Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-24
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

A large hall in the upper part of the APP
praisers' Building has been filled with
chairs and tables, for the purpose of con-
ducting the civil service examination, to
be held on Monday There are over 200
applicants, and they will take Up all the
space.
Cordelia |. Kincaid has commenced an
action against A. n. Towne and the Cen
trail Pacific Railroad Company to recover
50, 200 damages and $500 for money ex-
pended in searching for personal property
alleged to have been unlawfully disposed
of by the defendants.
Eight Chinese arrested in tan game
paid $50 fines in Judge Rix's Court Friday,
| and seven others took the alternative OF
twenty days Imprisonment in the county
Jail. A keeper of Chinese lottery game
contributed $40 to the County Treasury and
three visitors paid $50 fines.
Deputy United States Marshal HAYES
brought up from Wilmington, Los Angeles
county, Friday, six sailors who had been
held by United States Commissioner Ellis
| for disobeying the lawful commands of the
Captains of their vessels. They are to
await the action of the United States Grand
Jury.
John, alias Z" Bulger" Crowley, who was
shot twice by officer Crockett on the 9th
ult., while attempting to escape when de-
tected in the act of breaking into the store
| at 242 Fourth street, pleaded guilty to a
charge of burglary in Judge Murphy
| Court Saturday, and was sent to San QUEEN
tin prison for six years.
A verdict of accidental death was rem
dered by the Coroner's jury Friday in the
case Of Michael 0'Brien, who fell from a
| truck on the corner of Fourth and Town
| send streets last Tuesday afternoon and
broke his neck. O'Brien was a native OF
| Ireland, 30 years of age, laborer by occu-
| patton, and was unmarried.
In Judge Rix's Court Saturday four Chi
nese convicted of violating the pure air
law were fined $40 each, and two Others
| were sent to the County Jail in default of
| paying their fines. In Judge LAWYERS
| Court four offenders paid $40 fines. Ten
other heathens were arrested early yester-
| day morning by the raiding squad.
Martin Hussing, a German sailor. aged
AZ, has been sent to Stockton Insane Asv-
lum. He has been an inmate of the County
Hospital. Louis Snyder, a German. aged
30, and also an inmate of the County Hos
pital, has been sent to the Napa Asylum.
Maria Lawless, aged %, has been returned
TO the Napa Asylum, of which she was
formerly an inmate.
Saturday workmen commenced to tear
down the building on the northwest corner
| of Pacific street and Bull Run alley, to
make room for a brick structure to be
erected for the exclusive use of Chinese.
In this building was at one time the
| notorious I" Bull Run p" saloon, the worst
dive that was ever opened on the
: Barbary Coast" and in which Ned Allen,
the keeper, was murdered by Barney Feel,
one of the habitues.
The American Sugar Refining Company
of San Francisco filed new articles of incor-
poration last Saturday. The new corpora
ton will include the old company and in
crease its capital to 81 100000. The incor-
porators named are Samuel T. Alexander
and Herman Bendel, of Oakland, and
Morris S. Grinbaum. Edward Polhemus.
and Hermann J. Sadler of this city.
Capital stock, 100000, in shares of 500
each. San Francisco is designated as the
principal place of business.
There were 105 deaths during the week
ending Friday afternoon-an increase over
the same period of last year of "a. Thirty
two of this number were children. Con-
sumption headed the list with Is victims
heart disease caused deaths, cancer
cholera infantum, infantile commissions
and hamilton each 6, typhoid fever 4,
pneumonia 3. There were four cases of
suicide. The diseases are classed as fol-
lows: Zymotlc Is, constitutional %, local
"A, developmental IL, violent 8, and unas-
certained l.
According to Superintendent Keatings
annual report, 422 males and 123 females
were admitted to the Almshouse during
the past fiscal year, and 565 had been there
on July /. 1884. OF these ITO persons $50
were discharged "a died 90 ran AWAY a
were transferred to the Insane Asylum and
sos remained in the house on July /, 1885.
The foreigners largely outnumbered the
native-born, the former numbering 401, of
whom 235 came from Ireland, and the
latter H. of whom "a were born in New
York and q in California The average
age of the inmates was 537 years.