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=35828 Submitted by: California Contributors Article Title: Sacramento Daily Union Article Date: January 1 1872 Article Description: Statistics of California - 1871 - Part I Article Text: Sacramento Daily Union Monday Morning, January 1, 1872 STATISTICS OF CALIFORNIA - 1871 THE STATE Record of Notable Events For 1871 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 ag! ain 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; frightf! ul ravages of the yellow fever plague at the city of Beunos Ayres and 40,000 deaths therefrom 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. 4th - Dr. Isaac ROWELL died suddenly in San Francisco 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. FEBRUARY 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. MARCH 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. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com