Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-02
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

NhlCudSl OdTIdLleI, VINO Sueu lQe sSdLl L ran
cisco Bridge Company for $4,000 damages
for injuries sustained, has recovered judg-
ment for 81 1000.
At the teachers examination on Thurs
day, vote was taken on the question of
lady School Directors. Two-thirds of the
teachers voted in favor of having ladies in
the board.
Josephine (alias JESSIE Brown, who, it is
charged, stabbed and killed her husband in
Natoma-street lodging-house on Septem-
Der 14th, has been held to answer on o
charge of murder.
The Sub-Treasury is separating the light
and defective half-dollars from the good
ones in its possession, and will have them
converted into dimes. OF five-cent nickels,
which have been scarce, the Sub-Treasury
has received a new supply.
A convention of Independent Republi-
cans will be called tonight to place a
municipal and legislative ticket in the
field. A number of Republicans who are
dissatisfied with the programme proceed
ings of the Higgins conventions have been
quietly working to this end for the past
week.
The statue to be erected in memory of
General H. w. Halleck has arrived and
will be placed in position at Golden Gate
Park when the foundation is ready. The
figure is eight feet high and will stand on a
base six foot square. The entire hight of
the monument will be fifteen feet and nine
inches.
Rev. Father Prendergast has handed
Mayor Bartlett check for 81 ,000 to be for
warded to the Charleston sufferers on be-
half of the Catholics of this city. The fol-
lowing additional contributions have been
received: st. Paul's Episcopal Church,
S44 So D. o. Mills, $100; Richard Grant,
500; miscellaneous, 81 80. Total, S249.
The suit of D. C. Wilson against Mabel
Treadwell was decided on Thursday. Plain
tiff, while employed in a Kearny-street
store, was precipitated down a rickety fight
of stairs and sustained bodily injuries. He
sued Mrs. Treadwell, the owner of the
building, to recover $4,000 damages, for
not keeping the stairs in better repair. The
jury returned verdict for 81 800.
the Anti-Boss Convention met Thursday
night in Metropolitan Hall, and after a
long wrangle adjourned until Monday
night without transacting any business.
The Labor party has nominated a number
of municipal candidates. Judges T. K
Wilson, Finn, Lawler and J. Leggett, and
]. NJ. Trout have been nominated for Su-
party Convention.
In Judge Finn's Court the case of James
G. Rule VS.. John P. Jones, ex-senator, has
been stricken off the calendar The suit
was brought by Rule to recover one-half of
s195, 900, which he claimed he was entitled
to by a contract of partnership between
himself and Jones. He alleges that while
an employe of the Consolidated Virginia
Mining Company he divulged to Jones the
existence of certain ore bodies in the mine,
and the latter secured lease of that por-
ton of the mine, and agreed to give Rule
half of what he made out of the mine.
Milton Currier was thrown from one of
the cars of the Ocean Beach Railroad,
short time ago, and killed. The accident
occurred through his leaning from the plat
form of the car while it was going round
curve. His friends refused DR.. Hutchins
permission to see the injured youth, as
they were spiritualists and looked to the
spirits to cure him. Pressure was brought
to bear on the family, and DR.. Hutchins
visited the young man and found that his
injuries had never been attended to, sand
and dirt still remaining in cuts on his
head. Young Currier died. and judicial
investigation of the case will be made.
The Chronicle says: "The salmon-can-
ming business in California, Oregon and
Washington Territory has been very light
this year, being estimated at 100000 cases,
against $3.50 last year. OF the deficit
100000 cases is on the Columbia river, and
the Gamers on that stream are respondent.
There has been a steady decrease in the
catch in the two States and one Territory
named since 1888, when it amounted to
1,106, 400 cases. As partial offset to this
decrease there has been an increase in the
product of the Alaskan canneries of about
$4,000 cases, the pack for last year being
5000 cases, while for this season it is esti-
timated at 125,000. Outside of Alaska
the Gamers had this year to contend as
well with unfavorable weather as with a
scarcity of fish. The cause of the light
run in the Sacramento is unknown. though
the packers accuse the sea-lions of being
responsible for it,