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Sacramento Bee
Tuesday Evening April 26, 1870
DOWTHET’S CONDITION - We learn
from the physicians attending DOWTHET, who was injured by the falling sidewalk
last week, that he is a little better,
and that hopes are entertained of his recovery. His injuries are of a dangerous
and peculiar nature...
(Rest
of article cut off)
Through
Wells Fargo and Co’s express
The Grand jury of San Francisco
has found the following true bills:
Isaac A. LYONS, grand larceny; B.
DAVIS, burglary; Ernest BLUM, burglary; Chung TIN, assault with a deadly
weapon; Frank MURRAY, robbery; S. WELNER, and F. WELCH, robbery; H. ST. CLAIR,
house-breaking in day time and grand larceny; G. GILMORE, burglary; N.
JOHNSTON, manslaughter; Frank K. SMITH, for the murder of J.C. BREWER; Chas.
TAYLOR, obtaining money be false personation; Jacob BURNETT, grand larceny; P.
GONZALES, assault with a deadly weapon; E.F. LAIRD, forgery; Thomas BURKE,
house-breaking; Jas. FITZPATRICK and John KENNEDY, assault to murder; Charles
CLARK, house-breaking; Mary DOLAN, petit larceny; E. TULLY, assault with deadly
weapon; D. GUITEREZ, grand larceny; William HUGHES and R. HARPER, same; William
REED, burglary; B. KERMAN, same; Geo. DAVIS and Albert CALDWELL, burglary; W.
CLINTON, grand larceny; C. ROGERS and F. LIVINGSTON, burglary; William HUGHES
and John Doe BERNARD, grand larceny; M. MARTINELLI, embezzlement; J. BAER,
obtaining goods by false pretenses; T.J. HURDLE, forgery; R.R. HARRIS, assault
to murder; J. FRIJRIE, obtaining money by false pretenses; S. WALKER, J. NYHAND
and M. HARRINGTON, robbery; George J. WILSON, grand larceny; Alexander BOWMAN,
obtaining goods by false pretenses; John WILSON, the same; John MERRRILL,
forgery; J.C .SCHMIDT, grand larceny; William CORNELL, same; Chung YIN, assault
with deadly weapon; R. COY, grand larceny; James GREEN, burglary; John MACK,
robbery. Besides these were many which are withheld from publication at
present.
About six months ago, a large
Eastern agricultural wagon manufacturing
house established an agency in this city, with the intention of supplying the
market altogether with Eastern wagons. Now our wagon material in California,
although fully equal to the Western wood, is no doubt inferior to the ash and
oak of the Middle and Eastern States. We manufacture our wagons from the oak
and ash of Ohio, the oak and hickory of New Jersey and New Hampshire. But if it
is necessary to import a portion of the material, surely it does not follow
that our mechanics can not build a wagon at less cost than in the East, and not
only compete with but justly monopolize our own market. Although labor may be
higher in California, the freights across the continent or by sea more than
balances the account, so that we can afford to undersell Eastern competitors,
and give our farmers as good if not a better wagon at a lower price. This we
have succeeded in doing, and wagons to-day of California manufacture sell at
from $19 to $29 lower that hose from the East.
On Thursday last the sale of the
reservation lots for the wholesale butchers came off at Maurice DORE’s auction
rooms. The first bid for the choice of lots was $300, made by Mr. LUX, followed
by a $1,500 bid from Mr. DUMPHY, who appeared to be determined that matters
should be settled as quickly as possible. The bidding for the choice lots was
very lively between LUX and DUMPHY, and was finally knocked down to the latter
at $6,700. DUMPHY having chosen his lot, the next one was started at $1,000,
and after some brisk competition sold to DUMPHY at $6,100. The remaining lots
sold at from $3,700 to $5,000 premium and the premiums of the entire sale
amounted to $36,000. Before the auction came off a number of wagers were laid
as to whom the choice lot would fall, as the business stand in these matters
appears to be worth any price.
Chas .WILLIAMS, a native of
Prussia, aged 26, fell overboard in the Golden Gate on Sunday, and was drowned.
A State geological party under
Mr. HOFFMAN and Mr. GREENLEAF started to go down the San Joaquin Valley to
Visalia, and over the Sierra to Owens Valley and the Owens River region up to
Mono Lake, to get up the topography and geology of these districts. Very soon
another party will start out for the mountains to investigate the mines, under
Mr. BOWMAN, and Mr. WACKENRENDER will complete the topographical work on the
Sierra form Plumas to Tuolumne counties. Mr. GODDARD started to examine the
coal deposits a fortnight since.
Submitted
by Betty
Loose betty@unisette.com
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Sacramento Bee
Monday Evening March 7, 1870
BY TELEGRAPH
SAN FRANCISCO, MARCH
Stock sales to-day: Gould &
Curry, $168, Chollar-Potosi $24, Ophir $11, Kentuck 84, Yellow Jacket $42,
Crown Point $18, Overman $71, Hale & Norcross $139, Savage $31, Hidden
Treasure $17, Occidental $11.
Gold 112 ½
Greenbacks 87 ½ to 89
The sale of tide lands has been
again postponed four weeks.
Arrived,
steamer Montana, from Portland with 42 passengers.
Happy and content are SWIMLEY’s
Boarders - the best looking men in town - comes of good living - his bill of
fare is complete; all the substantials and delicacies of the season -
Cincinnati Restaurant, 25 K st.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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Sacramento Bee
Friday Evening,
WHISKY
No less than
twenty-three illicit stills were seized in Brooklyn in two days - November 2
and 3 - and this is only a portion of the surreptitious manufacturing places
there! What were the revenue officers about that they permitted so many or any
to exist? The Internal Revenue Department is sorely at fault when such things
could be and continue. There is somebody to blame and that somebody or those
somebodys is or are our Government officials. The whisky mob fought the
officers and the United States troops has to be called out to enforce the law.
These “whisky rings” are strong in New York, Kentucky and Ohio, and they
maintain their strength by cheating the Government. It is time that they were
checked in their infamous career. They send to California hundreds of thousands
of dollars worth of their illicit wares.
THE
FOUNDERIES
Business is
improving at the San Francisco founderies. The Golden State works has 20 men
employed; the Union works 75 men; the Miners’ foundery 60 men; the Etna works
75 men; the Fulton works 55 men; and the other founderies there have work in
proportion. A year ago all their business was depressed, and many of these
establishments were entirely closed. The labor question and Eastern competition
troubled them. These things are adjusting themselves, and the present outlook
is quite encouraging.
THE GENERAL DAVIS lost on the Cambria was General
Hasbrouck Davis of Chicago, a lawyer and politician of considerable note in the
West. He was a son of Hon. John Davis, of Massachusetts, Governor of and
Senator from that State, and brother of Hon. John Bancroft Davis. He was
educated in Germany and entered the ministry at the age of twenty-two was
settled as the pastor of a Unitarian church at Watertown, Mass. He subsequently
left the ministry and entered the army during the rebellion.
A SAD
AFFAIR
Mrs. Laura
FAIR, as she is best known, yesterday shot A.P. CRITTENDEN, of San Francisco.
Crittenden’s family have been residing in the Atlantic States for some time -
how long we know not - and the death of Tod ROBINSON, who was Crittenden’s
brother-in-law, brought them back suddenly. Mrs. Fair, it appears, had known
all about their movements, and did not desire them to come back, and it is said
even threatened to kill Crittenden if he brought them back to remain! And she
appears to have kept her word!
Mrs. Fair will
be remembered by many of our citizens as having kept lodging rooms in the old
Masonic building here. She also kept a boarding and lodging house in Virginia
City. She was, and we suppose is yet, a beautiful woman - of commanding person,
excellent figure, pleasing face, good address, and dresses tastefully. The
particulars of the shooting are thus given:
Crittenden has
been on intimate terms with Mrs. Fair for several years, and lavished a fortune
on her. She says he promised to marry her and discard his family, who were in
the East; but, learning that his wife and daughter were telegraphed for on the
death of Tod Robinson, she became enraged and determined to kill Crittenden if
he received them. At 4 o’clock yesterday he went to Oakland to meet his wife
and daughter on the boat coming to the city. He was sitting on deck between his
wife and daughter, when Mrs. Fair came up and fired a pistol at him, the ball
taking effect in the right nipple. The assassin threw her pistol down, and was arrested
a few minutes afterwards.
Another
account says:
“Immediately
after the steamer had left her slip on the Oakland side, Crittenden ascended
the stairs leading to the saloon deck in company with his wife and family, who
had just returned from a visit to the Eastern States. He walked by the door
leading into the saloon, and went toward the wheel-house, and had scarcely
stopped, when a lady dressed in a black suite and closely vailed stepped within
a few feet of Crittenden, who at the time was conversing with his wife, and
without uttering a word, drew a deringer and fired, the ball entering his right
side and penetrating the lung. He staggered and fell upon the deck, Mrs.
Crittenden exclaiming, ‘Oh my husband! they have killed him. I know who she is that
shot him.’ The woman who fired the shot ran through the gangway formed by the
wheelhouse and a saloon wall, and down the stairs to the main deck, when she
was surrounded by an excited crown, to whom she could only say, “I will justify
the act when the proper time comes.’”
Mrs. fair has
the reputation of being a base woman. Ten years ago she drove her husband, W.B.
Fair, to desperation, and he blew his brains out. In 1864 she fired at a man in
Virginia city for refusing to allow her to raise a secession flag. In August,
1870, she married Jesse SNYDER, and shortly after sued for a divorce which she
obtained October 8th.
It is reported
that Mrs. Fair had threatened long since that if Crittenden ever brought his
family back to live with him she would kill him. She shot at him at 331 Kearny
street some years since, but did not hit him.”
LOST
STEAMSHIP
The telegraph
told us yesterday that this vessel was seen at the bottom of the ocean, in four
fathoms water, about five miles from the island of Innistrahull, Ireland. The
Cambria was built at Glasgow of iron in 1869. She was bark-rigged, was 324 ½
feet long, and of 2,140 tone, British measurement. She was a screw steamer,
having two engines of 750 horse-power each. She had on board when she was wrecked
a cargo of 40,800 bushels wheat, 2,488 barrels flour; 300 bales cotton; 1,303
boxes cheese; 153 barrels fish oil; 250 barrels apples; (the next two lines not
legible) she had 134 passengers and a crew of 60 making a total of 194 persons.
Among the passengers were Gen. Davies and family of Chicago, Ill., Colonel
HAYDEN and family (rest of article cut off).
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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Sacramento Bee
Saturday Evening,
BY
THE
Through Wells, Fargo & Co.’s Express
Mr. SCHNEIDER,
who was recently married to and divorced from Mrs. FAIR was a stranger in the
city, having come from Philadelphia in July. He was a young man of unusually
fine appearance and of good education, but was out of business and without
money. He and Mrs. FAIR were mutually pleased with each other on meeting. After
marriage he discovered that she had a “violent temper” and they failed to get
along harmoniously. At the end of two months she procured evidence of a
violation of the marriage vow on his part, and a divorce was obtained in the 15th
District Court. It is reported that Mr. Schneider has returned to Philadelphia
impressed with the conviction that California is a fast country.
The relations
of Mr. CRITTENDEN with Mrs. Fair were no secret in his family, or among his
numerous friends. They were often seen together in public places, and the fact
of their intimacy was notorious.
It was rumored
last evening that a large sum of money had been procured from one of the banks
by fraudulent means, by a prominent army officer. Active efforts were made to
find him, for the purpose of arresting him, but the police have not yet been
successful.
A man named
William BROWN, employed at the stable of SMITH & DALEY, on Laguna street
between Geary and O’Farrell was discovered yesterday, lying dead upon the
stable floor. It is believed he fell from the loft above. His head is crushed,
and his neck appears to be broken.
A woman named
Mrs. DeROODER was found yesterday afternoon dead in her bed at her room No. 79
Jessie street. A bottle containing laudanum was found in her room, and it is
supposed she committed suicide. Her husband is in China or Japan.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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Sacramento Bee
Monday Evening,
A disease has broken out among the swine in Contra
Costa county, in most cases proving fatal. A few days ago a gentleman killed a
healthy appearing hog, but on cutting it up discovered that the meat was
speckled through and through with little whitish sacks, about the size of a
grape seed, which, from the character of matter inclosed were thought, by most
of those who inspected them, to be the eggs of some kind of worms, or maggots,
though none were developed to the crawling stage of worm life. Another lost
some fine Essex shoats, which died within a few hours after exhibiting the
first symptoms of disease.
From the local
papers we learn that the towns of Paradise and Tuolumne City, in Stanislaus
county, are being moved to the new town of Ralston, on the line of the railroad
and near the Tuolumne river. One building was seen traveling across the country
drawn by sixty horses. It is thought that ere long the new town will have
absorbed both Tuolumne City and Paradise.
Stockton has
had its regular railroad attack. This time the Copperopolis Railroad excites
our usually staid neighbor. If the statement of one of her papers is correct,
she is excusable this time, for it is really said that the money required to
build the road has been subscribed and that work will be commenced at once.
Stockton was ready, however, some time ago, and work was already commenced -
and stopped, too. It has been stopped ever since. If now the road is to be
built, Calaveras county will be greatly benefitted as well as Stockton, for the
completion of the road will do much towards reopening her copper mines so long
idle.
Gangs of laborers
are engaged in raising the grade of the California Pacific, above Knight’s
Landing,. In Sonoma county trains are tunning between Petaluma and Santa Rosa.
There is a conscientious thief in Lake county. A
couple weeks ago the stage between Lakeport and Calistoga was robbed of $3,500.
Some days afterward a masked individual went to the house of Wells, Fargo &
Co.’s agent at Kelsey Creek and left the full amount, with the request that no
questions be asked.
Gov. Blasdel, of Nevada, has issued a proclamation,
appointing Thursday, November 24th, as the day for thanksgiving.
STILL ON THEIR TRAVELS - The “Dudley Brothers,”
notwithstanding the warnings of the press, continue to find communities willing
to be swindled. They visited Pacheco, on Contra Costa county, last week, got up
a singing school, collected their fees in advance and decamped.
A FRENCH man-of-war and a German merchantman, that had
sailed in company for several days, exchanging friendly signals, entered the
harbor of Sydney, Sept. 4th, when they first learned that war
existed. The Frenchman missed a prize, but the Dutchman saved his bacon and
things.
GENERAL P.E. CONNER is spoken of as the probable
successor of the late Governor SCHAFLER, of Utah. Conner and Brigham Young
mutually dislike one another, and if made Governor the former will show little
favor to the man of many wives.
THE STOCKTON school teachers deem that the playing of
marbles by children is in its tendency immoral. They forbid it. This is a
tyranny never before imposed on any rising generation - not even in the palmy
days of Puritanism. Give the boys a chance.
THE CENTRAL PACIFIC - Railroad Company has offered
$1,000 reward for the capture of any one of the gang who robbed the trains
lately. This is in addition to the reward offered by Wells, Fargo & Co.
NOT VERY CRAZY - Shortly after Mrs. Fair shot
Crittenden the other day, she telegraphed to her mother at San Jose that she
had shot him. She didn’t seem to be much troubled in mind about it, either.
THE NEW YORK Court of Appeals has decided that it is
an actional offense for an old-school physician to call a homeopathist a quack.
A CHALLENGE - James KENNOVAN, one of the principals in
the “big walk” at San Francisco is out in a card, in which he challenges his
late opponent, Jack SHEPPARD, to walk again, for $500 a side, gold coin, and
the championship. Kennovan says that if his challenge is not accepted before
the 15th of November, he will walk 106 hours and dance a jig before
leaving the hall.
A NEGRO NATURALIZED - It is said that the first negro
naturalized in California was naturalized by Judge KEYSER, in Downieville, last
week. He is a native of Danish West Indies, and has been in this county
nineteen years.
RESOLUTION
OF RESPECT
In the Supreme
Court, on Saturday, the following resolutions of respect to the late Tod
ROBINSON were adopted and spread upon the minutes:
“Whereas, We
are called upon to mourn the sudden demise of Tod Robinson, late Reporter of
this Court, and at the time of his disease a distinguished member of this bar,
therefore,
Resolved, That
in the death of Tod Robinson the Supreme Court has lost a most efficient and
painstaking officer, one who was qualified by reason of his remarkable power of
analysis to discharge the duties of Reporter to the satisfaction of both the
bench and bar.
Resolved, That
in his demise the bar has lost one of its ablest advocates and profound
thinkers, and that we shall long cherish his memory as that of the friend and
brother to whom we were bound by the strongest ties of respect and esteem.
Resolved, That
though exclusive in his social tastes, and intimately known to but few, yet he
was respected by all as the gentleman and the scholar. More proud than vain, more
fastidious than companionable, at first his formal address might impress the
stranger with an idea of pedantry, but once fairly engaged in conversation with
a genial auditor the philosopher and man of cultivated tastes and elevated
sentiment appeared conspicuous.
Resolved, That
Creed Haymond, Esq., be requested to present these resolutions to the Supreme
Court and move that the same be entered upon its records, and that he forward a
copy of the same to the family of the deceased with assurances of our sincere
sympathy.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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Sacramento Daily Union
Monday Morning, January 2, 1871
Page 1
Another year has
passed away, with its lessons, hopes, prospects and depressions. In the old
world there have been wars and fightings, the conflict of mighty nations for
supremacy and immense loss of human life. Out of this great contention there is
hope that there will be a compensating gain to the liberties and rights of
humanity. In the United States there have been peace and quietness, and a
general effort has been in progress to reconstruct what has been found impaired
or insufficient, and restore the era of good feeling. In the main there have
been prosperity and a desire to cultivate the arts of peace and good
neighborhood. The nation has been on terms of amity with other powers, and is
likely to remain so until forced out of her position by injustice and insult.
In California for the past year the harvest has been abundant, and great
advance made in domestic manufactures, though the State has suffered somewhat
in its commercial relations from the competition of the East, through the
speedy construction of the railroad. A more healthy state of affairs, however,
is being established, and California is learning very rapidly the art of
reliance upon her own resources. Her domestic manufactures are increasing, both
in quantity and quality, and have attracted the attention of the commercial
world. In the matter of railroads, woolen goods, sugars, smelting of ores,
production of wines, brandies, wheat crops and fruits, we have made great
progress and are becoming a power in the industrial world. We have yet to learn a few lessons in the way
of economy and temperance, and then the condition of the State will be one of
unexampled prosperity and influence. We
subjoin a record of the more prominent events and industries of the State and
county for the past year:
1 - A. McGIMSEY and
John ORNBAUM quarreled near Cloverdale. McGIMSEY was killed....Colored people
celebrated emancipation in various parts of the State....The steamship
companies and Wells, Fargo & Co. cut the wages of all their employes;
several manufacturing companies did the same thing.
4th - James McGOWAN, a tinsmith, fell from a
scaffolding in San Francisco and was killed....Judge SANDERSON of the Supreme
Court resigned....Earthquake at Bakersfield, Kern county.
5th - A child of Mrs. McQUICKEN had its foot cut
off by the street cars in San Francisco....The Bulletin commenced, using its
Eight Cylinder Roe press....John CAVANAUGH fell from the yard-arm of the Royal
Edward and was killed.
7th - The Independent Pullman train ceased
running.
8th - Bradley HALL, District Attorney for
Marin county, died.
9th - Charles F. KNOLL fell dead in San
Francisco, while dressing....M.C.
SEARING had his spine fractured in San Francisco by being thrown from
his buggy.
10th -
Jackson TEMPLE appointed Justice Supreme Court, vice SANDERSON,
resigned.....Margaret SCANNELL committed suicide with strychnine, in San
Francisco....Mrs. MEEHAN, aged 60, was fined $200 in San Francisco, for
horsewhipping Colonel MURPHY, who had insulted her....The Grand Jury of Los
Angeles county indicted the Mayor and Common Council of Los Angeles for leasing
fraudulent bonds. They each gave $5,000 bail.
11th -
David HARRIS (colored) was stabbed and killed by Samuel CARPENTER near
Placerville in a drunken spree....A fire destroyed $3,000 worth of property in
Stockton.
12th -
James HOFFERMAN took an ounce of laudanum in San Francisco, spoke of it and was
at once pumped out.
13th -
Sam RATCLIFFE had his leg broken by the upsetting of his wagon in Washington.
14th -
Clement B. ELLIS was found dead in San Francisco from an over-dose of laudanum.
15th -
Dilon beat Deery 181 points in 1,000 on a carom table....W.C. STRATTON resigned as State Librarian, and Wm.
Neely JOHNSON was appointed in his place.
15th -
Mrs. Sophia SAND committed suicide with arsenic in San Francisco - temporary
insanity the cause....David S. DAVIS was caved on and killed at North San
Juan...Earthquake at Los Angeles
19th -
Charles HALEY had his leg broken by being thrown from a wagon in San
Francisco....John SCHMIDT wad drowned at Oakland.
21st -
Zabriskie IRWIN was thrown from his horse and had his leg broken in San
Francisco....An organ-grinding armless soldier was married in San Francisco to
a girl of eighteen....Wm. WITTE hung himself at Sonoma.
23d - A man named
GOODHOPE, while fishing from Greenwich dock, fell into the Bay and was
drowned....A fire in Vallejo destroyed $15,000 worth of property.
24th -
Francis BURKE was killed in a mine in Grass Valley by a rock falling on him....Maggie
RYAN, aged six and a half years, was found dead under a building corner of
Drumm and Pacific streets, San Francisco. The condition of her body showed
plainly that she had been outraged before her death, and probably murdered in
the struggle. A pair of new shoes that she had on when she left home on
Saturday, had been stolen from her feet.
25th -
M. QUINN, who committed the outrage on Maggie RYAN, was arrested. The officers had
a hard time to keep the crowd from hanging him. He confessed to the outrage but
denies the murder....Captain Edward CORDELL, of the Coast Survey, died in an
apoplectic fit in the streets of San Francisco.
28th -
A fire in Los Angeles destroyed $70,000 worth of property. 29th - Charles T. CARVALHO, for
years Chinese interpreter in San Francisco, died after a lingering illness.
1st -
Minister F.F. LOW and family sailed for China.
3d - The schooner
Emma Adelia, loaded with hay, was burned near Benicia.
5th -
The foundry of Palmer, Knox & Co., San Francisco, was destroyed by fire.
6th -
Thomas STEVENSON was crushed to death in Butte county, by being run over by a
wagon.
7th -
Richard POPE was killed at the dairy of the Insane Asylum by a patient named
John BARNETT....John HARTZ, an insane man, jumped off a precipice at San
Francisco, and was fatally injured....A. SLAHNE fell on a circular saw in San
Francisco and was killed.
8th - A
fire in San Francisco burned up the tobacco factories of Ruhle & Co. and Holl & Co. Loss $5,000.
9th -
Thos. LLOYD shot and killed a man named BERRY in San Francisco.
12th -
The Garrison House at Benicia destroyed by fire. Loss, $2,000....Captain
LASSEN, of the Crimea, was washed overboard and drowned while crossing Humboldt
bar.
15th -
Mrs. General D.D. COLTON’s arm was broken by being thrown from her carriage in
San Francisco....Henry LAKEMAN had two ounces of laudanum pumped out of him in
San Francisco.
16th -
As John RICE, Miss RICE and Miss HOLCOMB were crossing the Honcut near
Timbuctoo, their buggy tipped over and Miss RICE was drowned.
17th -
Earthquake in San Francisco at 12:12 P.M. Also felt at Tuolumne City.
22d - The Grand
Musical Festival opened at the Pavilion, San Francisco.
23d - George
CURRIER had his arm fractured, another man had his thumb blown off, and a boy
named Moses FRANKLIN was dangerously wounded in the abdomen, by a premature
discharge of a gun at the Music Festival....A little son of Conrad HEPPEL was
drowned in the Los Gatos, near Alameda, while obtaining driftwood.
28th -
Charles M. ARMSTRONG blew his brains out in San Francisco with a shotgun.
1ST -
Particulars of the loss of the United States steamer Oneida, by being run into
by the British steamer Bombay, near Yokohama, received by the arrival of the
bark Benefactress.
2d - Earthquake of
Calistoga and Healdsburg.
3d - James SMILLE
fired four shots at a Mexican woman he had been living with, named Cascila
RODRIGUEZ, in San Francisco, wounding her severely, and then blew his brains
out.
4th -
Jury in the case of Harry LOGAN vs. Augustus GUERRERO awarded plaintiff $18,000
damages for being shot by defendant.
6th -
John Lloyd BUNNER (colored), cut his throat at the dinner table of Adolphe
HAGENCAMP....George W. LEE and ____ STEVENS were thrown from a buggy, near
Vallejo. STEVENS had a leg broken; LEE was badly hurt.
9th -
Herman JOELEKE, a jealous German, blew his brains out in San Francisco.
10th -
The body of Horace M. WHITMORE, a pioneer merchant, found floating in the bay;
supposed suicide...J.K. ALLEN killed and O.W. SMITH and Frank SAYER injured
severely by an accident on the Western Pacific Railroad.
11th -
Corner-stone of a new synagogue for Congregation of Spirits of Israel laid in
San Francisco....J.C. BREWER stabbed and killed by Frank SMITH in San
Francisco....The house of A. TAYLOR, at Mud Springs, destroyed by fire; his
wife and two children, a girl aged thirteen and an infant, perished in the
flames. TAYLOR was badly burned, as were a boy of eight and a girl of four
years of age....A man named FRANKLIN was shot dead by his step-son in Los
Angeles.
12th -
Peter DONAHUE presented St. Patrick’s Church a chime of bells....Nicholas JONES
stabbed and killed George MILLER in a fight in San Francisco.
13th -
Brickell’s Hotel, at Illinoistown, destroyed by fire.
14th -
Eddy RICHEL, aged ten years, was declared insane and sent to the Insane Asylum
from San Francisco.
15th - Jack STRATMAN was arrested for libel published in the Tribune on J.C. DUNCAN.
16th - Joseph
LEACH and Thomas LEACH (no relation) had a shooting bout at Amador, in which
Thomas was killed and Joseph severely wounded.
17th -
St. Patrick’s Day was celebrated in grand style in San Francisco and elsewhere
in the State.
18th -
The Sacramento Union entered upon its thirty-ninth volume.
19th -
Geo. MAYER made an unsuccessful attempt to kill his wife and himself, near
Julian, Santa Clara county.
20th -
Richard WILLIAMS found a Chinaman in his chicken house at Forest Hill. The
Chinaman, resisting arrest, was shot and killed.
21st -
The body of a man named Austin CREHOVE was found in a reservoir near Dutch
Flat....Archibald NEVINS was fatally injured at Nevada, by a piece of granite
falling on him.
22d - The work of
clearing Yerba Buena Park, San Francisco, commenced; 500 persons applied for
work, 100 found employment....Emma EDISON, while getting breakfast for the
children of S.L. PEREIN, suddenly threw up her arms, gave a scream and fell
dead....Norwegian Pete and Dutch John hacked each other to death with knives at
Hayfork.
25th -
A Chinaman was arrested while swimming from the steamer China, with $5,000
worth of opium.
26th -
Thomas JOHNSON suicided by hanging to a tree limb on Mark West Creek, Sonoma
county.
27th -
The funeral of Colonel Thomas HAYES was attended, in San Francisco, by between
4,000 and 5,000 people.
28th -
General George H. THOMAS, Commander of Military Division of the Pacific, died
of apoplexy in his office at San Francisco....Francis MURRAY, a small child,
died in San Francisco from eating castor beans....Armory Hall, San Jose,
burned.
29th -
Grand Sire Farnsworth, of the Odd Fellows, arrived in San Francisco last
night....The body of General THOMAS was embalmed; the flags of the city were at
half-mast in respect to his memory.
30th -
Fire at Grizzly Flat last night; $12,000 worth of property destroyed....About
2,000 workmen assembled at Yerba Buena Park and discussed the labor question;
the meeting adjourned to the City Hall, where they were quieted by promises of
work....Nine prisoners broke out of the calaboose at Oakland and
escaped....Funeral services of General THOMAS were performed by Bishop KIP at
the Lick House....Effigies of Senators HAGER and SAUNDERS were hung on the
corner of Twenty-second and Folsom streets, San Francisco, last
night....Alexander H. McEWEN, Assistant Engineer of the steamship Pacific, fell
into the bay and was drowned.
31st -
The labor trouble increased to such an extent that the police force were
retained at headquarters; a guard kept at the armories and the militia
instructed to turn out at three taps on the bell. Mayor SELBY promised to put
as many at work on Monday as possibly....A fire in San Jose destroyed several
thousand dollars worth of property.
Sacramento Daily Union
Monday Morning, January 2, 1871
Page 1
1st - Franco HERMAN, a blind man, was held to bail in the sum of $1,500 for indecent assault on a six-year-old girl.
2d - Earthquake at Oakland at noon....Severe shock of earthquake at San Francisco at 11:18 A.M. Shock lasted six seconds....The same shock was felt at Napa, Santa Cruz, Petaluma and San Leandro.
3d - The Legislature adjourned after a session of 120 days.
4th - A boy, seven years old, named M. EMANUEL, was run over by a truck in San Francisco and fatally injured....United States Grand Jury in San Francisco indicted 140 persons for making false income returns.
5th - Two inches of snow fell at Fort Tejon....Stage robbed near Gibson’s Ranch and $2,400 in gold dust taken....The colored citizens celebrated the adoption of Fifteenth Amendment in various parts of the State.
6th - R.O. CRAVENS commissioned State Librarian, vice Wm. Neely JOHNSON, removed.
7th - Judge Ted ROBINSON appointed Supreme Court reporter....One hundred and fifty feet of San Francisco sea wall sunk five feet.
8th - August KING had his arm torn off below the elbow by being caught in the belting at Spaulding’s mill, San Francisco.
10th - John HAMMEL suicided in Marysville
by cutting his throat.
11th - The Amador mine burned.
12th - A negro woman named Mrs. CISCO had
two ounces of laudanum pumped out of her at San Francisco....A new Lodge of Odd
Fellows was instituted by Grand Sire FARNSWORTH at Davisville.
13th - Schooner Maid of the Mist burned near the Presidio, San Francisco.
14th - Widow of Sir John FRANKLIN arrived in San Francisco....Grand conclave of Grand Commandery of Knights of Templar elected officers in San Francisco.
15th - A prominent officer of the Military Department of California found the dead body of a female infant lying on his office sofa....Stockton city voted to give $300,000 to the Stockton and Visalia Railroad - only fourteen noes....San Joaquin county voted to give $200,000 to same road....J.W. MANDEVILLE commissioned Commissioner of immigration.
16th - Adolph F. MARQUARD suicided in San Francisco because he failed in love and business....J.H. CAMPBELL shot S.A. MILLS at St. Helena during a political dispute.
17th - Earthquake at Oakland.
19th - J.S. JARNIGAN found dead in his bed at Stockton....The stage was robbed near Ione valley of $2,500 in treasure.
20th - John M. DOHERTY, alias “Paddy Pungent,” committed suicide in San Francisco....K.A. PIERCE, living in a cabin ten miles from Yuba city, was burned to death last night.
21st - William LEMMONS, stage driver, died of heart disease, in his stage, between Castroville and Watsonville.
23d - M.W. COLLINS and William BROOKS were instantly killed at Georgetown by the premature explosion of a blast.
23d - 13,200 pounds of powder were exploded in Blossom Rock and that dangerous obstruction to navigation removed.
24th - While Charles BRADLEY was handling a can of naptha near a petroleum stove, in San Francisco, it took fire and burned up the house; BRADLEY’s boy one year old was burned to death and Mr. and Mrs. BRADLEY severely burned....Slight shock of earthquake in San Francisco.
25th - Lady FRANKLIN and niece sailed for Sitka on the United States steamer Newbern....A lady named McKENZIE fell from a wagon and was killed, near Santa Cruz.
26th - The Odd Fellows fifty-first anniversary was celebrated throughout the State....A blast of 14,000 pounds of powder was exploded successfully at Sucker Flat, Yuba county.
27th - G.A. BUSSEY, a jealous husband, shot and killed his wife in Sierra Valley.
28th - Annie SCHNEIDER, an insane woman, committed suicide by cutting her wrists with a razor at San Francisco....Daniel McKENZIE was mortally and E.W. HEATH seriously wounded by a party of horse thieves they were chasing near Tejon Reservation.
30th - A mass meeting of miners in Shasta protested against the returning of the lands in that county as agricultural by the United States Deputy Surveyor.
1st - The straw sheds of the paper mill company near Santa Cruz were burned.
2d - Soundings show the removal of Blossom Rock to be complete....Surveying parties for Stockton and Visalia Railroad commenced work.
4th - Creed HAYMOND, John C. BURCH and Charles LINDLEY appointed Commissioners for the revision of the laws....Earthquake at Grass Valley....Captain H.A. GOOD was killed by Indians near Tehama; twelve bullet holes found in his body.
5th - The Mexicans celebrated the defeat of the French in 1862 in various parts of the State....G**en McMAHON sent to the Union office two bones of an elephant dug up on Wolfskill’s ranch.
6th - The furniture factory of G.W. WEIR, and several adjoining buildings, were destroyed by fire at San Francisco; loss, $150,000.
8th - Fifteen thousand people attended the Fenians picnic at Redwood City Park...Earthquake at Gilroy....John TODHUNTER was killed by William Williams at Cottonwood, Siskiyou county.
9th - The State Grand Encampment I.O.O.F. elected and installed officers in San Francisco....Store of I. SOKOLOWSKY, at Mokelumne Hill, was burglarized last night to the tune of $1,400 in coins and jewelry.
Francisco....Asby MINEOR, aged twelve, was drowned in the Guadalupe river, near San Jose.
12th - Three distinct shocks of earthquake at Gilroy....Frank Eugene CANNON, aged ten years, was drowned while swimming in Canada Hill reservoir, Nevada City.
13th - E.H. LEARY had a lot of laudanum hydraulicked out of him in San Francisco - it was the second time in three months....Philip DICK, for the fifth time, was sentenced to be hanged at Stockton....$20,000 worth of property on the corner of Geary and Leavenworth streets, San Francisco, destroyed by fire.
14th - The new officers of the State Grand Lodge, I.O.O.F., were installed at San Francisco....HICKOK & SPEAR, brokers, paid a $14,000 forged check in greenbacks, at San Francisco....A fire at Downieville destroyed $15,000 worth of property.
15th - Terrific storm at Los Angeles, badly damaging first crop, etc.
16th - Julia WINANT shot herself through the arm while attempting suicide at San Francisco; cause jealousy....John LEARY was successful in his fourth attempt at suicide in San Francisco....Two men who gave their names as George and Lewis CLARK were arrested at Stockton as the forgers of the $14,000 check. C.C. HOWARD was arrested in San Francisco as an accomplice - the $14,000 greenbacks have been recovered....Alexander CAMPBELL was crushed to death by a rock that fell on him in the Carral Hollow coal mines.
17th - Three men in prison at Watsonville, for the murder of Indian Bill, were taken from the jail and hung by a mob.
20th - Joseph HEWITT shot and instantly killed S.P. ADAMS, in Pleasant Valley, near Vacaville.
21st - Josephine PLATTER and Teresa SIEGELMIER were burned by explosion of a kerosene lamp at San Francisco, the former fatally.
22d - The Chinese had a great riot at San Francisco; 3,000 celestials engaged in the row; none killed....Patrick GALLAGHER fell down a shaft, sixty feet deep, at the Spring Valley Water Company’s works, near Seventeen-mile House, and both legs were badly broken.
23d - JOHNSON and LAGRANGE opened a starch factory at San Jose....E.H. BURNHAM was found dead in his room at the Weber House, Stockton. A bottle containing laudanum was found in the room. J.W. MANDEVILLE resigned the office of Commissioner of immigration..
25th - The corner-stone of the new Mint was laid in San Francisco with imposing Masonic ceremonies.
28th - Wm. M. ZABRISKLE, a prominent criminal lawyer, died in San Francisco.
29th - A house was burned four miles from Knight’s Landing, on Lynch’s ranch. Four of LYNCH’s children and Miss SWIFT, aged sixteen, were burned to death. Origin of fire unknown....Seven business houses burned at Sutter creek....Turners’ picnic near Marysville, attended by 2,000 persons.
30th - Memorial Day was celebrated in San Francisco and elsewhere in the State by the Grand Army of the Republic....Mrs. J.J. RIGGS was burned to death by the conflagration of her house near Yuba City....Wm. G. LANSING shot HYLTON, the Maseppa man, through the face on Montgomery street.
31st - Colonel A.P. DUDLEY and his son Alfred had a series of fights with knives and pistols with Edward INGHAM, son-in-law of Colonel DUDLEY in San Francisco - nobody killed.
1st - The Mercantile Library Lottery office was opened in San Francisco....INGHAM fired two shots at young Al DUDLEY on Montgomery street near Bush - nobody hurt. INGHAM held in $5,000 bail.
2d - Seventy-five Chinamen, practical bootmakers, left San Francisco for North Adams, Mass.
3d - Michael BACH hanged himself at Anaheim....Thomas SCULLY was crushed to death by a saw-log rolling over him near Santa Clara....The dead bodies of Horace HAND and wife found in their house in San Bernardino county. He had been stabbed and she beaten to death.
4th - Hubert PRITCHARD shot himself through the brain at Sutter Creek. He had a looking-glass in one hand and pistol in the other when found....Isaac WILLIAMSON, an old and prominent resident of Nevada City, died.
5th - Steamship Active wrecked off Cape Mendocino; no lives lost....About fifty boarders at the Bella Union Hotel, Los Angeles, were poisoned at dinner; some were quite sick.
7th - J.H. NEWTON shot himself through the heart at Los Angeles.
8th - Grand Grove Ancient Order of druids met at San Francisco....Moses EATON, an old resident of Stockton, was thrown from his wagon and his neck broken.
9th - John CARTER shot one McLAUGHLIN through the leg on Montgomery street while he was walking with CARTER’s wife.
11th - A three-year old son of Frederick BATTERSBY was run over by the street cars and instantly killed in Oakland.
13th - A son of S.W. WILLIAMS was thrown from a horse and killed at Healdsburg....John QUINN and Ignats MURCKENSCHNABLE were killed by being thrown from wagons, in Stockton.
14th - John A. STANLY appointed as County Judge of San Francisco, vice Delos LAKE, resigned.
15th - Steam up for first time in the Stockton Woolen mills.
16th - S.B. MUSICK was knocked off his horse and killed by the cars at Mokelumne Station.
18th - Chas. H. DUPASS was shot and badly wounded while burglarizing the EDWARDS Ranch, Contra Costa county....Bernard McNALLY fell into the bay from schooner Nideros and drowned....James BLACK, who came to this coast in 18_2, died at San Rafael.
19th - The body of Louis SELIGMAN was found in San Mateo county. On the body $10,000 worth of coin, greenbacks and valuable papers were found; also bottles of drugs with which he had suicided.
22d - Henry HENRY was thrown from a horse at the Mission, San Francisco, and his neck broken.
25th - A fire at Benicia destroyed $5,000 worth of property....Rochon & Co. found a piece of solid gold in their claim near Shasta, that weighed 184 ? ounces.
26th - The wife of Elias VIERA, residing near Vallejo, gave birth to a child weighing sixteen and one-quarter pounds.
28th - Mrs. Dr. BURDELL of San Rafael was indicted for tearing up the will of her father, the late James BLACK; his estate is valued at $850,000.
29th - Patrick BUCKLEY, a brakeman, was run over and killed at Crystal lake, while uncoupling cars.
Sacramento Daily Union
Monday Morning, January 2, 1871
Page 1
1st - The residence of Captain BLAIR, near Stockton, burned’ loss, $25,000.
2d - W.D. WALSH, while riding with his wife at Oakland, was thrown from the buggy and his neck broken....P. BREEN was drowned in Pajaro river.
3d - A party of fourteen ladies and gentlemen were poisoned at San Gregorio by eating mussels. Captain Wm. HANAFORD, an 1849 pioneer, died from the effects.
4th - Independence Day was duly celebrated in all parts of the State. The usual number of accidents occurred....James EDWARDS shot and killed Mat REGAN at Visalia....Edward MYERS was shot and killed in San Francisco. George E. CONNER is charged with the crime.
7th - Wm. GUY was shot, killed and robbed by one ARCEA near Gilroy.
8th - N.E. LANE suicided at Michigan Bluff by cutting his throat.
9th - The Giant Powder Works, near San Francisco, exploded. John HANY, Assistant Superintendent of the works, was killed and two Chinese workmen badly injured.
10th - J.H. VAN STRTATEN fell in the Bay and was drowned at Oakland....Miss Lettie BERTON was burned to death at Marysville.
11th - Telegraph lines between Los Angeles and Anaheim completed and first message sent.
12th - Three Chinamen were arrested for forging notes on the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. The lithographs, copper plates, tools, etc., and ?35,000 in ?1 notes were captured....The Grand Jury of Los Angeles made a partial report, including 16 indictments for murder.
15th - News of the declaration of war by France against Prussia received. The declaration of war was announced to the French Corps Legislatif at fifty minutes to 1 p.m., July 15th.
17th - Earthquake at Fort Tejon....Patrick H. GRIMES, James CLARK and B. BAZZALINE were drowned in San Antonio Creek by the upsetting of a new boat invented by the latter.
19th - Magalia, alias Dogtown, burned; loss, $20,000; insurance $13,000 in the Occidental insurance Company....Large German meeting held in San Francisco to aid Fatherland.
20th - A boy named WALKER was thrown from his horse and killed at Stockton.
21st - John NOLAN, crossing a bridge over Mormon Slough, slipped and fell, striking a cross brace and dropped in the water dead....W.G. HUTCHINSON, engineer of the California and Oregon Railroad, was drowned while running across the Sacramento, near the mouth of Pitt river.
22d - Father A.C. ELDEN, of St. Mary’s Hospital, had his leg broken by being thrown from his buggy in San Francisco....A.M. DIBBLE had his leg badly broken and torn, near Chico, by being caught in the horse-power of a thrashing machine.
23d - A full barn belonging to Noah BURROUGHS and a stack of grain, property of Wm. GRAY, were burned at Waterloo; loss, $4,000.
24th - The residence of A.H. JORDAN in San Mateo was destroyed by fire; loss, $18,000.
25th - The barn, outbuildings, two horses and twenty tons of hay, property of David AUSTIN, Sutter county, was burned; loss, $10,000.
26th - Frank BAKER, aged fifteen, fell from a cherry tree, at Los Angeles, and broke his neck.
27th - Gilman’s dry goods store was burned in Grass Valley; loss, $15,000.
30th - John TYLER shot and killed a well-known gambler, named James DOBSON, on Montgomery street, San Francisco.
31st - George Francis TRAIN was hit with a rotten while lecturing in San Francisco.
1st - The San Francisco printers struck for higher wages.
3d - Anna GETCHEL was burned to death in Nevada City at a fire which also destroyed $2,500 worth of property.
3d - D.W.C. RICE, former President of the California Pacific Railroad, died in San Francisco.
4th - Earthquake shock at Santa Cruz.
6th - Charles QUINN, who so brutally outraged and murdered little Maggie RYAN, was found guilty of murder in the second degree by a San Francisco jury.
8th - Wells, Fargo & Co.’s express stage, near Volcano, was robbed of $5,100.
9th - Jack STRATMAN was found guilty, in San Francisco, of libel on J.C. DUNCAN.
10th - Mrs. Abraham ELKEN nearly cut her head off with a razor in Stockton....Republican State Central Committee adopted resolution of sympathy with Germany.
11th - The Mint was damaged $6,000 by fire....H.F. HITT hit Charles CHAPMAN with a load of duck shot near Los Angeles for seducing his wife.
12th - John CHAPMAN, while eating his breakfast near Georgetown, was shot dead....San Francisco Typographical Union pronounced the printers’ strike a failure.
13th - Jack STRATMAN sentenced by Judge LAKE to six months in the county jail for libel on J.C. DUNCAN.
15th - The boot and shoe factory of J. FRANK & Co., in San Mateo county, destroyed by fire. Insured for $30,000. One hundred Chinamen had been employed in the factory....Flags in San Francisco were at half-mast in honor of Admiral FARRAGUT, who died yesterday at Portsmouth, N.H.....The town of New Almaden mines destroyed by fires.
16th - A fire at Knight’s Ferry destroyed over $60,000 worth of the business portion of the town.
20th - Telegraph line completed to San Diego.
24th - Mr. JACKS, of Monterey, run his leg through a stationary wash basin at the Ross House, San Francisco, severely injuring himself.
25th - F.W. HORN, a German, suicided in San Francisco by smothering himself with a handkerchief....Annie MOONEY, 13 years of age, died at Brooklyn from the combined effects of drugs and a brutal outrage.
29th - George, Katie and Lewis WALTHERS, aged respectively 5 ?, 7 and 9 years, were playing in their father’s granary, ten miles from Yuba City, when a pile of wheat fell on them, killing George and injuring the others severely.
30th - A fire at Auburn destroyed the railroad depot, freight shed and Smith’s Hotel....Eighteen freight cars were thrown from the trestle work beyond Feather River bridge, on the California and Oregon Railroad, a distance of twenty feet and smashed up completely....A little son of Richard WRIGHT was crushed to death while playing around an idle over-shot wheel at Oro Fino, Siskiyou county.
2d - Hon. Wm. H. SEWARD and party sailed from San Francisco for China....J.S. EMERY jumped from the steamer Chrysopolis, about twenty miles below Sacramento, and was drowned.
4th - A fire in Colusa destroyed the Warden
building; loss, $8,000.
5th - Northern District Fair opened at
Marysville.
6th - Juan de Dios SEPULVEDA was hung by a
mob of native Californians near Bakersfield. He was accused of horse-stealing
and murder....Patrick KIERNAN fell from the front of a horse-car in San
Francisco and was killed. 8th
- Election in San Francisco; the Democrats elected Tax Collector and Fire
Commissioner, and the Taxpayers the rest of the general ticket....George D.
MARSHALL, living near Pacheco, was shot dead by ____ DONAVAN.
9th - Pioneer excursion to Mare Island from various parts of the State, in honor of the anniversary of the admission of California.
13th - James M. BROWN was robbed and murdered near Silver Mountain on the Big Tree road.
14th - Thomas MOONEY, banker, insurance man, historian, anti-Chinese leader, etc., absconded.
15th - Great ball at the Lick House in San Francisco, in honor of Generals SHERMAN and SCHOFIELD.
16th - The Mexicans celebrated the anniversary of Mexican Independence in various parts of the State.
18th - James FARRACA, while sick and delirious, jumped from the third story of the Western Hotel, Marysville, and was killed.
19th - Sacramento Union entered on its Fortieth volume....Lewis C. and George C. BROTHERTON were found guilty at San Francisco of forging Treadwell & Co.’s name for $15,000.
20th - The Empire Mining Company’s mill, etc., at Grass Valley, burned; loss, $140,000.
21st - At San Francisco Mary F. BAKER recovered judgement for $10,000 against California Stage Co. for killing her husband near Haywood’s, a year ago. Mary GRADY, injured at same time, recovered $3,000....Daniel SIZER was killed by foul air while digging in a well near San Diego.
22d - Wm. WILLIAMS, alias McCARTY, was shot and killed by Constable BAILEY, who was trying to arrest him, near Drytown.
23d - A freight train on the California Pacific Railroad was thrown off the track near Junction terribly injuring Conductor Henry BRIGGS and JONES, a fireman....N. GRAY was hanged near Fort Tejon by a mob.
28th - Mrs. CHEMPION suicided at Los Angeles by severing at main artery of the arm.
Sacramento Daily Union
Monday Morning, January 2, 1871
Page 1
2d - The office of
the Santa Clara Nova burned, loss $10,000.
3d - Bernard
McFARLAND was run over by a sand cart in San Francisco and killed....Sonoma
County Fail opened at Petaluma.
7th -
Mary MURRAY confessed to setting fire to her mother’s house in San Francisco
for the insurance of $700.
10th -
Patrick QUILL was crushed to death by a falling boulder in a quarry near
Oakland.
12th -
Murray’s Hotel and other houses burned in Stockton; loss, $8,000....Gaspar
URSIELS suicided in San Francisco with strychnine.
14th -
Jas. TURNER was run over by the cars and killed at Pino....Grand Lodge of
California F. and A.M. elected officers in San Francisco.
15th -
A fire at Oakland destroyed the Washington and City Hotels, Congregational
Church and five other buildings.
17th -
The stock of the Saratoga Straw Paper Mills burned; loss $10,000 to $15,000.
20th -
A fire on the block bounded by Mission, Fremont, Beale and Market streets, San
Francisco, destroyed property valued at over $400,000.
21st -
James McCRORY blew off half of the head of Manuel BARATES at Visalia with a
shot-gun.
22d - John PETIT
was caved on while digging a well in San Francisco and killed....First
passenger car arrived by railroad in Santa Rosa.
23d - The
occupation of Rome was celebrated by the Italians in San Francisco by
procession, etc.
24th -
The dwelling of H.S. MADDOX burned at Forbestown; loss, $2,000.
26th -
The body of W.C. SCHUYLER was found in the bay at San Francisco. He had
committed suicide.
27th -
Hon. Tod ROBINSON, Supreme Court Reporter, died suddenly near Crystal Springs,
San Mateo county.
31st -
Mercantile Library Lottery drawing commenced in San Francisco; great excitement prevailed in that city and
elsewhere. Theodore HELLMAN of New York,
drew the $100,000 prize....Marshal W.C. WARREN and Constable DYE had a shooting bout in Los Angeles; WARREN was
killed and DYE and three witnesses of the affair were wounded.
1st - A
fire at Moore’s Flat destroyed a great part of the town; loss, $13,200.
2d - A.P. CRITTENDEN appointed Supreme Court reporter vice
Tod ROBINSON deceased....Nebraska Hotel at Watsonville burned; loss,
$7,000....Irene FURRY was thrown from a buggy near Woodland and killed.
3d - Mrs. Laura
FAIR shot and mortally wounded A.P. CRITTENDEN, in the midst of his family, on the ferryboat El Capitan,
while crossing to San Francisco from Oakland...Emil HIRCH suicided in San
Francisco by blowing out his brains with a deringer....Two freight trains
collided near Blue Canyon, on the Central Pacific Railroad, killing Cyrus PARKS
and badly injuring R. KEMP, S. HENNESSY,
E. TAMPY, P. FOLEY and H. TAYLOR.
4th -
William BROWN, a laborer in a stable at San Francisco, found dead, having
fallen from above and broken his neck....Mrs. DE ROSSA suicided with laudanum
in San Francisco.
5th -
Fred SHUSTER shot and killed John MILLER at La Porte.
6th -
A.P. CRITTENDEN died from the effect of his wound....Mrs. Sarah DORSEY, a
colored woman, aged 113, died in San Francisco.
7th -
Joseph TAYLOR died from accidental poisoning in San Francisco.
8th - Second Mercantile Library Lottery
concert - prize, a fine grand piano.
9th - Glosford WILTON had his hand blown
off by the accidental explosion of a Hercater cartridge he was drying at a
forge in Downieville....John SULLIVAN was stabbed by Hugh McINERNEY in San
Francisco, because he would not treat....Samuel BURNER suicided by cutting his
throat at Liberty Hill, Nevada county.
10th -
Joseph LINDSAY’s boarding-house, at Rocklin, was destroyed by fire; loss,
$2,000....A Chinese woman was bound to a stake and burned to death by some of
her countrymen at San Bernardino.
11th -
HELLMAN, drawer of the $100,000 prize, directed his agents at San Francisco to
expend $5,000 of the amount in charity in that city and the same sum in New
York....Simon M. COHEN, doctor and astrologer, arrested in San Francisco,
charged with murder, by producing an abortion for Mrs. Fanny LAWLER, which
caused her death....Fire in San Francisco, on California street; loss, $40,000.
12th -
Judge R. Aug. THOMPSON appointed Supreme Court Reporter, vice CRITTENDEN,
deceased....Alfred GAFSTEAD suicided in Oakland by lying on the track and
letting the Central Pacific cars run over him.
14th -
Judge Leander QUINT appeared for Mrs. Laura FAIR, who shot CRITTENDEN, in the
Police Court at San Francisco, waived an examination, and she was committed to
county jail.
15th -
John CONNY died near San Jose from the effects of injuries received by a tree
falling upon him the day before.
16th -
Alexander, an old Frenchman, a veteran of the armies of Napoleon First, died in
San Francisco, aged eighty-four.
17th -
Wm. T. BRITTON had two ounces of laudanum pumped out of him in San Francisco.
He took the drug because he did not win in the Mercantile lottery....The
Wisconsin House and two other buildings burned in San Jose....The first ton of
crystalized sugar made from California grown beets, was taken from the
centrifugal at the Alvarado mill.
18th -
McCLEERY beat LITTLE for the silver cue and championship at San Francisco.
McCLEERY, 1,202; LITTLE, 826.
19th -
August MILLER died in Stockton from injuries received by being run over by a
fire engine.
20th -
The residence of the late Major HENSLEY, at San Jose, destroyed by fire; loss,
$60,000.
21st -
The residence of J.M. HELLMAN, banker, was burned in Los Angeles; loss,
$10,000.
22d - Captain
Pierre CARPIE died in San Francisco from the effects of a kick from a
horse....The railroad across Alameda creek, near Niles, was burned; loss,
$80,000.
23d - Drs. Li Po
TAI and Chan Tin PHOEY, leading Chinese doctors of San Francisco, were blown up
and severely injured by an explosion of gas.
24th -
Thanksgiving Day....The St. Augustine Cadets of Benicia visited San Francisco.
25th -
Peter O’CONNER, while digging a well at San Francisco, was cave on and killed.
27th -
Copperopolis restaurant and three other buildings in Stockton burned; loss,
$4,000....Four buildings including the City Bakery, burned at Vallejo; loss,
$20,000.
28th -
Isaac E. BROKAW shot and killed Robert EVANS in San Francisco....A young son of
Hiram CHICK, in Stockton, blew his hand off with a shot-gun.
29th -
The first rail of the Stockton and Copperopolis Railroad was laid at Stockton.
30th -
Timothy LORD, a hostler at the Cliff House, fell dead of heart disease....Dr.
J.R.RUSSELL, druggist at Diamond Springs, suicided with morphine.
1st - A
Convention of Delegates from the Baptist churches met at Vacaville and took
steps to incorporate a Baptist college.
2d - The President
of the Mercantile lottery reported the net proceeds of the three lotteries to
have been $310,120.25.
3d - R. Aug.
THOMPSON, Supreme Court Reporter, filed his official bond in the sum of
$10,000.
5th -
Six boys escaped from the Industrial School, near San Francisco....Mrs. Jesse
DONSELL and two children were murdered near Porterville by the Indians.
6th -
The Western Union Telegraph Company perfected arrangements for making telegraphic
drafts under fifty dollars....John WILSON suicided with a pistol at Los
Angeles...A young man named MARTIN fell from a wagon load of wood near San Jose
and was killed.
7th -
The old tower on Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, was blown down and destroyed....Two
Indians, the murderers of Mrs. DONSELL and children, were hung by a mob at
Porterville.
8th -
Captain Jack SCHECK, a deceased old resident of Stockton, was buried in that
city....William WALTMAN was killed at Nevada City by the accidental explosion
of Giant powder....A fire in San Francisco destroyed the California Shoe
Factory and did other damages; loss $15,000.
9th -
Official statement of population of California published in the Union; total
population 538,613....Wm. Noah VENTERS was found dead near Georgetown; cause of
death unknown.
10th -
John HOWDESS fell from some trestle work near Wheatland and broke his leg.
11th -
R.L. WOODWARD took the What Cheer House, San Francisco, sign for a target for
pistol practice; the police took him....Peter HOW was found dead in a house of
ill-fame in San Francisco, his neck being broken.
12th -
Charles TOWNSEND at Bangor, Butte county, accidentally killed himself while
examining a gun.
13th -
The first sales of Alvarado beet sugar made in San Francisco; thirty tons sold
at 13 ½ cents per pound....Wife of Colonel Charles L. WILSON died near Chico
while taking a bath.
14th -
Major WOODS, and old Californian, fell dead in a saloon in San Francisco....Miguel
ZACHERIAS shot and killed Jacob BELL in Los Angeles.
15th -
The Stocktonians celebrate the arrival of the first locomotive at the water
front of their city.
16th -
An unsuccessful attempt was made to blow up the China portion of Grass Valley.
19 - Mary HARRIHAN
died suddenly at San Francisco from the effects of a severe beating given by
her husband, who was arrested.
20th -
Charles RICHARDSON’s house at Marysville was burglarized, the inmates chloroformed,
and $500 worth of jewelry stolen....Vigilance Committee in full blast in Los
Angeles....Carter COX and Benjamin ROWE were suffocated to death at Forest Hill
by air from a fifty-pound blast.
21st -
An old resident of Santa Cruz, named CLEMENS, suicided with morphine.
22d - Mrs. Ellen
BURNS was killed by a team running away in Los Angeles....Allen FISH was
instantly killed at Oakland by a runaway team.
23d - A fire at
Colusa destroyed $5,200 worth of property....The bank of Marks & Co., at
Moore’s Flat, was robbed of $4,000.
24th -
A man named SHEPHARD was thrown from a horse at Brooklyn and had his leg
broken.
25th -
Christmas Day was duly observed....A fire at Stockton destroyed the barn of H.
LITTLEBRANDT, containing eighty tons of hay and the race horse May....Two
drunken Indians were run over by the cars at St. Helena and killed.
26th -
A fire in Oakland destroyed the dwelling of Mrs. J. WHITE, valued at over
$2,500....A Chinaman was run over at Clipper Gap, by the cars, and killed.
27th -
Mayor SELBY, of San Francisco, donated his year’s salary, $4,200, to charitable
institutions of that city.
28th -
A man named DOUGHERTY shot and killed Mrs. DENNIS at Wheatland for refusing to
marry him.
29th -
Napa selected as the site of the Odd Fellows’ College and Home.
31st -
San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad formally opened to Santa Rosa....Dennis
GUNN shot and killed Edward J. MURPHY at San Francisco.
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Sacramento
Daily
Monday
Morning, July 31, 1871
POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES - The latest
details, based on the revised tables at the United States census office at
Washington, show the following aggregate of population of all the States and
Territories of the United States:
Colored..........4,879,823
Indian.................25,733
Japanese..................500
Chinese..............63,196
Total
Population of the United States....38,550,432
The total population of the United State in 1860
was 31,747,514 - increase in ten years 6,302,818. But for the five years of war
through which the country passed during those ten years, the increase would
have been at least two millions larger by immigration or otherwise.
PASSENGERS FOR CALIFORNIA - The following
passengers passed through Ogden July 27th, and arrived at their
destinations July 29th:
Frank M. PIXLEY, A. McKEE and sister, Wm.
LENT, Mrs. G.W. OMEN, J.F. MACLEAN and wife, E.R. CARPENTER, Dr. Wm. LAWLER, M.
FRANKENTHAL, H.S. HINDS and son, C. TWELLEGER, wife and child; Mrs. J.
ELOESSER, Miss H. NEWMARK, San Francisco; Mrs. J.B. AYERS, Robert ALLEN, wife
and son, Sacramento; Mrs. U. HAYCOCK, San Jose; Mrs. McFARLANE, Redwood; Josef
WOLFSON, L. CAMARILLE, Santa Barbara; Mrs. N.H. THOMAS, Weaverville; F. BALL
and daughter, Charles PLATT, Shasta; Miss G.G. CLEVELAND, A.J. CLEVELAND,
Watsonville; Miss Mary MIDDLETON, Knoxville, C.W. HADLEY, wife and three
children, Cacheville; Mrs. H. M. TUCK and daughter, Chicago; Mrs. S.E. SMITH,
D.M. TALMER, U.S.N.; E.O. THOMPSON and two sons, Philadelphia; R.H. PORTER, New
York; D.W. ROWLAND, Washington; Master Walter SIMONTON, Cleveland; P.K.
DICKINSON, New York; Mrs. EARLE, New Rochelle, N.Y.; A. LIND, Hongkong; J.R.
WASSON, U.S.A., S. BARKER and niece, Oregon; R.A. MOWAT, Shanghae; R.P. ALDEN,
New York; Rev. J.B .GIBSON, Sing Sing, N.Y.; H.H.C. DUNWOODIE, U.S. N.; D.S.
CHELWOOD, Elizabeth, N.J.; Mrs. STAIRNS and son, M. DOHMAN, J. BANDINI, M.
DAMES, F. SCHOENE, C. BREECIANI, A. BEGNETTI, L. INSELVANI, G. STOFFEL, Japan;
R.H.F. POLLOYON, U.S.A.; B. CASTNER, Waldeboro; Owen JONES, South Wales.
The following passengers passe through Ogden
July 28th, and arrived at their various destinations July 30th:
W.H. POLK, wife and child, Mrs. WHITING, San
Francisco; Mary BREECHEVILLE, Mrs. O’DONNELL, Alameda; Mrs. M. STEIN, Miss M.
STEIN, Yreka; J. BRADY, Owen’s Lake; Thomas FITCH and wife, Salt Lake; James
DAVIDSON, Japan; W. RESON, Cincinnati; G. GRIFFIN, London; G.A. CLARK,
Cambridge, Massachusetts; A. NUE, Mark M. POMEROY and wife, New York; Mrs.
Margaret SHOW, Iowa; J.C. DAVISON, J.R. CARNAHAN, Chicago; J.W. BIDDLE, H.S.
BIDDLE, A. BIDDLE, J.S. WATERMAN, Philadelphia; G. SCHWATKA, United States
Army; J.H. REMS, Townsend, Massachusetts; T. RYAN, Michigan.
BY STATE TELEGRAPH
Immense
Republican Mass Meeting - Arrival of American Man-Of-War - O’Meers Funeral -
Arrivals
San
Francisco, July 30th
The number in attendance at the Republican
mass meeting last meeting last evening is variously estimated at from 8,000 to
15,000, including large delegations from Sacramento, San Jose, Oakland,
Vallejo, and other points.
The United States steamer California, Captain
J.M. BIELITZ, commanding, arrived at this port this afternoon in 137 days from
New York, via Callao in 43 days, and proceeded at once to Mare island for
overhauling. She is a magnificent steamer of 4,090 tons, 2,000 horse-power,
with a crew of 365 officers and men, and 42 machines. She mounts 18.9 inch
guns, 2,600-pound Parrotts, and 1.6-pound rifled Parrott. The officers and crew
are well. Corporal Matthew DOYLE of the California, and private James SHIELDS
of the marines of the St. Marys, died on the voyage. This is the first cruise
of the California, and she has proven herself a first-class sea vessel in every
respect. She will become the flag-ship of the Pacific squadron, and fly the
broad pennant of Admiral Winslow as soon as put in order.
The funeral of the late Major J.F. BRONSON,
First Regiment National Guard of California, took place this afternoon and was
a very imposing affair. The entire First and Third Regiments turned out in full
force, and Major-General COBB, Adjutant-General CAZNEAU, Brigadier-General
HEWSTON and Colonel J.W, McKENZIE, with their respective staffs, marched in
line. The services were conducted under the auspices of the Order of Odd
Fellows, Yerba Buena Lodge No. 15 turning out in full force. The procession was
witnessed by thousands of people who thronged the streets along the line of the
march. The remains, inclosed in a metallic coffin, were deposited in a vault at
Lone Mountain, and four companies of the First Regiment fired a final salute.
The city has been otherwise quiet.
Fatal Accident at Mokelumne Hill
Mokelumne Hill, July 30th
Yesterday afternoon a miner named Joseph
KRAFT, while attending upon the ladder near the bottom of the shaft at Gwin’s
mine, was fatally injured by the bucket, which was ascending the shaft, rolling
off its track and crushing him in a horrible manner. Kraft was formerly a
resident of Campo Seco.
From Santa Clara - Fire - Run Over
and Killed
Santa Clara, July 30th
Quite a fire occurred here this morning on the
corner of Main and Alviso streets, opposite the Catholic college. One building
was burned and very few of the contents saved. The building was used for a
saloon; loss about $2,000; insured for $1,200. It was feared that the Farmers’
Mill adjoining would be destroyed, but through the assistance of many persons
it was saved.
The last up train last night ran over and
killed a drunken Indian who had fallen asleep on the railroad track about one
mile below this place. He was terribly mangled, legs and arms being broken
several places and head cut completely open so that he could not be recognized.
No blame is attached to any one.
From
Virginia, Nev., July 30th
James KELLY was taken to the county jail
yesterday as insane. Grief on account of the death of a relative and losses in
stocks are said to have caused his insanity.
The Sutro tunnel was yesterday in a distance
of 2,272 feet. The rock is pretty hard, with some water at the face of the
tunnel.
From
Reno, July 30th
Two boys, aged fifteen and eighteen, arrived
here last night form Surprise valley, California, with seven horses, most of
which they sold to our citizens. It was subsequently found out that the horses
were stolen, and that they had started with a band of thirty, twenty-three
being disposed of on the route. The boys were arrested during the night.
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Daily
Sacramento,
Wednesday Morning,
CHARGE AND COUNTER CHARGE - Owen MILLER an
J.W. REESER, proprietors of a saloon in the Academy of Music building, had each
other arrested yesterday, Miller charging Reeser with disturbing the peace, and
the latter making a counter charge of assault and battery. Their difficulty
grew out of a misunderstanding in business, Miller alleging that his partner
had failed to do as he agreed, and had conducted himself improperly toward
customers; while Reeser claimed that Miller had assaulted him, put him out of
the saloon and refused to let him enter, closing the saloon up rather than that
he should do so. Judge HENLEY will arbitrate in the premises this morning.
INCORPORATIONS - Articles of incorporation
of the Excelsior Leather Manufacturing Company of San Francisco were filed
yesterday in the office of the Secretary of State. Capital, $300,000, in shares
of $100 each. Trustees - S. B. BOSWELL, J.Y. WILSON, W. LeROY, William Lawrence
MERRY and C.T. FORREST. There was also filed the certificate of incorporation
of the Crown Point South Extension Mining Company - organized to operate a Gold
Hill, Storey county, Nevada. Capital, $1,000,000, in shares of $100 each.
Trustees - Wm. M. LENT, M.D. TOWNSEND, Chas. J. BRENHAM, Andrew J. MOULDER and
W.B. JOHNSTON.
NEW MAIL CARS - The Central Pacific Railroad
Company have finished and turned out of their shops in this city a new style of
mail car, with divisions for way mail for all points between San Francisco and
Ogden, a department for through mail, and another, in the center of the car,
for the convenience of the route agents - the whole car being devoted to mail
service - whereas heretofore one car served for both mail and express. The new
car appears to fill exactly the requirements of the postal business, and
several more will be made upon its pattern.
EXCURSION TO WOODLAND - A large party of
Democrats and other excursionists left for Woodland last evening at 7 o'clock
by the California Pacific Railroad, about a dozen cars, principally flats,
having been attached to the regular Marysville train for their accommodation.
They took with them transparencies and torches, intending to make a torchlight
demonstration prior to the holding of the meeting. Governor HAIGHT, Brick
POMEROY, Sunset COX and J.D. HAMBLETON were expected to speak.
CHARGED WITH PERJURY - George COLLICOTT was
arrested yesterday by Chief SMITH and Deputy Sheriff DOLE on a charge of
perjury, he having been indicted by the last Grand Jury for fraudulently
swearing in a vote at the Second Ward polls during the last Republican primary.
It is alleged that he swore he was a resident of that ward and had not voted
previously that day; whereas, he was not a resident of the ward, and had
already voted at another polling place.
LEFT FOR STOCKTON - The Sacramento ZOUVES
(colored), Captain EMERY, accompanied by a number of friends and a band of music,
left by the Central Pacific express train for Stockton yesterday noon, thus
celebrating by an excursion the abolition of slavery in the West Indies and the
anniversary of the first arming of colored soldiers in this country during the
war of the rebellion. They will return home this morning.
WAGER ON THE ELECTION - It is announced that
D.E. CALLAHAN of the Golden Eagle Hotel and Charles CHILDS, who resides on the
Stockton road a few miles from the city, have made a wager on the gubernatorial election, Callahan
betting a Norfolk four-year-old on Haight, while Childs backs Booth with a
four-year-old descendant of George Moore. The loser has to lead his horse to
the residence of the winner, traveling the distance on foot.
SINGULAR DEATH - A young man named Robert
HUNT, who had been in the employ of Thomas SHOLER at his slaughter-house in
this city, was bitten on the neck last Friday by a fly., Not long afterward the
spot bitten became inflamed and swollen, and, despite the best medical treatment,
the unfortunate man continued to grow worse until Monday night, when death
terminated his sufferings, which had been very great.
CUT IN THE HAND - Night before last one of the
emigrant passengers for San Francisco by the Central Pacific freight train
entered the sleeping car attached to the train and insisted upon remaining
there. The porter of the car, Chas. MILLS, endeavored to put him out, and while
doing so was cut in the hand by a knife which the passenger attacked him with.
THE SHOOTING AT STOCKTON - The Stockton
Independent of August 1st gives these particulars of the affair
mentioned in the Union yesterday:
Considerable excitement was created about
half-past 8 o’clock last night by the report that one woman had shot another at
the Grand Hotel. The facts, as nearly as we are enabled to ascertain them, are
these: A lady arrived at the Central Pacific Railroad depot on the westward
bound train due at 1:28 P.M., an took passage in the Yosemite House omnibus
yesterday, and upon arriving at the hotel was shown to room 26. Her name was
entered on the hotel register as “Mrs. STEPHENS, Tahoe.” On the way from the
depot to the hotel she asked the driver if, on his way, he passed the express
office, and the driver replied that he did not. Subsequently she made inquiries
of the whereabouts of the operator in the office of the Atlantic and Pacific
Telegraph Company, and learned that he boarded and lodged at the Grand Hotel,
Center street. In the evening she procured a hack, went to the Grand Hotel, and
was shown to a room on the first floor; but she refused to accept the one to
which she was assigned, expressing a desire to occupy one on the next floor,
indicating the part of the house she preferred. She was then shown to room No.
19, which opens into the same hall, and is situated almost directly opposite
the room occupied by the telegraph operator above alluded to, and a woman whom
he has represented to be his wife. Shortly after the newly arrived woman was
shown to her room, three pistol shots were heard, and the new comer left the
house and requested Edwin L. DOLE, the owner of the Grand Hotel omnibus, to
direct her to the sheriff’s office. On their way along the street she asked
where the express office was, and being shown, she stepped into the telegraph
office adjoining, caught the operator by the collar, and remarked, “I have done
it at last; I have shot her three times, and I ought to kill you;” and so
saying made an effort to pull a pistol form her breast, but was prevented by
her hand being caught by Dole. She kept hold of the operator, saying that he
was her husband, and that he had to go along. They both then went along to jail
and were locked up. At the Grand Hotel it was found that the woman whom the
operator claimed as his wife had been shot three times, receiving one flesh
wound in the right shoulder, one bullet having passed through the thigh,
inflicting a severe wound, but breaking no bones, and the third penetrated the
center of the abdomen and passed almost directly through the body. Dr. Samuel
LANGDON was called, examined the wounds, found two of the bullets, but failed
to discover the third. The doctor thinks the intestines are wounded, and her
recovery is a matter of great doubt. The wounded woman called for her husband,
but that gentleman was not forthcoming. The operator and the wounded woman
arrived at the Grand Hotel, as shown by the register, on the 28th of
June last, under which date the following entry is made: “N.J. SAVIERS and
wife, Carson, Nev.,” and they have been constantly living there since,
excepting a few days that the man was absent. When he left particular
instruction were given to have the wife well cared for. At 11 o’clock last
night the woman who fired the shots was suffering greatly in jail from nervous
prostration. On her arrest at the prison, a Smith & Wesson five-shooter,
with three barrels empty and two loaded, was found upon her person. It appears
that she has recently been quite ill, and that she had only been three days out
of a sick bed before she arrived in this city.
P.S. - Just as we go to press we learn that
the wounded woman is suffering great pain, and that her symptoms are decidedly
unfavorable, and her recovery considered hopeless.
SHOOTING AFFRAY AT LIVERMORE - The Oakland
Transcript of August 1st has this:
About 3 o’clock last Sunday afternoon a man
named J. KNUCKLES was shot near Livermore by one BRADLEY, receiving frightful
injuries about the face, but none which are likely to prove fatal. The affair
was about a sum of money Bradley claimed belonged to him in the hands of
Knuckles. Some time previous to the shooting, the men met and Bradley demanded
the money. Afterward, while Knuckles was riding in a wagon a short distance
from town, Bradley rode up to him on horse-back armed with a loaded shotgun and
made another demand for the money. It was refused, whereupon Bradley took
deliberate aim at Knuckles and fired. The greater part of the charge of shot
entered Knuckles’ lower jaw, tearing the chin entirely away and ripping the
flesh down close to the windpipe. The tongue was also torn. Several shot
entered the right shoulder. Bradley immediately rode away, and up to yesterday
afternoon had not been heard from, although officers are out in search of him.
The money transaction is given to us as follows: Bradley had been herding a
large number of cattle, and owing a great many small bills his money was taken
up by his creditors by powers of garnishee as fast as it became due. Bradley
succeeded in getting a sum ahead, and to prevent its being seized placed it in
the hands of Knuckles, who refused afterward to refund it.
PASSENGERS FROM THE EAST - Following
passengers passed through Ogden July 30th, and will arrive at their
various destinations August 1st:
R.H. VANCE, M. BROGAN, San Francisco; Mrs.
J.B. RITTER, Sacramento; E. PORTER, Santa Cruz; A.L. BARTLETT, E. BARTLETT,
Chicago; J.E. McLANE, Joseph COLEMAN, Masailon, Ohio; L. WILSEY, wife an child,
Elko; N.M. BARRETT, Rock Island, Illinois; Peter G. SAXE and wife, Troy, New
York; Wm. WALLER, London, Canada; Mrs. R. CADY, Vermont; A. GREEN, wife and
four children, Missouri; Lieutenant Thos. P. WILSON, wife and child, U.S.A.;
Mrs. J. BANCROFT, Duxbury, Massachusetts; Mrs. J.K. ELBER, Cincinnati, Ohio;
Mrs. A.J. HILL, Mrs. M.R. MADDOCKS, Seattle, Washington Territory; Mrs. Judge
T. LEWIS, Carson City, Nevada; Mrs. D.L. SYLVESTER and child, Reno, Nevada;
Mrs. Jas. SCARVEL and two children, Zanesville, Ohio; Miss Cecilia SCHILLER,
Charricow, Germany.
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Sacramento Daily Union
Monday Morning, January 1, 1872
The Union’s
customary New Year’s record of notable events is herewith appended. The year
1871 has been remarkable for events that will stand for ages conspicuous in
history. Among them we may recapitulate these: The surrender of Paris and the
end of the greatest European war which has taken place in this century with a
single exception; the second downfall of the Corsican dynasty in France; a
treaty of peace between France and Germany, accompanied by an article for the
heaviest indemnity ever paid by one nation to another; the completion of the
German Empire by the annexation of some French provinces and the coalition of
Baden, Bavaria, Wurtemburg and Saxony with Prussia, under the imperial rule of
William of Prussia; the progress of republicanism in Spain after the murder of
General PRIM; the formation of a republic of France, the failure of the
Communist rebellion and the barbarous execution of its most notable leaders;
the annexation of Rome to Italy and its becoming again the capital of that
country; a complete political revolution in California, under the direction and
leadership of the Sacramento Union; the overthrow and utter ruin of the Tammany
thief “ring” in New York after many years of defiant and corrupt rule; the
re-election of President JUAREZ in Mexico, and a rebellion in consequence; the
opening of regular steamship communication between California and Australia and
New Zealand; frightful ravages by famine, plague and cholera in central Persia;
advance of cholera westward through Prussia and Northern Germany; its
appearance at Halifax and the New York quarantine grounds late in the year, on
an emigrant steamer from the Baltic; appearance of epidemic small-pox in the
Eastern cities of America; extension of cable telegraph lines in the East and
West Indies; the cession of Sumatra by Holland to England; the annexation by
Russia of the Manchurian-Chinese province of Soongaria; gold discoveries in
South Africa at the sources of the Orange river; beginning of the subjugation
of the Apache Indians by a humane peace policy; rich and extensive developments
in the silver mines of Utah, Arizona and the south of California; frightful
ravages of the yellow fever plague at the city of Beunos Ayres and 40,000
deaths there from in five months; and last, but not least, the almost total
annihilation by fire of Chicago, the fourth city in wealth and population, the
second in trade, and the first in enterprise on the American continent, by
which over $200,000,000 worth of property was destroyed in a single night and
150,000 persons left homeless. These are the most notable world occurrences of
the past year. It has been a long time since a single year furnished such a
record of historical events of the first class. Those of the lesser note the reader
will find in the following columns, grouped in the monthly order in which they
occurred. The year has not been the most favorable to California. We have had a
drouth, which shortened our staple crops and checked our commercial prosperity.
But the closing month gave full promise of better fortune for current year.
They rains have been seasonable and abundant, and in all probability 1872 will
produce the largest crops of cereals ever harvested on the
JANUARY
1st -
Mrs. J.H. TOBIN thrown from a buggy in San Francisco and was killed....French
residents of San Francisco sent 100,000 francs to Gambetta
2d - Alfred
REDINGER committed suicide in San Francisco....John WOOD shot Henry MARBLE
through the breast, at Dogtown
3d - Fire in Stockton
destroyed C.H. SISSON & Co.’s stable. Loss, $9,000....First National Gold
Bank of San Francisco opened....Ann Eliza BRANNAN divorced from Samuel BRANNAN
and awarded near $500,000....H.J. WRIGHT
shot himself in Marysville....Wm. RUSE, murdered at Oregon Gulch, Butte
county....A man named ARMROD found dying and his wife dead from the effects of
liquor, at Cerro Gordo.
5th -
Henry PALMER drowned in San Francisco bay....San Francisco police made a capture
of eighteen boys for gambling....George HIRSER cut his throat in San Francisco
6th -
Grand Jury of Alameda found true bill against Mrs. FAIR for killing A.P.
CRITTENDEN....New flying machine tried in San Francisco....A man named LOVE
shot and mortally wounded by another named DAMASCUS
7th -
John MILLER drowned himself at Rocklin
8th -
John COONEY, Thos. MAGNUS and Thos. LADD were arrested in San Jose for highway
robbery
9th - Heavy rainstorm throughout the
State....Wm. MATTHEWS thrown from his buggy near Santa Cruz and fatally
injured....Mrs. MURNAN accidentally shot by her son, near Sonora. Wound not
fatal....W.W. LANE killed by Dr. DAVIDSON, at Kingston, Fresno county
10th -
Store of Supervisor SCOTT entered and robbed, and Otto LUDOVici, clerk,
murdered, at Pleasant View
11th -
Ice formed three-eighths of an inch thick in Stockton....John F. WHALEN run over and killed on railroad near
Redwood City....Peter MILLER killed by Indians in Jumel Valley, San Diego
county
12th -
DION beat DEERY in a billiard match at San Francisco; score, 500 to 478....Free
fight between opposition stevedores at Vallejo....Steamers Moulton and Amador
collided in San Francisco bay....Fire in los Angeles; loss, $3,500
13th -
Sarah FOLSOM, alias “Doughnut Sal,” missing from Natividad; supposed to be
murdered; had much money
14th - STEWART, keeper of Sailors’ Home, San
Francisco, absconded with $20,000....Col. A. Jones JACKSON, a pioneer, died in
Santa Clara....C.E. THOMPSON found murdered in a shaft near Oroville
15th -
Indians very troublesome in Jumel Valley, killing stock and robbing and
murdering rancheros
16th -
The Murphy’s Camp stage robbed by highwaymen near Angel’s Camp....Burglars very
active in San Jose; two houses broken into and many valuables taken....Wife of
J.H. ROBERTS of Colusa ran off with J.B. FOSTER
17th -
Half of the town of Truckee destroyed by fire....BEGNER, whose wife was seduced
by one DALE, was awarded $2,000 by a verdict of a San Francisco jury....Abraham
DILLEY, 55 years old, ran forty miles in seven hours, at Santa Clara....Three
dead men found near San Simeon, San Luis Obispo county; supposed to have been
murdered
18th -
Seven defaulting jurors in San Francisco fined $100 each....Drawing of
Cosmopolitan lottery prizes commenced in Nevada....Attempt made to break from
State Prison frustrated....The Wife and six children of a man named SHOUSE
discovered in the tules on the White tract, near Vallejo, having been turned
out of doors by him....Thomas ROGERS fell down the shaft of the Amador Mine,
and was instantly killed; he fell 900 feet
19th -
Woman Suffrage State Convention met in San Jose....Annie SMITH shot at John O.
TAYLOR, her lover, in San Francisco, twice, but missed....Spanish fishing boat
Manuela upset in Bodega river, and one man drowned....John RAUSCHE robbed a
fellow-workman of $700 near Alameda, and disappeared...Bernard LAUZE was
killed, and Joseph TRUMPETTS badly injured, by a cave in a claim at Sonora
20th -
Two barrels of beet sugar, from Alvarado, forwarded to Grant and Colfax.....Large
frame building, owned by R. OLSEN, burned in Stockton; insured for $3,000;
OLSON, in trying to save property, was very severely burned.
21st -
Mail car of eastern-bound train in Central Pacific Railroad entered by robbers,
at Alta, and a package of registered letters and a large amount of treasure
stolen....Mexican boy and a soldier killed at Los Angeles, in a dance-house
fight.
22d - James
GIBBONS fell down a flight of stairs, in San Francisco, and was
killed....Stockton and San Andreas stage again stopped by highwaymen and
robbed....A number of registered letters, $1,700 coin, and $23,000 in United
States bonds, found in Alta - the greater portion of the proceeds of the
mail-car robbery of the day before.
23d - Sacramento
river so high at Red Bluff as to impede travel....Mrs. Rebecca J. CUSHING committed suicide, in San
Francisco, by cutting her arm with a razor.
24th -
Annie SMITH, who shot her paramour, John O. TAYLOR, was sent from San Francisco
to Stockton, as insane
25th -
Pope LANSDALE shot and instantly killed Scott BANKS at Red Bluff
26th -
United States Internal revenue officers and others implicated in blackmailing
Chinese merchants....DEERY beat DION at a game of billiards, French carom, 500
points, at San Francisco, DION giving DEERY 100 points; score, 500 to 470
27th -
Annual meeting and election of officers of State Agricultural Society at
Sacramento....A number of young girls arrested in San Francisco for dissolute
conduct....Fight in San Rafael Valley between Sheriff’s posse and a band of
outlaws, in which two of the latter were killed and four captured. Three of the prisoners afterwards hung by a
Vigilance Committee....E.B. LOCKLEY shot
by a boy and killed - boy shot at a dog and accidentally hit LOCKLEY.
29th -
Commodore WOODWORTH, U.S.N., died in San Francisco
30th -
Germans in San Francisco celebrated the capture of Paris; as did also their
fellow-countrymen of Marysville, Stockton and Visalia and other towns....Seven
Sisters of Mercy went to Yreka to found a convent school...Miners’ Convention
met in Sacramento...Gang of Spanish thieves broken up and two arrested at
Auburn.
31st -
Building owned by Dr. TRENOR and SUTTER, at Alameda, burned; loss, $5,000.
1st - Locomotive
Mono and railroad sheds burned at Blue Canyon....Col. Wm. McCLURE, a pioneer resident of Placer county,
died at Oakland....Man named TRAHEARN accidentally shot himself at Vallejo and
died from effects of the wound
4th -
Bodies of Henry and Oscar BILDERBECK, supposed to have been murdered, found
near Los Angeles....John BLACK kicked to death by a horse near Clarksville
6th - Eight shocks of earthquake felt at San
Jose and Santa Clara....Grand Jury of San Francisco indicted Mrs. Laura D. FAIR
for killing A.P. CRITTENDEN
9th -
DEERY beat DION at San Francisco at a game of French carom billiards, 600
points score, 600 to 441....Second-class fare reduced, from Omaha to San
Francisco, to $50
10th -
Mrs. A.H. NASON accidentally shot and instantly killed near Petaluma
11th -
B.H. RENFROW blew out his brains at Healdsburg
12th -
W.S. LONG, a pioneer lawyer, died in Shasta
13th -
Central Pacific Company’s woodshed and over 100 cords of wood burned at
Truckee.
14th -
First cargo of anthractic coal landed in San Francisco from Queen Charlotte’s
Island.
16th - E. PRAGLE, an old Marysville merchant,
dropped dead of heart disease....Royal Japanese Prince arrived in San
Francisco; also, Japanese Minister to Washington....Cloverdale stage robbed by
highwaymen....Dr. Nicholas HEROLD murdered in San Bernardino
17th -
James R. HARDENBERGH took possession of U.S. Surveyor General’s office....J.H.
MORAN, one of STEVENSON’s men, died at San Francisco....Fred CLARKE shot and
killed S. REED, near Oakland....G.L. ISRAEL committed suicide by cutting his
throat, at San Francisco 18th - Three Cornishmen stopped by highway
robbers at Grass Valley and robbed; highwayman captured same evening
19th -
May Pole House, near Mokelumne Hill, burned.
20th -
Fred COOMBS shot his wife and then killed himself at Napa; cause, family
troubles....two passenger cars of Central Pacific Railroad ran off track near
Penryn, and several persons injured....SIEGRIST’s wine cellar, near Napa,
burned; loss, $60,000.
21st - Great
thunderstorm in San Francisco and central part of the State....During the storm
in San Francisco a brick wall fell on frame lodging house, killing four
persons.
22d - Lincoln
schoolhouse in San Francisco burned; loss, $25,000....First passenger train ran
over Copperopolis railroad.
23d - Fred PUPPIN cut his throat from ear to ear in
San Francisco.
25th - Mrs. Laura D. FAIR pleaded not
guilty to the killing of A.P.
CRITTENDEN in San Francisco.
26th - Ineffectual attempt made to burn
office of Stockton Herald.
27th - Dick LEE shot and killed Wm. DUNCAN
at Gallatin, Los Angeles county.
2d - The Coroner’s
jury acquitted all persons of blame in the Minna street disaster....Heavy
earthquake at Eureka.
3d - Great
rejoicing in San Diego over passage of the Southern Pacific Railroad bill,
making that place the terminus....Sheriff JACKSON, of Trinity, convicted of
collecting foreign miners’ licenses, at San Francisco in United States District
Court....Joseph HEWETT was shot and killed at Pleasant Valley.
4th -
Burglars entered BOYD & WILCOXSON’s store at Yuba City and robbed it of
$2,600 in coin.
6th -
Homeopathic physicians of San Francisco and vicinity met for the purpose of
organizing a State Society....American Hotel at Santa Barbara burned; loss,
$8,000.
7th -
Work commenced on the Vallejo and Sonoma County Railroad....Hiram W.
POOLE, under
indictment for murder, hanged himself in jail at Sonora.
8th -
Riotous demonstrations at San Francisco to prevent sailors shipping at $25 a
month.
12th -
Horace HAWES died in San Mateo, leaving his property, valued at $2,000,000, for
found a university.
13th -
Episcopal Diocesan Convention of California met at San Francisco....Grass
Valley lottery drawing commenced.
14th - A
young girl fell 150 feet down Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, and was picked up
alive....One GIBBONS shot and killed a man named LAVIN at Lockford, San Joaquin
county, in a quarrel about land.
15th -
DION beat RUDOLPHE at San Francisco in a game of English billiards, 1,000
points; score, 1,000 to 956
16th -
A mortgage of $26,000,000 on the Southern Pacific Railroad put on record in San
Francisco....C. GODFREY shot himself to death at Red Bluff....A plowing
tournament came off at Stockton.
17th -
St. Patrick’s Day celebrated throughout the State with much spirit.
20th -
Steamer Wm. Taber, coming into San Francisco Bay, narrowly escaped wrecking on
Point San Pedro....Two noted Indian desperadoes killed by officers in Shasta
county.
21st -
German indignation meeting at Stockton, protesting against the action of the
Central pacific Railroad...Pacific Female College at Oakland sold to the
Pacific Theological Seminary for $80,000....Large torchlight procession in San
Francisco by Germans in honor of the peace between France and Germany.
22d - Grand German
peace jubilee in San Francisco; nearly 5,000 persons in line....California
Steam Navigation Company sold out to the California Pacific Railroad
Company....A Spanish family arrested near Los Angeles for the murder of a man
in 1869.
23d - Grand peace
jubilee at Sonora by Germans....Islands of Red Rock, The Brothers and Sisters
in San Francisco Bay set apart as military reservations.
24th -
First issue of notes from San Francisco gold bank....Dennis GUNN acquitted of
killing Edward J. MURPHY, who seduced his sister, at San Francisco....Mrs.
Joseph LEONARD burned to death at Coloma.
25th -
Arthur P. HEFFERNER found dead at San Francisco - strangled by some one
unknown....Municipal election in Marysville - republican victory.
26th -
German peace celebration at San Francisco.
27th -
Trial of Laura D. FAIR commenced at San Francisco.
28th -
Two miners at Dutch Flat shut in their mine by a cave.
29th -
Fire in Truckee, 120 buildings destroyed....Family of B. BRYANT poisoned by
eating toadstools at Chico, and two children died.
30th -
W.F. BURTHERNURTH killed Lemuel PERKINS by hitting him on the head with a
shovel on Tule river.
31st -
Transfer of property of California Steam Navigation Company to California Pacific
Railroad Company took place at San Francisco....Fire in Sonora, destroying
seven buildings; loss, over $35,000....One half of Chinatown, North San Juan,
burned; loss, $5,000.
Sacramento Daily Union
Monday Morning, January 1, 1872
1st -
RUDOLPHE beat Cyrille DION in a game of billiards, 1,500 points, at San
Francisco; score, RUDOLPHE, 1,501; DION, 1,105.
2d - Two shocks
earthquake felt at San Francisco...Train on Vallejo road ran into a carriage
near Vaca station, and a lady severely injured.
4th -
Dave SCANNELL elected Chief Engineer San Francisco Fire Department.
5th -
Old man named PREBLE jumped from Oakland boat and was drowned; officer of ferry
boat refused to stop to attempt his rescue.
6th - Timothy
HAW fell down shaft of Amador mine, at Sutter creek, and was instantly
killed....Miner working in Oneida mine, same place, fell 125 feet, caught in
some timbers, and climbed back and went to work.
9th - Affray
on the Alameda boat between Swiss Guard and “Hoodlums” of San Francisco; a
dozen persons wounded.
10th -
Chinese battle in San Francisco and two severely wounded.
11th -
Body of Frank H. SKINNER drifted ashore near San Francisco....Annual Convocation
of Grand Chapter Royal Arch Masons of California at San Francisco.
12th -
Donahue Railroad sold to California Pacific Railroad.
13th -
Christopher TOOLE fell from a ladder at San Francisco, striking his son; both
badly hurt....Flywheel in Stockton City Flour Mills burst, damaging building
$5,000.
14th -
Four-fifths of stockholders of California Steam Navigation Company voted to
disincorporate.
15th -
Luther A. WILLIS killed by Joseph G. PAYNE at Bakerstown, in a shooting scrape.
16th -
At the Shields’ Guard picnic at Petaluma, hoodlums, who accompanied it, raised
a riot and one of the Guard was badly cut.
17th -
Heavy rain which extended over the State....One ROBERTSON killed Berher ABEL at
San Pasqual valley, in a quarrel about a ditch....Large meteor seen in
different localities.
18th -
Volzio, Reis & Co., San Francisco, failed; liabilities, $250,000....John
NANLOU killed at San Jose by a wall falling on him.
19th -
A man named PETERSON killed his wife in San Francisco and then committed suicide....Mrs.
JACOBS thrown under railroad cars at Oakland and killed....Ex-County Clerk
George W. BIRD killed himself with a knife at Monterey.
20th -
Grading commenced on the Southern Pacific Railroad four miles from Gilroy.
21st -
First game of base ball for championship of Pacific coast, played at San
Francisco, between the Eagles and Wide Awake Clubs; won by the Eagles....H.
VIGNON shot dead by a sheep shearer in his employ, near Los Angeles.
22d - Ten thousand
Sunday-school children at a picnic in Woodward’s Gardens, San Francisco.
23d - Two blocks
of buildings burned in Antioch; loss, $12,000...Man named BOWIE assaulted by a
highwayman and robbed of $500; also wounded....Three slight shocks of
earthquake felt at San Francisco....Fire in Nevada; loss, $3,650.
24th -
Mayor SELBY of San Francisco vetoed the Von Schmidt water scheme....Doctress
Frances A. COOK committed suicide at San Francisco.
25th -
John G. REUTZHLER and wife found dead at Grass Valley - supposed that the woman
shot the man and then killed herself.
26th -
Odd Fellows celebrated their anniversary all over the State by picnics,
etc.....Jury in the FAIR case returned verdict of guilty of murder in the first
degree.
27th -
$500,000 worth of Japanese silk worm eggs shipped to Italy overland.
29th -
A wagon containing two families, named MYERS and NICHOLS, fell over a steep
embankment in Gibson canyon, Solano county, and Mrs. MYERS was killed and
others severely hurt.
1st -
Municipal election in Stockton; Republicans elected their whole ticket.
2d - County
Hospital at San Andreas burned and two inmates perished in the
flames....American Medical Association met at San Francisco....Delegation of
Americus Club of New York arrived at San Francisco.
3d - Two heirs of
David C. BRODERICK commenced suit against the estate....Government storehouse
at Yerba Buena Island burned; loss, $50,000.
5th -
Los Angeles and Salinas stage stopped near latter place, and Wells, Fargo &
Co.’s treasure box was taken....Henry BLEASE hung himself at San Francisco.
6th -
Governor HAIGHT issued order prohibiting any more military excursions on
Sunday....Destructive fire at Folsom, destroying a great portion of the place;
loss $130,000.
7th -
Captain Robert LEWIS, 60 years old, poisoned himself near Clayton.
8th -
Grand Encampment I.O.O.F. met at Sacramento....A young woman named WATERS
burned to death by her clothes catching fire, near Monterey.
9th -
Five thousand dollar race, mile heats, best three in five, at Oakland; won by
Tom Atchison. Time - 1:48 ¾; 1:49 ½; 1:47 ½....Grand Lodge I.O.O.F. convened at
Sacramento.
10th -
Excursion of Marysville firemen to Stockton....Desperate fight between
Sheriff’s posse and Mexican outlaws in Panoche mountains, near Gilroy; one
Mexican killed and one taken.
11th - Chinese part of Colusa burned; loss,
$3,000.
12th - Odd Fellows’ Orphans’ Home located
at Napa.
13th - Frederick GINDER blew out his brains
in San Francisco.
14th - Party of Russian sailors got into a
row at San Francisco and seven or eight injured.
15th -
Dr. George ELDENMULLER, prominent physician in San Francisco, died of injuries
from being thrown from his buggy....Man named CAMP shot through the head by a
man who had robbed him of $20 in San Francisco.
16th -
Marysville lottery drawn....Woman Suffrage Convention met at San Francisco.
17th -
First Regiment National Guard of California went to Alameda for
encampment....In two-mile and repeat race at San Jose, Norfolk won; best time,
3:42 I-5.
18th -
San Diego made a port of entry.
19th -
Counsel for Mrs. FAIR filed bill of exceptions for new trial, at San
Francisco...John C. NICHOLS killed in a mine by a cave, at Gold Run.
20th -
Man named John A. STEELE attempted suicide by shooting himself in the breast
and jumping into the Bay, at San Francisco, but was fished out.
22d -
Incorporation of Eastern Extension of California Pacific Railroad filed;
capital, $50,000,000....$5,000.000 in greenbacks arrived in San Francisco.
23d - Harvest
Queen won the $5,000 trotting-race at San Francisco; best time 2:30.
24th -
Defiance distanced the field in a pacing-race at San Francisco; time,
2:23....Boy named JOAQUIN burned to death near Soquel....G. NEWINGHAM,
architect, killed himself at San Francisco.
25th -
Wm. O’HEARN run over and killed by a locomotive, at San Francisco....The
Tabernacle tent opened for religious exercises, at San Francisco....Mrs.
Cynthia MALONE burned to death from her clothes catching fire, near Indian
Diggings.
26th -
Charles D. CARTER, a pioneer and prominent citizen of San Francisco, died....Row
at an Indian rancheria, San Diego, and a man named Ignacio and an Indian girl
killed.
27th -
Primary elections of Republicans and Democrats in different counties, resulting
generally in favor of BOOTH and HAIGHT.
28th -
Decoration Day; observed generally over the State.
31st -
Jesus TEJARRA convicted of murder in the first degree at Stockton, for killing
MEDINA two years before.
1st -
Miners’ League at Sutter Creek struck, and attempted to take possession of
property but were repulsed....Susie McDONALD was brutally murdered by Austrian
George at Oroville.
2d - Justus
REINHOLD, a prominent German of Milwaukee, died suddenly at San Francisco.
3d - Mrs. Laura D.
FAIR sentenced to be hanged on July 28th, by Judge DWINELLE, at San
Francisco.
4th -
Austrian George, who killed Miss Susie McDONALD, arrested at Bidwell’s Bar; he
tried to shoot himself and then ran away, but was shot dead by one of his
captors; the body was afterwards burned.
5th -
Large procession in San Francisco in honor of the Irish exiles, BURKE and
LUBY....Granddaughter of General John WILSON burned to death from her clothes
taking fire at San Francisco....Two suicides in San Francisco;
Ehlert BRANDT shot
himself and Charles REICHON took strychnine.
6th -
Man named WASHINGTON foully murdered by another called ARMSTRONG, near
Ukiah.
7th -
San Cruz powder mill exploded; nobody hurt.
8th -
Japanese notified President of Mechanics’ Institute of intention to send large
quantity of articles to the next Fair....Brig Carion burned in San Francisco
Bay; loss, $2,500.
9th -
James BARD killed Edward STACY, near Shasta.
10th -
Snow Tent sawmill, Nevada county, and 700,000 feet lumber burned; loss,
$40,000.
11th -
Thunderstorm and hurricane at Yreka, doing much damage.
12th - KEMPNER,
merchant tailor, was killed by a pistol being accidentally discharged in the
hands of a woman, at San Francisco.
15th -
Oregon stage upset near Red Bluff, injuring the passengers more or less
severely.
16th -
George VALE, an eminent San Francisco lawyer, died....Trustees of Odd Fellows’
College met at Napa and received the donations made to the institution.
17th -
FRANK, a German, shot E. LEVIN with a shotgun, killing him instantly near
Haywards....Brilliant auroral display throughout the State.
18th -
Boy five years old, named Leopold FREID, run over and killed by a dray at San
Francisco.
19th -
Sutter Creek Miners’ League ordered miners to quit work....Harms & Palm’s
chicory factory, four miles below Washington, Yolo county, burned; loss, $20,000.
20th -
Dr. P.M. O’BRIEN, an early resident of San Francisco, died of apoplexy.
21st -
Severe shock of earthquake felt at Calistoga....John M. COGHLAN (Rep) nominated
for Congress in Third District....BROOKSTINE’s hotel in Knight’s Valley burned;
loss, $5,000.
22d - Col. W.H.L.
BARNES and two companies of his regiment went to Sutter creek to put down
Miners’ League....Fire at Anaheim; loss, $7,000....Lake Faucherie, a reservoir
of the South Yuba Canal Company, burst, the water doing damage to the amount of
$7,000.
23d - Democrats of
First Congressional District nominated Judge ARCHER for Congress, and of the
Second, George PEARCE, of Sonoma....First lot of new wheat of the year arrived
at San Francisco from Vaca.
25th -
Dr. Wm. A. BARSTOW attempted suicide by shooting in the head at San Francisco,
and Dr. W.H. ROGERS, in going to attend him, was badly injured by being thrown
from his carriage.
26th -
Seth GREEN, of New York, brought 15,000 shad eggs to be deposited in the upper
Sacramento.
27th -
Chinese part of Folsom burned, together with the Patterson House and some
private residences; loss heavy.
29th -
Schooner Almer Asher wrecked near San Francisco; loss, $15,000....A.A. SARGENT
nominated as republican candidate for the Second Congressional District....Three-quarters
of a mile of snow sheds, Cisco Hotel and other buildings burned at
Cisco....Girl fourteen years old burned to death by explosion of kerosene lamp
at Tehama....Mrs. Joseph BOGHISEYCH poisoned herself at Lincoln.
30th -
Republican Convention for First District nominated Thomas H. SELBY for
Congress, who declined; then nominated S.O. HOUGHTON....Mrs. Alice POOLE took
laudanum at San Francisco and died.
1st - Young Men’s Republican Club gave Newton BOOTH a grand ovation....An officer of Nevada county caught two Chinamen robbing sluices and fired upon them, killing one.
2d - Great procession at San Francisco of Catholics in honor of the Pope’s Jubilee - 12,000 persons in line.
3d - A sea lioness and young, a fur seal and sea-dog shipped at San Francisco for New York.
4th - Fourth of July celebrated throughout the State in usual manner, and with fewer accidents than commonly....Town of Yreka nearly destroyed by fire; loss, $300,000....Tree fell on a party sleeping under it, in White river, and killed Robert RAY and wounded four others.
5th - Italian Club’s flag, at San Francisco, threatened to be hauled down, but on the Italians coming themselves and rallying to defend it was not done....Sharp shock of earthquake at Visalia....Boarding house burned at San Francisco, and a boarder named Dennis AHR, after rescuing his family, went back after his property and was burned to death....Gad & Co.’s store at Grass Valley burned; loss, $15,000.
6th - James D. WILSON, alias iron-clad Jimmy, a notorious thief, shot dead while attempting to escape from officers at San Francisco....American House at Centerville burned; loss, $11,000.
7th - Rice and Reas mill at Forest Hill was totally destroyed by explosion of boiler, killing the engineer, Charles FILLEBROWN, and A. RICE....One MURPHY killed Thomas RODGERS near Milton, in a quarrel about a piece of tobacco.
9th - Western Union Telegraph line completed to Yosemite Valley....A house fell at San Francisco on a crowd of boys playing near it, killing Charles M. BEACH and wounding several.
10th - Ocean mail service between San Diego and San Francisco ceased and mail sent overland.
11th - Mrs. Cady STANTON delivered her first lecture at San Francisco.
12th - Cloverdale and Healdsburg stage stopped and robbed of $400.
13th - F. INGRAM’s house, barn and out-buildings burned near Williams’ Landing, Santa Cruz county; loss, $30,000.
14th - Cosmopolitan Lodging House, barn and other buildings burned at Marysville; loss, $25,000....Lem CLEVELAND shot and killed by his brother-in-law, John EWBANKS; cause, domestic troubles.
16th - Boarding house of Eliza A. FOY and two dwelling houses burned in San Francisco; loss, $5,000.
17th - Absorption of California Pacific Railroad by Central pacific....Destructive fire at Marysville; loss, $100,000....Jewelry store of ELLIS robbed at Auburn of $2,000 worth of watches and tools.
18th - Corner stone of New Odd Fellows’ hall laid at Petaluma.
21st - Miners’ League at Sutter Creek demanded that men at work on mines there quit work, which was not acceded to....An incendiary fire occurred at Truckee, destroying property to amount of $50,000....Mutiny on board bark Glimpse in San Francisco Bay, and Captain SORMAN badly cut.
22d - Fire broke out in Mechanics’ Mill at San Francisco, and destroyed $261,900 worth of property....Caledonia Mill, at Round Valley, burned; loss, $35,000....Fire at Snelling; loss, over $20,0000.
23d - Ramon AMADOR sentenced to be hung for murder of Henry HISERCK, August
24th - Canada SCHWARTZWALTER and Robert SHERLOCK, attempting to drive
Chinamen from a claim near Forest City, were killed.
25th - Mrs. Catherine BRAMAN run over and killed at Stockton by a train on Western Pacific Railroad....Tom CARRIGAN shot and killed at Petaluma by Wm. H. SMITH; both drunk.
26th - Shaft of Amador mine at Sutter Creek caught fire and communicated to rest of mine. HATCH and McMENOMY, shot during a fight at same place Sunday, died from wounds.
27th - Fire in Amador mine at Sutter Creek extinguished. 28th - Major J.M. BRONSON, of National Guard of California, died at San Francisco from effects of cold contracted while in command at Sutter Creek. 30th - United States war steamer California arrived at San Francisco on first cruise.
31st...At Sutter Creek, HATCH, book keeper at Amador mine, and Hughey McMENOMY and one BENNETT had a shooting scrape growing out of miners’ troubles; HATCH was shot in the breast and McMENOMY in the groin - both severely wounded.
31st - Mrs. N.J. SAVIERS shot and killed a woman, who had been too intimate with her husband, at Stockton.
1st - HAUN, who murdered one WALKER five years before, arrested at Owens river by Sheriff of Santa Cruz.
2d - Julia LAKE, shot by Mrs. SAVIERS at Stockton for cohabiting with her husband, died; SAVIERS left town under threats of a coat of tar and feathers.
3d - Five women appeared to County Clerk of San Joaquin, demanding to be registered on poll lists, which was refused....Two unknown men shot - one killed, for stealing wheat on a ranch near Berryessa.
4th - Two fires in San Francisco - A. WALDSTEIN’s cigar-box factory and other buildings; loss, $30,000; building corner First and Jessie streets; loss, $2,000.
5th - Returning from a meeting John CARMACHO and Wm. WICKS were thrown from a wagon at Nevada City, and severely hurt. Samuel DAYTON run over by same team and killed.
6th - Italians of San Francisco celebrated the unity of Italy, and notwithstanding fears, no disturbance occurred....NESBIT’s quartz mill at Oregon City burned; loss, $20,000.
7th - Laura DE FORCE GORDON announced as independent candidate for State Senator from San Joaquin county....An old man named John FINLEY murdered by two unknown men, near Visalia.
8th - Mechanics’ Fair opened at San Francisco....Lewis BEACH committed suicide by taking strychnine at the grave of his sons in San Francisco.
9th - Mrs. H. HENEMAN and son thrown from a carriage in San Francisco and severely injured.
10th - Fire at OSBORNE’s station on the Central Pacific Railroad destroyed half-mile of snow shed...Dr. Walter B. LANGDON appointed assistant physician at Stockton Asylum....Visalia stage robbed of $300 by four highwaymen. 13th - Great fires raging in the timber regions near Visalia.
14th - Fire in Los Angeles; loss, $14,000....H. SCHWARTZ, President of Stock brewery, cut his throat at San Francisco and died.
16th - Agents of lotteries arrested in San Francisco....Cloverdale stage attacked by four robbers and T. H. BENTON, passenger, killed, and Sandy WORDSWORTH and B.S. COFFMAN wounded.
17th - Telegraphic communication established between California and Japan.
18th - Eight hundred tons of tea shipped from San Francisco to the East.
19th - Troops ordered from Drum Barracks to quell Indian troubles at Old San Diego Mission....J.J. MURPHY found guilty of murder in first degree on second trial at Stockton....Fire on Cosumnes river, burning over area of five miles and destroying much property.
20th - Steamers Washoe and Antioch collided in San Francisco Bay, doing considerable damage to the latter.
21st - Stallion race at San Francisco won by Hiram WOODRUFF; best time, 2:37...Shasta and Yreka stage robbed of $4,390 by highwaymen....M.F. BUTLER, pioneer architect of Pacific coast, died at San Francisco.
22d - Work commenced on new City Hall at San Francisco.
23d - Don Abel STEARNS died at San Francisco.
24th - Hunter House at Woodland burned; loss, $10,000....McDONALD and WHITNEY, brokers, San Francisco, failed for $100,000.
25th- Earthquake shock at Santa Rosa.
26th - Mrs. Lizzie SMITH committed suicide in San Francisco.
27th - Fire in woods at Emigrant Gap burned mile and a half each side of railroad.
28th - Yerba Buena lots at San Francisco sold; aggregating $987,000....Santa Clara Agricultural Society Fair opened....Albert McAULEY suffocated in a well by foul air at Nevada City.
29th - Militia company organized at San Luis Rey to resist expected attack of surrounding Indians, but proved a false alarm....Dr. Leon SUCKERT, resident of San Francisco since 1848, found dead in his bed of apoplexy at that place....A man named ENGELKE was shot and badly wounded in Alameda by one PATTON about a woman; PATTON was wounded also.
30th - Judge DWINELLE, at San Francisco, decided the mechanics’ lien law unconstitutional....A fire at Cloverdale destroyed property worth $20,000.
31st - Shock of earthquake felt at Gilroy.
1st - General Pacific Railroad Company raised fares on roads leading from Sacramento 50 per cent, and but down wages of employes on California pacific 20 per cent.
2d - Phil RUPER, special policeman of Marysville, killed at Chico, and another man murdered by a party of roughs.
3d - Marion WILSON and one MARXEY had a shooting scrape in San Francisco, when in firing at MARXEY WILSON shot a bystander named Pat BURNS, in the breast, inflicting a mortal wound....E.L. TABOOVIVEA murdered in cold blood Ysidor ALTIMARANO, as Los Angeles.
4th - Sydney FLAG, boatman at San Francisco, shot and killed Richard HARLEY in cold blood.
5th - A fire at Pacheco destroyed Odd Fellows’ Hall and other property to the amount of $30,000....Martin HERGES stabbed and assassinated in a cowardly manner by two men, at Monterey....COOK, clown of New York Circus, robbed of $1,100 at Vallejo.
6th - State election, resulting in a Republican victory....$1,050 was contributed at the polls, in San Francisco, for the Beevolent Society of that place....Richard P. ASHE, a prominent citizen of San Francisco and formerly Naval Agent at that port, died in that city.
7th - Mrs. Alpheus BULL, laboring under an insane attack, committed suicide by hanging, at San Francisco.
8th - E.P. FLINT’s tub factory, at San Francisco, burned; loss, $50,000.
9th - Twenty-first anniversary of California’s admission into the Union celebrated with appropriate ceremonies.
10th - Japanese company, with a capital of $1,000,000, commenced business at San Francisco.
11th - Defeated candidates at San Francisco demanded a recount of votes, which was acceded to and recount commenced.
12th - Coxswain and boat’s crew of butter belonging to frigate California deserted at Vallejo...Fire in the woods near Nevada City, destroying many miles of timber.
13th - Solomon ROSENTHAL, Jr., dry goods dealer at San Francisco, committed suicide by hanging.
14th - Sheriff of Santa Cruz and posse killed the notorious Mexican bandit, Pancho BORCUMES, near Santa Cruz.
15th - Anniversary of Mexican Independence celebrated with much spirit in different parts of the State.
16th - American clipper ship Annie Sise, from Sydney, went ashore at South Farallone Island, and was wrecked; crew saved.
17th -
Eight men deserted from frigate California at Vallejo.
18th -
Shock of earthquake at San Jose.
19th -
Steamers Flora Temple and Washoe collided in San Francisco bay, damaging the
latter.
20th - Chinese riot at San Francisco stopped before any one was killed.
21st - First colored jury ever impaneled on the Pacific coast called at San Francisco....Matias LORENZANA taken from the county jail at Santa Cruz by disguised men and lynched.
22 - Ramon AMADOR hanged at San Leandro for the murder of HISEREK.
23d - Block of buildings occupied by REDINGTON, HOSTETTER & Co., and others
burned at San Francisco; loss, $700,000.
24th - Captain WILDES D. THOMPSON, a prominent San Franciscan, at one time Harbormaster, died at that place.
25th - Sheriff of Mono county and posse had a fight with five escaped convicts from Nevada State Prison, in which Sheriff’s party lost two men and two convicts supposed to have been killed or wounded.
26th - James RILEY, a noted rough, shot and mortally wounded by James JORDAN, at Francisco....Shasta stage robbed of a few hundred dollars by highwaymen....Grand Lodge Good Templars of California met at Oakland.
27th - Central Pacific Railroad raised freight on teas East from 3 ¼ to 3 ½ cents per pound.
28th - Two brothers named VALENCIA sentenced to be hung for murder of Joseph W. HEWITT, at Fairfield....Snow fell to depth of three inches at Truckee - first of season....St. Patrick quartz mill burned in Placer county; loss, $20,000.
Sacramento Daily Union
Monday Morning, January 1, 1872
1st - Hottest day of year in San Francisco....Mrs. LANE fell down stairs while walking in her sleep and crushed her skull, killing her, at San Francisco.
2d - Fire near San Jose at BIRD’s ranch, burning hop kiln; loss, $30,000....Several dwelling houses in San Francisco, on Mission street, burned; loss, $10,000.
3d - Shock of earthquake at Wilmington....George H. ENSIGN, civil engineer, one of the projectors of Spring Valley Water Works, San Francisco, and Lake Tahoe tunnel scheme, died at Stockton....Most brilliant meteor ever seen on the coast exploded near San Francisco.
4th - Presbyterian Synod of the Pacific met at
Oakland.
5th - Occidental Skating Rink and coal yard adjoining burned at San Francisco; loss, $10,000....Anti-Chinese meeting at San Francisco, which adopted a petition praying the Legislature to adopt memorial to Congress for suppression of Chinese immigration.
7th - A shooting scrape at Lake City
participated in by four men; Nathan DRY, a spectator, was shot in the head over
the eye; unknown man looking on shot in shoulder, disabled; another mortally
wounded.
8th - A mob of Chinamen attacked one DONAHUE near Yuba City and he killed two defending himself.
9th - Northern District Fair opened at Marysville with fine exhibition....News received of great fire at Chicago....Measures taken in all cities of the State to collect aid for sufferers.
10th - Healdsburg stage stopped by highwaymen and robbed of $185....Meeting at San Francisco to make arrangements for raising funds for sufferers by Chicago fire.
11th - San Francisco Stock Board raised $8,000
and sent it to Chicago at once for aid....Pacific, Union and Fireman’s Fund
Insurance Companies levied assessments of 75 per cent, on capital stock, to pay
losses at Chicago....Presbyterian church at Brooklyn blown down; loss,
$10,000.
12th - Fire in the woods around Calistoga doing
much damage....First narrow gauge locomotive turned out from Vulcan Iron Works
at San Francisco....Mrs. Addison TIREE
foully murdered near Placerville for $50.
13th - Fifty thousand dollars sent from San Francisco to Chicago....John SIME, banker, died at San Francisco.
14th - One hundred thousand dollars raised at San Francisco and $10,000 in Oakland for Chicago....Wm. V. ARROWSMITH shot and killed Wm. BERGEN, constable, at Gilroy, without provocation.
15th - David BOYER, a prisoner, jumped off a wharf at San Francisco and drowned....Bark Whistler, laden with lime, caught fire at San Francisco, and had to be scuttled.
16th - Stockton and Visalia Railroad Company
made demand on city of Stockton for $200,000 bonds voted it; city refused to
issue them....Pacific Mail Steamship Company announce it will run two steamers
each way monthly between San Francisco and Japan, to commence May 2d,
1872.
18th - Exhibition of pictures of Judge E.B. CROCKER for benefit of Sacramento Howard Benevolent Society opened at San Francisco....State judicial election; straight Republican ticket elected....Mathias SMITH burned to death at Rough and Ready.
19th - Meeting in San Francisco to aid sufferers by fires in Northwest; resolved to take all over $100,000 contributed to Chicago and send it to Milwaukee. Marysville raised $1,800 for same purpose, and Los Angeles $100....Greater portion of town of Pine Grove, Sierra county, destroyed by fire.
20th - Charles WILSON shot and killed without warning at Los Angeles, by A. J. FENWICK.
21st - Attempts made to fire San Francisco.
23d - peoples Insurance Company of San Francisco suspended on account of Chicago losses.
24th - Riot in Los Angeles characterized by
outrageous barbarity; several Chinamen were killed and fifteen hung by the mob
before order was restored.
26th - Cars on Western Pacific Railroad ran off
embankment at crossing of San Joaquin river and five cars filled with
passengers thrown from track; all passengers more or less injured but none
killed....One thousand five hundred head of pure blood and graded stock sold at
Bellview, Colusa county.
27th - John F. SWIFT, elected Chairman of Republican Central Committee of San Francisco.
28th - Earthquake at Los Flores.
29th - Sandstorm at Anaheim and vicinity, doing much damage and killing many head of stock.
30th - Wm. C. MORSE, old resident of Santa Cruz, shot and killed by George DENNISON in a bar-room quarrel.
31st - Insurance companies advance rates for underwriting fifty per cent, at San Francisco.
1st - Over 100 persons indicted at San
Francisco for dealing in lottery tickets....Failure of John SIME & Co.’s
bank, at San Francisco.
2d - Edward KEHOE, while cleaning pistol accidentally
discharged it and was killed at San Francisco....Mrs. OLIVER fatally burned by
switch of false hair catching fire, at same place....Farmer named Arthur
PARSONS assassinated while standing by his wife’s side by unknown party, near
San Jose....Fire at Cacheville destroyed nine buildings.
3d - Judge DWINELLE rendered decision in case of Patache vs. Pacific Insurance Company, affirming validity of assessment or 75 per cent on stock of company, at San Francisco.
4th - Sacramento river lower than ever before
known.
5th - Godchaux Bros.’ dry goods store, San Francisco, entered by burglars and robbed of $5,000 worth of silks.
7th - J.B.E. CAVALLIER, President San Francisco Stock Board, suspended in consequence of failure of John SIME & Co.; liabilities, $60,000....Liabilities of John SIME & Co., Insolvent, bankers, San Francisco, found to be $247,000; assets, $186.635.14....Fire in Vallejo burned property worth $50,000....State Teachers’ Institute met at San Francisco....Joshua L. JONES killed his father-in-law, at San Francisco, in a family quarrel.
8th - As a man named POWERS with his wife and
two children were ascending a mountain near Milpitas, Mrs. POWERS and the
children were thrown from wagon, and she was killed and one child dangerously
wounded.
9th - Horse Tom Atchison won two-mile-and-repeat race, at Alameda; best time, 2:40 ½.
10th - Tom Atchison beat Nell Flaherty and Democrat in mile-and-a-half heat, at Alameda; time, 2:42 ½.
11th - Five of the Cloverdale stage robbers and murderers in jail in Sonoma county.
13th - Will of William E. BARRON probated in
San Francisco; estate valued at from $5,000,000 to $8,000,000; bulk of it left
to collateral heirs.
14th - Proclamation issued by the Governor fixing Thanksgiving Day November 30th....Will of Mrs. Bridget HUEN, who left bulk of her property to the Catholic Church, set aside, at San Francisco....Visalia and Gilroy stage robbed by highwaymen of $500.
18th - Tom Atchison beat Nell Flaherty at San Francisco, mile heats, best three in five; best time, 1:47 ¼.
20th - Alphonzo COLLET, miner in GWINN’s mine
at Mokelumne Hill, fell 100 feet, striking two others while falling - all
severely injured.
21st - Box of choice California grapes for President GRANT, and fine boxes of California apples for Queen Victoria, made up at San Francisco....St. Charles Hotel at Stockton burned....Assessments to amount of $1,502,000 fell due at San Francisco on insurance stock to repair losses at the Chicago fire.
22d - Stockton and Copperopolis and Stockton and Visalia Railroad franchise bought by Central Pacific Railroad Company....Fire at Los Angeles; 250 tons of hay burned; los, $4,000.
24th - Meeting of physicians in San Francisco to discuss Dr. HOLLAND’s bill for regulation of prostitution....Wide Awake Base Ball Club, of Oakland, won the champion bat from Liberty Club, of San Francisco, at San Francisco. 25th - Planing mill of Sovereign & Hamilton burned at Oroville; loss, $61,000....VAN NESS elected State Senator in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties.
26th - Overland express train thrown off the track at Bridgeport, from spreading of the rails; but little damage done....Fight between the San Francisco harbor police and Chinamen; one of the latter shot in the abdomen and another in the hand - the latter captured.
27th - Auburn and Georgetown stage robbed by
one highwayman of $1,500.
28th - New City Hall Livery Stable, at San Francisco, fell in, killing a man called Italian Joe....San Bernardino Postoffice robbed of $4,000 by three men.
29th - $3,144.28 sent to Chicago public schools, contribution from San Francisco public schools.
30th - Thanksgiving Day generally observed.
1st - Third annual regatta of Pioneer Boat Club
at San Francisco; champion medal won by Nelson, no one competing....Affray in
San Francisco between Judge LAKE and Charles DE YOUNG of the Chronicle; the
latter struck over the head with a pistol and a bystander named E.B. WHEELER
shot in the thigh.
2d - Fight between miners and Chinamen at Hawkinsville, Siskiyou county, in which one of the latter was killed and another wounded....Fire at San Francisco; Taylor & Co’s printing office burned; loss, $9,000...At San Francisco, jury in breach of promise case of TURNER vs. ORTIZ gave verdict for $7,500 favor of plaintiff.
4th - State Legislature met, and after swearing
in of members adjourned.
5th - Central Pacific Railroad Company took
possession of Stockton and Copperopolis and Stockton and Visalia railroad
companies’ properties....E.D. WHITBECK,
merchant, stopped by highwaymen and robbed of $1,600.
6th - Indian family named GREGORIO, living near
San Luis Obispo, consisting of mother and three children, burned to death by
their house catching fire.
7th - Col. DICKEY’s mare Minnie Howard trotted twenty miles in 59 minutes 30 ¾ seconds, for $5,000.
9th - Tide lands below Oakland sold; prices low, from 50 cents to $100 per acre....Water Committee of San Francisco reported against Lake Tahoe and Clear Lake schemes.
10th - Pacific Insurance Company gave notice
that all its risks are reinsured in London and Liverpool and Globe Insurance
Company - marine risks canceled, and that company have gone into
liquidation....Election in Santa Cruz county resulted in favor of granting
subsidy of $100,000 towards building railroad from Santa Cruz to
Watsonville....Infant son of AIKENS, at Stockton, scalded to death by kettle
upsetting on him.
11th - Seven thousand kangaroo skins received
at San Francisco from Australia - first shipment of the kind.
12th - Desperate fight with Henry rifles on Bishop creek, Inyo county, between Charles JONES, an escaped convict from Nevada State Prison, and Francis F. ARMISTEAD, an officer; both killed; ARMISTEAD received nine bullets in his body and JONES eleven.
13th - Trotting race, five miles out, between
Lady Sinclair and Tenwick, for $10,000; won by Lady, at San Francisco....Mother
found in San Francisco with infant in her arms, which had been starved to
death....Alexander BAUD, an old citizen of Mokelumne Station, shot there and
killed by John WILLIAMS....Fire in Wilmington (H. SYMANSKI’s store); loss,
$10,000.
14th - Fire in Vallejo, burning NORTH’s store;
loss, $6,000.
15th - TINNY, a Chicago lawyer, arrived at San Francisco to look out for interests of losers by Chicago fire, who were insured in companies at that place.
16th - Public reception of A.A. SARGENT at San
Francisco.
17th - M. WILLIAMS, while temporarily insane,
jumped from a third story window and was instantly killed at San
Francisco.
18th - Heavy storm throughout the State, doing
much damage, particularly at San Francisco.....Steamer Salinas went ashore at
Point San Pedro; passengers and crew saved.
18th - Murray MORRISON, Judge Seventeenth Judicial District, died at Los Angeles.
19th - Continuance of the storm. Five inches of rain fell at Davisville, Yolo county, in twenty-four hours; all the railroads damaged, stopping running of trains.
21st - Heavy losses in the State from the
storm....Sutter county court-house burned at Yuba City....A.A. SARGENT elected
United States Senator by Legislature at Sacramento, to succeed Cornelius
COLE.
22d - The $3,000,000 bridge subsidy proposition voted down in San Francisco Supervisors....Orchard of John BRIGGS on Feather river flooded....Schooner C. Medan went ashore at Fort Point, near San Francisco; got off badly damaged.
23d - San Jose, Petaluma and Gilroy flooded, and railroads in vicinity badly damaged.
26th - San Francisco Labor Union declared for
Julian for President....Joel ESTES shot and killed a Spaniard near Mt.
Diablo.
27th - Seven hundred head of cattle belonging to J. B. ARRAMBIDO & Co. drowned at Tyler Island by high water.
28th - Steamers commenced running on upper San Joaquin river....A body of masked and armed men cut the Parke levee in Sutter county, causing a general overflow in that section....Corner stone of new City Hall at San Francisco laid.
29th - Large vessel reported bottom up off Point New Year, between Monterey and San Francisco.
Submitted
by Betty
Loose betty@unisette.com
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Sacramento
Bee
Monday
Evening,
POLITICS IN
There
is a host of good patriots in “Old Placer” anxious to serve their fellow
citizens and the country in general. The Argus gives a list of candidates
which, as will be seen, is quite lengthy. [R. For Republican, D. for Democrat:]
For State Senator - W.M. CRUTCHER, D., W.C.
NORTON, R., both of Auburn.
Assemblyman - F. MULTNER, D., G. HARSH, R.,
Ophir; J. CLYDESDALE, D., D.M. WALKER, R., Rocklin; L.B. ARNOLD, Dutch Flat;
Ben. FRANK, D., Colfax.
Sheriff - C.C. CROSBY, R., Auburn; W.A.
HIMES, D., Colfax; J.G. BISBEE, R., Iowa Hill; S.C. CLOW, R., Rocklin; J.
MOORE, D., Ophir; A. HUNTLEY, D., Auburn.
Clrek - J.R. CRANDALL, R., Auburn; T.J.
NICHOLS, R., Dutch Flat; A. McKINLEY, D., Forest Hill; S.J. PULLEN, D.,
Roseville.
Recorder - J.T. ASHLEY, R., Auburn; E.D.
SHIRLAND, D., Auburn.
Treasurer - A.J. SOULE, R., Lincoln.
District Attorney - J.M. FULWEILER, R., Auburn; W.H. BULLOCK, D., Auburn; C.J. BROWN, D., Dutch Flat.
School Superintendent - E. CALVIN, D.,
Auburn; H.C. CURTIS, D., Rocklin; H.H. RICHMOND, R., Auburn; Rev. ROGERS, R.,
Placer county.
An
Old Man Assassinated
SANTA CRUZ, April 30
Queen’s
Circus was here Saturday afternoon and evening.
Between the hours of 8 and 9 of that evening Henry DeFOREST aged
sixty-two years, who had a wife and five children in Maine, a carpenter at work
at the powder mills, was murdered and robbed back of the old mission orchard,
half a mile from the Post Office of this place. He was shot back of the right
shoulder, the ball slug passing through the entire body and lodging against the
skin on the opposite side. It is supposed that he ran a few feet after being
shot, the fence being cut by the balls in three different places, the body
falling at the gate after the second shot. The shooting was heard by different
parties. The body was dragged by the legs across the road and behind some
willows, where the pockets were emptied and turned inside out. Next morning the
body was found by Mr. LYNCH, owner of the house in front of whose gate the
murder was committed. In the willows near the body, a number of papers and
forty dollars in paper money were found. No arrests yet.
The agency of the San Francisco Chronicle is
at A.S. HOPKINS’ book store, J street, bet 3d and 4th. All orders
left in my book will receive prompt attention. C.H. HOLTON, Agt.
A
Summer Suit, a nice Light Coat, Under-clothing of all varieties, Collars,
Neckties, etc., at John J. TRARBACH’s Clothing House. Northwest corner 3d and
K.
Submitted
by Betty
Loose betty@unisette.com
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Daily Record-Union
Sacramento, Cal.
Tuesday, January 1, 1878
Page 6 & 7
Year 1877 to
December 30th.
Pacific Coast
JANUARY
1 - Nevada
Legislature meets....Robert CHANDLER badly injured in the docks at
Vallejo....Snow slide near Alta, Utah Territory; several killed....Harry
GIBBONS assaulted by hoodlums in San Francisco.
2 - Man named BRADLEY accidentally killed at Oregon City....Edward
FERGUSON drowned at Portland....Shooting affray at Virginia City; Tom HUGHES
and Dick PADDOCK killed....William McRARY murdered at Golconda....Frank LEWIS
committed suicide at Camp Bidwell.
3 - James IRVINE,
sailor, suicided by drowning at San Francisco...Severe sand storm in Lower
California.
4 - Santa Clara
Valley Agricultural Society held its annual meeting at San Jose, and elected
Cary PEEBLES President....HARTWELL, the forger, sentenced to six years in the
State Prison in Solano county.
5 - Watchman named
RILEY suicided by strychnine at Virginia City....Wm. ROONEY poisoned himself at the same
place....John WALSH crushed to death in an Oakland flouring mill....Luding
NISSEN thrown from a carriage at Watsonville and killed.
6 - Frank SWIFT,
son of Judge C.H. SWIFT, died at San Francisco....Moses SMITH murdered near
Shingle Springs....Chinese riot at Virginia City; three men shot.
7 - P. LORETTO
poisoned himself in San Francisco....Fire at Williams; loss, $3,0000.
8 - Emile GEBHARDT
committed suicide at Vallejo....Court house at Salinas, San Benito county,
burned....Running mare Nell Flaherty, died at Victoria....J. WALTERS found dead
at Los Angeles, with a bullet hole in his head....Robert GORDON shot himself at
Auburn....John FRY badly crushed by an engine at West Oakland....Montana
Legislature met. 9 - Martin McCONVILLE
committed suicide near Santa Rosa....A twelve-year old boy named George RUSSELL
hanged himself at Salt Lake City. 10 -
Charles FOX ran over by an engine at Truckee and killed....Mrs. B.F. JONES committed suicide at San Diego....Ship
Commodore wrecked off Cape Flattery.
11 - Pension Agent
BENNETT convicted of fraud in Circuit Court at San Francisco....Man named
KILLINGWORTH thrown from a wagon near Jacinto and killed.
12 - San Pablo
half destroyed by fire....Slight earthquake at Carson City....Charles H. PARR
shot and killed at Los Gatos by Bruno FELIS.
13 - Small pox appears in various places on the coast....Son of L.J.
ROSE accidentally shot and badly hurt while hunting near Los
Angeles....E.I. LINDSAY suicided at San
Francisco....Shock of earthquake at San Diego....R.B. HARGADINE, an Oregon
pioneer, died at Oakland. 14 - Pat
LENAHER attempted to burn his house and kill his wife at Carson....Captain
Thomas E. BAINES, the Irish exile, stabbed in San Francisco by John
GILFOY....Fire at Halfmoon Bay; loss, $5,000.
16 - Giant powder exploded in Crown Point mine; Andrew THOMAS
injured....Boy named Frank McDERMOTT accidentally shot by another boy named
Fred NIROD at Dixon. Charles SILVERSTEEN shot and killed at Elko by Robert
CROZIER. 17 - Fire at Anaheim; loss,
$18,000....Snow two feet deep at Virginia City....Man named DARLING thrown from
a wagon and killed near Healdsburg. 18 -
Jose Jesus GALINDA, aged 106, died near Milpitas....Landslide on Virginia and
Truckee Railroad....Registration frauds investigation began in San Francisco....Diphtheria
prevalent in various parts of the State. Fire at Bakersfield, loss, $3,000; new
school-house at Lower Lake burned, loss, $1,500....James KELLY suicided near
Watsonville. 19 - Peter LARKIN executed
at Virginia City....H.C. BENNETT, ex-Pension Agent, fined $5,000, or two years’
imprisonment, in San Francisco....Lewis SHEARER shot by Henry KIND, at
Oakland....Stage robbed near Marysville - little booty.
20 - Stage between
Newhall Station and Santa Barbara robbed....Blanc PINA suicided at San
Francisco....Attempted robbery of the express car, on lightning train, between
Summit and Truckee....Wagon upset near Ophir, and John HALNEY and John PATTON
injured....Magill BERRYESSA murdered at Colusa by Tiburcio MARTINEZ and others.
21 - Fire at Portland,
Oregon; loss, $50,000....Little daughter of Levi JONES, hear Turlock, severely
scalded....Boy named WALLACE, in Pope Valley, Napa, accidentally shot....John
GILROY shot and killed at Bridgeport, Mono county, by Mrs. Mary GRANT....County
Judge T.M. PAWLING, of Amador, deceased.
22 - Ocean House
at Eureka burned; loss, $4,000; Thomas GORMAN, Nicholas MELADY, Alex BROWN and
_____ COLLINS burned to death, and several injured. 23 - 1,000 tons of coal in San Francisco
discovered to be on fire....Mexican named MORENO shot and killed by another
named GALINDO, at San Juan South....Thomas MONTGOMERY was thrown from stage at
Napa, and skull fractured.
24 - Plot
discovered to destroy hoisting works of C. and C. shaft at Virginia; also, to
fire hoisting works of Consolidated Virginia.
25 - John McCABE suicided at Colfax....Ex-Chief Justice YGLESIAS, of
Mexico, arrived in San Francisco....Boy named David CUNLANDERS suicided in San
Francisco.
26 - Part of crew
of wrecked ship Ada Iredale arrived at San Francisco....William Kay NEIL
executed at Albany, Oregon....Small-pox increasing in San Francisco....Judge
William PATTERSON died at Carson....One of the Santa Cruz powder works blew
up....Mrs. DEAN committed suicide at East Oakland.
27 - Paul STRUDEL
committed suicide at San Francisco....Schooner Industry went ashore and lost at
mouth of Columbia river....John King LOVEJOY, and old newspaper man, died near
Verdi.
28 - William SHICK
suicided at San Francisco....Patrick CUNNIGHAM accidentally shot near San
Francisco.
29 - Doctor J.M.
KELSEY, of Stockton, found dead in his rowboat....MARTINEZ, murderer BERRYESSA
arrested at Winters....Henry KOESKE thrown from a horse near Tremont station,
Solano county, and severely injured.
Arizona.....Lieutenant
J.H. WHEEDON committed suicide at San Francisco.
31 - John LEE shot
and killed at Downey City, Los Angeles county, by R. PERRY; Lee’s daughter afterwards attempted to
shoot PERRY....Little daughter of Samuel LEWIS burned to death near Grass
Valley....Man named ANDERSON killed by one BUCKINGHAM near Darwin.
1 - Frank P. BAKER
committed suicide at San Francisco....Two boys named DUDLEY and BARBEE carried
out to sea from San Francisco and lost....James ROGERS assaulted and badly hurt
one CLIFT at Anaheim. 2 - Judge K.H.
DALY died at Fresno....L.F. GROVER, Governor of Oregon, resigned, and S.F.
CHADWICK succeeded him.
3 - Wm. FRESLIG,
editor of the San Jose Courier, died....Man named ELLIS badly injured at Grass
Valley by a powder explosion....John BLACKFORD committed suicide at Grass
Valley.
4 - Apache
outrages in Arizona reported....Residence of State Printer THOMPSON burned at
Santa Rosa....Charles QUILLOT killed at St. Johns, Colusa county, by John
WELLFORD. John TRATHEN accidentally killed near Grass Valley....Charles MOXHAM
committed suicide at Shasta. 5 - A.B.
SPOONER, Sr., drowned at Morro, San Luis Obispo county....Body of Arthur E.
CANNON found in Humboldt river....Chas. COLE shot and killed by John WOOLFORD at
Chico.
6 - Thomas WHEELON
shot at Caliente by an Under Sheriff....Moritz CHOYNSKI shot at Santa Ana by
R.N. WILLIAMS....Rear Admiral James ALDEN died at San Francisco, aged
68....Miner named Wm. HASKINS killed at Gold Hill accidentally....Louis
KATZENSTEIN shot in the shoulder at Marysville, while masquerading as a ghost.
...Mrs. D. WINTER badly burned at Healdsburg.
7 - Fire at Ukiah; loss, $600....Mills Seminary property near Oakland
donated to its Board of Trustees....W.P. McCULLOUGH committed suicide at San
Francisco.
8 - James WILSON
killed by a snow plow near Truckee....J. SHEA and James SULLIVAN injured by a
premature blast at Nevada City....Samuel GASS committed suicide at San
Francisco.
9 - Large
warehouse near Vallejo burned with 230 tons of hay....Ex-Assessor Levi ROSENER
died at San Francisco....Hugh KELLY killed at Ruby Hill, Nevada, by James
TICKLE.
10 - S.B.
NORTHCUTT accidentally shot himself at Dixon.
11 - David GILBERT died from asphyxia at San Francisco....M. JANSEN accidentally
shot at Gold Run.
12 - Fire at
Salinas; loss, $2,000...Depot hotel at Reno burned....John WHITMORE, a convict
in San Quentin, killed Henry DIEDRICH, and then committed suicide.
13 - Work on the
Pacific coast railroad commenced at San Jose....Thomas BOGGS committed suicide
at San Francisco....William BROTHERS, a pioneer, found dead near Santa
Cruz....A.C. McDONALD murdered with an ax by unknown parties near Santa
Rosa....J.F. TAYLOR shot and killed by Harrison PHELPS near Marsh Grant, Contra
Costa county, and the latter suicided.
13 - Hon. I.A. AMERMAN, United States Postal Agent, died at San
Leandro....Renewed troubles on Lower California frontier....Hamilton J. MEAD, shot by an unknown assassin on the 13th,
died at San Francisco....W.E. GRIMES
accidentally killed near Portland, Oregon.....John T. LOYD killed by highwaymen
in Inyo county.
15th -
Shooting affray at San Diego between James McCOY and D.O. McCARTHY; no harm
done....A fireman named Robert COCKERILL fell from train near Turlock and killed....John
F. LENHART committed suicide at San Francisco.
16 - Jail break at San Bernardino....Chas. BRANDT committed suicide near
Santa Rosa....Fred. TILT drowned near San Francisco. 18 - Mrs. W.P. STOREY thrown from a buggy at
Colfax and sustained a fracture of her leg.
18 - Man named
McINTOSH committed suicide hear Santa Rosa.
20 - Simon STUART
killed at Tybo, Nevada, by Mart. TUPPER.
21 - John DURHAM shot himself fatally in San Francisco....El Dorado
Brewery, at Stockton, burned.
22 - Jail break at
Stockton....Captain HELLISON of the ship Semirinis drowned at San
Francisco....Disastrous gas explosion in San Francisco....Miss Dolores ENRIQUEZ
severely burned by a kerosene explosion at Los Angeles.
23 - Fire at
Silver City, Nevada; loss, $3,000....Ex-Mayor William HAWLEY, of Marysville,
deceased....Stage upset near Mokelumne Hill; several injured. 24 - John G. CHASE attempted to shoot his
wife in San Francisco....Stage robbed near Sonora....Mrs. W.E. LINDSEY thrown
from a wagon near Merced Falls and badly hurt....Jesse R. STOVELL, aged 10,
accidentally shot and killed at Colusa.
25 - Dr. Holmes
FINNEGAN shot his wife an himself at San Francisco....DIAZ sworn in as
President of Mexico.
26 - Owen CONLON
murdered at San Francisco by Owen GROWNEY with a beer glass.
27 - Jerry
HENNESSEY died at Santa Rosa from effects of a railroad injury....William MIERS
accidentally killed at San Francisco with a gun....Gillermo RAMEL shot Ramon
PINA in the face at Gilroy. 28 - Freight
train ditched at Bantas; several injured....Unknown man fell from fourth story
of a building in San Francisco, and fatally injured....John CANTWELL “run a
muck” at Santa Cruz and stabbed several men; one fatally.
1 - Wife of child
of J.M. LANE drowned near Elko....C.D. MUNSON hanged himself at San
Francisco....Paul MORRILL confirmed as Surveyor of Customs at San
Francisco....Jas. WORTHLEY shot and killed by John NELSON at Oroville;
John McGINLEY shot
and killed by Wm. PARKER at Mountain View, Santa Clara county....Fire at San
Jose, 4 buildings destroyed.
2- Fatal land
slide near Santa Rosa....Son of Chas. NORTON fatally kicked by a horse near San
Jose....Samuel C. MANGUNE committed suicide at Bloomfield....Fire at
Placerville, 8 buildings consumed....Jos. HOLLISTEIN hung himself neat Antioch.
3 - Thos. D. DAVIS
murdered and his body burned in his cabin near Portland, Oregon....Freeman
WILCOX accidentally killed at Placerville by a fall....One BAR clubbed his
mother-in-law to death with a shotgun at Sweetbrier, Shasta county.
4 - Patrick
MORRISSEY fatally burned by a coal oil explosion at San Francisco.
5 - Robert
McCORMICK fatally shot by John McCONNELL at Willows, Colusa county....Attempted
assassination of Mrs. Dr. BRILLASKA at Santa Clara....Moses JONES killed
accidentally in a mine at Shady Run, Placer county.
6 - James
HARRINGTON, under death sentence at Virginia City, made a desperate attempt to
break jail....Gulf of California Oyster Company bubble exploded in San
Francisco.
7 - Stage robbed
near Indian Wells by a 4 masked men....J.N. MITCHELL accidentally fatally shot
near Gilroy.
9 - Unsuccessful
attempt made to stop a stage between San Diego and Anaheim....Thomas McDOWELL
shot and killed Eldro KNALL near Virginia City....Attempts made to burn down
the two Chinatowns at Chico. 10 -
Several attempts at arson made at Nord and Chico on Chinese houses....Eugene
MULLIGAN shot dead in his doorway at San Francisco by unknown parties.
11 - Felix McELROY
found dead at Los Angeles with an ugly wound in his head.
12 - Henry HERRIN
thrown from a buggy and killed near San Felipe.
13 - Body of Thomas AGNEW, an old printer, found near Santa
Barbara....Tassey STEWART acquitted at San Francisco on a charge of bribing
Secretary CHANDLER.
14 - Wm. LYNCH
accidentally drowned at Marysville. 15 -
Six Chinamen shot by white assassins and their cabin burned at Chico....Paul
CARROLL, aged 17, acquitted for murder at Virginia City. 16 - Colonel McCOMB, of the Alta, and William
HAYES, an attorney, had a personal difficulty at San Francisco.
17 - Fire at Silver
City; loss, $1,000....Man named STEWART accidentally burned to death near
Nevada City.
19 - John McCABE
found in his bed at San Francisco dangerously stabbed....Fire at San Francisco;
loss, $1,000....Shooting affray between James MITCHELL and a negro at
Bakersfield; no one hurt. 20 - Shooting
affray at San Diego between ___ COVENT and _____ RICHTER; the latter was
fatally injured.
22 - Child named
Carroll COULTER run over and killed by a car at Woodland....Barney CARTER shot
and killed at Chico by Thomas ALBRO. 23
- T. Wallace MORE brutally murdered near Santa Paula by Unknown parties.
24 - Boy named
Edward SPENCE fatally shot Joseph MENDOZA near San Jose. 25 - Jesse GOFFE drowned at San
Diego....Perpetrators of the Chico Chinese outrage arrested....Robert ALEXANDER
fatally stabbed in a free fight at Santa Rosa....T.A. LONGACRE suicided at
Virginia City. 26 - Robert HUNTER killed
at San Francisco by a falling derrick....W.F.
RUSSELL, editor of the Index, found dead in his bed at Santa
Barbara....Fire at Virginia City, loss, $2,000....Stage robbery near Santa
Barbara. 27 - Pacheco-Wigginton
Congressional contest decided in Supreme Court in favor of the former....Child
of George FARLEY killed at Colusa by falling sacks of grain.
28 - James
BEATSON, flume watchman at Cherokee, shot a Chinaman fatally for robbing the
flume....heavy shock of earthquake at Livermore. 29 - News received of the imprisonment of
John A. SUTTER, United States Consul at Acapulco, by General JIMINEZ.
30 - James HAYES executed
at Bakersfield for murder....Ship Frank Jones went ashore outside of Fort
Point, San Francisco....W.R. BRADBURY seriously stabbed at San Francisco by an
employe....John McDONALD shot and killed at San Francisco by L. JOELL.
31 - Race at San
Jose between Goldsmith Maid and Rarus, time 2:22 ½, 2:16 ¾, 2:18 ¼....Stage
robbed near La Graciosa, Santa Barbara county.
Daily Record-Union
Sacramento, Cal.
Tuesday, January 1, 1878
Page 6 & 7
1 - Fist fight in
the San Francisco Criminal Court between Judge FERRAL and George W.
TYLER....Aaron JONES drove off a grade and fatally injured near San Felipe.
2 - Dry goods
store at San Jose burned....Francois DUBOIS found murdered near Bear Mountain,
Calaveras county.
3 - Portion of
Santa Cruz powder works blown up, killing J.M. BROWN....Emily V. GEILEVER
committed suicide at San Francisco....Claus JANSEN and family accidentally
poisoned at Dixon, but were saved....B. STILES accidentally killed at Eureka.
4 - Collision near
Cascade between passenger and freight train; George BURT, John WARREN and Frank
MAXWELL, engineer and firemen, killed....Isaac FRIEDLANDER, grain merchant,
suspended....Severe earthquake at Victoria....Child named Thomas PHIPPS
accidentally drowned in a well at San Francisco.
5 - Mrs. S.P. GURBENSON
stabbed by Mrs. SNUFFLIN at Santa Pauli....Captain
A.F. SOUTHER killed his wife and
committed suicide at San
Francisco....Michael McGOUGH
fatally shot Adam MANN on river steamer Sacramento.
6 - J. STADERMAN
killed by a fall at San Francisco....Wife of Rev. J.W.
HOUGH died at Santa Barbara.
6 - Ex-County Judge
JAMES A. HUTTON died at Woodland....G.G. BROWN, conductor, killed on Southern
Pacific Railroad....B. HEFFERN killed by a car at San Francisco.
8 - Fire at San Jose;
loss, $26,000....Boy named VAN LEUVEN seriously stabbed at old San Bernardino
by another named Ed. COLE.
9 - Earthquake shocks
at San Luis Obispo; Rarus trotted a mile in San
Francisco in 2:15; the best time
ever made in California....Mrs. HYLAND fatally injured at Dixon.
10 -Severe wind and sand storms in southern California.
11 -One SPILCHER shot Bertha BONTE and then suicided at San
Francisco....Dennis O’LEARY and
William COSTELLO killed accidentally at the San Francisco new City Hall.
12 -Fire at Los Angeles; loss, $4,000....John BILLINGS and
John GREGORY accidentally killed near Yreka....Insane man named McINTOSH
attacked R.W. WITHINGTON at Bakersfield
and was fatally shot....Seven men killed by a mining cave near Smartsville,
Yuba county.
13 -Frank JORDAN fell into a camp fire in a fit on Tulare
Lake and was burned to death.
14 -Man named DAVIS killed at Stockton by a freight
train....Race at
Oakland between Occident and
Oakland Maid - won by former - time, 2:25 - 2:27 ¼ - 2:27 ¼ - 2:29 ½....Man
named FUNDY had his skull fractured in a quarrel at Santa Rosa by J.A. MERRICK.
15 -T.W. DEWEY fatally stabbed Peter WILSON at Dutch Flat,
Alpine county.
16 -Well known running stallion Rochester died at Chico.
17 -Dr. E.A. PREUSS found dead in his chair at Santa Cruz....Cashier
BACH found murdered near Hollister....Little girl named McCABE burned to death
at Grass Valley.
18 -John EPPINGER found dead in the mud at Potrero, San
Francisco....Fire at San Francisco; loss, $1,000....Trial of the Chico
incendiaries commenced at Oroville....Dr. Dalph WILCOX, Clerk of United States
Circuit Court committed suicide at Portland, Oregon....Jack TALLENTS found
murdered near Truckee.
19 -Adam PFEIFER found dead in his bed at San
Jose....Prolific petroleum well struck near San Jose....George E MURRAY fatally
injured by a fall at Oakland.
20 -Incendiary fire near Chico; loss, $10,000....C. CUMMINGS
shot and killed Alexander LAIRD near Gilroy.
21 -W.F. SCOTT found murdered near Yreka.
22 -Henry A. FOX, Deputy County Assessor, committed suicide
at San
Francisco....A gang of
counterfeiters captured at San Francisco.
23 -T.D. FISHER fell from the second story window in San
Francisco and killed....Chinaman named Harry GREEN hanged himself at Washington
Corners....A. GAGE committed suicide near San Diego.
24 -D.O. BRADOVICH and Stephen CORSICK mortally wounded in
an affray at
Deadwood City.
25 -Fire at Santa Rosa; loss, $20,000.
26 -Police officer C.J. COOTS murdered in San Francisco by
hoodlums....Frank DENVARS committed suicide at San Francisco...Charles OTTENS
found murdered near San Luis Obispo....John M. TAYLOR committed suicide at San
Jose.
27 -Fire at Tulare; loss, $50,000....Race at Los Angeles
between Occident and Bodine, won by former; time, 2:25 ½ - 2:23 - 2:26 ½.
28 -Platt WILSON accidentally shot through the arm near Los
Gatos....Benjamin WILKES
accidentally drowned at Colby’s Landing....Henry DeFOREST robbed and murdered
at Santa Cruz.
29 -Brakeman named PATTERSON had his foot crushed at
Colfax....John ROACH shot and killed Matt GLEASON at Hamilton Nevada....Louis
RICHBERG died at San Jose from self-inflicted bullet wound....Inan SALAZAR
fatally stabbed at Almaden, Santa Clara county, by Baptista SANDOVAL.
30 -New gold discoveries reported in Alaska....Employes of
Virginia and
Truckee railroad struck because
of a reduction of wages....Two men - MURRAY and TODD - poisoned to death near
San Luis Obispo by eating wild parsley....Child of John ROBERTS, at San
Francisco, accidentally killed.
1 - Large cave in Oak
Grove gravel mine, Siskiyou county....Infant of J.E.
SHEARER scalded to death at
Chico....William ROBINSON crushed to death in a mine near Ophir.
2 - Labor excitement
at Virginia City, consequent on a reduction of wages....John B. FELTON,
prominent lawyer, deceased at Oakland....William LAIRD drowned near
Yreka....Dr. G. ABERNATHY, ex-Governor, died at Portland.
3 - Francisco ARIAS
and Jose CHAMALIO, murderers of DeFOREST, hung by a mob at Santa Cruz.
4 - Chin Mook SOW,
Chinese murderer, executed at San Francisco....George WASHINGTON badly stabbed
by John FORNEY at Stockton....J.C. MORGAN, pioneer, died at Chico....W.H. DAVY
killed by a cave near Nevada City.
5 - Larry AUSTIN
seriously shot at Colfax by J. CHAPPEL....George M. PINNEY returned from a
foreign tour and delivered himself up to the San Francisco
authorities....Extensive labor demonstration at Virginia City....Pedro BALLOW
committed suicide at Los Angeles....Curtis DODGE drowned in San Joaquin river
at Webb’s Landing.
6 - Roger McGUIRE
killed by a fall at San Francisco....Daughter of C.
DEVEREAUX accidentally fatally
shot near Temescal....Fire at Virginia City, loss, $1,200....Boy named McNALLY
drowned near Benicia....One GARDNER fatally stabbed at Butte City by ____
MORINO.
8 - W.E. DARGIE, of the
Oakland Tribune, assaulted by B.F. MARSTON; Major TRUMAN assaulted by P.W.
DOONER at the same place....Stage robbed between Gilroy and Los
Banos....William LEMON accidentally killed at Oakland.
10 -Drunken woman named Margaret MURPHY laid down on her child
and killed it at San Francisco....A tidal wave did great damage at Gavoita, San
Luis Obispo county.
11 -Daughter of M. GALENDS burned to death at the Guadalupe
mine, Santa Clara county....Fire at New Almaden, loss, $5,000....Race at San
Jose between Occident and Bodine, won by the former, time 2:26 - 2:24 - 2:21
¼....Fire at Merced, loss $20,000.
12 -Emmet CAMPBELL shot at Colusa by John MORGAN....Race at
San Jose between Goldsmith Maid and Rarus, won by former. Time, 2:16 ¼.
13 -Fire at Napa, loss, $20,000.....Stage robbed near
Prescott, Arizona Territory.
14 -Charles H. BRYAN, ex-Justice of the California Supreme
Court, died at Carson....Fire at Salinas City, loss, $18,000....John D. WORDEN
killed by a runaway team near Marysville....Isaac Van Ward PETERS committed
suicide in Placer county hospital.
16 -Fire at Ophir, Utah, loss, $6,000; incendiary fire near
Gilroy, loss $10,000....Luke TURFFREY stabbed by W. FAIRMAN at Yuba City....Wm.
DAVIS found murdered near North San Juan....Constantine NORTH shot and killed
by Frank COLLINS near Tehachepi station.
17 -Samuel KNAPP committed suicide near San Jose....Child
named Albert McMAHON run over and killed by a street car in San Francisco....C.
FLINN found dead in his cabin near Eureka, Nevada....Thomas McADAMS, J.H. BURKE
and ____ BROWN, drowned in the Bay....Steamer City of San Francisco struck a
rock and sunk near Acapulco; no lives lost.
18 -Colonel Ezekiel JEWETT, scientist, died at Santa
Barbara....Charles CROCKER’s double team trotted two heats of a mile each at
San Francisco in 2:31 and 2:30....Jas. BAILEY committed suicide at Virginia
City by jumping into a shaft....Colored boy named John COOPER maliciously shot
and wounded near Stockton by two rascals....John ROBERTSON accidentally shot
near San Jose.
19 -Richard LEISER committed suicide at
Woodland....Goldsmith Maid trotted at Chico; Time, 2:19 - 2:14 ½ - 2:17....Fire
at Merced, loss $18,000....Stage robbed near San Juan Capistrano....WILSON,
engineer of steamer Parthonius, drowned in the Bay.
20 -Boy named Patrick A. COYNE killed by street-car in San
Francisco....Alfonse LUKIN died in San Francisco from a beating received by
hoodlums....W. GLASSEN and Harry ARGYLE seriously hurt near Napa City by the
breaking of a mining shaft rope.
21 -Thomas BARROWS seriously hurt at Stockton by runaway
team....Fire at Portland, Oregon; loss, $1,000....CROCKER’s double team trotted
in 2:26 ½ at San Francisco....George TALLMADGE killed by a fall at Downieville.
22 -Trial of Chico Chinese murderers commenced at Oroville....Charles
W.
CLEARY stabbed and killed by
______ DALEY at Willow Creek, Calaveras county.
23 -One RONCALES killed in a fight near San Buenaventura.
24 -Man named AUBURY found dead in his bed near San Jose.
25 -Fire at Oroville; loss, $1,000....Geo. M. PINNEY
arrested at San Francisco on two charges of forgery....Mrs. Annie MALONE found
dead in bed at Benicia under suspicious circumstances.
26 -M.U. HAZEN found dead near Hueneme, San Buenaventura
county....Jury in Chinese Chico murder cases returned verdict of murder in
second degree.
27 -Wilhelm SALLT committed suicide at San Francisco.
28 -One HAMILTON killed by a falling tree near San
Jose....Dexter E.
PARROTT killed at Dunnigan’s,
Yolo county, by Michael NOLAN.
29 -E.C. CHURCH, a pioneer, died in Solano county.
30 -L.W. ROBINSON, County Judge of Colusa county,
deceased....Severe earthquake shock at Paso de Robles, San Luis Obispo
county....Eugene SHEEHAN run over by cars and killed at Niles.
31 -Juan SALAZER executed at San Rafael....D.M. KNOWLTON
committed suicide at San Francisco.
1 - Six more charges of perjury preferred against PINNEY....James
WEBSTER died at San Jose from an overdose of morphine administered by a person
claiming to be a physician....George W. PERRIS shot and killed L. HICKOCK at
San Bernardino.
2 - Marcus SALINGER committed suicide at San Francisco....Boy named
BERNSTEIN fell into the bay from Oakland wharf, and Frank HODGIN attempted to
rescue him, when both perished.
3 - Manuel SILVA mortally shot at Haywards by P. CLANCY....Miner named
TUCKIS killed by poisonous gases in a tunnel near Dutch Flat.
4 - Destructive fire at Vacaville....2,000 bushels of grain burned in a
stack near Nicolas....Infant of Mrs. Mary LORIGAN fatally scalded at
Stockton....Nicolous HORTES murdered in mountains between Sonoma and Petaluma
by Jose Marie FLORES.
5 - Chico soap factories again burned by incendiaries....Wm. A.
STILLWELL committed suicide at Santa Cruz.
6 - 100 cords of wood burned near Colfax....Man named BURNS stabbed
himself 11 times at Los Angeles....Fire near Jackson, loss, $1,500.
7 - N.T. CUTLER committed suicide at San Francisco....M. STEPF run over
by a street car and killed in San Francisco....Yedefonso ENRO mortally shot
near Noorshoff, Ventura county, by Jeff HOWARD....Little daughter of M. CLANCY
accidentally killed at Virginia City....Peter RUSH murdered at Novato, Marin
county.
8 - James FINNERTY shot and killed at Hallock, Nevada, by a negro named
MILLS....Works of Hercules Powder Company, near San Francisco, exploded.
9 - Michael AHEARNE killed by a sunstroke at Vallejo....David MANHEIM
killed James McSLOY near Eureka, Nevada....Fire near Chico, loss,
$3,000....Arcade Sawmill, above Chico, burned, loss, $14,000....Sailor named
Charles RANDALL killed by another named W. J. WALKER at Vallejo.
10 -Captain D.A. GREGORY shot
twice by attempted assassins at San Diego....Extensive field conflagration near
Lompoc - grain and pasture fields destroyed and about 150 cattle
burned....Peter RUSH found murdered near San Rafael.
11 -PINNEY held to answer in San
Francisco....Boy named SUCERO accidentally killed while hunting near
Almaden....Fire at Plymouth, Amador county, loss, $35,0000....Volcano eruption
near Flowing Wells station, on Southern Pacific road....W. PERKINS and an Indian
killed near St. Helena by A. MATTEYO.
12 -Aniceto DECADO shot fatally
by Vicente LESCASDA near Los Angeles....John FARRINGTON cut this throat at San
Francisco....First Sergeant BRUNS committed suicide at the Presidio....Fire at
Williams, loss, $35,000....Two stages robbed near Calistoga.
13 -John TRACY run over and
killed on railroad near Vina....E.M. PROCTOR drowned near Lodi....Sam MAHONEY
badly shot by ____ MASSEY near Eureka, Nevada....B. MARSHAL slightly shot J.
FLEMMING at Ruby Mill, Nevada.
14 -Boy named EALEY shot an
Indian at Campo, San Diego county....Bark Cambridge wrecked off Cape Flattery.
15 -F. KUCHENBACK thrown from a
mule and killed at Sawyer’s Bar, Siskiyou county....Several men killed by an
explosion in Sutro tunnel.
16 -Attempt made to explode a
steam fire engine at Virginia City.
17 -W.H. CHEVERS, a pioneer,
died at San Francisco....Body of J. LARKIN found in a pond of water near
Virginia City.
18 -Mrs. AREES and her two
children murdered at Los Banos creek, Merced county, by Joseph DUMOND, who was
afterwards killed by pursuers at Surprise valley, Modoc county.
19 -Fight between E.J.C. KEWEN
and John S. THOMPSON, lawyers, in the Los Angeles County Court.
20 -Waldo HASKELL and James
SANDERS committed suicide at San Francisco....Condor Mills at Pioche,
burned....Melville COGGINS killed by a cave in Chile gulch, Calaveras county.
22 -Fire at San Francisco; loss,
$5,000....Two cases of incendiarism in Colusa county....Edmund S. SAMPSON died
at Snelling - it is supposed from poison.
23 -Three earthquake shocks at
San Buenaventura....David WALTON found dead near Vallejo....John TANNAHIL
killed by Royal BAXTON near San Diego....M.
TINOTT burned to death on Grand Island....J.F. CALLOUX thrown from buggy
and killed at Sierra City.
24 -J.T. GAMERSTON committed
suicide in Grace Church, San Francisco....Clarence W. NICKERSON accidentally
shot and killed near Santa Cruz.
25 -Nitro glycerine explosion at
Reno; two men killed....Apache raids continue in Sonora....Nine-year-old son of
John COOPER accidentally shot and killed near Cloverdale.
26 -H.B. HILTON killed by the
cars at San Leandro....Fire near Healdsburg; loss, $4,000.
27 -A. MACKONY burned to death
in his barn near Marysville.
28 -S.M. BLISS appointed County
Judge of Yuba county, vice SELLON, deceased.
29 -“Captain Jack” CRAWFORD
accidentally shot himself in the groin while performing in the Virginia City
Theater.
30 -Homer YOUNG shot and killed
at Lake Tahoe by R.C. HAMMOND....Benjamin HOLLAND and W.H. CARTER murdered by
horse thieves near Pioche.
Daily Record-Union
Sacramento, Cal.
Tuesday, January 1, 1878
1 - Body of
Michael CANAVAN found in Mission creek, San Francisco....Fire at San Jose;
James GOUGH burned to death, and Jerry LYNCH badly hurt....Miss Lizzie FANCHER thrown
from a wagon and killed near Cloverdale.
2 - Senatorial Commission to investigate charges against Senator GROVER
begun its labors at Portland, Oregon....William MOYLE received injuries while
driving near Cloverdale which resulted in his death. 3 - John DAY committed suicide at Virginia
City....At Petrolia, Humboldt county, Mrs. McAULIFF cut the throats of her
three children and then attempted suicide....E.Y. SOUTHER found dead near
Woodland. 4 - John GRIFFIN stabbed and
killed at Lockford, San Joaquin county, by Ellison CAHILL....the Fourth was
appropriately celebrated over the State....Section of lumber flume near
Oroville gave way, killing Richard WATSON and Patrick BACON, and severely
injuring two other men....J. KARMOLINSKE
badly hurt at Tehama while firing an anvil salute. 5 - Attempt made to blow up the house of
Thomas EVANS at Virginia City....Fire at Virginia City, loss, $2,000; at San
Jose, loss, $2,000....Tiofolo VACA, a pioneer, died in Solano county. 6 - Fire at Eureka, Nevada, loss, $7,000...Thomas
HARRIS killed by a cave at Galena, Nevada.
7 - Indian lynched
at Ward, Nevada, for attempting to commit rape on a white girl....M.B. HOWARD,
lawyer, committed suicide at Belmont, Nevada.
8 - Mrs. Mary A. ANDERSON committed suicide at San Francisco....J.K.
SMITH shot and killed at Shingle Springs by Chas. BARK....Alice POUND committed
suicide near Ione City.
9 - Fire at Eureka
Nevada, loss, $4,000....Son of Peter BRUNSTETTER accidentally killed at Grass
Valley.
10 - Boy named
Willie MAHONEY run over and killed by a truck at San Francisco....J. LOCKE
committed suicide at San Francisco....J. MILLER died at Austin from the effect
of an accident.
11 - Boy named
George ROACH run over and killed at Virginia.
12 - Fire at
Colusa; loss, $9,000....John DORAN shot in the groin by J. SULLENBERGER at Virginia, and died the next
day....Manuel BUTRON shot by Justin ARAJO at San Juan South, and his murderer
was lynched. 13 - John RUNK convicted of
murder in the first degree at San Francisco for shooting officer COOTS.
11 - Lawrence
DALTON killed by falling into a shaft at Austin....James SPOONER died at
Lockford from the effects of an accident.
15 - William WRIGHT attempted to shoot Richard RULE at Santa
Rosa....Henry BULLOCK stabbed by an Indian near San Jose....Reyes ROMERO
murdered near Anaheim.
16 - Destructive
fire at Marysville....Miner named STEWART fell into Consolidated Virginia shaft
and received fatal injuries....Boy named HUTTIN accidentally shot in the foot
near Oakland.
17 - 2,000 feet of
snow-shedding burned near Emigrant Gap....Mrs. Frances
REYNOLDS shot and
killed near Ukiah by J.B. CANAZA, who afterwards committed
suicide....Unsuccessful
attempt made to burn Eureka, Humboldt county....David EVANS shot and killed by
John FITCH near Santa Cruz, and the latter committed suicide....Boy named
HUTTON badly shot while hunting near Temescal.
18 - 1,500 feet of
snow-shedding burned near Cicso....Roscoe PEARL drowned near Woodland....Stage
from Redding to Ukiah robbed....John STULTZ run over by the cars near Boca and
killed....Thos. S. HAGERTY shot and killed near Anaheim by Francis M. CAHILL.
19 - Charles
SOMMERS committed suicide at Virginia; Martin CREMETTI committed suicide near
the same city....G.W. PERRY, convicted of murder in the second degree,
committed suicide in jail at San Bernardino.
20 - Mrs. Amelia Wapple HODGKINSON poisoned herself at San
Francisco....Geo.
TAYLOR shot
himself dead at San Francisco.
21 - Boy named
BEACH drowned at Stockton....Infant daughter of John GRAY of Fiddletown choked
to death with a nut-shell.
22 - Austin,
Nevada, inundated by a cloudburst....E. McLEOD shot James McLAUGHLIN at
Benicia....Samuel KERR drowned near San Francisco.
23 - Field fire at
R.M. TURNER’s ranch near Durham, loss, $1,500....Serious
riot at San Francisco....T.G.
DURNING seriously stabbed at Yankee Jim’s by
24 - Public
meeting held at San Francisco and a Vigilance Committee organized ro suppress
the mob of hoodlums....Fire at Sonora; loss, $6,100. 25 - Joe BLANCHARD, a stage robber, died at
Trinity Center, from wounds received at his capture....Man named MURPHY
severely hurt by a fall at Gridley’s.
28 - Dr. A.C.
PUTNAM drowned while fishing in Monterey Bay....Destructive fire at San
Pablo....Fire at Portland; loss, $20,000....David GOURLEY drowned near Rio
Vista.
29 - F.A. BRASCH
poisoned himself at San Francisco....Thomas COSTELLO and James FARR drowned in
the San Joaquin river at Union Island.
30 - Fire at Milwaukee, Oregon; loss, $6,000; at Santa Cruz; loss,
$1,500. 31 - Samuel MARION poisoned
himself at San Francisco....Attempt made to burn Chinatown at Red Bluff.
1 - Moses G. MORSE
committed suicide at Oakland. 2 - Lizzie
SULLIVAN committed suicide at St. Helena....Philip HARTNIAN killed by a falling
tree near Tyrone Mills, Sonoma county. 3
- Major John COOK, a pioneer, died at San Jose....Stage from Milton to Sonora
robbed.
4 - Hon. Benjamin
HAYES died at Los Angeles....Marion HENSHAW shot by highwaymen near Elko,
thirty bullets entering his body....Felice VALENTINE drowned in the
Bay....Three unsuccessful attempts made to burn Nevada City. 5 - Henry A. ROSEWARN shot and killed by
Jessie LEWIS at San Francisco, who then committed suicide.
6 - Trial of the
DE YOUNG, for libeling Congressman PAGE in
the Chronicle, commenced at Placerville....Fred. McDONNALL killed by a falling
timber at Virginia City....Griff ALVARES fatally shot at Kanawha, Colusa
county, by George HILTON.
7 - Ernest METZLER
committed suicide near Latrobe....J.E. DALEY fatally shot at San Francisco by
L.H. HANKS, who afterwards committed suicide in jail....Young PHELAN shot and
killed by J.E. PATRICK near Ukiah, supposing him a deer.
8 - George HAWKINS
had his foot crushed by the cars at Roseville....Disastrous fire at San
Francisco; loss, $250,000....Fire at Olympia, Washington Territory; loss,
$20,500....John BAKER frightfully and fatally mangled in a saw mill near
Jackson.
9 - H. HONCHINS
killed near Susanville by a wagon accident....Frank GOMEZ killed by a cave near
Columbia, Tuolumne county, and his brother John had his leg broken.
10 - Unsuccessful
attempt made to burn Santa Cruz....Thomas BURNEY killed in a mine in Plumas
county.
11 - Robert
CAMPBELL seriously hurt at Gold Hill by falling from a bridge. 12 - Fred CAULFIELD committed suicide in Lone
Mountain Cemetery, San Francisco.
13 - Henry E.
BOSTWICK drowned in Lake Tahoe while bathing....Boy named William STOCKWELL
accidentally shot in the arm while hunting near Napa. 14 - Dastardly attempt made to wreck a
passenger train near Roseville....George McELISH had his foot crushed while
coupling cars at Sesma Station.
15 - Child of J.S.
MERRITT killed by a fall at San Jose....Child named David CUNES run over by a
truck at San Francisco and killed....Philemon PENECKS accidentally shot at
Chico.
16 - Powder
explosion in San Francisco damaged considerable property....Fire at Oroville;
loss, $10,000....Boy named Virgil D. SMITH thrown from a horse near Anaheim and
killed.
17 - Fatal
railroad collision near Livermore and a number of freight cars
burned....Congressman W.A. PIPER run over by an express wagon at San Francisco
and slightly hurt....Buel S. HAMLIN committed suicide at Watsonville.
18 - Entire crop
of William FEH*H, near Santa Rosa, burned....Little daughter of Willis FOSTER
killed by a wagon at San Jose. 19 - Lucy
BELMONT died at San Francisco from an overdose of opium....James SHAW fatally
scalded at Oakland....Frederick SCHNEIDER drowned in a well near Auburn.
20 - Fire at
Ukiah; loss, $8,000....Boy named Charles SHAW kicked in the face by a colt near
Cloverdale and had his jaw broken....John McCOY stabbed another man to death at
Adin, Modoc county, and was himself hanged by the populace.
21 - Daughter of
Manuel BANALES fatally burned with coal oil at Monterey....David PATTERSON
murdered near Mariposa. 22 - Mrs. Sarah
WILSON accidentally fatally shot near Antioch....Emanuel JOSEPHS drowned at
Collinsville.
23 - James KENNEY
attacked and killed by a stallion at Petaluma....Unsuccessful attempt made to
burn Bakersfield. 24 - Jury in DE YOUNG
libel case at Placerville disagreed, standing 6 to 6....Thrashing engine at
J.P. GOODNOW, near Langville, exploded, killing a child and severely scalding
Miss M.J. NICHOLS; 1,200 sacks of wheat also destroyed.
25 - Oakland City
Hall burned....George PRIEUR committed suicide at San Francisco....Samuel B.
BARTON accidentally killed at Virginia City....L.M. CRILL committed suicide at Milford.
26 - Fire at San
Francisco; loss, $3,000....John JOHNSON drowned at Watsonville....Jose D.
ESQUERO stabbed John MADDEN at San Jose.
27 - Sharp earthquake shock at Eureka, Humboldt county....Charles S.
BROOK committed suicide at Old San Bernardino.
28 - John
McGLAUGHLIN died on the train near Lathrop, from accidental injuries....Hugh
HALLIGAN seriously injured by a blast at Virginia City....Stage from Los
Angeles to San Diego robbed. 29 - Fire
at Virginia City; loss, $1,000....Edward FLAHERTY, pioneer, died at Trinidad.
30 - Stage robbed
near Copperopolis....William SKELTON, brakeman, killed at Madison.
31 - Elisha GIBBS
fatally shot his wife near Eureka, Humboldt county....Damage to the extent of
$3,000 caused by an exploding boiler at Benicia.
1 - S.C. BUGBEY,
architect, died suddenly at San Francisco....Five freight cars demolished by a
collision in Washington Territory....A Mexican footpad stopped the wrong man
near San Jose and was fatally shot. 2 -
Destructive fire at Auburn; loss, $75,000; Chinatown totally
consumed....Roundhouse and locomotives burned at Monterey; loss,
$25,000....Frank BALLARD and one BELL badly hurt at San Jose by falling from a
wagon.
3 - Jack EGBERT
found dead in bed at Salinas....Bold attempt to rob a stge between Eureka and
Tybo; one of the highwaymen, Jack DAVIS, killed....Jean PARIS died from the
effects of a tarantula bite at Milpitas.
4 - William COLLINS injured near North San Juan by the premature
explosion of giant powder.
5 - General State
election for members of the Legislature, resulted generally in favor of the
Democrats....Col. William JONES, a member elect to the Legislature, died at
Placerville....Michael MAHER found murdered near Visalia.
6 - Wm. FRY
fatally shot by Richard POLLARD at Grass Valley....W.A. COWLES, topographer of
the Wheeler Expedition, had both his legs broken by a bowlder falling upon them.
7 - Alexander DUNN
drowned at Stockton....Fire at Corinne, Utah Territory; loss, $20,000....Julian
ARIAS suffocated in a wine vat near San Jose.
8 - Julia ROMMAS dropped dead at San Francisco....Carrie A. RICE killed
by a fall at Carson City.
9 - Timothy
SULLIVAN arrested in San Francisco for beating his wife to death....Jack SAYLES
dangerously stabbed by an Italian at Eureka, Nevada....Hoisting works of Grand
Prize mine at Tuscarora, Nevada, burned; loss, $7,000.
10 - Chinatown of
Dutch Flat burned....Northern District Fair opened at Marysville....Thomas
GRIFFITHS killed by a street cat in San Francisco....Charles HUMPHREYS found
dead near Geyserville, Sonoma county....Alfred STEINMAN drowned near
Colusa. 11 - Woman named BOYCE committed
suicide at San Francisco....Heavy rain storm in Oregon....John JOHNSON
committed suicide at San Francisco. 12 -
William COTTER accidentally killed in a coal mine at Ione....Body of W.
CHARD found at Red
Bluff.
13 - Woman named
Carming ANDERSON murdered in San Francisco by Lloyd BELL
(colored)....Vicente
MENDOSA shot and killed by Matias VARGAS at Monterey....Nancy WILLIAMS murdered
at Darwin. 14 - An explosion in a drug
store in San Francisco set fire to the building. 15 - H.N. SARGENT and Louis ODER and wife
murdered near Rocklin by Chinamen....Mrs. Antonio C. GODOY fearfully burned
with coal oil. 16 - Chinese driven out
of Rocklin, Roseville and other towns.
17 - Man named MOROCO shot at Dayton, Nevada, by a man whose wife he was
about to elope with. ...Chinatown, Grass Valley, burned....Galli LUCIO murdered
at Reno....Chinatown, near Oroville, burned.
18 - Destructive forest fire raging in San Mateo county....George T.
BISHOP killed by a fall near Napa.
19 - Slight
earthquake shock at Los Angeles....Fire at San Francisco; loss, $5,000.
20 - John J. MARKS
(ex-Harbor Commissioner) pardoned from State Prison by
Governor
IRWIN....Train ran into a wagon near Latrobe, and killed Albert
21 - Fire at San
Francisco; loss, $10,000; as Santa Cruz; loss, $6,500. 22 - Philip MANUEL killed by a fall in a mine
near Colfax....Edward FIELAND pushed a young man named GOHEN in to the bay from
the steamer Whipple, and he was drowned.
23 - M.C. CHAMBERS
run over by a street car in San Francisco and killed. 24 - Eleventh Annual Fair of the Sonoma and
Marin District Society opened at Petaluma....W.B. CARLTON committed suicide at
San Francisco. 25 - Hiram WARD found
dead at Strawberry valley, Siskiyou county....Daniel F. GRAY run over and
killed by a fire engine at San Francisco.
Hill....Charley
HALE, aged 14, found dead near Pomona, with a knife wound on his person.
27 - Bridge fell
at Portland, Oregon, killing one man and injuring several others.
28 - S.E. TUTTLE
found with a bullet hole in his head near Genoa, Nevada....L. ST. CLAIR killed
by a locomotive at Carson....John THOMPSON hanged at Seattle....Infamous
attempt made to fire a trestle work on the Nevada county narrow gauge railroad.
29 - James
TROWELLA badly hurt in the Justice mine....Three earthquake shocks at Gold
Hill....John ROBINSON made an unsuccessful attempt to kill one SUMMERS at South
Vallejo....George CAMPBELL badly stabbed by Fred ROCKART near Colusa.
30 - Pedro MONREAL
shot and killed Deonicio MENDEZ at San Francisco.
Daily Record-Union
Sacramento, Cal.
Tuesday, January 1, 1878
1 - Michael SHAY
drowned at San Francisco....Santa Clara County Fair opened. 2 - Child named Jennie NELSON run over and killed
at San Francisco....Robert CROW stabbed Michael LUNNEY at Vallejo.
3 - R.L. BROWN
committed suicide at San Francisco....William MITCHELL committed suicide at
Coloma.
4 - Richard S.
KITTS killed by a cave in the Savage mine....Heavy rains in Oregon.
5 - Considerable
damage done to the steamship Constitution by fire in San Francisco
harbor....Burglar named Theodore SCHURS fatally shot by Thomas WORKOVER at Pope
Valley, Napa county.
7 - N. HASTRETO, a
pioneer, died at Stockton....Pery VON LOESILKE committed suicide at San Jose.
8 - Louis ASH shot
and killed at Virginia City by Wm. DAVIS....Fire near Eureka, Humboldt county;
loss, $2,000....Oregon State Fair opened at Salem....C.W. GETTY lost a leg at
Tuscarora, Nevada....Thomas SARGENT fatally crushed at Virginia City....Barney
McCABE fatally shot at Colusa by City Marshal J.T. ARNOLD.
9 - John ANDERSON
committed suicide at Santa Cruz....F. TOPIER killed R.C.
ALLEN near
Austin....Captain A.D. EASKOOT accidentally shot near Bolinas. 10 - Freight train partially wrecked at
Tehama....Depot at Woodland burned by incendiaries; loss, $10,000.
11 -Town of
Vacaville burned; loss heavy....Fire at Oroville; loss, $5,000....Victor FOUCH
fatally shot by C.M. WALLER at Santa Monica.
12 - Mary Ann COLLINS fell down stairs at San Francisco and broke her
neck....Fire at Chico; loss, $12,000....John NORTON shot and killed by a couple
of Indians near Forest Hill, Placer county.
13 - John BRUCE
crushed to death at Santa Cruz....W.B. MAINS badly stabbed at San Francisco by
James LAWRENCE.
14 - Michael WALSH
fell 500 feet in a mine near Virginia and killed....remains of Selig ETTLINGER
found near Dixon, he having become insane and wandered off in 1874.
15 - Nevada State
Fair opened at Reno.
16 - Richard OATS fatally
crushed between two cars at Virginia City....Colonel E.B. BUFFANDEAN shot
himself dead at San Francisco while walking on the street with his
wife....Incendiary fire at Knight’s landing, loss, $3,200.
17 - David DODGE
committed suicide at Gold Hill....William STONE fatally shot by a Chinese
sluice robber at Howland Flat, Sierra county.
18 - John LAHEY mangled to death by the fly-wheel of the San Jose Woolen
Mills....Spanish woman named Jesus CANALES died at San Francisco from the
effects of a self-inflicted knife wound....James McGEE jumped into a shaft 600
feet deep near Jackson and killed.
19 - Man named
STARR attempted to outrage a lady at Oakland, and he was afterwards badly shot
by her son, Frank OGDEN. 20 - mrs. Belle
LYNCH, an Ukiah editor, knocked down and beaten by T.L. CAROTHERS for an alleged libeling of the
latter’s wife....Alejandro BARRON shot and killed at Los Angeles by Jose A.
MORENO. 21 - Shooting affray at
Petaluma, and Constable Frank ADEL an a Chinaman dangerously wounded....James
H. McDONALD killed by a fall at San Francisco.
22 - Police officer T.R. HARRIS, of San Francisco, suffocated by
charcoal fumes in his room....Destructive tidal wave at San
Buenaventura....Gus. BEHLTIE shot and
killed by his brother Albert at Prospect Place, Placer county.
23 - J.H. WILLIAMS
committed suicide at San Francisco....Son of John TAYLOR run over and killed by
a wagon near Rough and Ready....A. GRAY killed at Howland Flat by being run
over by a wagon.
25 - John ADAMS
committed suicide at San Francisco....Thomas JONES accidentally killed in a
mine near San Diego.
27 - Frank FESTO
accidentally killed in the Succor mine, Virginia....Steamer Clinton run down in
the bay by the steamer Petaluma and wrecked, and ____ MANNIE, the engineer,
drowned....Damaging gale at Astoria. 28
- Fire at the Presbyterian Church, Healdsburg, loss, $500; near Grass Valley,
loss, $2,200.
29 - California
Pacific Railroad passenger train ditched by a burned out culvert at
Elmira....Fire at Stockton, loss, $1,500....H.A. CUMMINGS badly shot by Carlos
W. MATTESON at Stockton....Desperate attempt by convicts in the Nevada State
Prison to break jail and one killed. 30
- Oscar BUTTS accidentally killed by the cars at Fulton, Sonoma county....George
C. STEELE committed suicide at San Francisco....Robert H. CROZIER hanged at Winnemucca.
31 - A Mexican and
a man named SEAMMON killed and John BURTON dangerously
shot in a saloon
at Fresno.
1 - John MAHONEY
committed suicide at San Francisco. 2 -
John BURLEIGH jumped from the steamer El Capitan into the bay and
drowned....Fire at Carson City; loss heavy....Thos. BANON committed suicide
near Felton, Santa Clara county.
3 - Shooting
affray at Reno, Wesley HOLLADAY seriously and Eugene EARNEST badly shot....D.
KEARNEY arrested while delivering an incendiary speech, and general excitement
prevalent in San Francisco....Richard UREN badly crushed in a mine at Virginia
City.
4 - Three emigrant
cars and a coach attached to the Eastern express train, ditched near Truckee;
no one killed....Captain HUNTER accidentally shot on the steamer D.E. Knight
near Marysville....Nelson V. WAGGONER shot and killed near Auburn by Paschal
VARNUM.
5 - P. COYLE died
at San Francisco from asphyxia....Fire at Cuffey’s Cove, Mendocino county;
loss, $30,000....Everett STRANT dropped dead in San Francisco....Body of
Catherine LYON found in the bay. 6 -
Body of an unknown man found hanging near Roseville....Andrew NELSON committed
suicide near Lincoln.
7 - Gustave
ANDERSON shot himself through the head at San Francisco....British iron ship
Swordfish totally wrecked near Victoria.
8 - Fire at Portland, Oregon; loss, $25,000....Little daughter of T.
EATON burned to death near Quincy.
9 - Fire at
Cuffey’s Cove, Mendocino county; loss, $25,000....A ADAMS crushed to death in a
mine near Virginia.
10 - William
TRENBERTH fatally hurt in a mine near Grass Valley....General O.H. LA GRANGE
resigned as Superintendent of the San Francisco Mint....Man named McCRAGER fell
from a flume near Chico and killed. 11 -
Three hundred and fifty feet of snow shed burned between Blue Canyon and
Emigrant Gap....Nancy FERGUSON (colored), aged 107, died at Oakland....Sharp
earthquake shock at Anaheim.
12 - Fire at San
Francisco; loss, $110,000. W.T.R. HOLM, teacher, shot himself fatally in the
school room at San Juan.
13 - Benito
ANQUERO fatally stabbed and Jose HIGUERO badly cut at Milpitas....John WARNER
shot and killed by another man at Bakersfield.
15 - Nellie SMITH, aged 1 year, died at San Francisco, from the effects
of a lamp explosion.
16 - Schooner Mary
Cleveland wrecked at Novo, Mendocino county.
17 - Christopher JACOBSON found dead under a saloon in San
Francisco....Captain Frank MONROE died at Mare Island. 18 - Joseph BLAKELEY accidentally shot and
killed at Virginia by Samuel OBISTON....John G. BRIGGS, orchardist, died at
Marysville. 19 - Alman OFFER murderously
attacked and robbed by a Chinaman near Chico.
20 - Man named
LOTT killed a Mexican at Mojave. 21 - An
attorney named PETRARCHI committed suicide at Oakland; man named WOODFORD
committed suicide at Salinas.
22 - Jeremiah
MURRAY found dead near Stockton. 23 -
Fire at Dallas, Oregon; loss, $6,300...Schooner Albert and Edward totally
wrecked at Salmon Creek, Mendocino county.
24 - Earthquake felt at Eureka, Kibesilla and Oroville....H.D. BRACKETT
badly shot at Carpenteria, Santa Barbara county, by B.S. SUTTON, whose daughter
he had seduced.
25 - D.A. CAIN
fell dead at Marysville....Charles ROTH committed suicide at Placerville.
27 - H.F. RICE committed suicide at Stockton.
28 - Son of John N. GREEN accidentally shot himself
near Petaluma.
29 - Philip DEVER accidentally shot near
Marysville. 30 - Two earthquake shocks
felt at Portland....Andreas MATEO, an Indian, hanged at Napa....Fire at
Watsonville; loss, $10,000....R.J. CARROLTON committed suicide at Virginia.
1 - Man known at
Portuguese Mike fatally gored by a bull in Yolo county, near
Sacramento....William BUTLER drowned in Coffey’s Cove....Annual meeting of the San
Joaquin District Agricultural Society at Stockton. 2 - John HULETT shot and killed at Nord by
one WILSON....Fire at Virginia; loss, $2,000....Stephen JOHNSON murdered in
Fresno county be a negro....Santiago PENDOLA accidentally shot dead near Santa
Barbara. 3 - Andreas KOFER and Louis
ZIEGENHIRT committed suicide in San Francisco....Fire at San Francisco, loss
slight....W.H. MILLER killed by a fall at Santa Barbara.
4 - Jose QUIJADA
committed suicide at Santa Barbara....Refinery of the Pacific Oil Works at San
Buenaventura burned....Wm. CREEDAN accidentally killed at Sucker Flat....James
ARTHUR accidentally killed near Sutter Creek.
7 - Wm. ROBINSON fatally shot by accident near Forest Hill. 8 - Barge Governor Hayes, loaded with grain,
snagged and sunk near Colusa, loss about $35,000....Dr. RENINGER thrown from a
horse at Virginia City and killed....Geo. PIERETSKI fatally, and Jos. PFEIFER
seriously, injured near Virginia City.
9 - Henry JOSEPH
accidentally shot and killed near Reading.
10 - Jas. L. JOHNSON (colored), who murdered Stephen JOHNSON in Fresno
county December 20th, killed by his pursuers.
11 - Adam
SCHNESSLER, Jr., accidentally and fatally shot at Yuba City....Henry REIFER
hung himself to a lamp post in San Francisco...Boy named McVEY accidentally
shot and killed at Modesto. 12 - Fire at
Dayton, Washington Territory; loss, $15,000....Steamer Continental wrecked near
Ferndale, Humboldt county....Child named Katie FOSTER accidentally fatally
burned near Ophir.
13 - Ada BLANCHARD
committed suicide at San Jose. 14 -
Thomas DOOLEY died at Marysville from an overdose of morphine....Shooting
affray at San Francisco between W. BUTTERFIELD and J.
SEVENOAKS; no one
hurt....Dougall WILLIAMS drowned at South Vallejo....Susan
WATSON and John
BOLE committed suicide at San Francisco....John WHISTON died
from the effects
of a mining accident at Virginia.
15 - John JONES
killed by a mining accident at Gold Hill.
16 - Body of Charles SEELEY found near San Jose, he having committed
suicide....Town of Caliente raided by Mexican marauders.
17 - James T.
FARLEY nominated by the Democratic caucus for United States
HAGER and Y.
SEPULVEDA. The Republican caucus nominated M.M. ESTEE....Fire
at Los Angeles;
loss, $14,000.
18 - Damaging
cloud-burst at Anaheim....FARLEY elected United States Senator by the
Legislature....J.B. HENRY seriously stabbed at Biggs. 21 - Samuel MILLS (colored) hanged at
Elko....George CLARK committed suicide at Virginia....Joseph SMITH accidentally
fatally hurt at Virginia. 22 - M.T.
COMERFORD scalded to death in the Hale & Norcross mine....Five Mexicans who
raided Bakersfield and Caliente, captured and hung at the former place.
23 - Conductor
Edward K. DOW accidentally shot fatally on the train near Williams.
24 - John DUGAN
severely stabbed by _____ KIERNAN at Vallejo....Miller
McCULLOUGH badly
stabbed Charles FINN at Yuba City....Daniel CRAMER shot
Emil HEISON
seriously near Donahue....E.E. WENCK accidentally shot dead at Oakland
Point....Mrs. COLLINS fatally stabbed by her son at Oakland. 25 - Zachary T. EMERSON accidentally shot and
killed himself at Oroville. 26 - Man
known as “Old Peter” committed suicide at Roseville....Nathan COOMBS died at
Napa.
27 - Boy named
Samuel ELLIOTT seriously struck on the head with the butt end of a gun by
Captain WEBBER at Stockton....Steamers Chin-du-Wan and Whipple collided near
Courtland, with little damage....A. MORRIS badly shot accidentally at
Marysville.
28 - John
GELZHAUSER, pioneer, died at Yuba City.
Submitted
by Betty
Loose betty@unisette.com
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Thursday, January 1, 1880
Pages 4 & 16
Register of Events Which Transpired
In 1879
This department
contains a record of the reported homicides which occurred within the State,
and without Sacramento county.
January 6 - At San
Jose, E. BLIVENS, by unknown parties; Willows, R.B. MAGNESS by J.W. MORROW. 10
- Geyserville, Henry THOMAS by Jack EPPERSON. 26 -
Several Indians killed in Mariposa county by whites.
February 3 -
Hornitos, A. SILVER by J. ALVEREY. 6 - San Francisco, Mary O’BRIEN by W.
FORSYTH. 10 - San Quentin, Herman KOEHLER died from injuries inflicted by a
convict. 17 - Modesto, M. PARTNER, by J. WALKER. 27 - Bodie, G. TAFT by J.
HEATH.
March 16 -Point Arena, W. McINTURL by W. LINDSAY; near
Lower Lake, W. COPSEY by S.C. CHANEY;
body of Johnny the Greek, who was killed in a boat at San Francisco, by N.
MICHAELS, recovered. 24 - Kernville, John EVEY by H.W. DICKMAN. 29 - Nevada City, R. McCUE by M.L.
RUSSELL. April 1 - Four members of the
THOMONY family found murdered in Santa Clara county. 3 - Ukiah, ____ LANDEKER
by a porter; Spanishtown, near Chico, “Yankee Jim,” a Kanaka, killed his wife.
13 - San Francisco, J. BACON, by Dr. CHALFANT. 23 - Sierra City, J. GLASS by
Dr. SAWYER. 25. - San Rafael, Paul REIGER by SALVADOR. 27 - Yuba county, J.
VALENTINE, a burglar, by Alice GORBET.
May 5 - Napa
Insane Asylum, Alfred BURTON by another patient named HOPPER. 10 - Near Bodie, ____ MORTON by J. LIDDLE. 11
- Bodie, J. STIEGEL by unknown parties. 14 - Near Yuba City, wife and daughter
of M. SULSBERGER found hanging. 19 - Near Antioch, L. LAUGBEHUR murdered his
two children and suicided. 20 - San Luis Obispo, J. BUMP by J. BUSTER. 23 -
Near Chico, ____ STRAMPER by ____ SCHUELBE. 24 - Williams, J. KEIF by C.
REDDINGER. June 4- Knoxville, C.R. RICE
by J. FUQUA. 10 - Body of a murdered man found in the river near Reading. 17 -
San Francisco, Nellie BOWIAN by her husband. 25 -Hill’s Ferry, W. WALKER by
unknown parties; San Francisco, P.
HIGGINS by S. GREEN. 26 - Biggs, J.F. JAGGARD by a tramp. 27 - Marin
county, A. FULTON by R.H. MOORE, who committed suicide; San Francisco, infant
son of P. CANDIDO found murdered.
July 3 - Kern
county, J. WATERS by “Charcoal Frank.” 13 - San Francisco, J.C. ROBERTSON,
teacher of the Industrial School, assaulted by boys and sustained injuries from
which he died on the 16th. 14 - Sonora, T. NEWTON by G. SAUDEVILLE.
17 - Tulare county, A. TOWNSEND by Indians.
August 6 - San Quentin, W.E. ANDRUS by J. MAGUIRE. 8 -
Stockton, ___
BREWER by J. CAMPBELL. 15 - Modesto, ____ KELLEY
killed by a man whose
daughter he had seduced; Ukiah, ___ LEBURN by R.W.
KELLAN. 20 - San
Francisco, W.
BATES by G. NICOLAS. 30 - Lakeport, E. BYNUM by W. THOMPSON.
September 1 - Near
Nevada City, W.F. CUMMINGS by stage robbers. 2 -San
Francisco, Geo.
SCHWARTZ by D. HASKELL. 8 - San Francisco, J. DERHANDELEN by
A. TAUCI. 12 -
Nevada City, P. RAMUS killed a squaw. 17 - San Quentin, SMITH by SCOTTY. 27 -
San Francisco, ____ McLAUGHLIN by officer BURKE. October 4 - Covelo, T.W. McPHERSON killed his
wife and was killed himself while resisting arrest. 8 - San Mateo county, A.
SCATINA by M. PARSENTE. 11 - Nevada county, J. ZEDTLER by unknown parties. 12 -
San Francisco. G. HOWARD found fatally
stabbed. 15 - Party of tramps in Mendocino county fired on the officers and
killed T. DALLARD and W. WRIGHT. 23 - San Francisco, C. STEIN by G. ALLPETER. 25 - Napa, A. LAROUGE
killed in a fight. 29 - San Francisco, C.L. PETERSON by unknown parties.
November 1 -San Francisco, M. HERRERA by E. SALDES. 2-
San Francisco, J.
McDONNELL by D. HARRIGAN. 8 - Forestville, Sonoma
county, J.G. HILL by W.
TRAVIS. 10 - San Francisco, M. COGLAN by D. LEON;
Mayfield, J. RODRIGUEZ by
J. FELEZ. 12 - Ione, J. ARRAGUERRA by S. HIGUERRA. 19
- Wilmington, woman
named ADELA by
unknown parties. 27 - Newcastle, ____ WILSON by H. GALLAGHER.December 11 - San
Francisco, M. JOYCE, by his nephew. 26 - Particulars of the Pendleton, Or.,
homicide received. 29 - N.D. SADDLER, an Arkansas State legislator,
assassinated. 30 - At Orleans Bar, Klamath river, a drunken Indian kills James
OSBORN; and is himself riddled with bullets by the miners; S.E. PHILLIPS
fatally stabbed by a half-breed Indian at Chehalis, W.T.; Mrs. WARD, Boston,
dies from the effects of shot by her daughter.
March 14 -
Marysville, Ah BEN; Portland, O., E. L. AVERY and James JOHNSON.
May 23 - Shasta,
Indian JACK. 28 - Bakersfield, W.J. and Thos. YOAKUM, bu a mob. 29 -
Sacramento, Troy DYE and Edw. ANDERSON.
June 27 - Mariposa, Henry IVY.
September 3 -
Little Lake, Mendocino county, A. GIBSON, E. FROST and T.
McCRACKEN, by a mob.
October 2 - San Rafael, SALVADOR, an Indian.
Thursday, January 1, 1880
Pages 4 & 16
Register of Events Which
Transpired In 1879
SUICIDES
This department
contains a record of the reputed suicides which occurred within the State, and outside
of Sacramento county:
January 2 - At
Latrobe, Wm. PFEIFFER. 3 - San Francisco, F.P. SNIVELY. 6 - Portland, Or., W.N.
CASTLE, absconding City Clerk of San Jose. 8 - San Francisco, J. VOHSEN. 9 -
Gilroy, John S. MURRAY. 12 - San Francisco, Dr.
S.M. OETTINGER. 13 - San Francisco, August GASLER. February 3 - San Francisco, Jacob SHEW. 4 -
San Francisco, Charles SHIMMINS; near Tulare, Daniel PARKER. 10 - Bodie, J.
POTTER; Drytown, Mrs. A. SPOONER. 12 -
San Francisco, P.C. ANDERSON. 13 - San Francisco, R. DAHLEN. 17 - Santa Cruz, P. LEGGETT. 18 - San
Francisco, C.A. KENNEDY. 19 - San Francisco, O. FLEISCHMAN. 20 - Santa Rosa,
Joseph BOGGS. 21 - San Francisco, J. STEGLER and W. BOHLEN; Oakland, J.B.
KELLY. 25 - Benicia, ____ JONES. 26 - Bodie, Mrs. J.G. WILLIAMS, near Sonora,
V. HOHN. March 3 - Bloomfield, J.L.
NORTH; San Francisco, J. KOUNTZ. 8 - Healdsburg, N. DAWES. 17 - San Francisco,
A. GEAUNNI. 20 - Centerville, ___ HARVEY. 21 - Oakland, A.C. FORNO. 22 - San
Francisco, J. BARMORE. 27 - Columbia, J.S. BROWN. 29 -San Juan, J. ROCHE. April 1 - San Francisco, A. FIELD. 7 -
Petaluma, W. CARPENTER; San Francisco, P.A. LARSON. 12 - Berkeley, T.S. WRIGHT.
14 - San Jose, R. BILLINGHURST; San
Buenaventura, A.G. CLARK. 13 - San Francisco, J. SUMMERS. 21 - San Francisco, ___ POOL. 23 - Santa Ana,
Dr. J. W. BURNETT; San Francisco, W. MANSFIELD; Placerville, D. MILLER. 28 -
San Francisco, W.F. CASSEBOHM, first
assistant City Treasurer, who left a note confessing the misappropriation of
$20,000 of the city’s money. 30 - San Francisco, T.
May 1 - Grass Valley, J.W. MYERS. 4 - San Miguel, Mary
WALTHERS. 6 - San
Francisco, Mrs. S.A. LESLIE. 9- San Francisco, A.J.
SMITH. 10 - San
Francisco, F.L. FINKENSTADT. 12 - Alameda, S.S.
HOWELL. 13 - Near Stockton,
B. LAGOMARINO; San
Francisco, A. GANBATZ and W. GIRZIKOWSKY. 16 - Mokelumne
Hill, Geo. F.
MAYNARD. 17 - Mountain View, Santa Clara county, Theodore BECKMAN; Bodego,
Judge J.T. SPRINGER. 21 - San Francisco, Police officer P.K. ROGERS. 23 - San
Francisco, A. BOUDET. 30 - Bodie, A. PERRIN; Colusa County Jail, N.L. SQUIRES,
under death sentence. June 1 - San
Francisco, A. NICHER. 3 - Marysville, L. KREAMER; Stockton, C. MEYER; Colusa
County Jail, N.L. SQUIRES, under death sentence. 5 - San Francisco, Chas. WHITE.
12 - San Francisco, J.A. SCHOEVER. 13 - San Jose, Miss A. DELAGO. 16 - Grass
Valley, F. FERRING. 19 - San Francisco, J.
BENCKER. 28 - San Rafael, L. HASTINGS. 30 - Willows, Jennie WATERS.
July 3 - San
Francisco, H.E. COOPER. 8 - Napa, M. FITZGERALD. 10 - Shasta,
S. McDONALD. 16 -
Alameda, H. KOHLMOSS. 17 - San Francisco, ____ HALLETT. 18
- San Francisco, ____ FITZHENRY. 20 - San Francisco, W.
YOUNG. 22 -San Francisco, D. LENAHAN. 25 -San Jose, J. YOUNG. 26 - Watsonville,
Clara HOOK. 31 - San Francisco, J.W.R.
HILL.
August 1 -
Oakland, F. MILLER. 7 - San Francisco, H.W. KRAUG. 9 - San Francisco, E.P.
RIEUX. 10 - San Francisco, W. FRAZER. 16 - Napa, Mrs. F.H. DARLING. 18 - San Francisco, A. MASON. 21
-Stockton, Mrs. E.L. SCOTT; Webber Lake, Miss MALLETT. 25 - San Francisco, G.L.
PEARSON. 26 - San Francisco, Anna M. JOHNSON.
September 2 -San
Francisco, G.M. DINKLE. 3 - San Francisco, ____ SCHNEIDER. 4 - Marysville, A.
SCHRAGE. 8 - Bodie, Elenora DUMONT. 9 - San Francisco, Georgina DIXON. 13 -
Santa Barbara county, F. OLDS. 16 - Yuba City, ____ McMAHON. 17 - Stockton,
G.T. CLARK. 21 - San Francisco, G.F.
MARTIN. 26 - Amador City, R.H. YOUNG. 27 - Rocklin, G. JOHNSON;
Princeton, P.H. SCOTT.
October 1 - Bodie,
J. BASSETT. 2 - San Francisco, D.C. GAY. 3 - San Francisco, T. THORNTON. 7 -
J.R. ALSIP, a San Francisco defaulter, being brought back, jumped into the bay
and drowned. 9 - San Andreas, H.T. TOON;
Bodie, D.H.
DENTON. 10 - San Francisco, J.T. HASKELL. 17 -El Dorado county,
W.O. MANTON. 18 - Tomales, T. CARUTHERS. 22 - San Francisco, M.E. NORTON. 28 - Oakland, H. BENTON and F. WOODWARD. 29 - San Francisco, W.H. HENDERSON;
Alameda, Mrs. E.J.
DODGE.
November 5 - San
Francisco, F.J. BOWMAN; Mariposa county, ____ MARCAT. 6 -Marysville, D. MULLIN.
8 - San Francisco, A. CELIZ. 12 - Santa Ana, F.
MEYER. 14 - Petaluma, Mrs. Ann BARRY. 18 - Stockton, J. NASH. 19 -San
Francisco, E.F. POTTER. 25 - San Francisco, P. ROSENWEIG. 26 - San Jose, Nellie
HAMILTON. 28 - Sutter County Jail, ____ BARRATT. December 3 - San Jose, E.C. WALTERS. 5 -
Stockton, G. BRAGHETTA. 8 - Oakland, Hattie LUCAS. 10 - San Francisco, E.
HARCOURT. 15 - San Francisco bay, P.V.A. SMITH. 15 - San Francisco, F.
DIEFENDORF. 26 - San Francisco, L.L. HOMER.
Thursday, January 1, 1880
Pages 4 & 16
Register of Events Which
Transpired In 1879
This department
contains a record of the fatal accidents which occurred within the State, and
outside of Sacramento county:
January 2 - At Santa
Barbara, boy named Willie GASS, by a falling chimney. 4 - Niles, Park FITZGERALD, fell over a
cliff. 6 - Marysville, P.R. JOHNSON, fall. 8 - Lodi, boy named S. ZEIGLER,
railroad. 9 - Linden, boy named R.
PROTHER, gunning. 18 - Los Angeles, Eugene ALFMAN, shot. 21 - Near
Felton, Eben BENNETT, in a quarry. 23 - San Jose, girl named Maria NEVA, died
in bed. 24 - San Francisco, Mr. Robert F. MORROW, sudden death; Ione City,
little daughter of Mrs. HUDSON, shot. 25 - Woodland, son of W. BRAY, shot. 31 - San Jose, T.B. APPLEBY, fell dead.
February 4 -
Healdsburg, John F. BALLHACK, shot. 5 - Newcastle, A. HOLCROFT, fall. 6 - Santa Cruz, H. THURBES,
drowned; Watsonville, Willie DUNLAP, gunning; Bodie, R.L. RYAN, fall; Visalia,
Mrs. DAVENPORT, runaway. 8 - San Francisco, Mrs. FLANNAGAN, falling sign. 12 -
Gilroy, Wm. BURLANDER, found dead; Santa Cruz, Gustave M. SCHOVILLE, found
dead; Chico, S. RIXON, fall; in a tunnel on the South Pacific Coast Railroad,
several men killed by an explosion of petroleum gas. 14 - San Jose, E. BURROWS
and P. LOPEZ, found dead. 18 - Los Angeles, H.C. BINGHAM, dead in bed. 20 -
Near Black’s Station, J. WISE, dead in bed; Los Angeles, Mrs. E. ELFTMAN,
burned. 21 - Near Ione, H. WARD, mining. 24 - Petaluma, J. ROUSO, found dead. 26
- Ukiah, E. HIGGINS, sudden death. 27 - Near Lathrop, W. CARMICHAEL, sudden
death. March 1 - Knight’s Landing, H.
KIEL, sudden death; near Lower Lake, Dr.
A.W. BAYLIS,
drowned. 2 - Newcastle, J. LYON, mining. 3 - Newcastle, E. JAMISON, dropped dead. 4 - Shasta, Miss
Linnie ISAACS, sudden death. 5 - Stockton, H. CARDACE, found dead. 8 - Near
Oroville, J. FRANK, drowned. 11 - Vallejo, W. JAUNCEY, cars. 12 - San Rafael,
H. KENNEDY, drowned. 13 - Grass Valley, Edward THOMAS, mining. 16 - San Diego,
H. CLAYTON, dead in bed; San Francisco, Wm. BOSGIVANDT, drowned. 23 - San
Francisco, Mrs. COPRASECCA, kerosene. 25 - Truckee, J. SWEENEY, fell dead. 27 -
San Francisco, R.D. FERGUSON, found
dead; Shasta county, John PARKS, runaway. 28 - Marysville, Alfred LEE, died
suddenly. 29 - Placerville, F. YARWOLD, shot; Truckee, Frank PAGE and W. DYER,
drowned. 31 - Santa Ana, D. WATTESON, shot; Sierra City, W.H. THOMAS, falling
rock.
April 2 - San
Francisco, J. STRAIN. 3 - Dixon, infant of J.W. McFAYDEN, fall. 6 - Monterey,
J. SERRANO, shot. 7 - On the Southern Pacific Railroad, W. PRELLA. 8 - San
Francisco. P. WAUGAN, fall. 9 - Casper, Mendocino county, Captain PETERSON,
found dead; Sierra City, W. GLUROVICH, crushed. 10 - San Francisco, I RICHARDS,
runaway; Grass Valley, Jerry GRIFFIN, found dead. 15 - Stockton, H. COILS,
drowned; Rutherford Station, Napa county, Mrs. C.F. WENTZELL, fall. 16 - Vallejo, A.P. FLETCHER,
sudden death. 17 - San Francisco, T. NOLAN, wagon. 18 - Napa, little son of
W.H. CHAPMAN, burned. 22 - Redwood City,
J. BROWN, railroad. 27 - Nevada City, J. KRAEMER, mining.
28 - Pacheco, R.
MARTIN, drowned. 29 - San Francisco, C. KLOSE, street car. May 1 - Lathrop, J.E. JOHNSON, railroad; Yuba
county, J. BIRT, mining; near Placerville, D.M. RICHARDSON, mining. 2 - Near
Marysville, C.R. HOW, drowned. 3 - Placerville, A. HEILSTROM, mining; Yuba
county, J. DONOVAN, drowned. 5 - Near Coloma, W. JASBINE, found dead. 6 - San
Francisco, W.C. HICKLIN, drowned. 7 -
Near Aqueduct City, ____ JOHNSON, drowned. 10 - Amador county, L. PELSCH,
mining. 11 - Dutch Flat, B.H. BARTLETT, fall. 13 - Near Princeton, boy named M.
BARBER, thrown from a horse. 14 - Bird’s Landing, Sonoma county, A.A. HILL,
drowned. 18 - Near Alviso, W. HENRY, railroad. 19 - Near Marysville, H. CHURCHILL,
drowned. 20 - San Jose, Annie COBB, sudden death. 24 - Woodland, H.C. POCKMAN,
fell dead. 26 - San Francisco, J.M.
MILLER, poison. 28 - Oakland, A.W. YOUNG, found dead shot through the
head.
29 - Santa Rosa,
J. PATTERSON, railroad. 30 - Santa Rosa, J. CRANE, drowned. 31 - San Francisco, J.H. BEGLEY; Modesto,
little son of J.M. HENDERSON, drowned.
June 1 -
Centerville, Alameda county, ____ JUHL, drowned; near Mokelumne Hill, J.
GUTTERA, found dead. 2 - Near Spanishtown, ____ CLIFFORD, found dead; Newhope,
____ MAHAN, sudden death. 3 - Auburn, T. ROBINSON, fall. 4 -Near San Jose, B.
LANIGAN, drowned; Santa Barbara, child of F. COTA, scalded; near Petaluma, D.
ESTLOEY, railroad. 5 - Nevada City, little daughter of A.W. HERRING, runaway.
12 - Murphy’s, J.A. McDOUGALD, hunting.
13 - Near Gilroy, Sarah A. MILLER, thrown from a horse; San Luis Obispo,
F.
ACUNA, mining. 14
- Nevada, F. SANDERSON, found dead, and W. EDDY, drowned. 15 - Oroville, J. ASHER, drowned; San
Francisco, F. RUSH, dead in bed. 16 -San Rafael, A. CONNOR, fall; Collinsville,
G. BROWN, drowned; Chinese Camp, little daughter of M. WILSON, drowned. 17 -
San Francisco, Rebecca S. NOBLE, fall. 18 - Marysville, E. HYAMS, gun; Santa
Clara, two children of A. PHILLIPS,
scalded. 20 - Yolo county, C.C. REDINGTON, sunstroke. 22 - San Francisco, H.
SCHAFFER, while bathing. 26 - Gridley, L. STONE. 28 - Near Rio Vista, son of P.
KUHN, burned. 29 - Bodie, D. MOODY, run over; Napa, J. KASTNER, drowned. 30 - Winters, H. O’HARGON,
found dead.
July 2 - San
Francisco, H.L. STOCKMAN, drowned; Roberts’ Island, T. HARTWIG, drowned. 3 - San Francisco, D.D.
STEWART, thrown from a wagon and F. CLEMENT, shot. 4 - San Francisco, boy named
F. MILLIKEN, shot. 5 - Los Angeles, J. FRY, killed by a shark, and J. BEAR, fall.
6 - Marysville, J. MULLEN, sudden. 8 -
Rio Vista, Andrew LARSON, steam thresher explosion;
Porterfield, J.
TALLEY, threshing machine. 11 - San Francisco. ___ RASTEE, exposure in the bay;
Saucelito, J. LYNAUGH, drowned. 12 - Russian river, E. CARRIE, drowned. 13 - Biggs, W. McHUGH,
sudden. 15 - Antioch, G. McCLURG, drowned. 16 - San Francisco. P. ANDERSON,
dropped dead; Nicasio, P. QUINN, fall. 17 - Michigan Bluff, E.W. GASSLING,
found dead. 18 - Tehama, W.H. PAUL,
threshing machine. 20 - San Francisco, P. BISCHOFFSKY, J. ZAGODI, and ____
FISHER, drowned; Merced, T.W. McCREADY, sudden; Collinsville, T. FLAHERTY, drowned. 21 - Capay, child named
E.L. CLARK, run over; Woodland, child of ____ POWELL, swallowed lye. 22 -
Oakland, T. TALTY, crushed;
Auburn, child of
Mrs. FABOR, scalded. 23 - San Francisco, J. BUTLER, and child named Rachel
RAPHAEL, run over. 24 - Watsonville, Judge A. DEVOE, died in bed. 25 - San
Francisco, J. OAKLEY, by an elevator. 30 - San Francisco, J. ROACH, drowned.
August 3 - San Francisco,
W.R. SLICE and G.P. ROGERS, drowned. 4 -Stockton, W. BROWN, drowned. 5 -
Georgia, Shasta county, son of O. ENGLE, burned. 7 - San Francisco, H. KIND,
sudden. 8 - San Jose, J. JUSPANOVICH, dead in bed. 9 - Dixon, Mrs. McKINLEY,
burned. 10 - Oakland, T. RYAN, found dead; Tomales Bay, L. and C. CASTLE,
drowned. 14 - Gwin mine, T. HODWELL, falling bucket; Mare Island, P. COMAS and
J.W. ARDINA, drowned. 15 - Maxwell, Colusa county, L. McCOY, by a mule; Chico,
P. McLAUGHLIN, sudden. 16 - San
Francisco, H. SIEGEL, C.J. TILDEN and C.D. CLAPP, drowned. 17 - San Francisco,
J. LANIGAN, blast. 18 - Yreka, C. WAGNER, lightning. 19 - Stockton, F. WALTERS.
20 - San Francisco, M. ROCHEFORT, falling derrick. 22 - San Joaquin county,
____ BENNET, drowned. 26 - San Jose, M. SAVAGE, sudden. 27 - Gilroy, Mary
YOUNG, cars. 28 - Grass Valley, J. PRYOR, mining. 29 - Jacinto, T. MERRIMAN, drowned. 31 -
Vallejo, P. GARVEY, fall. September 1 -
Gilroy, H. CONKLING railroad; Vallejo, J. GLENNARD, shot. 9 - San Francisco,
J.B. FAY, by a horse; Mendocino county, F. STEPHENS, falling tree. 11 - Ukiah,
two children of Mrs. J. McGRATH, poisoned. 13 - Stockton, J. MARTIN, gun;
Oakland, S. PORTE, drowned. 16 - Stockton, child of L.E. MATTESON, scalded. 18
- Saint Helena, H. McCORMACK, shot; Willows, D. McKEEFE, fall; Ukiah, M. YORK,
crushed by falling sacks. 19 - Ferndale, B. LYNCH, run over. 23 - San
Francisco, Charles NORTON, fall. 25 - Modesto, James HOWELL, found dad. 27 -
San Luis Obispo, J. GERMAN, machinery. 28 - Yountville, C. MOSS, horses. 29 -
Colton, little son of Mrs. POOLE, dragged by a calf. 30 - San Francisco, J.
GILLIARDO, caving of a bank.
October 1 - San
Jose, H. SHOFFEL, railroad. 2 - San Francisco, Fannie
WRIGHT, burned. 3
- Bodie, H. RICHARDS, S.J. MATIN, J.R. CASSIDY, J. BRODURE
and M. ALVES,
falling cage. 5 - San Francisco. Professor COLGROVE and C.H .WILLIAMS, fall
from a balloon; Watsonville, Mrs. Susan NORTON, runaway team. 6 - San
Francisco, Captain HEIN, drowned. 7 - San Quentin, C. SKINNER, sudden. 9 - San Leandro,
Laura MURRAY, railroad; Stockton, Mrs. J. O’NEAL, burned in a house. 10 - San
Rafael, John BURNS, dropped dead. 11 - Placerville, W. NICHOLS, mining; San
Rafael, Col. W.B. JOHNSON, runaway. 12 - Stockton, J. MULROY, crushed by
timbers; Oakland, L.F. PAPENHAUSEN, sudden. 14 - Mare Island, J. LAWRENCE,
falling derrick; Millville, boy named H. KLOTZ, machinery. 16 - Vallejo, by
named G. SOANES, fall. 17 - Napa, J.W.
HATCH, run over. 18 - Guadalupe, T. LYNCH, poisoned. 19 - Napa Insane
Asylum, D.B. HOO, scalded. 23 - Calaveras county, P. KELLY, cave; Bellotta, San
Joaquin county, C. ESBREY, sudden. 24 - San Francisco, boy named O. PHALEN, by an elevator. 25 - Verdi, J.B.
EVANS, railroad. 27 - Stockton, T.
CONROY, poisoned and D. TEMPIO, fall. 28 - Colton, H. WEISS, railroad.
30 - Woodland, J. MARSTON, railroad.
November 1 - San
Francisco, J. COSTELLO, asphyxia.2 - San Francisco, Mrs. R. GRAVES, burned in a house. 7 - Marysville,
S. GODFREY, team. 10 - Gilroy, W. McCALLS, railroad. 11 - San Francisco, Mrs.
M.W. PHELPS, a teacher, dropped dead in school. 13 - Forest Hill, J. BURKE,
crushed by a log. 16 - Antioch, ____ RIZENER, drowned. 19 - San Francisco, H.
THOMPSON, drowned. 2 - Weaverville, W.J. DYER, hunting. 22 - San Francisco, P.
O’LAUGHLIN, fall. 23 - San Francisco, A.
ENGLISH, sudden. 25 - Pajaro, J. TIDROW, railroad. 28 - Colusa, H.S. WARREN,
sudden; Oakland, T. ELDRIDGE, sudden. 30 - San Francisco, J.F. McGEE, sudden.
December 2 - San
Luis Obispo, A. LENNOX, fall. 4 - Hanford, O.S. STYLES, shot. 6 - Plymouth, A.
SWITHENBANK, mill. 11 - San Rafael, C. ELLIS, cars. 16 - Stockton, C. MACREY, asphyxia. 18 -
Marysville, C. REMETZ, sudden death. 21 - San Francisco, F. FAGAN, drowned. 23
- San Joaquin county, T. BRAMAN, thrown
from wagon. 24 -Marysville, H. CHANDOR, drowned. 26 - San Francisco, F. CRIECK,
found dead. 28 - John BOYLE accidentally killed at San Francisco; E. PENNING
frozen to death, Sandy river, Or.; M.B. GOULD shot and killed in playing a
practical joke at Chicago. 29 - Three men frozen to death, Green river, Dakota;
two boys drowned at Bethelehem, Pa. 30 -
George NOYES died from effect of dental use of chloroform, at St. Johnsbury, Vt.; a man and woman killed in San
Francisco by escaping gas; boy of 4 years killed in San Francisco by falling
pile of lumber.
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Saturday
Evening,
The Ventura Murder
SAN
BUENAVENTURA, April 17 - The latest report from the scene of the death of
Michael BRANNON, in the mountains 50 miles from here, is that the Coroner on
disinterring the corpse, found that the skull had been smashed in as if with
two blows of an iron bar. His partners,
ELLIOT and SNIDER, have been arrested and will be examined before Justice
GUIBERSON at Santa Paula this afternoon.
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Monday
Evening,
The Trap at
SAN
FRANCISCO, March 1 - There were several pigeon matches shot at Redwood City
yesterday. The principal one embraced such shooters as ROBINSON, MASKEY,
DOWNEY, RUTH and EIKERENKOTTER. The match was at 15 birds 21 yards rise, and
the score stood: Maskey, 13; Downey, 8; Robinson, 13; Ruth, 11; Eikerenkotter,
12; Maskey and Robinson, tying on thirteen, then shot at three pair of birds,
at 18 yards rise, with the following result: Maskey, 4; Robinson, 6. A freeze-out,
with nine entries, was next shot at 26 yards rise, for a purse of $22.50.,
which was won by S.A. TAYLOR, with a clean score.
Ben. Butler and Chas. O’Conor Wanted
to Defend the Anti-Chinese Law
SAN
FRANCISCO, March 1 - At a meeting of the W.P.C. Ward Presidents yesterday, a
letter was prepared and addressed to Hons. Ben BUTLER and Chas. O’CONOR, asking
them to attend to the matter of the anti-Chinese law, should its
constitutionality be brought into question before the United States Supreme
Court.
Incendiarism at Dixon - Narrow
Escape for the Town
DIXON,
March 1 - Dixon was narrowly escaped almost total destruction by fire this
morning. About 4 o’clock a fire was discovered under the grocery store of
Easton Bros., which is situated about the center of main block. By hard work
the building was saved. It was undoubtedly the work of an incendiary, as the
fumes from coal oil and tar were almost stifling, and a bucket containing tar
was found at the point where the fire originated.
Western-Bound Passengers
OMAHA,
February 29 - The following through passengers were on to-day’s train, leaving
at 12:15 P.M., to arrive in Sacramento March 4th: Rev. L.W. FALTERS,
G.W. SANDERS, Des Moines, Ia.; Mrs. F.A. SHALER, Norwich, Conn.; A. LYNDS,
Richmond, Va.; G.A. WALKER and wife, Victoria, B.C.; Mrs. A.B. BIDLEMAN, Mrs.
MILLS, and M. HARTSHORN, San Francisco; Mrs. FORGEAD, Miss FORGEAD, New
Orleans.
Condensed Coast Dispatches
The Tenth Ward Workingmen of San Francisco
have passed resolutions condemnatory of the arrest of GANNON.
At the sand-lot meeting in San Francisco on
Sunday resolutions were adopted condemning the action of Speaker COWDERY and
the Assembly with regard to BRAUNHART, and to the effect that if Braunhart is
deprived of his vote his constituents would go to Sacramento in a body and use
personal influence with the members to prevail upon them not to follow a course
that can only end in anarchy.
Harry PARKER shot and fatally wounded John
PETTY in Stockton on Saturday, February 28th. The shooting grew out
of an old grudge.
In the fight near the Lower California line,
a few days ago, a white man named Wm. McCAIN and five Indians were killed.
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NATIONAL GUARD OF
The following changes have occurred during the
month of May, 1881, among the commissioned officers of the National Guard of
California:
Commissioned - Wm. B. BURTIS, Assistant Adjutant General with rank of Colonel from May 13, 1882, vice, TURNER, retired. First Brigade - Hyland W. RICE, Captain San Bernardino Cavalry, with rank from February 28, 1882, vice COVINGTON, term expired; Isaac BENJAMIN, Junior Second Lieutenant San Bernardino Cavalry, with rank from February 28, 1882, vice MURPHY, term expired. Second Brigade - First Infantry Regiment: Charles P. LE BRETON, Captain Company G, with rank from May 11, 1882, vice FILGATE, resigned; Francis J. KREMPLE, First Lieutenant Company G, with rank from May 11, 1882, vice GITTINGS, resigned; Charles Lee TILDEN, Second Lieutenant Company G, with rank from May 11, 1882, vice DELANEY, resigned. Fifth Infantry Battalion: Edwin S. BREYFOGLE, Second Lieutenant Company B, with rank from May 4 ,1882, vice BUTLER, term expired; Albert L. SMITH, Captain Company A, with rank from May 16, 1882, vice LEVY, resigned. Third Brigade - Brook C. CRAWFORD, Second Lieutenant Stockton Guard, with rank from April 24, 1882, vice PAYNE, term expired. Fourth Brigade - Lewellyn TOZER, Brigadier-General, with rank from May 19, 1882, vice SHEEHAN, resigned. First Artillery Regiment: John MILLER, First Lieutenant and Inspector of Rifle Practice, with rank from April 29, 1882, vice WALLIS, deceased. Sixth Brigade - Jonathan CLARK, Major and Surgeon, with rank from April 29, 1882, vice SPENCER, resigned.
Resigned - W.M. CAVANAUGH, Second Lieutenant
Company F, First Infantry, Second Brigade, May 1, 1882; Martin LACEY, First Lieutenant
San Diego City Guard, First Brigade, May 1, 1882; Albert L. SMITH, Captain and
Adjutant Fifth Infantry, Second Brigade, May 16, 1882; John F. SHEEHAN,
Brigadier-General commanding Fourth Brigade, May 18, 1882; H.A. WEAVER, Major
and Assistant Adjutant-General, Fourth Brigade, May 26, 1882; F.C. HAHN, Major
and Paymaster, Third Brigade, May 26, 1882; E.H. BUCKMAN, First Lieutenant
Company E, First Infantry, Second Brigade, May 26, 1882.
Retired - John McCULLY, First Lieutenant and
Ordnance Officer Third Infantry, Second Brigade, with rank of First Lieutenant,
May 6, 1882; John A. TURNER, Assistant Adjutant-General, State of California,
with rank of Colonel, May 15, 1882.
Democratic Delegates
SAN DIEGO, June 4th - The
Democratic County Convention yesterday elected John WOLFSKILL, Wallace LEACH,
Levi CHASE and N.H. CONKLIN delegates to the State Convention at San Jose. The
delegation is unpledged, but two of them are known to favor STONEMAN for
Governor.
SANTA CRUZ, June 4th - At the
Democratic primaries held yesterday, Jesse COPE, Charles STEINMETA and J. T.
CHRISTAL were elected to the State convention.
WATSONVILLE, June 4th - In the
Democratic primaries yesterday, Edward WHITE and Frank ALDRICH were elected
delegates to the State convention. They are for Stoneman for Governor and
Thomas Beck for Secretary of State.
In Pajero, C. FOWLER, S.C. EDGINGTON, W.R.
SPEEGLE, P. McALLISTER and J.A. HALL were elected to the Convention.
SAN JOSE, June 4th - The Democrats
yesterday had a primary election, and elected delegates to the Convention,
which will meet next Saturday and elect delegates to the State Convention. The
delegates are for SHARPSTEIN and ROSE for the Supreme Bench, and will give a
complimentary vote for B.D. MURPHY for Governor. HEARST is out of the question.
MODESTO, June 4th - The Democratic
County Convention met here yesterday, a full attendance being present. Great
enthusiasm prevailed, and a strong platform was adopted. The delegation go
unpledged, except for J.W. McCARTHY for Clerk of the Supreme Court. The
delegates chosen are: John MURPHY, James WILLIAMS, A.W. SMITH, A.J .PATTERSON,
M.B. NETTRELL, C.C. WRIGHT, C.L. PAYNE and J.H. HAYES.
Delegates were also selected to the Joint
Senatorial Convention, and are for J.D. SPENCER, who has no opposition for
Senator.
SUISUN, June 4th - The following
were elected from here as delegates to the Democratic County Convention, to be
held at Benicia June 10th: John DEVLIN, J.W. WOLFSKILL, R.C. HALL,
James CASEY, D.W. HASTINGS, W.F. TRAINOR, W.W. REEVES, D.M. MILLER, J.G.
EDWARDS.
Incendiary Fire at Lockeford
LODI (San Joaquin county), June 4th
- At Lockeford, at 4 P.M. to-day, a drunken man, pushed out of a saloon kept by
Frank STARKEY, made threats that he would get even. He went into the livery
stable of STACY, set it on fire, burning the stable, saloon, paint shop and
blacksmith shop; also several new carriages and horses, the property of STACY.
Loss, $10,000 to $12,000; insurance, $3,500. The man was arrested after much
resistance by Charles WOODS, and will go to jail at once. The balance of the
town was saved from fire by great exertion of the citizens.
A Bishop Seriously Injured
HANFORD
(Tulare county), June 4th - Bishop Francis MORA, of Los Angeles, who
was to dedicate the new Catholic church at Hanford to-day, was very seriously
injured yesterday near Lemoore. When crossing a small ditch the seat of the
buggy broke and threw him and Father CARESCO violently to the ground. The
Bishop is suffering severely from concussion of the brain, but everything
possible is being done for his relief. The Vicar-General and father have come
from Los Angeles to see the Bishop.
Runaway Accident
Hanford (Tulare county), June 4th - A. H. MILES, who has just
brought his family here from Bond county, Illinois, had a narrow escape from
death at Hanford depot yesterday. He, two of his boys and another boy driving,
were just leaving the depot in a wagon drawn by two high-spirited horses, when
the animals took fright and ran, throwing them out. Two of the boys were
considerably hurt, but the wagon ran over Mr. Miles, fracturing severely
several ribs and his collar bone. He also received a long scalp wound on the
back of his head, extending to the skull. The injured men were somewhat
relieved to-day, but neither one is out of danger.
WHAT
IT LOOKS FOR
(Trinity Journal)
The Sacramento Record-Union, recently
enlarged to a 36-column paper, has reduced its subscription price from $10 to $6
per year, and we look for not less than 100 per cent increase in its business
within a year. For Northern California readers the Record -Union will be found
the best newspaper published.
SAILORS’ SUPERSTITIONS - It is said that
before the sailing of the Portsmouth from Hampton Roads the following incident
occurred: It seems that the ship had a pet cat, to which the crew were much
attached, and that previous to sailing a new and strange feline was found on
board.. The old cat, upon discovering the presence of the intruder, offered
battle, and its ground selected proved to be the extreme end of the bowsprit,
from which, however, the combatants, in the heat of battle, both fell and were
drowned in the swift current. At this untoward accident the sailors were
terribly disconcerted, and predicted, with many doleful sighs and shakes of the
head, the long passage which followed. -[Providence Journal.
NOTARIES APPOINTED - George E.
McSTAY has been appointed as Notary Public for San Joaquin county, to reside at
Stockton. Edward DE SHIELDS, for Tehama county, to reside at Yellow Jacket Saw
Mills.
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Sacramento, Cal.
Tuesday, January 1, 1884
Page 16
EUREKA, December
31st - On Saturday nigh a mob of twelve masked men entered the
residence of Cyrus BRODERICK, about two miles from Ferndale, and took William
RICHARDSON out and hung him. RICHARDSON stood accused of the crime of rape on
his own daughter. He had been tried for the offense, but the jury disagreed,
standing ten for acquittal and two for conviction, as the report goes.
RICHARDSON was under bonds awaiting another trial. Three men stood guard over
BRODERICK and his wife while the hanging was going on. RICHARDSON’s body was cut down yesterday
morning and taken to Ferndale, where a Coroner’s jury will inquire into the
matter. RICHARDSON had lived within a few hundred yards of where he was hung
for a number of years, and had always borne a good character. His father and
mother live in Oakland. There is great
excitement here, as the community is undecided as to his guilt. It is believed
that there will be no difficulty in identifying the perpetrators of the deed.
PETALUMA, December
31st - Mrs. J.H. CRANE, wife of Dr. CRANE, of this city, an old
resident of this county, having resided here since 1865, died of cerebral
apoplexy in this city last Saturday night, aged 61 years. Deceased leaves a
husband, a son (a resident of Fresno county) and two daughters, one of whom,
Mrs. Wm. BURNETT, is residing in Alameda county, and Miss Frankie CRANE in this
city. The funeral takes place this afternoon at 2 o’clock.
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Daily Bee - Sacramento
Saturday
Evening May 17, 1884
BURIED IN A MINE
The Terrible Fate of Four Nevada
County Miners.
GRASS VALLEY, May 17 -
James
LAWRENCE, Joseph HAYES, Coleman CHAPPIE and Robert WALLACE are all shut up in
the old Forest Springs mine near this place. All are supposed to be dead.
Lawrence was found dead near the shaft, and before his body could be recovered
another cave came and completely covered him. A large force of miners are at
work trying to recover the bodies, but have no hopes of doing so before Sunday,
as the ground is caving rapidly.
FIVE YEARS IN SAN QUENTIN.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 17 -
Belle
WILSON, who was found guilty of stealing $1,100 from a countryman in her
Waverly Place den, was yesterday sentenced to five years in San Quentin. Lizzie
CROWLEY, her companion, was acquitted.
LAST OF CHIRICAHUAS.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 17 -
The following was received at the
Presidio yesterday morning from the Department of Arizona, dated May 15th:
“Captain
CRAWFORD telegraphs that Lieutenant HUNTER turned over to him yesterday twenty
Chiricahuas - four men and sixteen women and children. Two sons of Jub are among
them. The party is the last of the Chiricahuas and Warm Spring Indians who have
been in Mexico. All of these Indians are now on the reservation.”
THE IRRIGATION CONVENTION
RIVERSIDE, May 16 -
The
Irrigation Convention to-day elected the following gentlemen as a legislative
committee, to frame such a law as will cover the needs of the irrigators on
this coast, and present the same to the next Convention, to be held at Fresno,
December 3d, 1884, at which time it will be fully completed for presentation to
the next session of the Legislature for passage: J.W. NORTH, Fresno; A.I.
WILCOX, Santa Clara; Will S. GREEN, Colusa; J.D. BARTH SHORB, San Gabriel; John
Q. NORTH, Riverside; T.H. WALES, Tulare. Resolutions were passed condemning
riparian rights as impracticable; also opposing a change of the law empowering
the Boards of Supervisors to fix the rates of water. Adjourned.
FOUND DEAD IN BED
SALT LAKE, May 16 -
Edmund
H. MURPHY, one of the most prominent citizens of Salt Lake and widely known on
the Pacific coast, was found dead in bed this morning. Heart disease was the
cause. He was Grand Representative of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows and also
Grand Treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias.
A BREAK FOR LIFE
The Condemned Murderer Majors
Makes His Escape From the Oakland Jail - Recaptured After a Desperate Struggle.
Lloyd L. MAJORS, the condemned murderer whose execution is set for Friday next, escaped from the Oakland jail last evening, but was soon recaptured. At 9:30 o’clock he was in his cell with Jailer Peter LAKE and the two death watchmen, H.D. HOUGHMAN and T.B. CUMMINGS.
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Daily Bee -
Thursday
May 14, 1885
WIRED
COAST NEWS
DETAILS OF THE TERRIBLE MURDER AT
BONITO, NEW MEXICO.
SANTA
FE, May 13 - The remains of Dr. FLYNN, one of the seven victims of Martin
NELSON at Bonito, on the 4th instant, was embalmed and shipped to
Boston to-day. Undertaker OTTINGER arrived from the scene of the massacre
to-day, bringing the Doctor’s remains. He says Nellie MAYBERY, the 14-year-old
girl shot by NELSON, will probably get well. Her statement of what happened in
the house makes it clear that the affair ranks as one of the most diabolical
deeds ever perpetrated. She says her father, mother and brothers all begged and
prayed NELSON not to kill Dr. FLYNN. Mrs. MAYBERRY was shot twice, but regained
consciousness, and attempted to slip past NELSON and get down stairs. She took
her daughter and got down as far as the door yard, when NELSON fired at her a
third time, the ball wounding Nellie and piercing Mrs. MAYBERRY’s heart. Nellie
struggled to lift her mother up, but finding she was dead ran to the cellar of
an adjacent house. Here NELSON followed, and pulled down his gun to kill her,
saying, “I might as well send you to hell with the balance of ‘em.” But the
girl pleaded so hard that he spared her upon the condition that she promise to
come and see him hung. NELSON’s last deadly shot, which killed BRECK, covered a
distance of over 250 yards. NELSON and his six victims were buried near Bonito
on the 6th inst., the remains of the four MAYBERRYS, Herman BRECK
and Peter NELSON, occupying nicely trimmed coffins and placed high upon the hillside,
while NELSON’s body was dumped into a rough box and placed in the flat at the
foot of the hill. The undertaker confirms the report that NELSON’s desire to
get possession of Dr. FLYNN’s watch was the cause of the whole trouble, the
thief becoming so enraged when detected in the act as to become insane.
A MARRIAGE A
SAN
JOSE, May 13 - James V. MARTIN, of San Francisco, and Lizzie L. MARSHALL of
this city, were married by a Justice of the Peace in the County Clerk’s office
in this city, about 12 o’clock last night. The groom is said to be the son of
Ed. MARTIN, a former President of the Hibernia Bank, of San Francisco. The
clerk was roused about midnight for the purpose of issuing the license. The
bride’s mother discovered the newly-wedded couple at the Lick House, on First
street, shortly after the ceremony, and took the girl home to the Henley House,
where Mrs. MARSHALL and three daughters have resided for some time. Mr.
MARSHALL, the girl’s father, is in Washington Territory. An attempt is being
made to hush the matter up. The bride is said to be about 16.
NO DUST WANTED
SAN JOSE, May 13 - W.L. TISDALE, who resided on the Alameda road, near the Fredericksburg Brewing Company’s premises, has commenced suit against the brewing company. The complaint alleges that the smoke and dust from the brewery settle upon the porch and stairs and penetrate the rooms of plaintiff’s residence. Judgement is asked for $5,000 and that an injunction be granted and the nuisance abated.
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Sacramento
Daily Bee
SOME REMARKS ABOUT FISH
What
President Buckingham Has to Say on Various Matters
R.H. BUCKINGHAM, President of the Fish
Commission, has just returned from a tour of inspection. He reports that the
Commission now have on hand about half a million young trout, which can be had
for distribution in the public waters of the State by applying to any of the
Commissioners. Of these fish, about 50,000 are salmon trout, 300,000 silver
trout, and 30,000 Modoc trout.
Mr. BUCKINGHAM, in speaking of the deaths of
vast numbers of fish in numerous lakes in the State, scouts the idea of a “fish
epidemic.” He says that he has observed that native fish die by the thousands
ever few years, and he describes the mortality among the finny tribe to the
water becoming unduly heated. This usually occurs in seasons when Spring begins
very early, and the lakes in which the fish die are generally shallow.
As regards the hue and cry which is again
being raised about the Bay that sea lions and seals are increasing, Mr.
Buckingham does not believe the statement true. He believes the animals are
decreasing, just as other “varmints” are disappearing before the march of
civilization. He says that when the fishermen are busy in the rivers and
smaller bays, and the nets are very plentiful, the seals and lions make for San
Francisco bay, and then comes the complaint that they are rapidly increasing.
Mr. Buckingham says that the steam launch which is being built for the
Commission will be completed about the middle of next month, and that if the
San Francisco Supervisors will repeal the ordinance prohibiting the killing of
seals, a Gatling gun will be procured from the Adjutant General’s office,
mounted on the boat, and the seal and lion question will soon be disposed of.
Mr. Buckingham believes that aquatic birds are greater enemies to the finny
tribe than are the seals or lions, and these, he says, are on the increase.
There are on the headwaters of Pitt river forty or fifty nests of fish eagles,
and these fish-devouring fowls, assisted by the sheldrakes, get away with immense
quantities of small fish.
BAY GLEANINGS
The red spider is becoming a nuisance in
Oakland, doing damage to orchards and nurseries.
A lady of wealth and fashion in San Francisco
has had the remains of a pet spaniel buried in an $80 casket.
A.L. FULLER, who swindled the A.O.U.W. lodges
in Oakland, has been sentenced to the city prison for six months.
The San Francisco Supervisors have passed
resolutions that O’DONNELL is unfit for the office of Coroner, and that the
District Attorney take steps toward his removal.
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Sacramento Bee
Monday August 23, 1886
READY FOR
The Candidates Now In Los Angeles - Choosing
a Chairman
LOS ANGELES, August 23 - All the candidates
for Governor, except DIMOND, are now here. The general sentiment is that DIMOND
has the most votes, with REED next, then SWIFT, HARTSON and ADAMS, in the order
named. All agree that General BARNES would make a magnificent Chairman. But it
is rumored here this morning that a dispatch has been received from him stating
that he is not a candidate for that honor. PARKS, of Yuba, has been talked of,
but MIZNER, of Solano, shut him out. The latest man talked of for Chairman is
Col. J.H. DICKINSON, of San Francisco.
Death on the Rail
LOS ANGELES, August 23 -
As this morning’s Santa Monica train came around a curve between Cienega and Machado station, the engineer saw a man lying on the track. The grade made it impossible to stop the train in time, and as the man paid no attention to the whistle in a moment his mangled body was thrown to one side by the cow-catcher.
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Sacramento Daily Bee
Tuesday Evening,
Two Suicides at the Bay
SAN FRANCISCO, September 21
- J. DeVRIEZE, a florist, committed suicide by hanging this morning at his
nursery, on the Ocean House road. He was a native of France, aged 56 years. He
leaves a wife. He had been complaining for some days past of a pain in the
region of the heart, and it is thought that he preferred suicide rather than
death by heart disease.
The body of Jacob SCHAFER, a native of
Germany, was found hanging in the stable of Morris RILEY, at 525 Seventh
street, this morning. The deceased was a widower. His death was the result of a
protracted spree.
Sovereign Grand Lodge Officers
BOSTON, September 21 - The
following officers for the ensuing year were elected to-day by the Sovereign
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, now in session in this city: Grand Sire, John H.
WHITE, of New York; Deputy Grand Sire, J.C .UNDERWOOD, of Kentucky; Grand
Secretary, T.A. ROSS, of New Jersey; Grand Treasurer, A. SHEPHARD, of
Pennsylvania.
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BAY GLEANINGS
Michael WELSH has been arrested for emptying
his revolver at a group of boys who were annoying him.
All the women candidates for the members of
the Board of Education in San Francisco have been defeated. They ran some two
thousand votes behind the ticket.
The Republicans had a grand impromptu parade
on Thursday evening in celebration of Harrison's election. All the uniformed
clubs of the city were in line, besides thousands in citizen's attire.
J. Charles GREEN and Harry WILD are in jail
on a charge of blackmailing Mrs. A. de HOWE , as they are unable to furnish
bail. It will be remembered that Green was the party kicked out of his office
by ex-Senator Fair for attempted blackmail not long since.
On Friday, November 2d, the residence of R.C.
JOHNSON, at 605 O'Farrell street, was entered by burglars. On the night of
Saturday, November 3d, the residence of Miss Ella THORNTON, at 1602 Howard
street, was also entered. The thieves secured over $300 worth of jewelry and valuables.
William ROBERTS, an ex-convict, has been arrested for the crimes.
SUIT ON A PROMISSORY NOTE
C.W. CLARKE has begun a suit in the Superior
Court of this county against John F. SHEEHAN to secure the payment of a $3,000
promissory note, with interest and attorney fees. The note was given in
December, 1882, and was secured by a mortgage on certain lands on Grand Island,
in this county.
Plaintiff avers that Sheehan in 1885 conveyed
the property to his minor children; that there was no consideration given for
the property; that the Superior Court of San Francisco has already rendered
judgement in favor of plaintiff for $2,501.20, wherefore it is prayed that the
mortgage may be foreclosed, the land sold and the proceeds applied to paying
the indebtedness.
THE LONE HIGHWAYMAN
He Makes Good Haul From a
Stage Near Nigger Tent
DOWNIEVILLE, November 8 -
The down stage was stopped to-day by a single highwayman on what is called
Ditch Hill, near Nigger Tent, between this place and Camptonville. The man had
a mask on and appeared at the top of the grade with a gun, which he pointed at
the driver and ordered him to throw out the mail bags and express box, which
was done, and he was then ordered to drive on, which he did. The express box
was afterward found broken open and its contents taken. The box contained a
bullion bar and coin, amounting in all to about $2,500. The mail bags were
taken away. Nothing has yet been heard of the robber, although officers are on
his track.
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