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=35814 Submitted by: California Contributors Article Title: Sacramento Daily Union Article Date: January 1 1868 Article Description: Statistics of California - 1867 - Part IV Article Text: Sacramento Daily Union Wednesday Morning January 1, 1868 Page 1 STATISTICS OF CALIFORNIA - 1867 THE STATE OCTOBER 3d - Ex Senator GWIC and John NUGENT arrived in the steamer Montana....Jean Baptiste DELABIGNE committed suicide at San Francisco....Wilson POTTER was killed on the San Jose Railroad....J.M. HOWARD, a one-armed hunter, was accidentally shot at Rio Vista resulting in the loss of his other arm. The first arm was lost by a similar accident....The mills, warehouse and wharf of the Benicia Cement Company were burned. 5th - John R. RIDGE, editor of the Grass Valley Daily National, died at Grass Valley. Deceased had been connected with a number of newspapers in California, and claimed to be the rightful chief of the Cherokee nation against John ROSS. He had a superior education. 7th - Thomas ROGERS was shot and seriously wounded at Chico by H.L. SUNDERLIN. 8th - George R. CATON, special policeman, was assaulted by several men at San Francisco and his throat cut and pistol and star taken from him....Steamer Idaho arrived from Honolulu. General McCOOK brought the reciprocity treaty ratified. 9th - Thomas WAY was struck in the head with a stone at Colfax by ___ NOBLE, and died the next day. 10th - A squatter difficulty occurred at San Francisco, in which where was a general fight, several being badly wounded, and Peter BRADLEY killed - Steamer Montana sailed with $771,984.72 in treasure. 12th - Michael WALSH died at San Francisco from a pistol-shot wound inflicted by Thomas BURNS, October 6th. 14th - J.D. BOYD, of San Francisco, shipped 6,245 feet of California laurel lumber to FARGO (of Wells, Fargo & Co.), of Buffalo, to be used for wainscoting and furniture.... The steamship Coina sailed, with 50 cabin and 900 steerage passengers, and $1,076,000 in treasure....Juan MORALES, a Chileno, who had seduced Beatrice Pann GUADILLO, was shot by her at San Francisco. 15th - John LEWIS was stabbed and killed at Alleghany by Frank TAYLOR....The Tehama (flouring) Mills were burned. They belonged to C.& B. McCREARY, of Sacramento. About 200 barrels of flour and 1,500 sacks of wheat were also destroyed. 16th - An affray occurred at Little Lake, Mendocino county, between two families names COATS and FROST, in which five of the former family were killed and three dangerously wounded, and FROST killed and his son Duncan mortally wounded. 18th - The Territory of Alaska was formally delivered over by Russian agents to officers of the United States. 19th - The Lincoln Flour Mill was destroyed by fire, together with a car of the Pacific Railroad Company, two others being badly damaged....A. Marius CHAPELLE, of San Francisco, jumped overboard from the steamer Washoe and was drowned. 20th - A lunatic named William H. FINKELL was drowned in a water tank at the State Lunatic Asylum at Stockton. 24th - Thomas LINOTSTROM, of the sloop Phil Horn, fell overboard and was drowned in the San Joaquin river. 25th - Charles AMSTUTZ was shot in the head at Jackson by ___ SLAUCER. SLAUCER was in the act of firing a second shot when arrested. 26th - The Woodbridge Messenger appeared, under the management of George CRIST. 27th - A new fog whistle at San Francisco was heard at San Mateo Shell Park - seventeen miles distant. 28th - The steamer Tulare was run into by a schooner near Mare Island. A Chinaman and Chinawoman were lost. 31st - The steamer Arrow was destroyed by fire at the mouth of the Mokelumne river. NOVEMBER 1st - A fire at San Juan South destroyed property to the amount of $100,000 - insurance only $12,000....The Committee designated by Act of the Legislature awarded premiums as follows: Mission Woolen Mills, on exportations of fabrics, $6,000; Daniel FLINT, of Sacramento, hop culture, $1,000; John S. HITTELL, of San Francisco, "Resources of California," $500. 4th - A big blast was made in Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, dislodging a large a amount of rock and riddling several houses....The bark Onward arrived at San Francisco, bringing the last of the Russian Telegraph Company's employes. 5th - William Carey JONES, a distinguished lawyer, died at San Francisco....The mammoth steer "Oregon Baby" died at San Francisco. He had been purchased by W.D. LITCHFIELD for $1,100, and was being fattened for Christmas. He weighed 3,060 pounds....A severe gale, followed by a heavy rain, occurred in Siskiyou county, causing great damage. 6th - A heavy gale prevailed at San Francisco, preventing vessels from crossing the bay. 9th - Twelve tons of copper ore, from the Union mine, was shipped from Stockton to San Francisco....DERBEC, editor of the Courrier de San Francisco, was assaulted and stabbed his assailant. The latter threw excrement in his face, alleging as a cause that DERBEC had agreed to fight a duel with him and had backed out. 11th - The Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco gave a grand inaugural banquet at the Merchants' Exchange. 13th - A boy named Charles CUNNINGHAM was seriously stabbed at St. Mary's College in a dispute about a game of marbles with two other boys. They were pupils, and the two boys were arrested. 16th - Jerry McKISSON was murdered at Rich Gulch, near Mokelumne Hill, by Bryan FALLON. 17th - The corner-stone of the monument to S.H. PARKER, First Grand Master of the Odd Fellows in this State, was laid at San Francisco. 20th - Steamship Great Republic arrived from Hongkong and Yokohama with 290 passengers and 2,000 tons of merchandise....Clipper ship Young America arrived at New York in 60 days from San Francisco....The Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum property, at the Mission Dolores, sold for (not legible). 21st - The barn of __ HEUSER, in the southern part of Yuba county, was burned, together with eleven horses, grain and farming utensils. Loss between $8,000 and $10,000....Juan VALENZUELA was executed at Monterey for the murder of JOHNSON. He confessed the act on the scaffold. 23d - Steamer Washoe was run into at San Francisco by a bark and her pilot-house carried away and J.B. BOTSFORD, compositor on the Times, severely injured. 27th - W.F. COOPER, of Rock River ranch, near Senora, Tuolumne county, shot and killed his wife, while laboring under mental derangement. 28th - Felipe MORENO, convicted at Martinez of murder in the second degree in the killing of Dr. John MARSH in September, 1856....H.A. SUBIETTE, a farmer, near Vacaville, while dressing a hog, severed the main artery by a glance of a knife and bled to death in twenty minutes. 29th - An explosion occurred at the Pacific Powder Mill, ten miles from San Rafael, demolishing five buildings and killing T.L. GRANT (Superintendent) and _____ McDONALD and T. SPRATT, two workmen. James FLANAGAN was severely burned, and the engineer slightly injured....Felipe MORENO was sentenced at Martinez to imprisonment for life for killing Dr. John MARSH....John GEISHEAUSER had his left arm shockingly fractured by the explosion of a cast iron gun, wile firing a salute at Yuba City. DECEMBER 1st - A detachment of an anti-Chinese Association at French Corral, Nevada county, proceeded with a band of music to the cement mill and drove seven or eight Chinamen from their cabin. Thence they proceeded to another Chinese camp, drove off the inmates, destroyed their property, throwing the material of their cabins down hill. Twenty-eight of the rioters were arrested. 2d - Rev. William WOODWARD (Methodist) was struck with paralysis, in Berryessa valley, and died almost immediately...The seventeenth Legislature of California convened....A stage was robbed near Ione valley of $8,500 by John FAULKENBURG and George W. RINGER, who were subsequently arrested and the treasure was recovered. 4th - The wife of John GATELY, proprietor of the Brooklyn Hotel, at San Francisco, was fatally burned by her dress being ignited in the flames of a lamp. 5th - Juan GAROLA, implicated in the murder of Dr. MARSH was arrested by Charles MARSH. 6th - Several persons were injured by a wild cow at San Francisco....Gas introduced for the first time at Los Angeles, made from coal and asphaltum. 7th - Miles M. DEWEY was fatally stabbed by John KARSON, near San Mateo. He ran nearly half a mile after receiving the blow. 8th - The Benton milldam on the Mariposa estate, erected at a heavy expense, was carried away. 10th - Schooner Anna R. Forbes, laden with railroad iron, for Sacramento, capsized in the Bay, losing her deck load. 11th - A woman named FOSTER was struck with the fist of an inebriated man called "Eureka John," and killed. 13th - A Republican Caucus held in the Senate Chamber nominated Thomas A. BROWN of Contra Costa as their candidate for United States Senator. 14th - Thomas DALY fell backward down a shaft 72 feet deep at Bangor and was killed. 16th - A Spanish family named ALVISO, consisting of ten persons, were poisoned near Dublin, Alameda county, by partaking of meat which had been stolen from and poisoned by a German family in the neighborhood. Two of the family died. 17th - Francis DRISCOLL, mate, and Joseph LANGDON, steward, of a British bark, fought a duel on the wharf at San Francisco. Several shots exchanged but no blood drawn....Joseph KING was killed by a cave in the Railroad mine at Sutter Creek. 19th - Eugene CASSERLY, of San Francisco, received the nomination for United States Senator by the Democratic Legislative Caucus and was elected in Joint Assembly by the Legislature on the following day. 20th - J. EISNER shot Hermann ROBITSCHECK at San Francisco and then shot himself fatally. ROBITSCHECK was only slightly wounded. 21st - J. Wells KELLY, a printer, who for two years published the "Directory" at Virginia City, was found dead in San Francisco. 22d - A terrible wind and rain storm, the most severe known, occurred in the Sacramento valley, unroofing many buildings in Sacramento and elsewhere, and doing great damage through a wide extent of country....The schooner Morning Light was beached at Kershew's landing, Marin county. 23d - The sloop C.E. LONG was wrecked off Redwood City, and all hands (four) lost....Alviso was flooded, and San Jose, along the Guadalupe river....The British ship Intrepid came near being wrecked on Alcatraz. She was towed off. 24th - The skeleton of a man was found by workmen excavating on Sansome street, San Francisco. 25th - The remains of a man from the hips down were found on the shore, near the Alameda Railroad wharf....D.P. DOUGHERTY was assaulted and fatally injured near Sonoma, by Charles McDONALD. They were neighbors. 26th - In consequence of the recent general storm which extended throughout the State, the streets of Marysville were overflowed, the water being higher by eighteen inches than in the flood of 1862. The Sacramento, at Sacramento, reached its highest point at daylight - twenty-four and one inch above low water mark. The levee above Washington, Yolo county, was washed away for a considerable distance affording an outlet for the surplus waters of the Sacramento, but doing great damage in Yolo county. The Sacramento levee weathered the storm finely....The steamer Capital, on the down trip, made thirty miles in one hour and seventeen minutes....John FELOS and ____ PADOVANT drowned at Petaluma....Charles GUYSE, drowned in Yolo county. 27th - The ship St. Mark cleared at San Francisco for Liverpool with a cargo of wheat valued at $187,000 - the most valuable cargo ever shipped from that port.....Reports from all parts of the State of great destruction of property by the late storm. 28th - Jose SILVA died at San Francisco from a knife wound inflicted by a woman named SANCHEZ, on Christmas Eve. 30th - News received from Paris of the death of E. GOULD BUFFUM, former editor of the Alta California ....Suspicion prevailing at San Francisco that EISNER, who was shot in the head, did not commit suicide, but was murdered by ROBITSCHECK. 31st - Edward McGARRY, Brigadier General by brevet, committed suicide at San Francisco by cutting his throat. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com