Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-28
The Tokio,s Smallpox Case.


suited in a dismissal of the charge. After
Health Officer Meares and Quarantine
Officer McAllister had given their evidence,
Captain Maury testified that he had given,
Csl the VOYAGE strict orders to the surgeon
and steerage steward to take special precau-
ton in regard TO contagious diseases among
the passengers. The surgeon made daily
report On the third day just before enter
ing port, the weather being fine, the pas
sengers were all summoned on deck, and
when they went to 90 below, were all in
spected by the surgeon who afterwards
assured the Captain that all were well.
This was done on the three consecutive
days before entering port, and so wit
ness had no reason to believe that any
contagious disease existed After ar
irving in port DR.. McAllister visited the
ship. Before leaving he obtained from the
ships surgeon bill of health. This was
signed by witness. 1t was unusual to do
this, but DR.. McAllister requested it. After
some of the passengers had landed on Sun
day, the day the ship arrived, about
o'clock the surgeon reported to witness that
there was q case of measles aboard This
was the first the Captain knew of any dis
ease. Being assured that it was only case
of measles the child was taken away from
the other passengers This was a few hours
after DIR. McAllister had inspected the pas
SeuS6FS. w men Il HItle later the surgeon
reported the case to be smallpox. the
Health Office was Immediately notified. In
dismissing the case the Court said that the
fact was fully established that as soon as
the case was known to be smallpox it was
reported to the authorities.
Attempted Wife Murder.
SAN Francisco. June 27th-Mrs. Hattie
heehan was taken to the Receiving Hospi-
tai by officers Meier, Annis and James,
about o'clock last night, to be treated for
a knife wound in the left breast She was
found lying on the sidewalk, corner of
Market and Polk streets. The wound is
two inches long and three or four inches
deep. At the hospital the woman, who is
apparently about 30 years af age, stated
that she Is the wife of Joseph Meehan, an
employe of the Southern Pacific Railroad, |
who stabbed her because she would not
live with him. She is the mother of four |
children. Until two weeks ago she resided |
in San Jose, but as she could not agree with |
her husband she came to this city and took |
n situation in coffee saloon on Sacramento |
street. Yesterday afternoon Meehan called |
at the saloon and tried to persuade her to |
return to him, but she refused. At o'clock
at night, when she had finished work |
Meehan, who had been waiting for her, fol- |
lowed her to her room at 105 HAYES street |
where the two youngest children were. Nee |
nan locked the door and again asked his wife !
TO live with him. This she firmly declined |
to do. He then asked her for enough |
money 10 pay for his supper, and when she |
told him that she did not have any to give |
him, as she needed all she could earn to
support herself and children, he told her
that he would kill her and then himself.
He thereupon stabbed her and fled, locking
the door from the outside. The screams of
the wounded woman attracted the attention
of passer-by, who forced open the door,
and Mrs. Meehan rushed into the street in
search of an officer, but before she found
one she fell exhausted to the sidewalk. The
wound is very dangerous one Officers
are searching for the brutal husband
More Bloodshed in San Francisco.
SAN Francisco, June 27th-Gus J. Leon
engart, aged q, fired four shots at police
man Christy for attempting to arrest him
this morning, and then shot himself dead
The officers wounds are slight. The shoot
ing took place at the place of business of
the suicides uncle on Battery street A
warrant of arrest was sworn out by Samuel
Sellers, charging Loenengart with threaten
ing Sellers (who is Loenongart's uncle)
life. The threat was made on account of
Sellers refusing his nephew 81 900. Sellers
refused the request because his nephew had
been losing large amounts of money lately
at studhorse poker.
Chinaman Murdered.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 27th-A Chinaman
named My You, while walking along Spot
ford alley this morning about O'clock,
was shot in the back with gun by an I'M
Known person and instantly killed. The
murderer has not been captured.
An English Colony.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 27th.-Yesterday a
party of English immigrants left for Shasta
county, where they will take I'D land
one Of them is joseph Crowley, represent
ing the weavers of Huddersfield As soon
as he has found land where there is water
enough to run a mill, a society will be
formed in England, which, by It's weekly
payments 10 general fund will raise
sufficient sum of money to send out settlers
TO California. Each one of these colonistS
will be provided with a small working cap
ital. At first they will engage in farming,
and after their living expenses have been
deducted, the profit from the farms Will be
used in building wooden mill
A Losing Experiment-StateH Horticultural
Society.
SAN Francisco, June 27th.-The eEper-
Iment of bringing piles to market from |
Coos Bay, by means Of binding them into
RATS, was made few days ago with loss
OF 5000. The tug was unable to make
Roadway until but two of the 1000 piles
remained, the Others having been lost
The State Horticultural Society met to-
day and discussed fruit drying and can
ming. number Of the members are pre-
serving fruit for exhibition at the New Or
leans exhibition.
Reported Murder and Suicide.
OAKLAND June 27th-2:3f p. MA tele-
phone message from East Oakland says a
man has killed u woman and then COM
mitted suicide at the hotel near the Hermit
age, Fruityale. No names have been given
and no particulars have yet been received.
SECOND DIsPATCHl
OAKLAND, June 27th-A boy found the
bodies OF man and woman near the Her
mitage, in Alameda, to-day The bodies
were covered with blood That of the
woman Ley on a bench, the man being on |
the ground, ..ad each having a bullet |
wound in the head. The identity of the |
parties is not fully established The man
registered at the hotel on Tuesday as A. |
Johnson, and engaged a room for himself
and wife. He left letter, written in poor
English, spelled rs if written by a German. |
stating that on June 18th he lost $3.50 in
greenbaCks on the Southern Pacific Rail
road. and that they had agreed to die The
letter stated also, that they had no rcla-
tives, and requested that they be buried in
one grave.
Preparing for the Fourth Trout
Fishing.
TRucKEF. June 27th.-Truckec IS making
elaborate preparations for celebrating the
Fourth of July Nearly 81 900 has been
subscribed, and n real barbecue of whole
OK, and several sheep and hogs, viii form
the feast The whole country surrounding
are expected.
w 4 DissoO of cO5 ATorl-ct s,-oo+ ,,-.,,,.t . |
yesterday, while trolling in Bonner Lake,
81 fine trout. Fish Commissioner Dibble
is here, and has caught several hundred this ,
week.
Father and Son Sent TO the State Prison.
SAN JOSE, June 27th.-Benjamin and Ed
win Richards father and son, who were
found guilty of mMlslaughter for the kill Z