Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-23
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

An effort is being made tosuppress mock
| auctions.
Rev. Sam Jones, the eccentric reviyalist,
is expected TO shortly visit the coast.
! The bronze work on the fence surround
ing J. c. Floods new mansion will cost
| $4,000.
The Democratic State Central Committee
IS SAID to be embarrassed by lack of cam
paign funds.
| The charge of drunkenness against po-
Ieeman Conboy has been dismissed by the
| Police Commissioners.
The German Den,okrGt, of San Francisco,
has abandoned the Republican party be-
cause 1t thinks the latter has prohibition
| tendencies.
The original Blaines Faugh-a- Ballagh
| Club OF irishmen has been reorganized
| with one hundred signers. NJ. T. Sullivan
is President.
Charles Halberstadt tailor, so years of
| age, was found dead on Jackson street near
Kearny, on Tuesday. His death is attrib-
uted To drink.
The MilliSen Traction Engine Company
| has filed articles of incorporation. The
purpose is to manufacture traction engines
ond all forms of agricultural, mining and
milling machinery.
! The Supreme Court has affirmed the de-
cision of the Superior Court in the case of
| Taylor vs. Terry, which was for q suit
| brought for unlawful detainer of land after
| the expiration of lease.
George Harding sued the Donahue Rail
road Company for S55, $50 for injuries sus-
tanned by being run over by an engine at
San Rafael on the night of November q,
1850. a jury gave him verdict for 500.
| Victor Dupont, steward of the post hos
| pi,al at the Preside, has been arrested on
charge of practicing medicine without u
| license, because he recently gave some med
| icine and prescriptions to poor people liv-
| ing on the reservation.
| An additional charge of felony embezzle-
ment has been placed against Mrs. Euniee
| Perkins, the lodg ging-house keeper who is
confined in the city prison awaiting trial
on four charges of embezzlement for pilfer-
ing from her boarders.
James Riley, farm laborer, who has
| been rooming at $50 Sixth street for a week
or more past, wound up prolonged spree
on Tuesday morning by cutting his throat
with pocket-knife while standing at the
corner of Sixth and Berry streets.
The Supreme Court has affirmed the de-
| cision OF the San Francisco Superior Court
| in the case or ScheatS VS.. the Hartford In
surance Company, which is a suit on fire
insurance policy, decided in favor of the
plaintiff. The defendant appealed On tech
nicalities.
AT meeting Of Irish Democrats Tuesday
night John Enos said: 1t is now your
| duty to vote for yourselves. and not for
| those men who have made dupes OF you.
Have no bosses. Don't indorse man if
you don't want him. Vote as your con-
| science dictates and be freemen."
Judge Reardon has sustained the de-
murrer to the complaint in the case of P
| d. Bulbard VS.. Margaret A. Xix ct al. This
is case where married woman was sued
on her note. The Court holds that mar
ried woman can execute contract for the
| payment of money, which the law will en-
| force.
The suit OF the Excelsior Mining and
Water Company against J. p Pierce is on
trial before Judge Wilson. The complaint
states that defendant was Director, and
voted for nineteen dividends, aggregating
in 1878, S266, ,692. 1t is claimed that the
money for their payment was taken from
the capital stock; therefore the company
brings suit for the total amount of the divi-
| dends, together with interest since the date
of the first one. in all amounting to over
Sl50 000