A new article has been added to: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=319 California Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?action=detail&id=59428 Article title: Sacramento Daily Union Article date: Article description: City Intelligence; Seeious Accident - J. Winchester; Capital Lodge I.O.O.F.; and Miscellanous News Article: Sacramento Daily Union Thursday, April 2, 1863 CITY INTELLIGENCE Police Court - The following is the record of yesterdayís proceedings in the Police Court, Judge HOLL presiding. In the case of J. WILSON and F. CEDAR, charged with fighting, a stipulation of satisfaction was filed and the case was dismissed on payment of costs. The case of E. RYAN, charged with assault and battery on George BRICKMAN, was tried and defendant found guilty. Henry BUTLER (colored) entered a plea of guilty to a charge of disturbing the peace. Jessie TAYLOR was tried on a charge of disturbing the peace, by getting drunk, raising a general row on Second street, firing off a pistol and abusing everybody in general and Lieutenant CHAMERLAIN in particular. The defense submitted evidence to show that the pistol was discharged accidentally, and the defendant was discharged. James MARTIN, charged with assault and battery on James DEVLIN was tried and found guilty. In the case of S.H. DOTY, charged with stealing a horse form Camp Babbitt, near Visalia, the defendant was handed over to the military to be sent back to Tulare county to be tried for both grand larceny and desertion. George VAN BUREN was tried by the Court on a charge of disturbing the peace and found guilty and fined $10. The case of Mary McCARTY, charged with disturbing the peace, was continued until to-day, a trial by jury having been demanded. In the case of ______, charged with a violation of a city ordinance by killing hogs within the city limits, a demurrer was argued by their counsel, James C. GOODS. It was claimed that the defendants had the right to conduct their business regardless of local law, by virtue of a license held by them from the United States Government. The point was also raised that the ordinance was invalid, because signed by a deputy of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors - an officer unknown to the law. The demurrer was overruled by the Court an! d cases continued until to-day, trial by jury being demanded by each defendant. In the case of John OíMEARA, who on Tuesday entered a plea of guilty to a charge of disturbing the peace, the defendant was sentenced to pay a fine of $12.50, or imprisonment at the rate of two dollars per day. Serious Accident - At about half-past three oíclock yesterday afternoon J. WINCHESTER, formerly connected with the New York press and well-known throughout California, broke his left leg at the ankle joint, at Front and I streets. He and a friend named DONEY were about to start for Nevada Territory by way of Sonora, Tuolumne county. They had stopped with a two horse wagon in front of RADCLIFFís blacksmith shop, and, having concluded business with that establishment, got into the wagon to start off. The horses, from some unknown cause, became frightened and started to run. As they were about to run up the I street embankment, WINCHESTER, anticipating an upset, jumped out. One foot caught in the front wheel, and his head struck on the hind wheel. The left ankle was badly fractured, and a gash some two inches in length was cut in the forehead. The coupling of the wagon parted and the forewheels were drawn out, letting the front end of the wagon bed down. DONEY held on to the l! ines, and was dragged out, but escaped serious injury and prevented the horses from getting off. WINCHESTER was placed in another vehicle by RADCLIFF and others, who made unsuccessful application for a room for him at the What Cheer, the Ebner House and the Orleans Hotel. On application being made to J.P. DYER, of the Union Hotel, comfortable accommodations were furnished, in which he was placed and his necessities attended to by Dr. SIMMONS. Runaway - A span of mules attached to a ranch wagon became frightened yesterday on J street near Sixth and ran furiously down the street. A span of horses attached to a milk wagon, seized with a spirit of emulation, followed suit, and both made good time to Third street. At that point the mules were brought up in turning the corner and the horses kept on to Front, neither of them doing any great damage by their achievement. Capitol Lodge, I.O.O.F. - The following Past Grands have been elected as Representatives to the Grand Lodge from capitol Lodge, No. 87, of this city, viz: J.B. HARMON, R.C. CLARK, M.M. ESTES, F.W. FULLER, John McCLINTOCK, G.T. BROMLEY, J. BOWSTEAD, J.W. WILLIAMS, F.W. HATCH, E.F. WHITE and J.B. WILSON. For San Quentin - An Indian named Sam was brought to the city yesterday by the Red Bluff boat, in charge of Deputy Sheriff KEEN, of Shasta. Sam had been convicted of murder in the second degree, in killing a Chinaman, and sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the State Prison. He was taken below on the San Francisco boat. San Francisco News - A dispatch to the Bee yesterday says: It is rumored that as soon as the boats now building at Hunterís Steamboat Points are finished, some other steamers which have heretofore figured in opposition lines are to be brought out, and a strong opposition run on the Sacramento river. J. GOLDSMITH and H. GOLDSMITH, Sacramento street merchants, were arrested last evening, on complaint of Fred. MEYERS, who charged them with defrauding him by false pretenses. Transcribed by Betty Loose ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com Also visit our other sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com http://www.AutumnWindz.com