Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-25
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

An undertaken of this city says the prac-
| tice of floral decorations at funerals is dy-
| ing out. 1t was too heavy tax on the sur.
vivors.
| 1t is announced that the Society of Dec
orative Art, which has been established
exactly five years, will be disorganized
owing to the lack of support.
| The crew of the Oceanic steamer Yea.
| landia left the vessel Immediately upon hel
arrival Wednesday, under orders from the
Seamans Union, which has boycotted the
company.
The $50 men who struck work at the
Union Iron Works on Saturday last are
still firm in their determination not to re-
turn to work until the demands of the
Council have been acceded to.
]. Mclaughlin, not long since clerk Of
George W. Tyler, the attorney, and who
figured conspicuously in the $4,000 steal.
is said to have lost $4,000 in a steam
laundry enterprise in Honolulu.
Mary Walsh, a young girl of 10, was
committed to the Napa Insane Asylum
Wednesday. 1t appears 10 be sad case.
All her relatives arc demented and her
only sister is now in the Asylum.
Police Captains Douglass Short and Dun
levy have been notified by the Chief of Po-
liece to instruct their officers to keep n
vigilant lookout for fires, and also suppress
the nuisance of irecrackers and the dis
charge of pistols in the streets.
The Board of Education of this city has
decided not to allow any salaries of teach
ers for July until the Board of Supervisors
provides for the payment of the same, or
until the School Department receives the
money from some other source.
The Home of the Inebriate of this city
has both charity and pay patients. Those
who pay $40 per week have nicer room
and are allowed to eat in the dining-room,
while those who have no money eat by
themselves, but their food is the same as
that of the others.
There is an odd situation of affairs at the
City Receiving Hospital, caused by the
present claim of three persons to the stew
ardship of the institution; and the settle
ment of the problem involves an amount
of diplomacy that threatens to thoroughly
unsettle, not only the entire Board of
Health, but the usually placid minds of
City Physician Blach and Police Surgeon
Frank Dennis.
United States Senator James g. Fair ar
rived overland Thursday from Washing
ton, accompanied by his Secretary. Charles
Neal, WHO went up Tue IOau last IiSnt W
meet him. He says that Congress will
probably adjourn in a few days, and that
very little will be done before the adjourn
ment.
Richmond Slice was called as a witness
in the case of J. F. Prewett for the murder
of DR.. Powers, at Hollister. He refused to
be sworn and Judge Breen adjudged him
to be in contempt of Court and sentenced
him to pay fine of $500 and to be impris-
oned in San Benito County Jail until that
amount was paid, at the rate of one day for
every dollar. Slice sued ont writ of ha-
beas corpus in the Supreme Court, which
tribunal has remanded the prisoner TO the
custody of the Sheriff of San Benito coun-
ty. holding that the witness had no right to
refuse to be sworn and that his disobedi-
ence of the order of the Court was con-
tempt which the Superior Court had juris-
diction to punish.