Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 40, Number 7063, 2 January 1871
RECORD OF NOTABLE EVENTS FOR 1870 (January-February).
We subjoin a record of the more prominent events and industries of the State and county for the past year :
JANUARY.
1st — A. McGimsey and John Ornbaum quarreled near Cloverdale. McGimsey was killed … Colored people celebrated emancipation in various parts of the State.
2d — The steamship companies and Wells Fargo & Co. cut down the wages of all their employes ; several manufacturing companies did the same thing.
4th — James McGowan, a tinsmith, fell from a scaffolding in San Francisco and was killed … Judge Sanderson of the Supreme Court resigned … Earthquake at Bakersfield, Kern county.
5th — A child of Mrs. McQuicken had its foot cut off by the street cars in San Francisco … The Bulletin commenced using its Eight Cylinder Hoe press … John Cavanaugh fell from the yard-arm of the Royal Edward and was killed.
7th — The Independent Pullman train ceased running.
8th — Bradley Hall, District Attorney of Marin county, died.
9th — Charles F. Knoll fell dead in San Francisco, while dressing … M. G. Searing had his spine fractured in San Francisco by being thrown from his buggy.
10th — Jackson Temple appointed Justice Supreme Court, vice Sandersen, resigned … Margaret Scannell committed suicide with strychnine, in San Francisco. … Mrs. Median, aged 60, was fined $230 in San Francisco, for horsewhipping Colonel Murphy, who had insulted her. …The Grand Jury of Los Angeles county indicted the Mayor and Common Council of Los Angeles for issuing fraudulent bonds. They each gave $5,000 bail.
11th — David Harris (colored) was stabbed and killed by Samuel Carpenter near Placerville in a drunken spree … A fire destroyed $3,000 worth of property in Stockton.
12th — James Hefferman took an ounce of laudanum in San Francisco, spoke of it and was at once pumped out.
13th — Sam Ratcliffe had his leg broken by the upsetting of his wagon in Washington.
14th — Clement B. Ellis was found dead in San Francisco from an over-dose of laudanum.
15th – Dion beat Deary 181 points In 1,000 on a carom table. . . .W. C Stratton resigned as State Librarian, and Wm. Neely Johnson was appointed in his place.
16th — Mrs. Sophia Sand committed suicide with arsenic in San Francisco— temporary insanity the cause . . . .David S. Davis was caved on and killed at North San Juan….Earthquake at Los Angeles.
19th — Charles Haley had his leg broken by being thrown from a wagon in San Francisco … John Schmidt was drowned at Oakland.
21st — Zabriskie Irwin was thrown from his horse and had his leg broken in San Francisco…. An organgrindlng armless soldier was married in San Francisco to a girl of eighteen…. Wm. Witte hung himself at Sonoma.
23d— A man named Goodhope, while fishing from Greenwich dock, fell into the Bay and was drowned. A fire in Vallejo destroyed $15,500 worth of property.
24th — Francis Burke was killed in a mine in Grass Valley by a rock failing on him … Maggie Ryan, aged six and a half years, was found dead under a building corner of Drumm and Pacific streets, San. Francisco. The condition of her body showed plainly that she had been outraged before her death, and probably murdered in the struggle. A pair of new shoes that she
had on when she left home on Saturday, had been stolen from her feet.
25th — M. Quinn, who committed the outrage on Maggie Ryan, was arrested. The officers had a hard time to keep the crowd from hanging him. He confessed the outrage but denies the murder. . . Captain Edward Cordell, of the Coast Survey, died in an apoplectic fit in the streets of San Francisco.
28th — A fire in Los Angeles destroyed $70,000 worth of property. Charles T. Carvalho, for years Chinese interpreter in San Francisco, died after a lingering illness.
FEBRUARY.
1st — Minister F. F. Low and family sailed for China.
3d — The schooner Emma Adelia, loaded with hay, was burned near Benicia.
5th — The foundry of Palmer, Knox & Co., San Francisco, was destroyed by fire.
6th — Thomas Stevenson was crushed to death in Butte county, by being run over by a wagon.
7th — Richard Pope was killed at the dairy of the Insane Asylum by a patient named John Burnett . . . .John Hartz, an insane man, jumped off a precipice at San Francisco, and was fatally injured. . . . A. Slahne fell on a circular saw in San Francisco and was killed.
8th — A fire in San Francisco burned up the tobacco factories of Ruhle & Co. and Hull & Co. Loss $5,000.
9th — Thos. Lloyd shot and killed a man named Barry in San Francisco.
12th — The Garrison House at Benicia destroyed by fire. Loss $2,000…. Captain Lassen, of the Crimea, was washed overboard and drowned while crossing Humboldt bar.
15th — Mrs. General P. D. Colton’s arm was broken by being thrown from her carriage in San Francisco … Henry Lakeman had two ounces of laudanum pumped out of him in San Francisco.
16th — John Rice, Miss Rice and Miss Holcomb were crossing the Honcut near Timbuctoo, their buggy tipped over and Miss Rice was drowned.
17th — Earthquake in San Francisco at 12:12 p.m. Also felt at Tuolumne City.
22d — Grand Musical Festival opened at the Pavilion, San Francisco.
23d — George Currier had his arm fractured, another man had his thumb blown off, and a boy named Moses Franklin was dangerously wounded in the abdomen, by a premature discharge of a gun at the Musical Festival … A little son of Conrad Heppel was drowned in the Los Gatos, near Alameda, while obtaining driftwood.
28th — Charles M. Armstrong blew his brains out in San Francisco with a shotgun.