Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-17

confer with parties who are damaged in
this way, and satisfactory settlements are
generally made
The weather in this section has been un-
usually warm for several DAYS, the mercury
ranging from 500 to 90o.
Attempt to Blow Up a street-Car In San
Francisco.
SAN Francisco, July 16th.-This after
noon an event occurred on Fourth street,
near Folsom which was the first indication
of the dangerous possibilities OF street-car
strikes. As car on the North Beach and
Mission Railroad, filed with passengers,
passed the Superintendent's office a sharp
and loud report, followed by puff of smoke
underneath Hhe car, startled the bystanders.
The car was considerably jostled, but was
not thrown from the track The police hur-
ried TO the spot and picked up the remnant
of dynamite cartridge or bomb. More
serious damage had not been done owing
to the fact, perhaps. that the explosion oc-
CURED as the car-wheel was moving. Who
could have placed the explosive on the
track, or when, was mystery. An inter-
val of scarcely five minutes bad elapsed
since the previous car had passed over the
track, and the police who surrounded the
place had not observed anyone step into
the street.
Charged with a Grave Crime.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 16th-Just as the
steamer was about TO leave the dock for
Portland this morning, Rosa Drinks, Lin
coin Rosberry and Thomas Smallfield, who
had taken passage, were arrested by Sheriff
Thorn. of Calaveras. The two men are
charged with rape on Katie Cosgrove, the
fifteen-vear-old daughter of Mrs. Cos
grove, who keeps hotel at Angels Camp,
and the woman is charged with
being accessory to the crime. Ac-
cording to the girls story. the
Brinks woman and the two men
that rendered her unconscious. Upon
coming to she found that she had been out
ragged. She felt so ashamed and despond-
ent on realizing her condition that she
made up her mind to drown all her sorrows
by committing suicide, and accordingly took
a dose of rough on rats" Her sufferings,
however, caused her to make known what
she had done, and physician was sum-
moned, antidotes applied, and she was in a
fair way to recover. When in this condi-
ton, being still very week, she was visited
by Rosa Drinks and one of the two men
(which one she was not certain). Mrs.
Drinks gave her something in glass,
which she drank. A few moments after
ward she felt very sick. Her mother
and friends hurried to her bedside, and she
was, so The physician stated dying. She
was told 20 make an ante-mortem state
ment, which she did. In this the forego-
ing facts are embodied. Soon afterward
the girl died. There is great excitement in
Angels Camp over the affair.
Accident at Los Angeles.
Los ANGELES. July 16th.-S. B. Johnson.
a carpenter, fell down the elevator shaft at
the City of Paris store to-day, and his spine
is badly injured He may die.
News of the extra session was received
here with great satisfaction. The irrigators
are highly pleased, and the people fake it
as a recognition of the interests of southern
California
Suicide in santa Clara.
SAN JOSE, July 16th.-A stranger named
Thomas Shingles suicided by strychnine at
Mountain View this afternoon. He had
been working on a thrasher near there.
Nothing is known of him, except that he
was just out from Ohio.