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=35816 Submitted by: California Contributors Article Title: Sacramento Daily Union Article Date: January 1 1869 Article Description: Statistics of California - 1868 - Part II Article Text: Sacramento Daily Union Friday Morning, January 1, 1869 Page 1 STATISTICS OF CALIFORNIA - 1868 STATE RECORD Noticeable Events During the Year APRIL 5th - The ship Autocrat, from Baltimore, laden with coal, went ashore on Arch rock, between Alcatraz Island and Saucelito. The wreck was sold the next day for $10,500. 6th - The Pacific Mail steamer Golden Age left for Panama with $474,579.09 in treasure....An Italian named Augustine DEMARTINE was killed in a mining shaft at Angels, Calaveras county. 7th - J.E. SCHLIUKE, a house broker, disappeared from San Francisco with $1,630 belonging to a Mrs. McQUESTION. 8th - The Union published the news of the assassination of T. D'Arcy McGEE, a noted member of the Canadian Parliament, at Ottawa, by an Irishman named James WHELAN, who was subsequently convicted of the crime. 10th - First rails laid on the California Pacific Railroad at Vallejo. 11th - Manuel OCHOA, a native of Sonora, Mexico, died in the San Francisco Hospital, aged 104 years. 14th - The Pacific Mail steamship Sacramento left for Panama, carrying over 1,100 passengers and $740,582 in treasure. 17th - Samuel BRANNAN severely wounded by pistol shots at Calistoga....A man named J. BURKE killed by falling from a scaffold on a new building in San Francisco. 22d - News published in the Union of the massacre, near Honey Lake valley, Lassen county, of Thomas V. PIERSON, wife, daughter, a man named COOPER and a discharged soldier, name unknown, by Indians of the Pitt River tribe....The Pacific Mail steamship Montana sailed for Panama with over 900 passengers and $679,358.60 in treasure....Albert N. STRATTON committed suicide at Santa Clara by poisoning himself. 25th - William WOOD accidentally drowned in the Napa river, near Napa city. 27th - The Union published the news of the battle at Magdals, Abyssinia, in the 12th of April, in which the Emperor Theodore was slain, a great number of warriors killed and 14,000 native troops taken prisoners. This was the virtual end of the Abyssinian war. 28th - Banquet given at the Lick House, San Francisco, by leading citizens to Minister Burlingame and the Chinese Embassy. 30th - A man named S.A. CARPENTER, an old resident of Contra Costa county, was found dead near Alamo, shot through the heart. His death remains a mystery. MAY 2d - The Second District Congressional Convention met at San Francisco, but failing to make a nomination, adjourned to meet at Sacramento August 19th. 3d - Presidential Electors nominated by the Democratic Convention at San Francisco. Democratic Congressional Conventions for the First and Third Districts were also held. S.B. AXTELL was nominated for the First District, and James A. JOHNSON for the Third. 4th - Barney McMAHON, a Stockton police officer, shot and severely wounded by a man named Bill ALLEN....The Nevada City and Stockton municipal elections took place. The sub Republican tickets were elected in both places....The Grand Encampment of Odd Fellows convened at San Francisco. 5th - The opposition steamer Nebraska left San Francisco for Panama....George W. GIBBS gave $10,000 toward liquidating the debt of Grace Church, San Francisco. 6th - The Pacific Mail steamship Golden City left for Panama with about 500 passengers and $610,383.02 in treasure.... An earthquake shock felt at Healdsburg, Sonoma county...The second trial of A.M. SWANEY for the murder of J.W. SEALE in Mariposa, commenced in the Fifth District Court at Stockton, a change of venue having been granted. The trial lasted twenty days, and resulted in a disagreement of the jury. Subsequently (on the 6th of August) a nolie prosequi was entered, on motion of the District Attorney, and the case dismissed. 7th - A German named KLEIN killed in an affray at Newcastle, Placer county. 8th - Timothy CRONIN, convicted in July, 1866, of the murder of his wife, hung in San Rafael, Marin county....Eugene TUCKER convicted of manslaughter in killing the woman Celina BOUCLET, in the Fourth District Court, San Francisco. He was subsequently sentenced to ten years in the State Prison. 9th - The Union published full details of the volcanic eruptions of Mauna Loa and Kilauea, in the Hawaiian group of Islands, with the earthquakes which preceded. There were some 2,000 different shocks, beginning on the evening of March 27th and continuing to April 3d, when the last great tremble was felt all through the group, and this was immediately succeeded by immense discharges of lava and mud from the volcanoes. 12th - A United States soldier at the Presidio, San Francisco, committed suicide by hanging himself. 16th - News received of the acquittal of President JOHNSON on the Eleventh Article in the Court of Impeachment....Edouard H. HIRSTEL, of San Francisco, died of apoplexy in the cars of the Alameda Railroad, near Oakland....The Pacific Mail steamship Golden Age sailed for Panama, carrying 224 passengers and $1,006,820.42 in treasure. 17th - A successful trial made of burning petrolents for fuel by the steamer Amelia. 18th - The proposition to donate $100,000 in bonds to the California Pacific Railroad, by the county of Yolo, defeated by eighty votes. 20th - The opposition steamer Oregonian left for Panama, carrying a large number of passengers and $200,000 in silver bullion. 21st - A boy named William LARGAN, aged eight years, run over and killed on the Central Railroad, in San Francisco. 22d - News published in the Union of the nomination of General GRANT for President and Schuyler COLFAX for Vice President, by the National Republican Convention at Chicago....First performance given at the New Alhambra Theater, San Francisco. 23d - The Pacific Mail Steamship Sacramento, left for Panama with 360 passengers and $676,496.39 in treasure....Dr. AMES, Right Eminent Commander of the Knights Templar, arrived at San Francisco, on business connected with the fraternity on this coast. 24th - Ex-Senator McDOUGALL's funeral took place at San Francisco, under Masonic management. 26th - H.N. JONES drowned while crossing the Klamath ferry at Yreka. 27th - In San Francisco, the jury in the case of Timothy LYNCH, who ran away with Ellen CASEY and her mother's money, returned a verdict of guilty of grand larceny. 29th - W.C. CUTTRELL, a member of Stevenson's regiment, died in San Francisco....The steamer Montana sailed for Panama with about 600 passengers and $1,072,298 in treasure....Seventeen miles of track had been laid on the California Pacific Railroad....J.W. SULLIVAN, a pioneer newsdealer of San Francisco, died, aged forty-six years....Major P.B. READING, another pioneer of California, died at Buenaventura ranch, Shasta county. 30th - A boy known as Patsy killed at the Ocean Race Course, San Francisco, by the horse he was riding falling upon him. 31st - A stabbing affray occurred at Hornitos, Mariposa county, in which Daniel HUNT was killed by Ned REVERDY. JUNE 1st - Mrs. Eleanor WILLARD, widow of the late Alexander WILLARD, died at her residence on the lower Stockton road, aged 78. Her husband was the last survivor of the "Clark and Lewis Expedition" ....Balance in the State Treasury, $924,822.62....The San Francisco Pioneer Association refused to extend the time of admission to membership to those who arrived prior to the admission of the State into the Union. 3d - News published in the Union of the death of ex-President BUCHANAN, at Wheatland (Pa.), on the 1st instant, in the seventy-eighth year of his age....The annual meeting of the Associated Alumni took place at Oakland. 5th - J.M. McKENNA killed near Belmont, San Mateo county, by falling between two cars on the San Jose Railroad when the train was in motion. 7th - The Board of Regents of the University of California organized at San Francisco....The ceremony of decorating the graves of the Union dead occurred at Lone mountain Cemetery, San Francisco....O. WYMAN, killed at San Francisco by being run over by one of the cars on the Central Railroad, near Lone Mountain. 9th - Colonel W. INGE, formerly member of Congress from Alabama, died in San Francisco....John PALMER, who was shot in San Francisco in an affray with Thos. BROOKBANKS, died from the effects of his wound. 17th - A Frenchman named Francis BREMEL thrown from a horse and died of his injuries. 18th - The State Teachers' Institute met in San Francisco....The new Mercantile Library at San Francisco dedicated....A place near Folsom selected by the State Prison Directors as a site for the Branch State Prison authorized to be established by the last Legislature. 19th - A man named William HOWES fell from the Mechanics' Fair Pavilion, in course of erection at San Francisco, and was instantly killed. 21st - Philip T. MOWER, who had both his eyes destroyed by vitriol thrown in San Francisco, March 9th, died of small pox in that city. 22d - The Pacific Mail steamship left for Panama, carrying 223 passengers and $527,893 in treasure. 23d - Solomon BRUNDRIDGE murdered at Deer creek by A.J. GOFF. Four days after GOFF was lynched and hung at Surprise Valley. 24th- First sales of new wheat reported in San Francisco....Minute guns fired by all the United States vessels in San Francisco harbor in respect to the memory of the late ex-President BUCHANAN....A series of earthquake shocks felt at Oakland. 26th - Seventy teachers of the San Francisco public schools started on an excursion to Donner Lake. 30th - The steamship Sacramento sailed for Panama, carrying a large number of passengers and $470,667.16 in treasure....A German assayer named GRAYBACH committed suicide in San Francisco. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! 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