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=35839 Submitted by: California Contributors Article Title: Daily Record-Union Article Date: January 1 1878 Article Description: Local Events 1877 to December 30 th - Part IV Article Text: Daily Record-Union Sacramento, Cal. Tuesday, January 1, 1878 Page 6 & 7 OCTOBER 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. NOVEMBER 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. DECEMBER 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 Senator on the twenty-fifth ballot over C.T. RYLAND, M.L. McDONALD, J.S. 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. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com