Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-08
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

Over 1000 voters have been naturalized
in the San Francisco Courts since last jan
uary.
The California Branch Leagues are to be
represented by proxy i'll the National Land
League Convention at Boston.
The clerks in the shoe stores have organ
lied TO secure early closing-at o'clock
every evening except Saturday.
Louis Blanding, aged 81, has been com
mitted to the Insane Asylum. He Is we'll
known mining engineer. Absorbed study
over an invention for treating ores has over
turned his intellect.
The jury in the case Of William August
Hartman, child of five years of age, who
was killed by the cars of the Southern Pa
cific Railroad Company on Tuesday after
noon, returned q verdict of accidental
death
Jim Carr and Tom Nolan's Unknown
have been matched to fight TO finish with
gloves, under the Marquis of Queensberry
rules, for a purse of $500, donated by Tom
Nolan and f. &. Kelly This fight is to
take place September Sd.
The chief cook of the Nevada restaurant
had Il great surprise Tuesday as he was
breaking some eggs for cuStard. As he
smashed one of the eggs on the rim of the
basin, there wriggled out from the shell a
snake some three-quarters of an inch in
length.
Edward L Nichols, Assistant Secretary
of the Navy, in answer to query as to the
Nevada cadetship at the Naval Academy at
Annapolis, writes There will not be a
vacancy for the appointment of a naval
cadet from Nevada until 1866, when Cadet
John D. Mcdonald should finally gradu-
ate
In the United States Circuit Court W. D.
LawtOn has commenced a suit for damages
against John g. and Robert Eagleson.
Plaintiff alleges that the defendants I'M
lawfully used his patent for shirt fronts,
which patent consists in making the linen
front larger than its lining, whereby the
front is less clumsily attached to the body
of the shirt, to the good of the wearer s
soul.
Philamena Frey, the 10-year-old daugh
ter of a barber, had an almost miraculous
escape from death Wednesday afternoon.
She was leaning on flower shelf in a
third-story back window of the Tittel
building, on Bush street, and, losing her
equilibrium, fell TO the wooden pavement
on Clara lane, distance of forty-tive feet.
She was picked mp speeches, and, being
removed to the Receiving Hospital, was
found to have sustained 10 more serious
injuries than confusion Of the right hip
and bruises about the face.
y sad accident occurred shortly after
o'clock Wednesday afternoon on Pier ?,
Howard street Patrick Hallahan, recently
employed as 4 driver of coal cart, was
driving q twO-wheel truck on the wharf
To the truck Hallahan had attached a
horse he had just received from the coun-
try. He placed a heavy timber on the
truck and attempted 10 start the animal,
who swerved suddenly and brought the
timber with terrific force against Hallahan's
head crushing the skull like an egg shell
and causing instant death.
a young man, who, when very hard
pressed, gave the name of Z. Frederick
Hayes, and said his trade was that of a
compositor, made two deliberate attempts
at suicide Wednesday night by walking
into the Pacific Ocean, up to his arms, on
the Cliff House beach. He was twice
rescued and marched off finally to the Re
ceiving Hospital by officer Haggett. There
was found upon him 81 ,070 in greenbaclls.
He claimed to have been in town only two
days. and said that his people lived in New
Haven, Conn. He was noticeable for a
| marked impeachment in his speech, and
| showed himself to be out of his mind He
| recollected walking into the bay, and said
1t was to get bath, "to mix the waters
Of the ocean, and " to fathom the depth
of the Pacific