Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-22
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

The Superior Court has been petiiioned
by creditors to declare the Forty nine Min
ing Company insolvent.
The steamer Rio de Janeiro, which sailed
for HongkouE yesterday, carried go China
men with return certificates.
Jose Rodriguez has been sentenced to
imprisonment for life at Folsom Prison FOR
the murder of Timoteo Martinez last May.
II. a. Wilson, 27 Sixth street, dealer in
guns and sporting goods, assigned Monday
for a small amouut. The firm made
similar assignment three years ago.
The precinct and county Dernocracy's
mass meeting at Metropolitan Hall Monday
evening was well attended The feature
was Attorney-General Marshall's speech.
The trial Of Nav jackson. who. il IS
charged, frightfully disigured Martin
Fuller more than year ago by throwing
vitriOl in his face has been continued by
Judge Toohy until November 1st.
II is said that the Sailors Union has vir-
tually ended the strike, as the coastine
bOarding-hOuses, numbering over thirty.
have exhausted their patience and Secn to
considerable loss keeping sailors SO long
without recompense.
Alfred Hahn, aged rs years. was killed
Works, where he was employed as o ma
ch!nist. He was caught between the up-
right Of planer and mortar, tnd his
head was badly crushed.
A meeting Of The creditors of Hoffman &
Co. was held Monday, and statement of
assets and liabilities was subnitted The
details OF il coGld not be learned Joseph
Naphtaly, attorney for the assignees has
gone Esst i'll the interest of the creditors
The liabilities are placed at abolt 1885. eco.
and the assets at about 500, GOO, leaving q
deficiency OF nearly $1S5 900.
Alexander B Grogan, a prominent oapi-
talist, died last Saturday. He had lived in
the same building for more than twenty
years, in the quiet enjoyment of q large
fortune, and its management was strictly
kept in his own hands. Deceased vas a
native of Belfast, Ireland. and in early life
he went TO South America and engaged in
6 general mercantile career. In 1913 he
came to this coast.
\ girl II years of age, named Agnes
Mann, was arrested Monday night bv Off
| Ger Anthony for leading q depraTed life.
Her uncle, Kennedy, became insane over
| his niece's unfortunate fall, and he is now
! confined in the Napa Asylum: The girls
| mother arrived from LIS Angeles on Mon
udJ' ana, learning the true history OF her
| daughters life had her arrested. The pain
| ful meeting between mother and daughter
| IN the city prison was too much for the
| grief-stricken mother, who tainted in The
| arms of an attendant.
On Sunday, at Alameda, the deep well III
! process of excavation by Captain r. L.
Thompson, for the purpose of increasing
| the city water supply collapsed, leaving
NOTHING To show for SaVorol rnor,fl,a' ,rc ri-
| but hole in the ground some fifty feet
deep and twenty feet broad. When the
| well collapsed the steam engine, hosting
works. derrick and heavy timbers of the
curbing were swallowed up, and not sign
of them remains. at the time of the col
lapse the well was eighty-seven feet deep
and sixteen in diameter. The loss is esti.
mated at nearly $4,000. No sufficient ex-
planation is offered for tic COLLAPSE.