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Show SECOND DISPATCH. ' CAMFOR.VIA. San Francisco, H,. Win. Hudson, j who got possession of the baggage oi j a poor woman from Vallcjo by rcpre- , aentiog himself as her husband and j , decamped with it, was to-day sent up for trial for grand larceny, his bail 1 being tixed at one thousand dollars. i i The steamer Ajax caught fire this : ' morning at her wharf, but was Faved by the fire department. t ' A Chinaman, named Ah Sim, was ! found murdered, with his head cut nearly from his body, in a Chinese ' restaurant on Clay street this morning, j j He was killed for his money. The i I drawer had been broken open, and j two men who were in his employ have I disappeared. ! A man and woman riding on Mar-I Mar-I ket street late last night were thrown 1 from the buggy by runaway horses, j The woman is supposed to bo ' fatally iniured. ! Win. Taffe was arrested last night 1 fur knocking down a man and robbing him on Union street, near Stockton, at midnight last night. He was caught I beforo he had run half a block with the 1 money in his pocket. The man who jumped off Market : street wharf and drowned himself on ' Saturday night is supposed lo be David Bower, a California pioneer, who came , here in tho ship Edward Everett, July ! oth, 1S49. He had been ill physically i and mentally for some weeks, and Ids ; friends fearing that ho would attempt . ' suicide had mndo arrangement:; to take i him to a hospital, but ho eluded their ' vigilaneo and accomplished tho net. i 1 Perccy G. Childs, nephew of the i ! late Gen. Childs, U. S, A., has been 1 : appointed deputy 1. S. marshal. j ! It is rumored that the losses of one : of'iIir ipfulinff firm Francisco insurance . 1 companies in Chicago will foot up j j more than double what was at first j I supposed, and thero may be some I doubt about its being able to meet i them. r San Francisco, 10. A lol on Kear- j ney street, nearly north of the White ; IIouso, OiO feet Iront by llti deep, and ; three story brick building, which has i i been offered for salo for several weeks j to tho highest bidder, was sold for j $175,000 to-day; deferred payments to ; i bear per cent, interest. The prop-1 I crty is among tho finest in tho city, but j i tho price realized is considered satisfactory. satis-factory. I ' The Pacific insurance co. will not ! issue any more polioios until tho full x j extent of its Chicago losses aro ascer-1 taincd, aud tho action of the stockholders stock-holders as to making good Iho deficiency. defi-ciency. The company's meeting with the heaviest looses find a difficulty in the way of making their capital good, aa the law allows only livo per cent, to be levied at any one assessment, and in this case 25 to 75 and 100 ia called for. Tho stockholders in the Union, and possibly somo of tho others, will however how-ever pay the required amount voluntarily volun-tarily at once. Tho subscriptions for the general fund for the Chicago sufferers already exceed $100,000; and in view of the terrible disasters and conscqucntsuffor-iug conscqucntsuffor-iug in Michigan aud Wisconsin, mayor Selby has called a meeting of tho citizens citi-zens who havo subscribed, to bo held at the Merchants' Exchange at two p. m. on Thursday, to consider the propriety pro-priety of sending (o Chicago only the $100,000 promised, reserving the remainder re-mainder and all which can be collected hereafter for the relief of the citizons of those States. One hundred thousand thous-and dollars have been subscribed in this city already for tho relief of the Wisconsin and Michigan sufferers, and paid over to mayor Selby. The aggregate loss by San Francisco, in the Chicago lire, is much greater than at first supposed. Los Angeles, 1G. Maj. Watson's surveying party, on the aouthern Pa-cafic Pa-cafic railroad, narrow guagc, camped at old San Bcrnaadino, six miles from the new town, on Saturday. They are surveying through the Sangregorio pass. Sand storms in the vicinity of fort Le Jon have scattered 40,000 to 50,000 sheep and many are lost; oiiiuj-, io. n. vci i -iuiu arrray occurred oc-curred at a danco houso iu this place last night about 12 o'clock. A young man named Wm. V, Arrowsmith was shot and almost instantly killed by Wm. Bergucr, a constable. No cause is assigned for the shooting, as no angry words had passed between the parties. Berguer surrendered to the authorities and tho officers started for San Joao with him this evening. Fears were entertained that lie would be lynched. San Francisco, 10. A little boy, named Kelly, sou of one of the guards at Sau Qucntin, was drowned while bathing at Boss landing yesterday. The Woman's Suffrage association sent into the board of supervisors this ovening, an emphatic protest against the passage of the bill of Dr; Holland, which proposes to compel prostitutes to pay license and be registered aud kept under the surveillance of tho police po-lice and board of health. The bark Whistler, which returned m distress after being some days out on hoi- way to Portland, is still on fire, and it will probably bo found necessary nec-essary to scuttle and sink her to extinguish extin-guish tho flamos. . In answer to an inquiry, the officers of the Pacific insurance co. say that they find the amount of its Chicago losses will exceed its first estimate of one million dollars, but they arc unable as yet, to give anything like the oxact figures until the amount is ascertained and final action taken. Tho officers and directors are doing everything that is in their power for the protection ol every interest, aud also in order to save this institution which lias been the pride of our State: |