Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-28
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

The Immigration Association reports
that 10 immigrants arrived in this State
during the past week. Besides these, there
were 400 excursionists from the East, many
of whom are looking after Government
land.
Advices from Australia just received,
remove all doubt as to Clarence Whistler's
death. Whistler died at her Maiesty's
Hotel, Melbourne, on the morning of No
vember 9th.
A private dispatch from New York, just
received in this city, announces the sale of
James Y. Coleman 5 yacht, the Carmelita.
The price paid is not made public, but it is
said TO have been larger than the owner
expected.
telegram from Boston says that accord
ing TO telegram 10 Charles Webb Howard,
President of the Spring Valley Water Com
pany, the loss by the explosion of the
boilers at Lake MERGED on Christmas eve
did not exceed $4,000.
The operations OF the San Francisco
Clearing House for the past week compare
as follows with the corresponding week
last year:
EXchanges..-.......... SIG 34 SS,S260 OIL
1,3I1 ,2i0 l,95963S
Senator James G. Fair, hearing that the
Boys and Girls Aid Society was greatly in
need OF money to meet its running ex-
penses, has generously contributed, in ad-
dition to the valuable building site he re-
Gently gave, another Christmas gift of
81, 600.
dispatch from New York states that
Mr. Wolf, the agent Of the Cigarmakers'
Union sent East by the manufacturers, for
warded from that place Saturday 275 cigar
makers for this city. At Chicago they will
be Joined by another party of 100 cigar
makers on special train.
One of the worst instances of hoodium
outlawry that has come to the notice of this
city for long time occurred Saturday af-
ternoon ON Webster street, near CLAY. 1t
consisted in deadly assault upon police
officer Armstrong, while in the discharge
of his duty, by three hoodlums named
Halleran, Dalton and Collins. The officer
was nearly killed.
The missing whaler AMETHYST not hay
ing been heard from. the Secretary of the
Navy has been asked to send a relief ex-
petition. The only Government vessel
now at Mare Island is the Coast Survey
steamer Garlic Patterson, which could not
undertake an Arctic voyage. If the Secre-
| tary decides to send an expedition at cnce,
!
Leon Vondrez, Frenchman residing at
l4l9 Mission street, this city, jumped from
| the narrow gauge train SATURDAY. morning
at $3.50 O'Clock as it pas ed over the trestle-
work of the Alameda mole He Jumped
into the water, and was rescued with some
difficulty by John Wanderitch and some
| others who were near. He was taken to
the Oakland Receiving Hospital, where he
died at o'clock.
Mrs. Lucy Crittenden Thornton, widow
| of the late Judge Harry l. Thornton, died
at her residence, 301 Van Ness avenue, Fri
| day forenoon, at the age of SO. During her
long and eventful life the deceased made
friends in nearly every part of the United
States and her death will be mourned
in the East, West North and South. Mrs.
Thornton was the daughter of Colonel
John Crittenden, of Kentucky, and was
born at Versailles, Woodford county, of
that State, in 1902
AT IL o'clock Saturday morning the
United States Circuit Court in bank rem
dered its decision in the case of William
Sharon versus Sarah Althea Hill, a suit to
declare the famous marriage contract and
dear wife letters forgeries, and to stop
Sarah Althea from making any further
use of them. Judge Sawyer regretted the
| absence of Judge Deadly, whose opinion
was read by Judge Sabin. The decision
was in favor of Senator Sharon, declares
| the contract and letters forgeries, denounces
the conspiracy in scathing terms, and re-
views the testimony in the case from begin
ming to end.
Martin Kelly, one of the Fire Commits
sioners-elect, but who has not yet obtained
his seat, and at present a deputy in the
Street Department, has brought suit for
libel against the Alta California, claiming
$4,000 damages. The action is commenced
in consequence of publication on the Dist
inst. of an article published in the Bulletin
of January , 1880, and in which Kelly was
charged to be operating with gang of half
interest swindlers, and in which was in
cluded some letters written by him ard
others bearing on the subject. The Aha
reproduced the article. The article was
not complained of when it originally APP
peared in the Bulletin.