Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-03
LOCAL BREvI1IEs.

The State Fair opens day.
The Supervisors meet to-day.
The Gait public schools open to-day.
Keep your boys away from the river.
The hop-men and wheat-raisers are feel
ing quite happy
A Chinaman died suddenly at Hangtown
Crossing Saturday.
License Collector Dolan collected s.. .4SC
| during the month of August.
Seats in the special stand at Agriculture
Park can now be secured at the office of the
Secretary.
Tickets to Sacramento during the fail
from Woodland will be 81 II round trip tC
September 18th.
Two foreigners were made citizens Satur
dsy-Johu Donovan, of Ireland, and Chris
Nelson, OF Denmark.
The State Fair is gaining in reputation
| and merit every year, and within ten year:
will 6e one of the greatest fairs held in
America.
The Mountain Democrat says: "The fail
was not financial success, and il will bt
necessary TO pay bills little short, or allow
them TO go over to next year"
The fruit from Coloma has been princi
pslly shipped for this Season. Last week
Strong & Co. had about thirty wagons on
the road between Coloma and Shingle
Springs.
Colonel john P. Irish, the famous Demo
cratic orator, will address the citizens oi
this city on the political issues of the day
at the Ciunie Opera House tomorrow
evening.
A meeting of the Executive Committee
OF the Sacramento City and County I'm
pToTement Association will be held this
evening at the Board of Trade rooms, Sec.
ond and streets, commencing at o'clock.
Miss Pauline schmeiser, a 14-year-old
girl, daughter of g. Schmeiser, of Davis
vile, was riding Friday when her horse be-
came frightened, ian away, and running
under tree threw her 10 the ground,
breaking her right arm near the elbow.
The large fruit crop at Coloma and the
building of the Marshall monument has
made lively times for that village this sum-
mer. The fruit men have hauled most OF
their fruit to Shingle Springs distance OF
twelve miles, and they make the business
pay.
Last night citizens complained of the
fact that the electric lights were not burn.
ing en- and K streets During the bold
ing Of the State Fair, when the city will be
full of thugs, garr0ters and petit larceny
thieves, the citizens suggest that the lights
should burn all night.
A RECORD UNION representative who Wis
| lted Butte City, Colusa county, last week.
states that there are 100000 sacks of wheat
at the present time on the banks of the
Sacramento river at that point, and $4,000
| sacks IN warehouses. And still the large
wagon loads Of wheat come pouring in.
Engine No. 334, one of those big six
wheeiers recently built at the shops in Sac.
ramento, was run out to Gait Thursday on
! trial trip. She reached her destination
all right, ran ia on the turn table and was
| turned round in good shape but in return
lugt the main line on the switch iler great
weight spread the track and the huge drive.
wheels got off the rails. With much diff
Guilty and the aid of another locomotive
she was pulled back on the track.
The engineer of Engine Company No. 1
city Fire Department, desires it stated, in
view OF what has been published con-
| cernlng the accident which occurred last
Friday afternoon on K street, that the en-
| glne did not run into the street car, but
that in turning off from the track to pass
the street car the front axle of the engine
broke, and one of the wheels which there
upon left the engine, struck the car. The
| engine proper did not touch the car. and
but for flaw in the axle, which extended
nearly half way through it, and greatly
weakened If, the accident, the engineei
| says, would not probably have occurred.