Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-09-05
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

The retail hat clerks have organized TO
secure early closing.
Whistler defeated Delmas in the wrest-
ling match, winning two falls in little over
half an hour.
The " Retail Shoe Clerks Association -
is " bOycotting shoe stores which refuse to
join the early-ClOsing movement.
The stewards and many of the sailors of
the steamer Columbia have struck in con-
sequence of 10 per cent. reduction in
wages.
The steamship City of Toxic arrived
Tuesday from China and brought over 323
Chinese among whom were nine women.
Frank Z. Hutchings, who is condemned
to be hanged one week from Friday, is
said by his jailer to be the happiest man in
the county Jail.
The death rate in San Francisco for the
year ending June Both was 1917 against
1895 for the preceding year. This is com
paratively low rate.
The Supreme Court has reversed the
lower Court in the cause relative to the dis
tribution of the estate of the late L. NJ.
Curtiss, Of Golo county.
The Worlinemen's party has recognized
on the basis of 4 protective tariff, eight
hours for days work, free school books
and the Monroe doctrine.
The Board Of School Directors have re-
inStatcd Professor Sengcr. the High School
teacher, over whose alleged sectarian teach
ing such q fuss was made.
Emanuel Neumaun, Secretary of the
Alaska Commercial Company, died in his
Goth year al o'clock Wednesday morning
at the family residence at go O'FarrcI
street, in this city. Deceased was u brother
of Paul Neumann, now on his way from
Honolulu.
Frank f. Hutchins, the stranger, who
has been sentenced TO be hanged on the
coming 18th for the murder of Ncttic L.
Simms, continues to follow in the footsteps
of Wheeler the thu by becoming CON
vert to religion. lie is about to join the
Catholic Church.
The tug Sea King, while towing down a
vessel from Port Costa Wednesday, ran
into a Whitehall boat containing three
men The boat was demolished. Two OF
the men were picked up, but the third,
whose name could not be learned, was
drowned
The steamship Rio de Janeiro. which
left for China Tuesday, took back to the
Orient one Chan Pin Nam, Chinaman
who arrived on the City of New \ ork pro-
vided with Chinese Consular certificate.
He was not permitted to land, and Is the
first man who has been sent back 10 China
since the Exclusion Act went into opera
ton.
United States Marshal Drew is the recip-
lent of. Il letter from one of the crew of the
steam Whaier Belyidcre, which is now in
the Arctic, asking his interference in be
BALI OF the crew. The writer. Archibald
Campbell states that the Captain Is I'M
usually cruel to him and the rest of the
men, exposing them to the extreme cold as
punishment.
Frank Laiajc q Frenchman aged 50
years, who said ne was farm hand from
Fresno took 4 room ut the What Cheer
House late Tuesday night and Wednesday
morning al clock was found therein in
a dying condition, having first taken strych-
nine and then cut his wrist with jack
knife. He was taken. to the Receiving Hos
p;tal and at noon died.
The charge of mjslcmcanor a-ainst Rev.
Aaron Williams was dismissed bv the Po-
lice Judge Thursday morning, on motion
of the Prosecuting Attorney, by request of
the President of the Young Mems Chris
jian Association Mr.. Williams was ar
rested recently for an alleged disturbance
Of MONDAY praycr-meeing lie pro-
tested against the dismissal OF the case
Ex-Mayor l. 5. Kalloch opened the But
Ter campaign Tuesday evening at Union
Hall The audience assembled was fair
and numbered several policemen, who were
on hand to prevent an anticipated attempt
to break up the meeting. Among those
who occupied seats on the platform were
several ex-mcmberS of the old Working
mems party. Acknowledgement Marshall
was also present on the platform.
y steam drcdger, named the Thor, Just
finished at Potrcro point, was successfully
tested Monday. 1t is modelled after De
Lesscrs' best machines on the canal works,
and is intended for use on the Sacramento
and San Joaquin swamp lands The Thor
is 10l feet long and 81 feet wide The
buckets are - in number, and each has a
capacity Of II cubic yards, and can be
filled and emptied "A times per minute.
The last will of s. ?. Collins. the we'll
known saloon-keeper, who died on the 18th
of last month, has been filed for probate
The estate is valued N $4,000. The de-
ceased bequeaths $500 to his mother, Mrs
Ashley Collins, of Albany, VT s., coo to his
sister, Eliza J. Paisley, Of Cumberland,
Nd -, 800 to each of his sisters children:
81 600 20 his sister, Rachel f. Chamberlain,
n Barrie, Vt; $1,000 10 Mortimer Cham
5erlain. of Albany, VT; to his Hieces Ellen
and Florence Collins, 81 ,000 and the resi-
tue OF his estate to MS wife, ANGELA Rus
sell Collins.