Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-17
san FRANCISCO ITEMS.


since January last some $4,000 worth of
opium has been coniiscated.
BENJAMIN OBren committed suicide yester-
day at Twentieth and Guerrero streets.
NJ II. Heeht is not a candidate for the Re
publican nomination TO succeed Congressman
FELTON,
The State Convention of the Peoples party
hnS nominated Judge Russell, of Alameda. for
Governor.
Archbishop Riordan haspctitoned forleave to
sell the Rancho Laguna de Ia MERGED. consist
lug Of 300 actes in San Mateo county.
The brewery OF Uhl & Jacobs, situated at Red
wood city, which was seized for a violation of
the internal revenue laws, has been released.
1t is quite generally believed that the Labor
Convention which meets on the DIST, will not
name an independent ticket, but will select its
candidates from those of the other parties.
General Wiley, Frank McCoppin. Charles
Gildea and c. A. sumner are all after the Dem
ocratie nomination for Congress in the Fourth
District. Each believes he has u dead thing
on II.
Colonel R. II. Savage states that he bought and
paid for Grayqons patents months before the
Dynamite Shell Company ever heard of them.
and that the company has no legal claim upon
'Graydon's European rights.
The steamer Gaelic. which arrived wednes-
.lav from China and japan, made the sailing
time between Yokohama and San Francisco in
Is DAYS - hours and 81 minutes. This is the
fastest time on record between these ports.
There is still doubt as to how Edward Higgins
came to his end. Two detectives think it was
murder, and two Others suicide. His wife says
he stabbed himself after a domestic quarrel, but
tAe landlady Of the house says she saw Mrs Hig-
gins iufict the fatal wound.
The case of d. W. Bouldin and A. p. Moore vs.
Thomas s Phelps, Commandment of Mare Island
is on trial before Circuit Judge Sawyer and Dis
tricI Judge Sabin. The action was originally
brought in the Superior Court of Solano county
to recover psssesSion of Mere Island, containing
r 2s7 acres under grant from Juan B. Alyarado
10 Don Victor Castro. May %, 1871.
Recently Or. Luke Robinson performed, at St.
Nary's Hospital, an operation which is eompar-
stiyeiy new III surgery. This was the removal
of one Of the kidneys from patient who came
from Colusa for treatment. The operation was
successfully onducted. the diseased organ being
removed by making an incision in the lumbar
regiou The patient is still in the hospital, but
IS doing we'll
An effort is being made to introduce cab
known ms the .. herdic." IL is something like
the English hanson cab, the difference between
the two being that in the cab the driver sits be-
hind the vehicle. while in the herdic he sits III
front. Entrance is gained from the rear, there
being accommodations for two persons. Herdics
nave been In use in Los Angeles for some time,
but are not popular in the East.
The case of John W. MCCARTHY VS.. Loring
Pickering and q. X. Fitch was dismissed by
Judge Mcguire yesterday for want of prosecu.
.tiou at plaintiffs costs. The oction dismissed
was brought to recover 100000 damages for an
alleged libel published in the AegRfHg CaI On
she 18th OF February, 1895. The alleged lioelous
statement was simply paragraph in the sac
raineuto correspondence of the CdI giving in
condensed form the essential points of an article
published in the Dixon Tribune relative TO Nc
tarthy's accounts Counsel for defendants OPP
d sd ali ostpOnements OF the trial, and did
evsrything in their power TO bring Mccarthy
into Court. but to no avail
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