Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-21
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

DR.. W. f. Morrison has been held to an
swer on several charges of forgery and
grand larceny.
William Smiley, q burglar, was shot
Wednesday night by Howard Carr of the
firm of Klein 4 Carr, whose store he had
entered.
4 twenty-months-old child of Mary and
Thomas McGrath fell into tub of hot wa
ter at BOG Day street ON Tuesday, and was
scalded to death.
John w. Ingram, the individual who
shot Supervisor-elect John T. Abbott q few
weeks since and dangerously wounded
him, has been examined on a charge of
assault to murder, and held to answer be-
fore the Superior Court with bonds fixed at
5000.
The coal ship Matterhorn, which arrived
here four days ago from Dundee, was dis
| covered on fire Thursday morning She
was brought to the wharf and is now being
unlOaded. She is consigned to Meyer, Will
son & Co. The damage is not thought TO
be very serious.
The Lick Free Public Baths Trustees
have practically decided in favor of a fresh
| water tub bath-house, to be established on
Mission street. between Sixth and Seventh.
The plans are being prepared. The cost Of
etc, is estimated at 100000.
4 potato weighing six and one-half
pounds is on exhibition at the Merchants
| Exchange. 1t was raised ut Port Blakely,
| w T., in a garden owned by Renton,
| Holmes & Co. A number of smaller pota-
| toes averaging four pounds each, from the
same place, lie beside the large one.
The Pacific Building and Loan Associ-
! alton has disincorporated, having fulfilled
| its purposes. In its nine years existence
it handled S66S,000 for the benefit of its
members, and did not lose dollar. The
shareholders received an average profit of
| over II per cent. on their investment of
dollar month.
Election bets to large amount in the
| aggregate were deposited with Moses A.
| Gunst, OF Kearny street. The total was
about $4,000, o. which $142, 900 was wa
gered on New York and the general result,
| and $32, 600 on San Francisco California
and the three doubtful States, New Jersey,
Indiana and Connecticut. Few remain to
be paid.
About 8 o'clock Tuesday morning Mrs.
p. A. Armstrong, the mother of the Seaside
triplets, died in her home on Frederick
street, near the waters edge. The case is
one of sad interest. The triplets, all girls,
were born thirteen days ago. The mother
was aged only II years, and from the birth
of the children she was very low, seeming
to improve on the third day, but after that
growing steadily weaker until her death.
The husband Is a crab-fisher, gaining the
scantieSt livelihood for his family, which
included one other child a boy 3 years old,
and the sickness of his wife came at time
when he was least prepared to supply her
needs. The triplets are in excellent health.
from the steamer Arabic some days ago was
All Tsung, Chinese actor OF some celeb
rity among his countrymen, who came TO
this country under contract with the man
agement of the Chinese Theater on Jackson
street, below Dupont. Tuesday evening he
appeared on the stage and was arrested by
Assistant United States Attorney Carroll
Cook, who visited the thcater i'll disguise
The C5M says there was no excitement, as
precautions had been taken to keep the
audience III ignorance of-t;ies arrest until
the prisoner and his captors were well out
of the reach of any attempt of viohnce. 4
substitute was put in Tsung's place and the
play moved on in all its grandeur tfS7 acts
and $50 scenes When the Assem- blage of
Mongolians did comprehend that they had
been cheated of sight of their Glvorite,
the police had hard work To preyellt q riot.
Their indignation was displayed in the
shape of missiles which they hurhfl at the
, other actors in the play. All Is ing was
lodged in the County Jail
Captain Murke, of the German man-of-
war Leipzig, while sailing from Valparaiso
to Honolulu, on March 10, 1885, in latitude
1885 south, longitude l06:46:S6 fest in
J closed paper in bottle and flung it into
the sea. On the paper, which was in Ger
man, was printed form stating The fact,
and on the back another form, to be filed
up By the finder, and a request MADE to for
( ward the same with the date, loca ion and
finders name filled in TO the German Adj
, miraIJy Office III Bremen. The object of
the immersion was to ascertain be direc-
ton of the currents of the Pacific Iccan for
: the benefit of photographic knowledge, TO
2 which great attention is now being Erected.
The bottle was found June "A, 1SSL by the
brig City of Papeete, in latitude Is. B south,
longitude ia west of Paris, hayinetraveled
q 20Oomiiesffom wiiereit was thrown into the
sea- The bottle was brought to this port few
days ago by the brig Tahiti, and given to
the branch photographic Office, whence il
/ will be forwarded 10 Germany.