HISTORY OF AMADOR COUNTY CALIFORNIA 1881 Oakland California Thompson and West CHRONOLOGICAL pages 336-337 1876 1876 January 1. Masquerade ball by the K. A. C. January 3. Francisco VIANNELLI found dead in his cabin, near Zeile Mine. January 9. Stage robbed between Plymouth and Fiddletown. January 31. Attempted robbery of stage near Willow Springs. March 18. Capture of the noted stage robber, Joaquin Murietta,* who escaped from the cabin, below Jackson, when two others were arrested. (*Not the famous bandit of 1852.) March 18. Three persons, Mr. D. B. BACCIGALUPI, Miss Carrie PAYNE, and Miss Louisa PERIARE, drowned in attempting to cross the Mokelumne River, below Lancha Plana. April 13. fire in Amador, destroying G. W. KLING's saloon, W. BURN's drug store, P. HEISCH's barber shop, William PAYTON's saloon, M. MOONEY's saloon, and dwelling, KERR's livery stable. April 14. Samuel MUGFORD fell in the shaft of the GARFIELD mine, and was instantly killed. May 2. Richard WEBB arrested, at the instance of the Board of Supervisors, for libel. May 19. Mrs MURPHY's saloon and dwelling, near Jackson, burned. May 20. Snow at Jackson, and other mountain towns, falling five inches deep at Volcano. May 23. Robbery of safe in Wells, Fargo and Co.'s office in Amador. May 26. G. W. ARTHUR, a patient at the hospital, committed suicide by hanging. June 2. Attempt to murder L. LARGOMARCINI and family, at Sutter Creek, with giant powder, by which the building was seriously damaged, but no lives lost. June 18. YOUNGLOVE's barn at Ione burned with three mules and seventy-five tons of hay. Fire supposed to be incendiary. June 20. Indian killed by trap gun while robbing Joseph CUNEO's sluices. July 1. James WELCH, Kennedy Flat, died from sunstroke. Arnold SLINGHAIDE, Plymouth, died from sunstroke. July 4. Paolo LARGOMARCINI, mentally deranged, perished from sickness and exposure in Sailor's Gulch, near Slabtown. William BAKER, of Jackson Valley, thrown from his horse near Ione, and fatally injured. July 18. Barn belonging to Mrs. WESTFALL, in Jackson, destroyed by fire. July 20. Edward GOING fatally injured by a cave in the Oneida Mine. July 27. Miguel DORANEO found dead in his cabin, evidently murdered some days before, by parties unknown. July 30. Death of Dr. J. A. BROWN of Sutter Creek, an old and highly esteemed resident of the town. July 31. Volcano Tunnel Company broke ground. August 3. M. W. GORDON announced his return to the Democratic party. September 11. Stage robbed on the Drytown Road near FINN's Ranch, by Chas. THOMPSON and Chas. TEDEMAN, both of whom were subsequently arrested and convicted. September 16. Blass THOMAS instantly killed in the Oneida Mine, by the falling of a timber down the shaft. October 21. Accident in the Oneida Mine, instantly killing two men and wounding two others. November 3. Tournament at Ione City. November 11. Samuel KELLER, of Sutter Creek, committed suicide by shooting himself with a pistol. November 26. Major GREEN's house, between Ione and Jackson, destroyed by fire. December 7. Trains commenced running between Ione and Galt. December 11. F. N. HOSS kicked by a horse, from the effects of which he died on the following morning. December 14. House of Nicholas RADOVICH destroyed by fire. Insured for sixteen hundred dollars. Assessment roll of Amador County, two million five hundred and sixty-three thousand three hundred and seventy dollars. ($2,563,370.)