Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-22
BRIEF NOTES.

uon Will forward another Irult tram to the
East to-day.
The fruit-growers in the vicinity Of
Knights Landing are talking of establish
ing a cannery.
In Department One of the Superior
Court yesterday, Catherine Coffey was
pgranted q divorce from P. J. Cotiey.
D. H. ellis, a locomotive fireman, who
was severely injured q few months ago, has
recovered from his hurts and resumed duty.
Freight train No. 5, from San Francisco,
met with detention yesterday morning,
and was nearly four hours behind time in
its arrival here.
The highest and lowest Signal Service re-
port yesterday was 92o and 520, with light,
variable winds, mostly from the north, and
weather clear to hay.
The fire at 4 a. N. or Monday was in the
secondhand clothing store, No. 5l7 X
street, and not at S. Saloven's tailoring es-
Enlistment, We doors west of it.
George Cogle (colored), a witness in a bat.
terry case in the Police Court, failed to ap-
pear yesterday morning. and Il bench war
rant was ordered TO issue for him.
j large force of carpenters is engaged in
repairing the SNOW sheds on the hill, and
building new ones where necessary, pre-
paratory for next winters storms.
There are kilograms al the Western Union
Telegraph office for A." Henneberry (cable
dispatch); Mat Storms; Miss Fannie
Schulize, 20lI Q street, and Geo. Ranlett,
100 0 street.
On Monday a son Of Henry Megerle was
bitten on the arm and side by a dog that
ran out of the yard Of the electric light
works, Sixth and streets. Yesterday
morning Mr.. Megerle went up and shot the
animal.
The St.ter Farmer says that wild ducks
are very plentiful in the tules in the lower
portion of that county. The Prather
brothers, Robert Bailey and Sam Bixley
are killing them at the rate OF about $50
per day.
These arrests were made Yesterday: Tim
OBrien, by officers Farrell and Coffey, for
being drunk; Mary Spain, by Chief Dill
man, for petit larceny Kate Gordon, by
officer Mccormack, for carrying concealed
weapons.
Deputy Grand Dictator L. Bell on Mon
day evening, at a meeting of California
Lodge, No. 1850, Knights of Honor, in
stalled L. havandugh as Guide, ana Carl
Strobel as Chaplain, for the balance of the
u%nexpired term.
JULI DldCh , uUISe entered upon Il full
away yesterday morning from Fifth and J
streets, and ran with TIE wagon to which
he was attached to Second and l. streets,
where he was stopped before any damage
Of consequence had been done.
The Commissioners of Lunacy yesterday
morning examined Walter Welliey, who
on the previous day was arrested on sus-
picion of insanity, and found him in such
a condition mentally that they committed
him to the Asylum at Stockton.
Warden Shirley, of the San Quentin pri-
son, yesterday paid into the State Treasury
S7,113, proceeds of the jute works at that
institution. The Superintendent of the
Home for the Adult Blind also paid in
1851 %, profit from the sale of brooms
made by the blind.
"Teamster" sends the following to this
office viii you please give notice
through your paper that the crossing of
the railroad at Twenty-eighth and r streets
is in bad condition and should be seen
to, as the planking between the rails ex-
tends but two-thirds across the street"
H. G. Hays offered during the State
Fair a prize Of e handsome range to the
person who would guess nearest TO the
number Of beans III a certain bottle which
was on exhibition. The beans have been
counted, and the number proved to be
5,726. I. Griswold, at Tenth and J streets,
won the prize, his guess being 1922.
Yesterday morning, while 2. S. Lawson's
deiiVeTy-wagon horse was running away in
the alley between Second and Third, J and
K streets, he collided with Gregory, Barnes
d Co s horse and wagon. The latter horse
was severely injured by a shaft Of the other
vehicle penetrating his side, and the wagon
to which be was attached was Slightly
damaged.
The steamer apache left for San Fran
cisco yesterday with leo ions of flour-lhe
first of q shipment of 800 tons from the
Pioneer Mill-and as much other freight,
principally goods that were at the State
Fair, as she could carry. In fact she had
to leave a quantity of fair goods on the
wharf. She passed over the bar opposite
the foot OF S street without trouble.
Yesterday morning it was discovered
that an old four inch main, running north
beneath the railroad tracks from the water
works, had bursted. 1t was laid in 1855,
when the water works were first estab-
lished in their present location, for the pur-
pose of supplying Jibboom street. 1t has
not been used for a long time, is not worth
taxing up or paying further attention to,
and accordingly it was Yesterday cut of
near the station-house and abandoned.
About midnight Of Monday two women
employed at the Elite Theater were going
10 their lodgings on Jibboom street, when
two men met them in front of 3. K. Crock
er's stables, between Second street and the
bridge, SPOKE to them, and one of them
snatched q purse from one of the m
After examining it, and finding that It did
not contain any money, he threw it at her
feet. The woman blew q police whistle,
and the bridge Waterman ran to see what
the trouble was, but when he arrived the
men were out of sight.
Yesterday afternoon officer McCormack's
attention was called to q woman who had
Just left q saloon on Second street, between
K and l., and he was told hat she had
threatened to kill some one. The officer fol-
lowed her to X, up which street she turned
toward Third, meanwhile taking a pistol
from her pocket and carrying it by her
side. She was arrested for carrying a con-
cealed weapon, and gave the name of Kate
Gordon. It is said that she had trouble
with her lover on The previous day, and it
was suTmised that she was on the war
path after him.