Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-30
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

1t is estimated that there will be at the
end of the fiscal year an unexpeuded bal
ance of $4,000 in the city treasury.
Judge Lawler announced Saturday that
he would deal most vigorously with the
cortcsans lovers who are taken in for
any oticnse. His HonOr's remarks were
called forth by the fact that many of these
gentry escape imprisonment by means of
straw bonds.
\ dispatch from New York Saturday
states that the ship Arabia, for San Fran
cisco, collided with the ship st. David, and
lost fore-topgallantmast, iibboom, and tore
away jib The st. David lost her wheel
house and several stays carried away. and
was otherwise slightly damaged
\ meeting of Irish-Americans was held
Saturday, when the following dispatch was
sent to Premier Gladstone on the passage
of the suffrage bill by the House Of Com
mons:
SAN FRANCISCO June 2S. 1884,
Gladstone, London: lriSh-Amercans congrat-
ulate you for emancipation.
James Delaney, II years old, was found
on Lcidesdortf street Saturday afternoon So
much under the influence of liquor that he
was unable to stand or walk He was
taken to the Central Police Station When
he sobered up he stated, in answer to u
question: that he did not drink anything
but two glasses of soda water.
The Justices ofthe Peace have. after con-
sultation, come to the conclusion that they
are State officers and entitled to hold Office
for four years, and therefore no election for
Justices of the Peace should be held at the
next election 1t is claimed that Police
Judges also hold for four years. The mat
ter has been submitted to a number of at
torneys for their opinion They will re-
port at an early day
jain e Foster have commenced suit in
the Justices Court to recover from Carl
Browne and Steve Maybell $222 Is, claimed
to be due for the use of theatrical costumes
rented to defendants in December, 1882 In
that month the defendants, being dramati-
cally inclined, gave performance entitled
" Revolution, y in the Union Hall, Berkeley.
Itwas a very gorgeous affair with brill
liant pyrotechnic display But about half
hour after the fall of the curtain the hall
was in flames, and, by the next morning,
hall, costumes and all were in ashes.
The final deposit of 5000 a side in the
mixed wrestling match between Clarence
Whistler and Tom Cannon has been made
The match is to be one bout catch-as-catch-
can and one bout Greco Roman. and if
there should be a third fall the man win
ming fall i'll the shortest space of time is
to have the choosing of the style. Cannon
is the man who defeated O'IIanlon a few
days ago. This match is exciting a great
deal of interest The spectators attempted
to get control of the tickets Saturday, but
the movement was nipped in the bud.
1t will surprise many San Franciscans to
learn that so great and important an in
dustry as iron ship building has actually
been begun at the Potrero. In the extern
Sive works of the Union Iron Company are
already fashioned many of the great iron
ribs which will become part of the steel
collier 10 be built for the Newport Coal
Company. The ways are built ready to re-
ceive the keel. Daily the work progresses.
The works are almost large enough for
small industrial town. When fully in
operation they will be more complete than
any similar establishment in the United
States. Fifteen hundred halSs will be en-
plOyed there. Every part of an iron ship
can there be constructed, and eCery de-
scription of machinery.
DR.. Leroy ]. Henry, a resident and prac-
titioner of San Francisco for more than
twenty-five years, died at l o'clock Satur-
day morning, at his residence corner of
Mission and Eleventh streets The imme-
diate cause of his death was blood-poison,
resulting from an injury to one of his feet,
sustained several weeks ago. His case was
not considered serious until within few
days past He was 81 years of age and I'M
married Deceased came to California in
1861, and has ever since been engaged in
the practice of his profession in this city.
He has been for many years one of the ex-
amining physicians for the Commissioners
of Insanity. He was at one time President
of the Loyal Republican League Of this
city, and ut the time of his death was n
member of Knights of Honor, Knights of
Pythias, Independent Order of Chosen
Friends, Ancient Order of United Work
men, IT, A. O. of Druids and the Patriotic
Sons of America,