Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-06-05
SAN FRANCIsCo ITEMS.

Friday, while the guard of rear gate
was asleep at his post, six inmates of the
Industrial School unlocked the gate and
escaped.
A burned vessel, supposed to be the Brit
ish ship Herman. from Glasgow to San
Francisco, was passed at sea in latitude so
south, longitude go west, on March 9TH.
An autopsy on the body of John j. Buss,
who died suddenly on Thursday in res
taurant on Steuart street, showed the cause
of death to have been aneurism in the right
bronchus.
The Strathairly, it is now found by
measurement, brought from Hongkong 326
passengers in excess of what the law al
lows her to carry. Her penalty will
amount to $1,000.
In attempting to alight from Folsom
street car last evening, NJ. G. Carr missed
his feothold and received severe bruises on
the left leg below the knee. He was taken
to the receiving hospital for treatment.
R. NJ. Sanders, alias Charles Holman,
alias S. P. Danforth, alias Garfield, alias
Miller, was examined in Police Court No.
l Saturday on charge of embezzling
81, 100 from Eliza L. Berry, of Sacramento.
The Court held him in bail of 50, 600 for
grand larceny.
William Thornburn went to the receiv.
ing hospital Saturday to be treated for a
fracture of the right leg, below the knee,
sustained at Cutfey's Cove, Mendocino
county, by small lumber-car running over
the limb. Thornburn had been employed
in lumber yard.
An indictment has been found against
Louis Parker, the Vaca Valley Railroad
brakeman, for robbing the mails He was
missal will be made in his case /; but Wens-
ley, the convicted conductor, will be COM
PEELED to serve cut term.
The Spring meeting of the California
Rifle Association was held at Shell Mound
Park Saturday, The firing was at 200 and
500 yards. The total scores were: Com
pany C, First Infantry, n. G. c., 502 /;
Battery NJ, First U. S. Artillery, All !;
Captain Douglass team, No. 3, S. +. ?. F.
7O2. The matches of the above teams are
not yet closed.
The steamship Senator, which is as old
as the State, is being changed into barge
The vessel was built in 1913, in New York,
and was brought to this coast in lS49 For.
merly she made regular trips to Sacramento
and there is hardly miner in the State
who has not travelled on her. In later
years she has been employed in the coast.
ing trade, running to all ports from San
Diego to Victoria.
The statement concerning an under.
standing between the Produce and the
Merchants Exchange for the transfer of the
latter's property to the former is unsub-
stantiated by the facts. President J. C.
Patrick, OF the Merchants Exchange, states
that nothing has been done by that body
toward the sale of the institution, except
the naming of S250,0 as the figure at
which spot sale would be made.
The school census is completed. The
total number OF census children is: White
boys, 81, $50; white girls, 27,O73; negro
boys, ll9; girls, So; indiana, 2. Total,
80. l29. Children under five years of age
White, %, $50 colored, 90. The number
of Monaghan children in the city is 2,77l.
These do not draw school money from the
State. OF the Chinese only 1877 are re.
turned as attending school, Last year
there was total of So, Ill, against IS, log
this year.
Judge Hoffman has confirmed the con.
demnation OF the ton of opium seized on
the night of the Sd of January in boats
near the steamer City of Toxic. With
reference to the charge that the custom
house officials were implicated in allowing
the landing of the opium, Judge Hoffman
readily comedies "that so large quantity
of opium, exceeding in weight ton, could
not have been discharged from the steamer
into a boat alongside without the com
plicity of the watchmen on board the yes.
sci, or gross and almost inconceivable neg
ligence on their part. y
Ten of the crew of the ship Gatherer,
whs were detained as witnesses, were dis
charged Saturday, receiving witness fees at
the rate of 81 per day from the United
States Marshal. Third mate Driscoll, Carl
johnson, the carpenter, and the seamen-
Mills, Adlung and Rasmussen-have been
retained to appear as witnesses against
Watts, the first officer. 1t is proposed to
donate the money raised from the enter.
sainment given for the benefit of the Ga.
therer crew to the blind boy, Adlung, and
send him back to his mother, who is a
widow, living near Hamburg, Germany.