A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > California > San Joaquin http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=592 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=32080 Submitted by: deesar Article Title: Stockton Daily Argus Article Date: July 1861 Article Description: July 15-20, 1861 Article Text: >>Monday, 15 July 1861NATHANIEL BOURHE was sentenced in Columbia on Tuesday last to the county jail for 3 months, for beating his mother. He is a powerful man, 6 feet high, and his mother is a poor old woman upwards of 60 years of age. >>Tuesday, 16 July 1861>Wednesday, 17 July 1861MISS ELIZA GROVE, a young lady from Waterford, Ireland, arrived in San Francisco on the last steamer and expected to meet on the wharf her brother, Jonathan GROVE, who has been 5 years in California. Will Jonathan please note? >ON FRIDAY, should no respite or pardon intervene, Michael HARGAIN will be executed in the jail yard at San Francisco for the murder of his wife. SUDDEN DEATH -- S.F. ‘Alta’ -- Mr. Henry LESTER, aged 35 years, a citizen of California, and noted as a prominent politician, died at 5 o’clock yesterday morning, in this city [San Francisco], after a very short illness. Deceased came down from the late Union Democratic Convention, at Sacramento, on Wednesday evening, then being in his usual robust health. The following night he was attacked by severe inflammation of the bowels, which caused death at the hour above stated. Andrew LESTER, Esq., of Stockton, brother of deceased, reached here in time to soothe his dying moments. His funeral took place at the Church of the Advent. >>Thursday, 18 July 1861>Friday, 19 July 1861