Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-02
PACIFIC COAST.
SAD FATE OF A WANDERING
PRINTER.
Showing the Queer-Heavy Damages
Awarded for Ipjury-Oroville
and Quincy Mails.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE HrcoRD-usIos. ]
CALIFORNIA,
Items from Los Angeles.

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Los ANGELES, December 1st.-The Dem
ocratic City Convention tonight nominated
the following ticket: For Mayor, w. H.
Attorney, Moye Wicks; Tax Collector,
B. Cohen Assessor, w. R. Stevenson
City Board of Educaticn-C. P. Thurston
and w. ID. Stephenson. The election takes
place next Monday, December 9th.
The new county Jail is completed, and
the prisoners were to-day removed to their
new quarters.
Eugene Spuller, member of the House OF
Deputies OF France, arrived here to-day
and was accorded large reception by our
French population tonight There was an
address of welcome by L. Loeb, French
Consul.
Lucky" Baldwin was fined 500 to-day
for assault on John baltimore. 1t is
charged that he pulled pistol on the Pros
ecutlng Attorney during the progress of the
trial
One of the Rascals Caught.
SANTA MARIA, December 1st.-Deputy
Sheriff Madison Graves, of San Luis Obs
pc, arrested man here last evening for at
tempting to pass worthless ten-dollar cur
rency bills, drawn by the Consolidated
Bank of Canada, and signed by J. Hicks,
President, and countersigned by w. Irwin.
After being arrested he made confession,
and had the arresting officer dig up roll
of some $500 in worthless bills, which he
had buried, prior to his arrest.
Terrible Accident.
VIsALIA, December 1st.-J. w. Archer, a
tramp printer, who was beating his way
south, fell from train at Tulare last night
and had his right leg crushed from the
knee to the ankle and half of the left foot
mashed. He was brought to the hospital
at Visalia 10 day. His limbs will be am
putated at once, but he is not expected to
live through the night.
The Beaver Murder Trial.
VIsALIA, December 1st.-The trial of
Henry Beaver for the murder of C. S.
Hayes, editor of the Travers Ifdinqs, has
been going on in the Superior Court since
Monday. About 100 witnesses have been
subpenaed. Some new evidence of i'm
portance was elected, proving that Beaver
mad borrowed shotgun on the day the
murder was committed, one barrel of
which was loaded with buckshot, and
Hayes was killed by charge of buckshot.
The evidence is all circumstantial. 1t will
take the remainder of the week to COM
plete the trial.
The Biddle VIII Case.
SAN LUIS OBIsPo, December 1st-In the
Biddle will contest case to. day Mrs. Kate
Plummer, the plaintiff, was cross-exam-
ined, but in nearly every instance her
direct testimony was substantiated. She
detailed family history full of revolving
incidents, to show how a fathers insane,
unwarrantable and imaginative prejudice
had led him to cut his daughter off with
$40 for her share in his estate, valued at
half million.
A Corner on Flour Mills.
SAN JOSE, December 1st.-The Central
Milling Company, which was incorporated
several weeks ago, has obtained control of
all the Touring mills in Santa Cruz, San
Benito, San Luis Obispo, Santa Clara and
Monterey counties. 1t is stated that
other corporations throughout the State
will cooperate with the company and that
the -four trade will be regulated"
Weather Indications.
SAN Francisco, December LIST. The
weather indications for the twenty-four
hours commencing at A. NJ. on December
I'd, for California are: Fair weather, fol-
lowed by local showers on the coast in the
northern portion.