Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-25
BRIEF NOTES.

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Charles 7. Jones was much improved in
condition yesterday, and viii soon be con.
valescent.
The steamer San Joaquin No. 3 arrived
from the upper Sacramento yesterday with
a barge load of grain, and returned light.
Thomas Consolation, who was fined SOC
in the Police Court on Thursday for bat
terry, has paid his fine and been released
from the county Jail.
Between 6 and Z P. NJ. Tuesday last No
BILE Fishers residence, 95 i street. was Wis.
tied by a thief, who entered through a
window and stole a silver watch.
The highest and lowest Signal Service
temperature yesterday was $40 and so,
with fresh TO brisk northerly winds pre-.
vailing and weather clear. The wind last
night was a fresh breeze from the south
west.
Fair Oaks Relief Corps will give a lit
erary and musical entertainment mex
Thursday evening at Turner Hall. for the
benefit of its relief fund. Jones, Fisch &
Watson's Band will furnish music for
dancing.
Officer Mccormack arrested Yesterday a
young Chinese hoodlum, known as
: Butch" who created trouble at the Chi
nese theatre a few nights since, on charges
of drawing a deadly weapon and disturbing
the peace.
About a carload of Sacramentans Joined
at Davisvllle last evening the excursion
from San Francisco to 1.-The 'front.' of the
California and Oregon Railroad. The train
from the Bay consisted of eleven sieepers
and q baggage car.
In Department One of the Superior Court
| yesterday Robert Curtis, who stole William
Smiths horse and cart about u week go,
and subsequently pleaded guilty of grand
larceny, was sentenced to one year in the
State Prison at Folsom.
The flags of the steamer Modoc, and that
at the steamer landing, were displayed at
haIt-mast yesterday out of respect for the
memory of Captain W. H. Moor, Superin-
tendent OF the railroad company's steam
ers, who died at San Francisco Thursday
after a long illness.
The room of one of the dodgers at the
Grand Hotel was entered by a thief We'd
nesday night-the occupant having forgot
ten to fasten the door when he retired-and
robbed of $175. The owner of the money,
an Italian, who came here from Cherokee
Flat for the benefit of his health, is left sick
and destitute.
The two little children who were run
over at Marysviile on Wednesday, by q
vehicle which three young men had hired
in Sacramento, were on Thursday doing
we'll and apparently not seriously hurt.
Gus. Hornung, who was driving in the
barouche that ran over them, was fined
$40 in the Police Court for fast driving.
A boy named John Hughes. aged about
10 years, disappeared from home Thursday
morning, and is presumed TO nave run
away, desiring to " go it on his own hook''
tor a while. His parents are anxious about
him, but, if he is like the generality of boys
who leave home in that manner, he will
soon be as anxious to get back home as his
parents are to have him there.
Officer Sullivan and Burt Kidder went
over to Woodland yesterday morning, and
succeeded in finding there the Chinaman
who robbed the Kidder residence in this
city Thursday. The pistol stolen was found
upon him, but neither the 500 nor the
gold watch and chain taken at the same
time. The Celestial was brought to Sacra-
mento and charged with burglary.
Mary Johnson, the terror from Denver"
arrested on Thursday for being drunk, for
feited her deposit in the Police Court yes
terday morning. About 5 o'clock last
evening Deputy Sheriff Coffey found her
drunk, and lying on the sidewalk at Third
and K streets, and called an express wagon
to take her to the lookup. While she was
being put in the wagon she bit the officers
hand very severely, and, snatching his
watch away, hurled it against a wheel of
the wagon
A warrant was sworn put yesterday by
Mrs. Jones for the arrest of Mary Spain
(recently arrested at Stockton and brought
back here to answer to a charge of petty
larceny, committed at the residence of f.
L.. Orcutt, but released on bail, pending
triaD for the larceny of a pair OF pillow
shams and a crazy quilt. The girl stopped
at Mrs. Jones house after leaving Mr.. Or
cults, and when the police subsequently
went there to get the property she had left
in her room they brought away the shams
and quilt. The girl claims that she had
not stolen them, and had nothing to do
with their being removed from the house.
Chief Dillman received a letter a day or
two since from q respectable resident of
Sierra county, who wrote that his daughter
had written him from this city that she
was under arrest and restrained of her lib
erty that she had been sick and was an
inmate of the hospital for q while, and that
generally she was having a distresstul time
of it, and needed money sadly. The Chief
gave the letter to officer Farrell, who inves-
tigated the matter and found that the young
woman was an inmate of a house of pros
tuition, about as hardened rs any OF her
class, and that the story she had written
was a fabrication, used with the hope of Sc
curing a remittance.