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=35835 Submitted by: California Contributors Article Title: Daily Record-Union Article Date: January 1 1878 Article Description: Local Events 1877 to December 30 th Article Text: Daily Record-Union Sacramento, Cal. Tuesday, January 1, 1878 Page 6 & 7 LOCAL EVENTS Year 1877 to December 30th. Pacific Coast JANUARY 1 - Nevada Legislature meets....Robert CHANDLER badly injured in the docks at Vallejo....Snow slide near Alta, Utah Territory; several killed....Harry GIBBONS assaulted by hoodlums in San Francisco. 2 - Man named BRADLEY accidentally killed at Oregon City....Edward FERGUSON drowned at Portland....Shooting affray at Virginia City; Tom HUGHES and Dick PADDOCK killed....William McRARY murdered at Golconda....Frank LEWIS committed suicide at Camp Bidwell. 3 - James IRVINE, sailor, suicided by drowning at San Francisco...Severe sand storm in Lower California. 4 - Santa Clara Valley Agricultural Society held its annual meeting at San Jose, and elected Cary PEEBLES President....HARTWELL, the forger, sentenced to six years in the State Prison in Solano county. 5 - Watchman named RILEY suicided by strychnine at Virginia City....Wm. ROONEY poisoned himself at the same place....John WALSH crushed to death in an Oakland flouring mill....Luding NISSEN thrown from a carriage at Watsonville and killed. 6 - Frank SWIFT, son of Judge C.H. SWIFT, died at San Francisco....Moses SMITH murdered near Shingle Springs....Chinese riot at Virginia City; three men shot. 7 - P. LORETTO poisoned himself in San Francisco....Fire at Williams; loss, $3,0000. 8 - Emile GEBHARDT committed suicide at Vallejo....Court house at Salinas, San Benito county, burned....Running mare Nell Flaherty, died at Victoria....J. WALTERS found dead at Los Angeles, with a bullet hole in his head....Robert GORDON shot himself at Auburn....John FRY badly crushed by an engine at West Oakland....Montana Legislature met. 9 - Martin McCONVILLE committed suicide near Santa Rosa....A twelve-year old boy named George RUSSELL hanged himself at Salt Lake City. 10 - Charles FOX ran over by an engine at Truckee and killed....Mrs. B.F. JONES committed suicide at San Diego....Ship Commodore wrecked off Cape Flattery. 11 - Pension Agent BENNETT convicted of fraud in Circuit Court at San Francisco....Man named KILLINGWORTH thrown from a wagon near Jacinto and killed. 12 - San Pablo half destroyed by fire....Slight earthquake at Carson City....Charles H. PARR shot and killed at Los Gatos by Bruno FELIS. 13 - Small pox appears in various places on the coast....Son of L.J. ROSE accidentally shot and badly hurt while hunting near Los Angeles....E.I. LINDSAY suicided at San Francisco....Shock of earthquake at San Diego....R.B. HARGADINE, an Oregon pioneer, died at Oakland. 14 - Pat LENAHER attempted to burn his house and kill his wife at Carson....Captain Thomas E. BAINES, the Irish exile, stabbed in San Francisco by John GILFOY....Fire at Halfmoon Bay; loss, $5,000. 16 - Giant powder exploded in Crown Point mine; Andrew THOMAS injured....Boy named Frank McDERMOTT accidentally shot by another boy named Fred NIROD at Dixon. Charles SILVERSTEEN shot and killed at Elko by Robert CROZIER. 17 - Fire at Anaheim; loss, $18,000....Snow two feet deep at Virginia City....Man named DARLING thrown from a wagon and killed near Healdsburg. 18 - Jose Jesus GALINDA, aged 106, died near Milpitas....Landslide on Virginia and Truckee Railroad....Registration frauds investigation began in San Francisco....Diphtheria prevalent in various parts of the State. Fire at Bakersfield, loss, $3,000; new school-house at Lower Lake burned, loss, $1,500....James KELLY suicided near Watsonville. 19 - Peter LARKIN executed at Virginia City....H.C. BENNETT, ex-Pension Agent, fined $5,000, or two years' imprisonment, in San Francisco....Lewis SHEARER shot by Henry KIND, at Oakland....Stage robbed near Marysville - little booty. 20 - Stage between Newhall Station and Santa Barbara robbed....Blanc PINA suicided at San Francisco....Attempted robbery of the express car, on lightning train, between Summit and Truckee....Wagon upset near Ophir, and John HALNEY and John PATTON injured....Magill BERRYESSA murdered at Colusa by Tiburcio MARTINEZ and others. 21 - Fire at Portland, Oregon; loss, $50,000....Little daughter of Levi JONES, hear Turlock, severely scalded....Boy named WALLACE, in Pope Valley, Napa, accidentally shot....John GILROY shot and killed at Bridgeport, Mono county, by Mrs. Mary GRANT....County Judge T.M. PAWLING, of Amador, deceased. 22 - Ocean House at Eureka burned; loss, $4,000; Thomas GORMAN, Nicholas MELADY, Alex BROWN and _____ COLLINS burned to death, and several injured. 23 - 1,000 tons of coal in San Francisco discovered to be on fire....Mexican named MORENO shot and killed by another named GALINDO, at San Juan South....Thomas MONTGOMERY was thrown from stage at Napa, and skull fractured. 24 - Plot discovered to destroy hoisting works of C. and C. shaft at Virginia; also, to fire hoisting works of Consolidated Virginia. 25 - John McCABE suicided at Colfax....Ex-Chief Justice YGLESIAS, of Mexico, arrived in San Francisco....Boy named David CUNLANDERS suicided in San Francisco. 26 - Part of crew of wrecked ship Ada Iredale arrived at ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com