Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-18
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

Secretary Street, of the immigration As
ISOLATION, reports that during the past week
750 Immigrants arrived in this State.
The newly-appointed Registrar, Walsh,
stated Saturday that he had received his
commission from Governor Stoneman and
would take possession of the office at once,
believing that to be eX-Registrar Johnson's
wish.
Thomas A. O'Brien, the well-known
lawyer, Court Commissioner and Demo
cratic politician, who had an office with
Cope & Boyd, the lawyers, died suddenly
about 8 o'clock Saturday evening at his
home, 32S Eighteenth street, from an over
dose of laudanm, accidentally admins
tered by himself.
Saturday the Central Pacific Railroad
Company changed the system of punching
Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley commu-
tatiOn tickets. Hitherto the tickets have
been punched with the day of the month
when used the tickets being good for one
round trip each day. BY the new arrange
ment commuters, if they do not come to
the city on Sundays, can ride any other
day on that coupon instead. That is, the
tickets are good for sixty or sixty-twO rides
during the month"; and the passenger may
take them when he plcases.
Tom Cannon says heis not at all satisfied
with the result of his late wrestling match
with Delmas, and, feeling confident that
he can beat the Frenchman if the latter
viii wrestle, he now offers to wrestle him
in one or two weeks from signing articles of
agreement, on the following conditions:
The winner to take two-thirds and the
loser one-third of the gate money after all
expenses have been deducted, and if it be
draw, the whole to go 10 some charitable
institution; or he (Cannon) will wager
$500 that he will throw Delmas two falls,
catch-as-c atch-can, inside Of one hour
few minutes after o'clock Saturday
afternoon a shocking tragedy took place in
the Office of the North Pacific Hotel, at the
corner of Jackson and Drumm streets, by
which Detmar Haesloop, the proprietor,
was shot and killed by Frederick W. Sic
wort, who committed suicide Immediately
after doing the fatal deed, by shooting him
self in the head. HaesloOp was a native of
Germany and nearly 80 years of age. He
leaves a wife but no children. At the time
of the murder his wife was absent from the
hotel, and it was not known where she
could be found until after the body had
been taken to the Morgue. Haesloop was
a member of Concordia Lodge, l. O. 0. F.,
the San Francisco Schuetzen Verein and
the German Benevolent Association.
The Democratic State Central Committee
met in executive session Saturday afternoon
in the rooms of the Democratic State Club.
Part of the business made public was that
the committee had called on Judge Ran
dali, Chairman of the Second Congressional
delegation, to convene the delegation on
August 26th for the purpose of nominating
a member of Congress to take the place of
James Budd, who was forced to decline on
account of i'll health. A part of the bust
ness transacted that was not given out for
| publication was that the committee had
received and accepted the resignation of
DR. J. NJ Eaton. and Maurice Schmidt was
chosen for the place and to so on the Exec
utiye Committee.