Sacramento Daily Union, 2 January 1871
JULY.
1st — The residence of Captain Blair, near Stockton, burned ; loss, $25,000.
2d — W. D. Walsh, while riding with his wife at Oakland, was thrown from the buggy and his neck broken …. P. Breen was drowned in Pajaro river.
3d — A party of fourteen ladies and gentlemen were poisoned at San Gregorio by eating mussels. Captain Wm. Hanaford, an 1849 pioneer, died from the effects.
4th — Independence Day was duly celebrated in all parts of the State. The usual number of accidents occurred…. James Edwards shot and killed Mat Regan at Visalia — Edward Myers was shot and killed in San Francisco. George E. Conner is charged with the crime.
7th — Wm. Guy was shot, killed and robbed by one Arcea near Gilroy.
8th — N. E. Lane suicided at Michigan Bluff by cutting his throat .
9th — Giant Powder Works, near San Francisco, exploded. John Hany, the Assistant Superintendent of the works, was killed and two Chinese workmen badly injured.
10th — J. H. VanStrtaten fell in the Bay and was drowned at Oakland … Miss Leltie Berton was burned to death at Marysville.
11th — Telegraph lines between Los Angeles and Anaheim completed and first message sent.
12th — Three Chinamen were arrested for forging notes on the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. The lithographs, copperplates, tools, etc., and £35,000 in £1 notes were captured … The Grand Jury of Los Angeles made a partial report, including 16 indictments for murder.
15th — News of the declaration of war by France against Prussia received. The declaration of war was announced to the French Corps Legislatif at fifty minutes to 1 p. m., July 15th.
17th — Earthquake at Fort Tejon…. Patrick H.Grimes, James Clark and B. Bazzaline were drowned in San Antonio Creek by the upsetting of a new boat invented by the latter.
19th — Magalia, alias Dogtown, burned ; loss, $20,000; insurance $13,000 in the Occidental Insurance Company … Large German meeting held in San Francisco to aid Fatherland.
20th — A boy named Walker, was thrown from his horse and killed at Stockton.
21st — John Nolan, crossing a bridge over Mormon Slough, slipped and fell, striking a cross brace and dropped in the water dead…. W. G. Hutchinson, engineer of the California and Oregon Railroad, was drowned while running across the Sacramento, near the mouth of Pitt river.
22d — Father A. C. Eiden, of St. Mary’s Hospital, had his leg broken by being thrown from his buggy in San Francisco. . . A. M. Dibble had his leg badly broken and torn, near Chico, by being caught in the horse-power of a thrashing machine.
23d — A full barn belonging to Noah Burroughs and a stack of grain, property of Wm. Gray, were burned at Waterloo; loss, $4,000.
24th — The residence of A. H. Jordan in San Mateo was destroyed by fire ; loss $18,000.
25th — The barn, outbuildings, two horses and twenty tons of hay, property Of David Austin, Sutter county, was burned ; loss, $10,000. 26th— Frank Baker, aged fifteen, fell from a cherry tree, at Los Angeles, and broke his neck.
27th — Oilman’s dry goods store was burned in Grass Valley; loss, $15,000.
30th — John Tyler shot and killed a well-known gambler, named James Dobson, on Montgomery street, San Francisco.
31st — George Francis Train was hit with a rotten egg while lecturing in San Francisco.
AUGUST.
1st — The San Francisco printers struck for higher wages.
2d — Anna Getchel was burned to death in Nevada City at a fire which also destroyed $2,500 worth of property.
3d — W. C. Rice, former President of the California Pacific Railroad, died in San Francisco.
4th — Earthquake shock at Santa Cruz.
5th — Charles Quinn, who so brutally, outraged and murdered little Maggie Ryan, was found guilty of murder in the second degree by a San Francisco jury.
8th — Wells, Fargo & . Co.’s express stage, near Volcano, was robbed of $5,100.
9th — Jack Stratman was found guilty, in San Francisco, of libel on J. C. Duncan. 10th — Mrs. Abraham Eiken nearly cut her bead off with a razor at Stockton . . . Republican State Central Committee adopted resolutions of sympathy with Germany.
11th —The Mint was damaged $6,000 by fire…. H. F. Hitt hit Charles Chapmen with a load of duck shot near Los Angeles for seducing his wife.
12th — John Chapman, while eating his breakfast near Georgetown, was shot dead…. San Francisco Typographical Union pronounced the printers’ strike a failure.
13th — Jack Stratman sentenced by judge Lake to six months in the county jail for libel on J. C. Duncan.
15th — The boot and shoe factory of J. Frank & Co., in San Mateo county, destroyed by fire. Insured for $30,000. One hundred Chinamen had been employed in the factory … Flags in San Francisco were at halfmast in honor of Admiral Farragut, who died yesterday at Portsmouth, N. H. … The town at the New Almaden mines destroyed by fire.
16th—A fire at Knight’s Ferry destroyed over $20,000 worth of the business portion of the town.
20th — Telegraph line completed to San Diego.
24th — Mr. Jacks, of Monterey, run his leg through a stationary washbasin at the Russ House, San Francisco, severely injuring himself.
25th — F. W. Horn, a German, suicided in San Francisco by smothering himself with a handkerchief … Annie Mooney, 13 years of age, died at Brooklyn from the combined effects of drugs and a brutal outrage.
29th — George, Katie and Lewis Walthers aged respectively 5½, 7 and 9 years, were playing in their father’s granary, ten miles from Yuba City, when a pile of wheat fell on them, killing George and injuring the others severely.
30th — A fire at Auburn destroyed the railroad depot, freight shed and Smith’s Hotel … Fifteen freight cars were thrown from the ‘trestle’ work beyond Feather River bridge, on the California and Oregon Railroad, a distance of twenty feet and smashed up completely . . . A little son of Richard Wright was crushed to death while playing around an idle over-shot wheel at Oro Fino, Siskiyou county.