Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-16
sAH FRANCISCO ITEMS.

Moses Heller has been appointed assignee
of Isaac Elias, an insolvent debtor, by
Judge Halsey, with bond fixed at 81 900.
The probate of the will of Antoine An.
stett, one of the proprietors of tie Phila-
delphia Brewery, has been granted. The
property is worth 81, 500.
Michael Slattery, who tried to carve his
companions in a pedro game in Point
Lobos avenue saloon about month ago,
has been held to answer by Judge Rix,
with bail set at $1,000.
William German, John Phillips, Isaac
Lekapsy. jerry Mccarthy, Patrick Nc.
Carthy and Fred. Peterson, all Industrial
School escapes, have been held by Judge
Rosenbaum TO answer for felony in break
ing from their Jail.
The steam whaler Orea is rapidly near
ing completion at Yallejo-street wharf.
Her companion vessel, Bowhead, ia dis
charging q cargo of oil and bone at the
same wharf. OF the Arctic fleet, twenty
one whalers have already arrived, the ma.
jority of which have locked for the pur-
pose of discharging cargo.
John McAdoo, arrested some time ago
for assault to murder, for having shot and
wounded James Anderson at his residence,
No. 25 Twenty-third street, was, after
partial examination in the Police Court, re.
leased from custody on filing bond in the
sum of g 900. Tuesday, when the case
was called, he failed to put in an appear
ance, and bench warrant was issued for
his arrest.
Sumpter E. Doggett, who killed Robert
Sheridan on the llth day of November,
1881, in a room On Stockton street during
a fight over an abandoned woman, for
which he was convicted of manslaughter
and sentenced to the State Prison for three
and half years, was granted new trial
by the Supreme Court Tuesday, because
certain instructions to the jury asked for
by the defendant were Lot given by the
Court below.
The body of an unknown man found in
bed at 533 Commercial street on Monday
afternoon has been identified as that of
Michael Fitzpatrick, boiler-maker. who
was shot in the neck in an ARRAY in China.
town some months since. When he was
discharged from the County Hospital.
few days ago, the wound was still unhealed
outwardly, and for some time it was
thought it had caused his death. An au.
topsy, however, showed that death resulted
from pneumonia. The deceased was
native of New York and IS years of age.
Rose Aguero, Mexican woman, wife or
mistress of Felipe Aguero, living in South
San Francisco, on Tenth avenue, was as.
saulted by Felipe Tuesday afternoon. At
that hour she ran into the house of
neighbor, screaming, and told them that
her husband was drunk and had attempted
TO murder her, tbeating her on the head
with soda-water bottle, and, pulling up
her clothes, had tried TO inflict a wound on
her person with razor. Felipe was ar
rested by officers Eastman and O'Connell
and charged at the south district station
house with an assault with deadly
weapon. The woman presented terrible
sight. One eye was closed completely, the
chin was covered with plaster, which,
when removed, disclosed cash, and there
were several severe cuts on the back of her
head. Her face, on one side, was consid-
erably swollen.
At the meeting of the Geographical So.
ciety of the Pacific Coast Tuesday evening,
the Secretary, G. Mitchell Grant, read
paper on the discovery of America by the
Norsemen. He said that it could not be
determined with certainty at what part of
the data which we possess it is fair to as.
sumo that their first landing was at Nan.
tucket, one degree south of Boston, the
second in Nova Scotia, and the third in
Newfoundland. General George w. Gull
len, Vice-President of the New York Geo.
graphical Society, made short address, in
which he gave reasons for believing that
the tower of Nantucket was not relic of
the Norsemen, but mill which had been
erected. He also related the progress the
Geographical Society in New York had
made, until now it had a membership of
1900. He hoped that the Society which
had been organized here would be as sue
cessful. Judge Peabody, also of New
York, made few remarks.