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=35836 Submitted by: California Contributors Article Title: Daily Record-Union Article Date: January 1 1878 Article Description: Local Events 1877 to December 30 th - Part I 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 San Francisco....William Kay NEIL executed at Albany, Oregon....Small-pox increasing in San Francisco....Judge William PATTERSON died at Carson....One of the Santa Cruz powder works blew up....Mrs. DEAN committed suicide at East Oakland. 27 - Paul STRUDEL committed suicide at San Francisco....Schooner Industry went ashore and lost at mouth of Columbia river....John King LOVEJOY, and old newspaper man, died near Verdi. 28 - William SHICK suicided at San Francisco....Patrick CUNNIGHAM accidentally shot near San Francisco. 29 - Doctor J.M. KELSEY, of Stockton, found dead in his rowboat....MARTINEZ, murderer BERRYESSA arrested at Winters....Henry KOESKE thrown from a horse near Tremont station, Solano county, and severely injured. 30 - Valuable mining discoveries reported near Prescott, Arizona.....Lieutenant J.H. WHEEDON committed suicide at San Francisco. 31 - John LEE shot and killed at Downey City, Los Angeles county, by R. PERRY; Lee's daughter afterwards attempted to shoot PERRY....Little daughter of Samuel LEWIS burned to death near Grass Valley....Man named ANDERSON killed by one BUCKINGHAM near Darwin. FEBRUARY 1 - Frank P. BAKER committed suicide at San Francisco....Two boys named DUDLEY and BARBEE carried out to sea from San Francisco and lost....James ROGERS assaulted and badly hurt one CLIFT at Anaheim. 2 - Judge K.H. DALY died at Fresno....L.F. GROVER, Governor of Oregon, resigned, and S.F. CHADWICK succeeded him. 3 - Wm. FRESLIG, editor of the San Jose Courier, died....Man named ELLIS badly injured at Grass Valley by a powder explosion....John BLACKFORD committed suicide at Grass Valley. 4 - Apache outrages in Arizona reported....Residence of State Printer THOMPSON burned at Santa Rosa....Charles QUILLOT killed at St. Johns, Colusa county, by John WELLFORD. John TRATHEN accidentally killed near Grass Valley....Charles MOXHAM committed suicide at Shasta. 5 - A.B. SPOONER, Sr., drowned at Morro, San Luis Obispo county....Body of Arthur E. CANNON found in Humboldt river....Chas. COLE shot and killed by John WOOLFORD at Chico. 6 - Thomas WHEELON shot at Caliente by an Under Sheriff....Moritz CHOYNSKI shot at Santa Ana by R.N. WILLIAMS....Rear Admiral James ALDEN died at San Francisco, aged 68....Miner named Wm. HASKINS killed at Gold Hill accidentally....Louis KATZENSTEIN shot in the shoulder at Marysville, while masquerading as a ghost. ...Mrs. D. WINTER badly burned at Healdsburg. 7 - Fire at Ukiah; loss, $600....Mills Seminary property near Oakland donated to its Board of Trustees....W.P. McCULLOUGH committed suicide at San Francisco. 8 - James WILSON killed by a snow plow near Truckee....J. SHEA and James SULLIVAN injured by a premature blast at Nevada City....Samuel GASS committed suicide at San Francisco. 9 - Large warehouse near Vallejo burned with 230 tons of hay....Ex-Assessor Levi ROSENER died at San Francisco....Hugh KELLY killed at Ruby Hill, Nevada, by James TICKLE. 10 - S.B. NORTHCUTT accidentally shot himself at Dixon. 11 - David GILBERT died from asphyxia at San Francisco....M. JANSEN accidentally shot at Gold Run. 12 - Fire at Salinas; loss, $2,000...Depot hotel at Reno burned....John WHITMORE, a convict in San Quentin, killed Henry DIEDRICH, and then committed suicide. 13 - Work on the Pacific coast railroad commenced at San Jose....Thomas BOGGS committed suicide at San Francisco....William BROTHERS, a pioneer, found dead near Santa Cruz....A.C. McDONALD murdered with an ax by unknown parties near Santa Rosa....J.F. TAYLOR shot and killed by Harrison PHELPS near Marsh Grant, Contra Costa county, and the latter suicided. 13 - Hon. I.A. AMERMAN, United States Postal Agent, died at San Leandro....Renewed troubles on Lower California frontier....Hamilton J. MEAD, shot by an unknown assassin on the 13th, died at San Francisco....W.E. GRIMES accidentally killed near Portland, Oregon.....John T. LOYD killed by highwaymen in Inyo county. 15th - Shooting affray at San Diego between James McCOY and D.O. McCARTHY; no harm done....A fireman named Robert COCKERILL fell from train near Turlock and killed....John F. LENHART committed suicide at San Francisco. 16 - Jail break at San Bernardino....Chas. BRANDT committed suicide near Santa Rosa....Fred. TILT drowned near San Francisco. 18 - Mrs. W.P. STOREY thrown from a buggy at Colfax and sustained a fracture of her leg. 18 - Man named McINTOSH committed suicide hear Santa Rosa. 20 - Simon STUART killed at Tybo, Nevada, by Mart. TUPPER. 21 - John DURHAM shot himself fatally in San Francisco....El Dorado Brewery, at Stockton, burned. 22 - Jail break at Stockton....Captain HELLISON of the ship Semirinis drowned at San Francisco....Disastrous gas explosion in San Francisco....Miss Dolores ENRIQUEZ severely burned by a kerosene explosion at Los Angeles. 23 - Fire at Silver City, Nevada; loss, $3,000....Ex-Mayor William HAWLEY, of Marysville, deceased....Stage upset near Mokelumne Hill; several injured. 24 - John G. CHASE attempted to shoot his wife in San Francisco....Stage robbed near Sonora....Mrs. W.E. LINDSEY thrown from a wagon near Merced Falls and badly hurt....Jesse R. STOVELL, aged 10, accidentally shot and killed at Colusa. 25 - Dr. Holmes FINNEGAN shot his wife an himself at San Francisco....DIAZ sworn in as President of Mexico. 26 - Owen CONLON murdered at San Francisco by Owen GROWNEY with a beer glass. 27 - Jerry HENNESSEY died at Santa Rosa from effects of a railroad injury....William MIERS accidentally killed at San Francisco with a gun....Gillermo RAMEL shot Ramon PINA in the face at Gilroy. 28 - Freight train ditched at Bantas; several injured....Unknown man fell from fourth story of a building in San Francisco, and fatally injured....John CANTWELL "run a muck" at Santa Cruz and stabbed several men; one fatally. MARCH 1 - Wife of child of J.M. LANE drowned near Elko....C.D. MUNSON hanged himself at San Francisco....Paul MORRILL confirmed as Surveyor of Customs at San Francisco....Jas. WORTHLEY shot and killed by John NELSON at Oroville; John McGINLEY shot and killed by Wm. PARKER at Mountain View, Santa Clara county....Fire at San Jose, 4 buildings destroyed. 2- Fatal land slide near Santa Rosa....Son of Chas. NORTON fatally kicked by a horse near San Jose....Samuel C. MANGUNE committed suicide at Bloomfield....Fire at Placerville, 8 buildings consumed....Jos. HOLLISTEIN hung himself neat Antioch. 3 - Thos. D. DAVIS murdered and his body burned in his cabin near Portland, Oregon....Freeman WILCOX accidentally killed at Placerville by a fall....One BAR clubbed his mother-in-law to death with a shotgun at Sweetbrier, Shasta county. 4 - Patrick MORRISSEY fatally burned by a coal oil explosion at San Francisco. 5 - Robert McCORMICK fatally shot by John McCONNELL at Willows, Colusa county....Attempted assassination of Mrs. Dr. BRILLASKA at Santa Clara....Moses JONES killed accidentally in a mine at Shady Run, Placer county. 6 - James HARRINGTON, under death sentence at Virginia City, made a desperate attempt to break jail....Gulf of California Oyster Company bubble exploded in San Francisco. 7 - Stage robbed near Indian Wells by a 4 masked men....J.N. MITCHELL accidentally fatally shot near Gilroy. 9 - Unsuccessful attempt made to stop a stage between San Diego and Anaheim....Thomas McDOWELL shot and killed Eldro KNALL near Virginia City....Attempts made to burn down the two Chinatowns at Chico. 10 - Several attempts at arson made at Nord and Chico on Chinese houses....Eugene MULLIGAN shot dead in his doorway at San Francisco by unknown parties. 11 - Felix McELROY found dead at Los Angeles with an ugly wound in his head. 12 - Henry HERRIN thrown from a buggy and killed near San Felipe. 13 - Body of Thomas AGNEW, an old printer, found near Santa Barbara....Tassey STEWART acquitted at San Francisco on a charge of bribing Secretary CHANDLER. 14 - Wm. LYNCH accidentally drowned at Marysville. 15 - Six Chinamen shot by white assassins and their cabin burned at Chico....Paul CARROLL, aged 17, acquitted for murder at Virginia City. 16 - Colonel McCOMB, of the Alta, and William HAYES, an attorney, had a personal difficulty at San Francisco. 17 - Fire at Silver City; loss, $1,000....Man named STEWART accidentally burned to death near Nevada City. 19 - John McCABE found in his bed at San Francisco dangerously stabbed....Fire at San Francisco; loss, $1,000....Shooting affray between James MITCHELL and a negro at Bakersfield; no one hurt. 20 - Shooting affray at San Diego between ___ COVENT and _____ RICHTER; the latter was fatally injured. 22 - Child named Carroll COULTER run over and killed by a car at Woodland....Barney CARTER shot and killed at Chico by Thomas ALBRO. 23 - T. Wallace MORE brutally murdered near Santa Paula by Unknown parties. 24 - Boy named Edward SPENCE fatally shot Joseph MENDOZA near San Jose. 25 - Jesse GOFFE drowned at San Diego....Perpetrators of the Chico Chinese outrage arrested....Robert ALEXANDER fatally stabbed in a free fight at Santa Rosa....T.A. LONGACRE suicided at Virginia City. 26 - Robert HUNTER killed at San Francisco by a falling derrick....W.F. RUSSELL, editor of the Index, found dead in his bed at Santa Barbara....Fire at Virginia City, loss, $2,000....Stage robbery near Santa Barbara. 27 - Pacheco-Wigginton Congressional contest decided in Supreme Court in favor of the former....Child of George FARLEY killed at Colusa by falling sacks of grain. 28 - James BEATSON, flume watchman at Cherokee, shot a Chinaman fatally for robbing the flume....heavy shock of earthquake at Livermore. 29 - News received of the imprisonment of John A. SUTTER, United States Consul at Acapulco, by General JIMINEZ. 30 - James HAYES executed at Bakersfield for murder....Ship Frank Jones went ashore outside of Fort Point, San Francisco....W.R. BRADBURY seriously stabbed at San Francisco by an employe....John McDONALD shot and killed at San Francisco by L. JOELL. 31 - Race at San Jose between Goldsmith Maid and Rarus, time 2:22 1/2, 2:16 3/4, 2:18 1/4....Stage robbed near La Graciosa, Santa Barbara county. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com