Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-03
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

The Art Associations spring exhibition
opened Thursday evening. 1t will remain
open four weeks.
During april 2s3 patients were admitted
to the County Hospital, 241 discharged and
% died, leaving 424 patients IN the insutu-
ton.
There was collected by Tax Collector
Grady during april $4,000, of which SIS
0OO was for taxes for the current year and
1000 for taxes on various years preced-
ing.
The quantity Of wheat cleared from Cali
fornia in April was only about one-haIf of
the total for March, and the smallest of any
total for the current cereal year, except in
July and January.
In the case of Henry Pfaf, on trial for
the murder of Charles Percival, the jury's
verdict was that Pfatf was guilty of murder
in the first degree, the punishment being
fixed at life imprisonment.
An elevated railway, for transportation of
cash between the office and the salesmen's
| counters, has been Introduced in a Kearny-
street fancy goods store. 1t is a novely in
San Francisco, but familiar in Eastern
cities
At the inquest held on the body of Roper
Gunderson, who died from injuries re-
| ceived on Long Wharf, the evidence showed
that he was crushed between freight car
door-post and the freight shed, in space
not more than SIX inches wide, the injuries
| being on the pelvic bone.
James Nolan, the cook of a collier was
drunk last Sunday, and fell into the bay
He f1oated about for hours, clinging to a
plank, and was at length rescued. Atmid-
night, still wearing his wet clothes, he was
taken to the Receiving Hospital, i'll with
pneumonia Now he is dead
The Supreme Court has reversed the de-
cision of the lower Court in the case of the
Santa Cruz Railroad VS.. Spreckels, and re
manded the case, with instructions to the
lower Court to find a verdict for the plain
tiff on the findings, as both parties have
agreed to the facts and new trial is use
less.
3 shooting affair occurred in the saloon
Of Frank Tennis on POtrero avenue, be-
tween Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets,
| about u o'clock Thursday night, in which
Michael Gallagher, foreman of Thomas
Dolan's soap works, was shot in the head
and severely wounded by the proprietor of
the saloon.
A Judgment for SO, the actual damages
sustained, has been rendered by Justice
Dunno, of San Francisco, in the case of
Marry Cummings, who sued the prOprietors
Of the St Louis Brewery on Pacific avenue
for damages in allowing her son to be bit
ten and mangled by a ferocious dog in the
brewery stables on the 18th Of last SeptenI-
Der.
Susan Kloss and Leopold N Fabry have
entered suit in the Justices Court to recover
$3.50 damages from the Geary-street cable
road, for having caused the death of John
Kloss, the carpenter, who died on the Both
of last March from injuries received by
being run over by one of the company's
dummies week prior to his death. Fabry
is guardian for two of Kloss children, who
are minors.
In the suit of Wood VS. Lynch, an action
for libel growing out Of complaint filed
in the matter of the estate of Henry s. Dor
land, a demurrer was entered that paper
filed in judicial proceeding is privileged.
Judge Mcguire on Thursday overruled the
| demurrer, and decided that irrelevant,
gratuitOus or malicious attacks are never
excused, even though inserted in decara-
ton at law