Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-08

awaiting trial LOT an attempt TO murder }. |
C. Head, merchant of Nashville escaped |
from jail yesterday, heavily handcuffed. !
Officers securing the county failed to find |
him.
The two-year-old daughter of VIM. Pat |
terson, at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, |
was missed from home. The parents, be- |
coming alarmed, aroused the neighbor- |
hood. and finally the entire town turned |
out in search for the missing one Search |
parties were out ali night securing the |
neighborhood, but failed to find the child |
This morning at 6 o'clock she was found in |
the hills, mile from home, where she had
wandered during the night The child was
not injured in any way by the long trip
and exposure. Citizens raised a purse of
over $50 for the finder.
John Paul Jones Dawson, the Oldest Ma
son on the coast, was buried al Georgetown
to-day. The funeral was largely attended,
Los Angeles Notes.
Los ANGELES, June It'll. j. Rose, of
Sunny Slope, to-day introduced in the
were adopted, signed by Maj u E. L. Stern.
the President, also by the Secretary, then
wired to Washington, addressed to Senators
Stanford, Hearst, Jones of Nevada, Sher-
man, Edmunds, Allison, Beck, VOORHEES,
and Others saying This city Clos Ange-
les) through its Board of Trade, sends you
greeting We are watching with much So
licitude your kind efforts in favor of the
viticulttIral industry enactments, viz: tax
ing bogus wines, and allowing free grape
spirits for fortifying sweet wines. We re-
gard this the most important move made
toward the prosperity of California" Hon.
| L. f. Spence sent message of like import,
addressed TO Senator Sherman. When the
| Ohio Senator was here he was the guest of
the Mayor, establishing relations of amlty
between the two gentlemen.
Sunday night a Mexican named Ricardo
Morino, in a drunken brawl, cut another
Mexican, Juan Lugo, terrible cash across |
the neck from behind the ear to imme- |
diately under the chin, passing close to the |
iugular vein, almost seNering the wind |
pipe. The wound was sewed up. The |
man may survive. Morino escaped, and is |
probably headed towards Lower California, |
from where the desperate came about three |
years ago.
Sunday afternoon a Mexican was found |
near Compton, south of this city, by the |
railroad track. sick He was conveyed to |
this city, where he died this morning.
The town of Pasadena held ar election |
to-day, decided to incorporate, and elected |
seven Trustees, a Clerk, Marshal and Treas |
urer.
Inc DOdTu Ol OUpeINtSOlS tO-udN can |
vassed the vote of Santa Ana, and declared |
the town incorporated and certain officers
elected for the first term of the new in
corporation.
Nearly the whole staff of the S p Rail
way Company passed here headed by J. A.
Fillmore, to-day en- route to Ell PaSo |
General c. W Mead President of the Los
Angeles and Santa Monica Railroad, has
been in San Francisco ten days, comforting
with the S. 2. officers. The visit of the
party is supposed here to have some sig
nificance in railroad circles The object
however, was not disclosed.
The fruit-dryers of these lower counties
will this year almost entirely suspend oper-
atoms, on account of the scarceness of de-
ciduous fruits, occasioned by the contin-
ned low temperature since March The
oanners, also, get very little fruit this
season.
Special election to be CalIed-Fire.
SAN JOSE, June 7th.-The City Council
this evening decided to call an election on
the question of issuing bonds to the
amount of 100000 for public improve
ments. as follows: Completion of sewer
system. Sl50,000; new City Hall, 100000; |
two iron bridges over the
Coyote and Guadalupe rivers, $4,000;
street improvement ST. 800; improvement
of public square, 81, 800. The election takes
place June DIST, and there is no doubt Of
its being carried in favor of the issuance of
the bonds.
A fire occurred at 1890 this evening in
the house of George W. Strine, on Eighth
street, near San Carlos. The house and
furniture were partially destroyed. Loss,
800; insured
Runaway Accident-DrowDed while Bath
SAN JOSE, June 7th.-Bert P. Thayer was
thrown from his seat on moving machine |
this morning, by the running away of the |
team. at his farm near the Guadalupe |
mines. His left leg was broken below the
knee. and he received serious bruises on |
the head and body.
Dominic Fiorensi was drowned last even
ing while bathing in the Guadalupe, near
the Lick paper mills. 1t is presumed he
was seized with cramps, as he was a good
swimmer. He was native of Italy, aged
20 years.
suicide of n Young Lady.
SANTA Rosa, June 7th-Miss Alice San
born. daughter of G. n. Sanborn, a highly |
respected citizen of Sebastopol, committed |
suicide at home to-day by taking strych-
nine. She had been in her usual cheerful
mood for the last few days, and no clue has
been obtained which would lead to the |
cause of the rash act. She arose as usual |
and cooked breakfast this morning, and |
when the father returned home at noon he |
found the young lady dead in her room on |
the bed. BY her side was tumbler of |
water and a vial of strychnlne. She spent
Sunday with neighboring family named
Talmage, who say they saw nothing I'M
usual in her manner The affair has cast |
shade of sadness over the community.
Trio
of Prewett.
HoLI1srER. June 7th.-The second trial
of John T. Prewett, for the murder of DR..
Powers, of Bear valley, September II, 1888,
was commenced this morning. The former
trial was unsuccessful, the jury standing
eleven for conviction and one for acquittal
when discharged. Great trouble is antici-
pated in securing a jury, as the case his
been SO widely discussed. The yenIre OF
twenty-five was exhausted to-day without
securing Juror. Judge Breen ordered the
Sheriff to return a venire of $50 jurors on
June 18th, and the further hearing OF the
case was continued until that day
Sudden Death.
REDWOOD Cry. June 7th.-Chas. Scott
died suddenly this morning at 10 o'clock,
while working for Matthew Grove. on the
Donohoe ranch. Deceased tramped from
San francisco yesterday, III company Win
another man, named Moore. Previous to
leaving the city he had been on terrible
spree. The Coroner held an inquest re-
turning a verdict of death from natural |
causes. Deceased has brother living in
Portland, Or.
Tho Santa Cruz boycott Case.
SANTA CRUZ, June 7th-Judge McCann |
this morning rendered a decision in the |
boycott case, in which a. A. Taylor sued |
for damages by reason of the anti-coolie !
club passing resolutions boycotting his !
newspapers, the Weekly Courier Item and |
the Daily Surf, sustaining the demurrer of |
defendants, one of the grounds being that |
no special damage was averred. Plaintiff |
was given thirty days in which to amend |
his complaint.
First Shipment of New Wheat.
WILLIAMS, June 7th.-The first car of |
this seasons new wheat was shipped from |
here to-day by Hochheimer & Co., con- |
signed 10 H. Wangenheim & Co., Port |
Costa 1t is of the Australia variety, of |
fine quality, and was raised by A. ]. Rasor,
the entire field averaging forty bushels per
acre
Disastrous Result of Cigarette Smoking. |
ELMlRA, June 7th.-A fire caused by |