A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > California > Sacramento http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=587 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=35812 Submitted by: California Contributors Article Title: Sacramento Daily Union Article Date: January 1 1868 Article Description: Statistics of California - 1867 - Part II Article Text: Sacramento Daily Union Wednesday Morning January 1, 1868 Page 1 STATISTICS OF CALIFORNIA - 1867 THE STATE APRIL 1st - Steamer Colorado sailed with 1,900 tons freight (mostly grain) and 200 Chinese and 50 white passengers, for Japan and China....Louie HOHENSCHILD, proprietor of the Taylor Restaurant, dropped dead at the Mission....John BIDWELL, William HIGBY and D.C. McRUER, late Congressional Representatives of California, in Congress, sailed for New York for California....A slight shock of earthquake felt at San Francisco, about 7 ‡ A.M. 2d - Steamer Montana arrived from panama with a large number of passengers. 3d - Fifty-six boxes of opium, valued at $1,000 per box, were confiscated at San Francisco for fraud upon the revenue. 4th - Albert, son of George L. LYNDS, formerly Superintendent of the Industrial School in San Francisco, was kicked to death by a horse at LYND's place, Fruitvale, Alameda county....Silvanus ARNOLD was drowned in Cache creek. 5th - The Walnut Creek House, about ten miles from Martinez, was burned in consequence of a defective stovepipe. 6th - United States steamer Pensacola, flagship of the Pacific Squadron, commanded by Captain WORDEN of Monitor memory, arrived at San Francisco. 7th - Propeller Fanny Ann, intended as a slew freight boat between San Francisco and Sacramento, made a successful trial trip....Two severe shocks of earthquake felt at San Francisco....Dominick GAVIN, ex-Supervisor, died at San Francisco. 8th - The Board of Supervisors of San Francisco tendered the freedom of the city to Captain WORDEN....James LAWLOR severely burned at Sonoma by his clothes taking fire while intoxicated....Louis VACA, aged 17, killed near Vacaville by being thrown from a wagon. 9th - A boy named Charles PEEL was run over by a loaded wagon and seriously injured at Marysville....Andrew FEENEY was run over by a dirt cart at San Francisco and had four ribs broken....Ettie M. McCORMICK (a child) was drowned at the Fountain House, Placer county, by falling into a vat of water. 10th - Ernest CEPHANE, member of Lafayette Hook and Ladder Company, San Francisco, fell from a building during a fire, injuring his spine and being severely burned. 11th - A prize fight to come off near the Seventeen Mile House, in San Mateo county, between Tom CHANDLER and Dooney HARRIS, was disturbed by the Sheriff and postponed. About three thousand persons were in attendance and the Sheriff and officers were in imminent danger of severe treatment and repeatedly assaulted and threatened by parties who were determined that the fight should proceed....Pilot boat Caleb Curtis capsized on the bar at San Francisco and all hands lost. 13th - The fight between CHANDLER and HARRIS came off at Point Isabel, Contra Costa county. Twenty-three rounds were fought in thirty-one minutes. CHANDLER won, HARRIS being carried off the ground insensible, with a broken jaw, and thoroughly used up. A fight came off subsequently between "Soap" and McELROY, which ended in a draw - 108 rounds; time, 1 3/5 hours....James DILLON, formerly proprietor of the Weber House, Stockton, dropped dead in San Francisco....B.M. CLARK, sash and blind maker, accidentally killed in the Empire Mills, San Francisco. 14th -Charles HARTLEY, an Englishman, committed suicide at Sebastopol, Sonoma county, by cutting his throat. He had been sent to San Quentin from Sacramento for robbery and recently pardoned by the Governor. 15th - W.D. WARD shot and killed by H.S. POPE at Kern river Island. 16th - Montezuma Lodge of Good Templars instituted at Rio Vista....A. McCALL, Treasurer of Santa Clara county, absquatulated, being a defaulter, supposed, between twenty and thirty thousand dollars. 17th - Captain J.B. URMY committed suicide at San Francisco by swallowing laudanum. 18th - The charity box at St. Patrick's Church, San Francisco, broken open and robbed....Steamer Sacramento sailed with $475,260.18 in treasure. 19th - Emma RICH killed at San Francisco by runaway horse. 21 - Charles N. BROSNAN, Judge of the Supreme Court of Nevada, died at San Jose of an affection of the throat...Larry NOLAN shot by H.P. NICHOLS at Goodyear's Bar in an affray....A little son of William SCOOP was swept from the rocks at Fort Point by the incoming tide and drowned....A stage overturned between Grass Valley and Nevada, dislocating the arm of A.B. GREGORY and breaking the legs of J. ALLISON. Of seventeen passengers the above were the only severely injured. 22d - The Post Office at Sonora entered and robbed of over $400. 23d - The Cosmopolitan Hotel, at San Francisco, caught fire from a defective flue and damaged about $185,000....Pollard's Hotel, at Donner Lake, destroyed by fire....Frank WHEELER, the gymnast, and formerly Captain of the California Light Guard, died at the Home of the Inebriate, in San Francisco. 24th - George VERNON convicted of manslaughter at Martinez in shooting William NESBIT at the coal mines in December. 25th - A.L. MARTIN was shot and killed, near Stockton, by C.P. MURPHY. 27th - Charles ADOLPH, a German printer, committed suicide at San Francisco. 28th - McCALL, defaulting Treasurer of Santa Clara county, arrested near the sink of Walker river....A fire at Eureka, Humboldt county, destroyed $50,000 worth of property, rendering many homeless. 29th - Lingl MIBELLI, an Italian fisherman, fell dead in the market at San Francisco. 30th - The steamer Constitution sailed with $755,409.10 in treasure....Jerry MULVERHILL, a stage employe, thrown and fallen upon by a horse, in Scott Valley, and seriously injured. MAY 1st - B.W. HATHAWAY, formerly member of the Legislature, died at San Francisco....Manuel JAUREZ (Indian) convicted at Martinez of the murder of Eliza ROBINSON. 2d - Sarah M. STERLING, the American giantess, seven feet high, married to Thomas FLINTOFF, four feet eleven inches. So reported. 4th - Emanuel MADERS, a pupil at the Industrial School, was drowned while bathing in a pond near the school. 6th - The pyrotechnic factory of Tripp & Robinson at San Francisco caught fire from the ignition of material while packing Roman candles. An explosion ensued blowing off the roof and setting fire to a barn over a block distant....Daniel O'BRIEN, a soldier, fell off Meigs wharf and was drowned....James RODDA and Samuel POLGLAISE, killed by falling down a shaft of the Plymouth mine. 7th - The State Teachers' Institute met at San Francisco, nearly 200 teachers being present. 9th - The corpse of a Chinawoman, in an advanced stage of decomposition, found in San Francisco by officer ROSE while hunting for Chinese thieves....Samuel ACASTER, deck hand, fell overboard from the steamer Arrow and was drowned. 10th - The Golden City sailed with $1,072,685.45 in treasure. 12th - A butcher named PARKER was shot and killed at Montezuma, Tuolumne county, by Jack MILNER, a saloon keeper of Copperopolis....Frank OSGOOD jumped out of a window of St. Mary's Hospital, San Francisco, killing himself instantly....Steamship Montana arrived from Panama with over 1,100 passengers. 13th - An Indian disturbance occurred near Yreka in which one Indian was killed and another badly wounded. 14th - Great rejoicing at San Francisco on receipt of news of the defeat of the De Haro claim in the Supreme Court....Margaret A. RYAN, aged eight years, was drowned at Vallejo. 15th - Alice KINGSBURY obtained, at Placerville, a decree granting her a divorce and the custody of her children....Ah Sing, convicted, at Auburn, of the murder of William McDANIEL and sentenced to be hung January 9th. 16th - Cornelius COLLINS, of Big Oak Flat, murdered by highwaymen on his way home from Sonora....John FREEMAN and David PARKS shot and killed each other at Millville, Shasta county. 17th - Jerome C. DAVIS, of Yolo, paid into the Marysville Land Office $9,456.68 for lands under the San Carlos grant. 18th - The jury in the case of CORNWALL and PENNYPACKER, charged with conspiring to extort money from Alvinza HAYWARD, returned a verdict of guilty against the former, disagreeing as to PENNYPACKER....Doony HARRIS, the pugilist, was discovered as a stowaway on the Panama steamer. The passengers made up a purse and he accompanied them....Bonifacio PACHECO acquitted at Martinez of the murder of Sacramento LOUIVAS....Steamer Montana sailed, with $824,655,63 in treasure. 19th - A.S. HARVEY, a miner, was drowned at O___gon creek by the upsetting of a canoe. 20th - A billiard tournament at San Francisco concluded. The champion game between JAMIESON and LITTLE, 500 points, was won by the former by 60 points, the former taking the cue....A man who gave his name as Elder THOMPSON, who had been arrested at San Juan for an attempted outrage on a lady, was taken from a stage and hung by a party of disguised men. 22d - G.W. SNOWDEN, son of the late Colonel R. SNOWDEN, committed suicide at San Quentin, by shooting himself through the head with a pistol....George H. HILTON was killed by a cave near You Bet. 25th - J.A.J. BOHEN, Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge I.O.O.F., died in San Francisco, of consumption. 28th - Louis SHELTON (colored) died at Oakland, having bled to death by the improper use of a surgical instrument. 29th - A son of John T. SCHURHOLD was killed by a street car at San Francisco....harry LILLY was instantly killed near Dutch Flat by being carried down a flume and through a tunnel. 30th - Lauren UPSON received the additional appointment of Surveyor General of Arizona....Steamer Sacramento sailed with $1,596,628 in treasure, 231 passengers and 7,090 barrels of flour. JUNE 1st - Auguste REMOUD de CORBIEN, a Chilean of distinguished scientific attainments and long connected with the State geological survey, died at the Mission Dolores. 2d - Thomas TURNER killed by being struck in the head by a rock near Moore's Flat. 5th - The schooner Leak, Captain WOODSIDES, sent out from San Francisco by a joint stock company to take possession of a new Island reported to have been discovered in the North Pacific....George TAYLOR, fruit and cigar dealer, terribly chopped in the face by a Chinaman at San Francisco. The assailant narrowly escaped being lynched....Union primary election at San Francisco. Total vote 6,501. 6th - A rancher named PETERSON was shot and killed at Poverty Hill, Tuolumne county, by a man named FORD....Edward HOLBROOK, while examining a double-barreled pistol, accidentally shot and killed himself at San Francisco....A California named MOCHE was shot and killed in Livermore Valley by a young man named FOSCALINI, whom he had attacked with a knife. 7th - A boat filled with water and containing the dead body of a man was found by an Italian fisherman near the Farralan Islands. 8th - The premises of a number of residents of Sharpsburg were visited at night and robbed of an aggregate of 800 chickens and a number of turkeys. 9th - United States steamer Wyanda arrived at San Francisco with Mrs. HOWE, six of the crew and 800 Chinese passengers by the ship Ellen Southard, from Hongkong, which put into Santa Cruz in distress. 10th - T.G. PHELPS nominated at San Jose as Union candidate for Congress from the First Congressional District....Steamer Constitution sailed with $1,145,419 of treasure....James SCOTT shot his brother-in-law, Patrick FLANNERY, at Oregon Gulch. The act was committed in self-defense and the wound not dangerous. 12th - A fire at Los Angeles inflicted a loss of about $70,000. 13th - William HIGBY, of Calaveras, nominated at Sacramento as the Union candidate for Congress from the Second Congressional District....Steamer Colorado arrived from China and Japan with 267 passengers and an assorted cargo of 948 tons. Among the passengers was the Duc de (not legible), son of Prince de JOINVILLE. About fifty of the passengers were ticketed through for New York. 14th - Leonard McCLURE, editor of the Times, aged 31, died at San Francisco of Bright's disease. 15th - Chancellor HARISON, of Napa, nominated at Marysville as the Union candidate for Congress from the Third Congressional District. 16th - The printers of San Francisco adopted resolutions denunciatory of the Union nomination of D.O. McCARTHY for State Printer and supporting the nomination of David NORRIS....A Fenlon picnic, very largely attended, was held at the People's Park, San Mateo. 17th - A large meeting was held in San Francisco for the formation of a National Republican party in California. 18th - Senator COLE had an enthusiastic reception at Santa Cruz....Steamer Golden City sailed with $897,075 in treasure, and 843 passengers....Green ROUNCEVILLE was shot and supposed mortally wounded at the Independence Mill, Tuolumne county. 19th - The Democratic State Convention met at San Francisco and concluded its session on the 21st - having nominated H.H. HAIGHT of San Francisco, for Governor; Wm. HOLDEN of Mendocino, for Lieut. Governor; H.S. NICHOLS of Sacramento, for Secretary of State; Robert WATT of Grass Valley, for Controller; Antonio CORONEL of Los Angeles, for Treasurer; John W. BOST of Merced, for Surveyor General; Jo. HAMILTON, of Placer, for Attorney General; T.H. SELBY of San Francisco, for Harbor Commissioner; Dan GELWICKE of El Dorado, for State Printer; Rev. O.P. FITZGERALD of San Francisco, for Superintendent of Public Schools; Royal T. SPRAGUE of Shasta, for Supreme Judge; for Congress, First District - S.B. AXTELL, of San Francisco; Second District - J.W. COFFROTH, of Sacramento; Third District - James A. JOHNSON, of Sierra. 20th - John STRONG stabbed and killed by Bard BRUMFIELD at Santa Rosa. 23d - David VANDERHOOK committed suicide near Tehama...Frank ATWOOD, an Englishman, was burned to death in a fire on Virginia street, San Francisco. 25th - M.L. WIKLE was killed in a mining claim near Dutch Flat....steamer Montana arrived with 854 passengers, including an unusually large number of women and children....Joseph SAUL committed suicide at San Francisco. 26th - The Bank of California opened their new building. 27th - Patrick CODY, of Goodyear Bar, was thrown from a horse and killed....A half Spanish hen belonging to George W. CLARK, of Garden Valley, El Dorado county, laid an egg measuring nine and one-eighth inches by eight and one-eighth inches containing another egg of the usual size with a perfectly formed shell....A camp of Indians on Inks creek was attacked and seven Indians killed and two wounded. 28th - Ah Sing executed at Auburn for the murder of Wm. McDANIEL. He confessed that he participated in the murder, but denied inflicting the fatal blow....Manuel JUAREZ executed at Martinez for the murder of Elizabeth ROBINSON....Empire Quartz Mill, Placer county, destroyed by fire....Wm. M. STEINER, a Swiss, and a Mexican known as "Stanislaus," were drowned near the mouth of the Stanislaus. 29th - Steamer Montana sailed with $1,272,886.89 in treasure. 30th - Rufus COLTON, a soldier in the Ordnance Department, committed suicide at Benicia by shooting himself through the head....Peter Schmidt shot and killed his sister near Hayward's, and then shot and killed himself. 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