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=35813 Submitted by: California Contributors Article Title: Sacramento Daily Union Article Date: January 1 1868 Article Description: Statistics of California - 1867 - Part III Article Text: Sacramento Daily Union Wednesday Morning January 1, 1868 Page 1 STATISTICS OF CALIFORNIA - 1867 THE STATE JULY 1st - Judge Rix, at San Francisco, admitted Chinese testimony against a white man for the purpose of testing the constitutionality of the Civil Rights Bill....George VARCO and William RALPH were killed by inhalation of gas while descending into the quicksilver mine at New Almaden....Tommy CHANDLER fell through a sidewalk in San Francisco and broke his shoulder blade....Charles STORMER had his back broken, near Alta, by being struck by a handcar which was thrown off the track by running over a hog. 3d - A son of Peter THOMPSON fell into a trough at Lafayette, Contra Costa county, and was suffocated....A daughter of MARSH, photographer, at San Francisco, was severely burned while playing with firecrackers, and died the next day. 4th - A drunken woman was frightfully burned, and a Mrs. MEAGHER had her face badly torn by fireworks at San Francisco....John W. DAVIS killed at Grass Valley by H. SYLVESTER in a shooting affray. The Broderick Monument at Lone mountain was finished by placing the statue in the niche....John PETERSEN and Michael CONDON were killed at Fort Point. They had been off duty without leave and are supposed to have been secreted before the cannon when the salute was fired....Frank BOYTAMS, a baker, was stabbed severely in San Francisco by Andrew BARTLETT. 5th - Colorado sailed for China and Japan with 514 passengers, $38,000 in treasure and a large amount of freight, including heavy shipments of firearms purchased in the East....John HARRINGTON was suffocated by gas while laying pipe in San Francisco. 6th - The Laurel Institute at Redwood was destroyed by fire....Dennis MURPHY attempted suicide by jumping from the Oakland boat....John GILMORE, proprietor of the Empire Brewery at Oakland, was seriously stabbed by Charles HARVEY....The Government storehouse at Fort Yuma was burned. 8th - Edward SHIRLOCK stabbed by Anna BOWEN, a lager beer girl, at Grass Valley. 10th - An Indian, who was recognized as being a principal in the murder of Johnson HICKOX, on the South Fork of Eel river, about six weeks previously, was arrested in Long Valley by Indians, who tried, convicted and hung him. His squaw told them were to find HICKOX's gun. 11th - Steamship Sacramento sailed with $1,588,668 in treasure....A woman named Celena BOULETTE was shot and killed in a house in Pike street, San Francisco, by a young man, who escaped, but was arrested subsequently and proved to be Eugene TUCKER, aged 21, an employe of the Miner's Foundry....O. SALADAY, second miller at the Marysville flouring mill, had his arm broken and wrist torn off by his shirt coming in contact with the machinery. 14th - Joseph BUTLER attempted to kill J.H. DORSEY in Nevada....Skillman's sawmill, near Nevada, was destroyed by fire. 15th - The new Merchants' Exchange, at San Francisco, inaugurated....Supervisor STRANYAN, of San Francisco, was thrown from a buggy and picked up insensible. 16th - The Strawberry Valley House was destroyed by fire....A fire occurred at Sonora, damaging property to the amount of about $15,000. 17th - Edward HEBRON stabbed in the side at Stockton by Major RANEY, and died July 20th....Christian GRAFF, a member of the band at Black Point, was drowned while bathing. 18th - A boy named James F. SPATH fell from a balcony in San Francisco and died in a few hours....Colonel James MILLER was found dead in bed at the What Cheer House, San Francisco. 19th - The Golden Age sailed with 300 passengers and $907,824.61 in treasure....The boiler of the Capital Mills, San Francisco, exploded, destroying the mill and wrecking contiguous property, but fortunately injuring no person seriously. 20th - John PHILLIPS stabbed and killed by William T. GIRT in an affray at Fiddletown. They had had a controversy about a foot race. 21st - W.D. REYNARD was thrown from a buggy near San Francisco and had his collar bone broken and left thigh dislocated. 22d - James S. TROWBRIDGE was shot by Joseph FARLEY near Dutch Flat, and died on the 24th....The residence of F.W. HUDSON, at Shingletown, Shasta county, was burned with three of his children, and his wife and remaining child died of burns the same day. 23d - H. LARGIN, a German, shot and killed himself at San Francisco....The livery stable of S.P. BANKS, armory of the Irish Regiment, and the Shamrock Saloon, at San Francisco, were destroyed by fire....McCALL, defaulting Treasurer of Santa Clara county, was convicted and subsequently sentenced to two years' imprisonment in the State Prison. 25th - Jasper HODGKIN shot by Jas. SCHOFIELD at Boston Ravine and dangerously wounded....Thirty-five thousand sacks of wheat were received at San Francisco. 27th - R.H. FARQUHAR, County Clerk of Nevada, and Union candidate for Clerk of the Supreme Court, was killed at Nevada by an explosion of gas in the Court-house. 29th - A stage was robbed about five miles from Dogtown, Rutherford & Co.'s express losing $1,285, and passengers about $2,000....R.C. SANFLEY and wife attacked while asleep at Oakland Point and severely injured, being cut with an ax. 30th - Henry HILL and J.M. BACHELDER died suddenly at San Francisco. J.H. HOPKINS committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a pistol. D.T. ROSE hung himself on the Portero....At San Jose, Under Sheriff HALL brought in two highwaymen, who robbed Dr. Benjamin CARY on the 23d inst.....The thermometer in the composing room of the Appeal at Marysville stood at 106†....Felipe TAFFARO was killed by John BAGAMAN at Los Angeles. 31st - The funeral of C.H. POMEROY, late Secretary of the Supreme Court, took place at San Jose....The California Market at San Francisco was inaugurated with fireworks. AUGUST 1st - John H. MURPHY, porter of Rockwell, Coye & Co. of San Francisco, and Francis DAY were arrested for stealing foods from the store....James A. BANKS, formerly member of the Legislature from San Francisco, and subsequently Speaker of the Assembly of Nevada, was murdered in the latter State, probably by Indians....An Indian boy and a Mexican were hung by citizens in Colusa county for committing an outrage on the person of a woman. 3d - United States steamer Rescue, from Panama, was quarantined at San Francisco, having on board sixteen cases of yellow fever, the first imported since the advent of Americans on this coast....The west end of the Summit Tunnel on the Central Pacific Railroad was broken through. 5th - E.G. WAITE, of Nevada, nominated by the Union State Central Committee as Clerk of the Supreme Court, vice FARQUHAR, deceased....Thirty-one vessels, not including coasters, arrived at San Francisco. This was the largest number of vessels that had arrived in one day at that port since its settlement....Steamship Great Republic arrived, fifty-seven days from New York, to take her place in the Japan and China line....Caleb T. FAY substituted by the Republican State Committee as candidate for Governor, vice John BIDWELL, declined. 6th - WIGHTMAN & HARDIS, importers, failed at San Francisco for $200,000. 7th - (not legible) was drowned in a pond near San Jose. 8th - A.S. SMITH, editor of the Marysville Appeal, fractured his right ankle at Gold Run, Placer county....A frightful rain and thunder storm occurred at Yreka. 9th - John W. MORGAN, formerly Justice of the Peace, fell from a building at Drytown and was killed....An extensive fire occurred at Benicia, destroying the greater part of the business portion of the town....John W. MORGAN was killed. 10th - A prize fight between MILLER and NYLAND at Saucelito, lasting two hours and twenty minutes, ended without a decisive result....The Government steamer McPHERSON was launched at Portrero Point....The steamer Constitution sailed with $1,046,668.02 in treasure....The three men who robbed the Susanville stage, July 29th, were captured, near Lassen Butte, one being shot and badly injured. 11th - Joseph LAWRENCE was stabbed and killed at Grass Valley, by Emanuel SHOCK - both Cornishmen....Alvino MONDRAGON was killed with an ax, by Jose RECO, near Laurel HILL, in alleged self-defense. 13th - Captain Henry AMES killed at San Francisco, by being run over by a truck. 17th - A billiard match at San Francisco for the champion cue, between JAMIESON and MORRIS, resulted in favor of the former. 19th - The shipments of treasure to the East from San Francisco during the year amounted to $27,110,000 being nearly $4,000,000 less than the previous year for the same time period....Henry MOLLOY, bookkeeper of Meagher, Taafe & Co., San Francisco, was found dead in bed at the House of the Inebriate, having applied for admission the evening previous, after having been drinking excessively....John PIERSON was bitten by a tarantula, at Senora, and a serious result was anticipated. 20th - Jack STRATMAN, at San Francisco, cleaned out two men by whom he was attacked. 25th - A fire occurred at Warm Springs, consuming the stables and destroying eleven valuable horses, four buggies and a stagecoach. 29th - The summit tunnel of the Central Pacific Railroad was opened through....A two-story house, on Sacramento street, San Francisco, fell with several men, one of whom, Michael BIRD, was dangerously injured, having both legs and both arms broken. 31st - Jose M. LOPEZ was shot and killed, at Stockton, by Landro ROMERO. SEPTEMBER 4th - Information received of the death of James A. McDOUGAL, late United States Senator from California, who died at Albany, New York, September 3d, aged 50 years....General State election held, resulting in the election of the Democratic candidates. 5th - In a shooting affray at Sonora, between John NOONAN and Edward REDDY, the former, and Thomas NEWTON and a Frenchman, were wounded. 7th - William COLISON and Michael O'NEAL were suffocated in a mine near Grass Valley. Ten others were taken out insensible. 8th - U.S. steamer Shubrick ran ashore near Cape Mendocino. 9th - Fifty tons of pig iron, the first of Oregon manufacture, was landed at San Francisco by the steamer Montana....Eben GUPTILL, second mate of the ship Fearless, assaulted the third mate, John H. ESWELL, at San Francisco, and afterward followed him to his berth and shot and killed him....Six children were poisoned at San Francisco by eating berries of wild euphorbia. 10th - The first pile of the sea-wall at San Francisco was driven....Captain BAYLIES, of the steamer Relief, died suddenly at Petaluma. 13th - Solomon STAPLES, a farmer, residing near Vacaville, committed suicide. 15th - C.H. PEARSE, grain dealer, of San Francisco, was drowned at Santa Cruz....The rite of circumcision of triplet sons of Henry DANSEGER was performed at San Francisco. They were named respectively Abraham Lincoln Isaac, Andrew Johnson Jacob, and John Conness. General McDOWELL held the first, WASSERMAN (acting for Henry H. HAIGHT) the second, and John CONNESS the third. 21st - Several fires occurred at San Francisco, in one of which fifteen buildings and stores were consumed. 23d - Samuel COSTELLO, of the Ocean House, San Francisco, was run away with and seriously injured by a horse that ran away and killed his former partner....Trinity Church, at San Francisco, was consecrated. 23d - Captain ALEXANDER, of the plunger Eliza, was knocked overboard at San Francisco and drowned....A lot of 11,000 pounds of wool from the Merced river arrived at Stockton. 24th - David MURRAY's hotel, in Boston ravine, Grass Valley, was burned and two buildings adjoining; loss about $11,000. 25th - Steamship John L. STEPHENS sailed with General Jeff C. DAVIS and two hundred and seventy-one enlisted men for Sitka....An extensive fire occurred at Copperopolis, commencing in Kelly's Hotel and burning the printing office, express and telegraph offices. 26th - The corner stone of the State Asylum for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind was laid at Oakland. 27th - Mary, widow of Charles COVILLAUD, died at Marysville, aged 56 years. The city was named after her, she being the first white woman that settled there....The United States gunboat Ossipee sailed for Alaska with General ROUSSEAU and staff and Russian Commissioner....A fire occurred at the San Lorenzo paper mills, destroying wood and straw to the amount of $8,000 or $10,000. The mill was not injured. 30th - A meeting of mercounts at San Francisco determined to establish a line of eight light-draft steamers on the Colorado to compete for the Arizona and Utah trade...._____ HALLODEN was killed at Knight's Ferry by ______HACKER....A twenty-stamp gold quartz mill was shipped from San Francisco, with amalgamators, etc., for a mine in King's mountain, North Carolina....J.H. WARWICK delivered a lecture before the Chamber of Commerce at San Francisco on California (intended to be repeated at the East), and was awarded a vote of thanks by the Chamber....Andrew KIRSCHNER and ____ TORNEL were suffocated in a mine near Silver Mountain. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com