Ste amship Company, went TO the house of
James Hamilton, p Twenty third street,
near Hampshire, who is one of the firm of
McAffee 4 Co. Mrs. Hamilton says that
she answered McAdoo's summons at the
door, and that he asked to see Hamilton.
Accordingly she called her husband, and as
he neared the front door McAdoo drew q
pistol and fired. The ball entered the groin,
first striking knife and half. dollar piece
which Hamilton had in his pocket. Nc.
Adoo then fed, leaving his victim writing
en- the floor, and none near him save his
distracted wife. Medical aid WAS sum-
moned as soon as possible, and the bullet,
a large one, was extracted. The wound
was pronounced serious, though not neces.
sarily fatal. The chances are that had il
not met with the distractions in Hamil.
toms pocket it would have ended his
life. At the time of the shooting Nc.
Adoo was in his shirt sleeves. At 1880
he was arrested by Officers p 0'Connor
and Shellor on Mission street, near his own
house, but he refused to say anything about
the matter, nor did he give up the pistol OF
profess any knowledge of its whereabouts.
AT 80 o'clock Wednesday morning re.
porter saw the prisoner at the Seventeenth.
street station, and to him McAdoo made q
statement to the effect that about four
years ago his second wife gave Hamilton
S25 with which to purchase "a burial lot in
the Masonic Cemetery. The wife died
about four weeks ago, and on the morning
OF her death McAdoo went to the cemetery
to make arrangements for her burial, but
to his establishment he found out that
Hamilton had never purchased any lot.
This circumstance compelled McAdoo to
bury his recently deceased wife by the side
of his first wife, who died about twelve
years ago. In her will she left Hamilton
$500, which McAdoo willingly paid over to
him. So friendly were the two, and SO
forgiving was McAdoo, when asked if he
ever had any trouble before last night with
Hamilton, he replied that both were always
on the best of terms.