Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-16

SAN FRANCISCO NEWS.
Short Items Tucked Over the Wires From
San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 15th.-John Nc
Cormick. a carpenter, fell from the roof of
a new building on the corner of Post and
Jones streets this morning a distance of
about thirty feet, to the ground. He es.
caped with scalp wound and fracture of
the right arm.
CONVICTED OF RECKLESS DRIVING.
Ernest Schearbaum, the driver of de-
livery wagon for the Liberty Bakery. who
knocked down and ran over little Ralph
Totten yesterday, at the corner of Merchant
and Kearny streets, was convicted on
charge of battery. He will be sentenced
on Monday.
DEATH FROM NATURAL CAUSES.
The Coroner made an autopsy last night
on the body of the baby found in
garden in front of the unoccupied house
at zoos Leavenworth street yesterday after
noon, and it was shown that death had re-
suited from natural causes. The babe was
also tainted with an hereditary disease.
The paternity of the dead infant is
shrouded in mystery.
STILL ALIVE.
James Hill, who had his neck broken
by being struck by bale of hay several
weeks since, is still living and is now rest
ing comfortably. The doctor states that
Mr.. Hill has fair chance of recovery.
SAILED FOR ALASKA.
Yesterday afternoon the Alaska Com
mercial Company's steamer Bertha left Tor
Alaska with supplies for the canneries and
also carrying sixty passengers. Among
them were party of twenty-one from the
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
who Will define the l4lst meridian, the
boundary line between Alaska and Brit
ish Columbia.
Their work will extend from Mount St.
Elias to the Arctic Ocean, and they expect
TO be gone eighteen months They will
first go TO Oonalaska, and probably stay
there a month to rate chronometers and
take tidal observations, and thence go to
st. Michael. Here they will build
steamer, the materials for which are on
board the Bertha, and then proceed up the
Yukon river to Fort Yukon.
There they will divide into two parties
One party, under ]. Z. McGrath, with DR..
W. V. Kingsbury as surgeon and w. w.
Davis as assistant, will survey the Yukon.
The other, uuder J. Henry Turner. with
DR.. H. n. kierultf as surgeon and w. w.
Edmunds as assistant, will survey the Por-
cupiue river.
CHARGED WITH MANsLAUGHTER.
John Cunningham, the engineer of the
steam train on the Powell-street extension
which rsn into wagon containing five
Italians last Monday, and so severely in
jured Antonio Mangini that he died early
this morning in the Receiving Hospital,
was arrested to-day on charge of man
Sla Ia ~,
on his own recognizance.
PooR MACKAY.
John W. Mackay has filed a protest
against an assessment of $S, 200 on his per-
sonal property. He says he is a resident
of Nevada, where he is assessed and his
personal property does not exceed 5000 in
the aggregate.
Adrift on the Ocean.
SAN DIEGO, June e15th.-Breese and Hope
the two boys who disappeared from here
Saturday in a small sail boat, landed about
ten miles below this city to-day. They
were blown nearly one hundred miles out
to sea and when they succeeded in sighting
land again it was in the neighborhood of
Ensenada. 1t took them a couple of days
to beat up the coast to suitable place TO
make landing. and they suffered good
deal from hunger and exposure. They
walked up from the Mexican line. A
searching party has been searching the
coast since Monday for them, and boat
supposed to be theirs was sighted from a
mountain in Lower California Wednesday.
DYING OF HEART DISEASE.
Robert F. Bunker, a pork packer and
wellknown citizen, is reported dying of
fatty degeneration of the heart.
ARRESTED FOR PERJURY.
Albert Cosian, an engineer on the Una
tilla, was arrested on a charge of perjury,
alleged TO have been committed in giving
testimony in the case of Mrs. Wright
against the Ocean Steamship Company in
the suit to recover damages for killing her
husband through carelessness.
DIED FROM HIS INJURIES.
Thomas Fabey died to-day from the
effects OF fall down flight of stairs last
Thursday. He was salesman for Sulli-
van & Kelly, paint dealers.
CONCERNED IN THE CRoNIN CASE.
y Partial Description of Tom Desmond
ny an Old Acquaintance.
SAN BERNARDINo, June 15th-A little
history of Tom Desmond, who figures
prominently in the Cronin case, was ur-
earthed by a California Associated Press
correspondent here to day. Desmond was
a wagon-maller at Tomales bay in 1865,
and worked with a leading citizen of this
place at that time. He was always radical
on the subject of Irish questions, being
very enthusiastic Catholic.
In the same shop worked Protestant
Irishman, Reed, and the two frequently
had warm discussions. Desmond after
wards went to Los Angeles in 1869.
Il 20 taI hot
ried, but this is untrue, he having married
a woman in Canada with whom he lived
only one day. leaving her for the West
The informant here was not surprised to
learn of his connection with the Cronin
case, and he was almost a monomaniac on
the Irish problem. Desmond has cousin
at Los Angeles who can give all the details
of the mans past life, having worked with
him for years.