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March 1. Charles C. Nahl, the eminent figure painter, and an "Argonaut " of 1850, dies. .. . The olympic Club gives successful exhibition at Baldwin's Tncater.
March 2. J. Graver suicides. .. . August Fugelsang found near Eight-mile House fatally wounded. .. . F. W. May arrested for the attempted poisoning of Ex-Super- visor Drucker. . . . John Brarens found dead.
March 3. Guy R. Skinner suicides .... Wesley D. Barnes is shot by a woman claiming to be his wife. Wil- liam Inkhen drowned in the bay. . . . Thaddeus Honan, a training-ship boy, suicides by drowning.
March 4. The Centennial anniversary of Robert Em- met's birth is celebrated by overflowing houses in Metro- politan Temple and Pacific Hall.
March 5. The body of Joseph D. Olesen recovered from the bay. .. . The German Hospital Fair closes with net profits, $20,000 .-
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March 8. Edward Hicks found guilty of killing William Page, July 4, 1877. .. . Lorenzo Alloni dies from knife wound.
March 10. Meeting of stockholders and depositors of the Pioneer Bank held in Charter Oak Hall.
March 11. Several severe accidents occur from runa- way horses, by one of which Miss Hyde is killed. . .. James Hamilton, a distinguished marine painter, dies.
March 12. The boot and shoe manufacturers organize against Chinese labor.
March 14. J. C. Merrill and G. W. Jenks charged with aiding Duncan's escape.
March 16. Mecting of citizens and taxpayers in Platt's Hall to protest against the Spring Valley Water Bill. .. . Eight cases of smallpox are reported. .. . Emma C. Downes dies from abortion by Mrs. C. L. Hodgdon.
March 17. Dr. Samuel Duncan suicides. .. . P. J. Mc- Ginn suicides by drowning, and J. A. Linehan by pistol. .. . St. Patrick's Day celebrated by services in all the Catholic churches, a grand procession, and banquet at the Occidental Hotel.
March 19. Mrs. Cynthia L. Hodgdon is held for the murder of Emma C. Downes. . . . Adam Zweckler suicides by hanging ... . Joseph Maguire, musician, dies in Oak- land,
March 20. Princess Lilinokalani, heiress apparent to the Hawaiian throne, arrives.
March 22. Jeanette Delpodia suicides by strychnine. . . . Mechanics' State Council holds its tenth annual meeting. . . The Workingmen's County Convention meets to nominate a County Committee.
March 24. John Lange suicides ..... The wrecked schooner General Miller is towed into port; all hands supposed to be lost.
March 25. The Supervisors adopt resolutions looking to an increase of the police force.
March 26. Officer Rosekamp seizes $15,000 worth of smuggled opium. .. . Annual election of officers of San Francisco Art Association is held. . . . William Faulkner dies.
March 27. John Dunn and John Donnelly suicide by pistols. . . . A J. Jeghers, for many years Deputy County Clerk, dies.
March 29. Mark Hopkins, Treasurer Central Pacific R. il. Co., dies at Fort Yuma, A. T.
March 30. H. H. Johnston arrested for embezzling $11,394 from the Mutual Life Insurance Co.
March 31. George W. Abbott, absconding defaulter, is brought back from Acapulco, Mexico. .. . James E. Deming suicides by pistol. . . . John Smith accidentally drowns in the bay .. . . William Kidd stabs B. Mclaughlin. April 1. A general reduction of ten per cent. in the wages of strect railroad employes goes into operation.
April 2. Accounts of T. J. Dixon, late Police Court Clerk, short over $10,000. The office is declared vacant, and Bert McNulty elected to vacancy.
April 5. Louis Aibischer suicides by strychnine .... William Regan found dead.
April 6. John W. Ames, United States Surveyor-Gen- eral for California, dies.
April 7. A. R. Watterson suicides by poison.
April 8. Board of Supervisors decides to create one hundre l new policemen.
April 9. Patrick Farrally suicides.
April 10. California Street R. R. opens for traffic. . . . Mrs. Stewart and two children burned to death at 1214 Stockton street.
April 12. Joseph Bunting confesses to defalcations in Street Department. . . . Capt. Douglass raids a prize fight at Platt's Hall.
April 13. Cortland Wood suicides.
April 14. Convent of St. Rose dedicated.
April 16. Street car runs over and kills John Callahan. ... Fire corner Eighth and Howard streets; damages, $6,000. ... L. G. Demet shot by garroters.
April 17. The Branch Mint coins first new dollar.
April 20. Frank Spearman killed by a dummy of the California Street R. R. .. . Schr Caroline Medau arrives with $16,000 silver bullion from wreck of the City of San Francisco. .. . Controller trots the best twenty miles on record; time, 58:57.
April 22. Annual reunion of San Francisco Art Associ- ation held. . . . Matthias Hollebach suicides.
April 23. Fire at Pacific Wire Works; damage, $3,000. April 24. John Gamage shoots A. J. LeBreton. .. . The Democratic and Republican State Central Committees meet at Palace Hotel.
April 26. John Runk is hanged in the County Jail for
the murder of policeman Coots. . . . The Australian cricket team arrives on steamer City of Sydney.
April 28. John Wall drops dead.
April 29. Judge Sawyer decides Chinese ineligible to become citizens of the United States. ... George H. Howard dies at San Mateo.
April 30. A fire in the old Mansion House on Dupont Strect; four Chinamen burned to death; damages, $18,000.
May 1. The California Chemical Works destroyed by fire; damages, $37,000. . . . Episcopal Convention of Cali- fornia meets. .. . Grand review and shamn battle at the Presidio.
May 2. W. S. O'Brien, of the bonanza firm, dies.
May 4. The funeral of the late W. S. O'Brien is largely attended.
May 5. The Italian war steamer Christofore Colombo arrives.
May 10. John Tuttle suicides with aconite.
May 12. Louis Heyman suicides. ... . James Banna- tyne accidentally drowns in the bay.
May 13. Fire at 747 Market street; loss, $37,500. . Grand Encampmont I. O. O. F. meets.
May 14. State Sabbath School Convention mects.
A fire in North Beach and Mission R. R. Co.'s stable ; damages, $10,000. . . . Christopher Myrtetus suicides.
May 15. Dr. W. G. Wayman, member of the Board of Health, dies.
May 16. Kearney Convention assembles at Charter
Oak Hall. Anti-Kearney Convention at Tittel's Hall.
May 18. Mrs. B. St. Denis killed by fall from a bal- cony.
May 19. John H. Burke sues the bonanza firm for $35,000,000. . . . Joseph Davis, absconding manager Sac- ramento Dime Savings Bank, arrested.
May 20. Michael Shannon dies from stab by parties unknown.
May 21. Hon. E. B. Washburne arrives. ... Andrew Spohr murders his wife, Lena.
May 22. James Baxter dies from wounds inflicted by A. P. Church.
May 23. Gustav A. Kempel suicides by drowning.
May 24. Thomas Rose suicides.
May 26. John Murphy and Edward Drummond drowned in the bay. . . . Moritz Marks drowned off North Beach.
May 27. Dr. R. B. Todd accidentally shoots and kills William E. Sturges.
May 28. The grand Music Festival opens in the Mechanics' Pavilion. ... Ormond M. Lissak succeeds in competitive examination for West Point appointment.
May 29. B. F. Napthaly arrested for grand larceny. .. . George W. Abbott convicted of embezzlement.
May 30. Memorial day appropriately celebrated.
May 31. Dennis Donnelly suicides. .... Property owners mcet in opposition to extension of Fifteenth Avenue.
June 1. The May Musical Festival closes. .. . William H. Butler suicides.
June 2. The South Pacific Coast Narrow Gauge Rail- road opens.
June 3. Registration for the Constitutional Conven- tion election closes with 38,500 names on Register.
June 2. The Democrats complete their Convention ticket. .. . Five hundred and seventy-five Chinese arrive on the steamer Oceanic.
June 5. Non-Partisans hold an immense ratification meeting in Platt's Hall.
June 6. Ellen Weyermiller suicides by drowning. . . Thomas J. Arnold dies.
June 7. Adah L. Van Heussen dies from abortion.
June 8. Sol. A. Sharp, a distinguished member of the San Francisco bar, dies.
June 9. James Downey suicides by drowning.
June 10. Charles Warner suicides by drowning.
June 11. John G. Gerding suicides. . . . . John B. Stevenson found dead. .. . Herbert Grinnell, defaulting salesman, absconds.
June 14. Schuyler Colfax lectures on the "Life and Character of Lincoln."
June 15. The Workingmen -- Kearney wing-hold a torchlight procession. . . . The San Francisco Lacrosse Club wins the championship.
June 17. Thomas Wagner appointed United States Surveyor-General for California.
June 18. P. J. Kedrolivanskey dies from fracture of skull.
June 19. Election of delegates to the Constitutional
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Convention passes off quietly, the total vote polled being 27,113. With six tickets in the field, the Kearney wing, Workingmen, elects its local ticket by an average major- ity over the Non-Partisans of 5,385.
June 21. Edward Hanrahan kills both his wife and cousin, Michael Sheehan, with an axe.
June 24. Pierce Neagle. shoots Bridget T. Hardnett, and then suicides. .. . The depositors and members of the Odd Fellows' Savings Bank reorganize with a capital stock of $250,000.
June 25. A convention of proprietors and editors of the Press of the State mneets at Palace Hotel, and organ- ize The California Press Association.
June 26. William Herbold suicides.
June 27. J. W. Batchelder and Godfreid Henninger arrested for trafficking in police appointments. . . . Thoin- as Downing suicides.
June 28. Augustus Hahn suicides.
June 29. Hiram B. Cook and John P. Bell arrested for defalcation.
July 1. R. M. Clarken, Clerk City Criminal Court, arrested for embezzlement. .. . Nearly all the principal city and county offices are removed to the new City Hall. July 2. Capt. C. A. Morrell arrested for complicity in opium smuggling.
July 3. Chief Natchez, of the Piute Indians, arrives. July 4. The day is appropriately celebrated with a procession, and literary exercises at Metropolitan Temple. . . The Fire Department responds to twenty-six differ- ent alarms; damages nominal. .. . The Pacific Yacht Club dedicate their new Club House and grounds at New Saucelito. ... The San Francisco Yacht Club visit Vallejo and Napa.
July 5. Luis Vargas suicides. .. . Belt. factory, corner Alabama and Twenty-first streets, destroyed by fire; loss, $5,000.
July 8. The Jesuit Fathers commence work for their new church and college buildings, on Van Ness Avenue. July 9. The ship Western Shore wrecked on Duxbury Reef; loss, $90,000.
July 10. Dr. Kimball Favor arrested for abortion.
July 11. Isaac Friedlander, a prominent merchant, dies. . . . John H. Ruby suicides. .. . Tom Wallace, a noted burglar, is. brought back to the city.
July 12. Isaac W. Smith appointed Engineer of the Board of Harbor Commissioners.
July 13. Sash and blind factory of B. & J. S. Doe destroyed by fire; loss, $35,000.
July 16. William Oaks dies from a fractured skull. . . Honorah Lynich dies from a stab inflicted by her husband.
July 20. Thomas N. Starr suicides by drowning.
July 21. Dennis Kearney leaves for Massachusetts.
July 23. The Public Kindergarten Society of San Francisco organize.
July 24. John Heidemann suicides.
July 25.
Gold is discovered in the Ocean Beach dig- ging's.
July 26. The City of Tokio arrives with Chinese embassy. July 28. Immense crowds visit the Occan Beach gold mines.
July 31. William B. Carr, on trial for complicity in fraudulent navy certificates, acquitted.
August 1. Henry Droge murders his wife and suicides. Aug. 3. A telegram announces the death of Michael Reese in Germany. .. . San Francisco Yacht Club holds its annual regatta.
Aug. 4. John B. Warner shoots and kills William J. Wilson.
Aug. 8. The Hastings Law College inaugurated.
Aug. 9. George Smith suicides.
Aug. 11. Henry J. Montaguc, distinguished society actor, dics.
Aug. 12. Batchelder and Henninger, the police brokers, sentenced to County Jail, the first for one year, the other for six months.
Aug. 12. The Thirteenth Mechanics' Fair opens with literary exercises at Metropolitan Temple. .. . Thomas Thompson suicides.
Aug. 15. Registrar Kaplan publishes tables of number and nativity of voters in city; total, 37,915, of which 16,818 are foreign born. . . . Louis Colen suicides.
Aug. 16. Einstein Bros., boot and shoe manufacturers, fail for $800,000.
Aug. 18. Ferd. T. Brewster killed at South Pacific Coast R. R. landing, Alameda.
Aug. 19. A meeting of clergymen of all denominations
held to secure a Sunday observance clause in the Consti- tution.
Aug. 20. P. J. Boardman suicides. .. . N. R. Middleton fatally injured by street car horses.
Aug. 21. San Francisco's first installment, $1,000, Yellow Fever Relief Fund, is forwarded by the Israelitcs of the city. .. . As a result of the examination by the Bank Commissioners, the, Masonic Savings and Loan Society closes its doors.
Aug. 22. Heury Ward Beecher delivers first lecture. . . Judge Dwinelle decides Safe Deposit Co. responsible for Duncan's over-issue of stock.
Aug. 23. Sophia Wahr, aged 13, suicides by strychnine. Aug. 14. John McGowan dies from stab inflicted by William Howard. .. . Fire in Murphy, Grant & Co.'s storc; damages, $40,000.
Aug. 26. William Baker shoots Adel Gray.
Aug. 27. A. H. Manson suicides when about to be arrested for the attempted murder of his wife. . . . Joseph Lrusher suicides.
Aug. 29. A shooting affray between ex-Supervisor M. J. Kelly and his brother-in-law, John Russell. .. . Citi- zens organize relief movement in aid of yellow fever suf- ferers.
September 1. John Russell dies of his wound .... Jacob Kister accidentally shoots and kills Frank Heigle. . .. . Beecher preaches to an immense congregation in the Grand Opera Housc.
Sept. 2 Ex-Governor H. H. Haight dies.
Sept. 3. The Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of Savings upon examination by Bank Commissioners, is ordered into liquidation.
Sept. 4. Postmaster-General Key and party arrive. Sept. 7. Higinio de Cimia suicides.
Sept. 9. Golden Gate District Fair opens. ... Admis- sion Day celebrated by literary exercises at Pacific Hall, and picnic at Woodward's Gardens.
Sept. 11. Alexander Austin, ex-Tax Collector, suicides at San Mateo.
Sept. 12. General John C. Fremont, newly appointed Governor of Arizona, arrives .. . . Samuel B. Husselman is charged with embracery, and sentenced to ten days' jail and fine of $1,000.
Sept. 14. Hattic L. Russell suicides. .. . Mechanics' Fair proper closes. Receipts, $41,145.55 ; expenses, $20,- 793.84.
Sept. 15. Mechanics' Fair continued to-day for yellow fever sufferers. Receipts, $1,511.50. .. . Bishop Simpson preaches in Grand Opera House.
sept. 16. Mrs. Hodgdon convicted of murder in sec- ond degrec.
Sept. 17. Gustav Mahé, Director General French Bank, suicides. .. . The California Pioneers give reception to General Fremont ... . The protested tax monies in the hands of the late collector, A. Austin, amounting to $286,- 236.53, are found to have been embezzled. ... Captain Albert G. Jones dics.
Sept. 18. The French Bank suspends business pend- ing examination by the Bank Commissioners.
Sept. 19. Mary Ann Burns suicides by poison.
Sept. 22. Independent Order of B'nai B'rith lays cor- ner-stone of their new Hall on Eddy street. . . . Twenty- flfth anniversary Young Mens' Christian Association held in First Congregational Church.
Sept. 24. Gen. Fremont and party leaves for Arizona. . . . . Statc Teachers' Association ineets.
Sept. 25. Large mass meeting of Germans at Horti- cultural Hall protests against any Sunday Law.
Sept. 26. Generals Sherman and McCook, U. S. A., arrive. . . . . Julius A. Keefc suicides.
Sept. 30. Daniel Merkle, a hoodlum, aged 19, shot and killed by Edward A. Von Schmidt. . . . Maude McNeal suicides. .. . Supervisor Hill resigns.
October 1. J. H. Montgomery suicides. ... H. J. Wid- mer assaults Mr. Bierce.
Oct. 2. Gilbert L. Domm arrested for forgerics to amount of $5,750.
Oct. 4. Charles M. Martin dies from having been thrown from a balcony.
Oct. 7. 'Judge Dwinelle declares the French Bank in- solvent, and appoints F. F. Low receiver.
Oct. 9. David D. Colton, Financial Director of the C. P. R. R. Co., and Vice President of the S. P. R. R. Co., dies.
Oct. 14. The first heavy rain of the season.
Oct. 16. Julius Knopf suicides.
Oct. 17. Andrew Spohr sentenced for life for wife murder.
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Oct. 18. Guiseppe Cariffina suicides.
Oct. 19. Fire at 314 Francisco street; loss, $10,000; and at 19 Commercial street; loss, $6,000. . . . Thomas L. Smithi accidentally shot and killed by E. H. Ladd.
Oct. 20. Corner stone of the new St. Ignatius Church on Van Ness Avenue laid. .. . A fire in Chinatown ; loss, $8,000.
Oct. 21. The Australian cricket team, en route home, arrives.
Oct. 22. Thomas P. Kettell, journalist, dies.
Oct. 23. George Buxton suicides.
Oct. 24. Thomas A. Talbert appointed Supervisor, vice Hill, resigned. .. . Great cricket match; Australian team defeats twenty-two Californians.
Oct. 26. Heinrich Buscher suicides. . . Andrew Sandey dies from injuries received by a Market street car ..
Oct. 27. R. Lyman Potter, the "Wheelbarrow Man," arrives. .. . Episcopal Church celebrate twenty-fifth anni- versary of Bishop Kip's ordination.
Oct. 28. Colonel Richard Realf suicides in Oakland. Oct. 31. Frank H. Roscoe suicides.
November 1. Indignation mecting at Irish-American Hall denounces Col. Bec. ... Wells, Fargo & Co. issue circular stopping contributions for yellow fever sufferers. Their agency shows receipts and disbursements, $52,335.05
Nov. 2. W. H. Rulofson, Sr., photographer, killed by a fall.
Nov. 3. Dashaway Association opens their new hall on Post street.
Nov. 6. Moses Kullman suicides.
Nov. 7. Ann M. Barry murdered by Michael Sullivan, alias "Red Mike."
Nov. 10. The Athletics win the base ball champion- ship.
Nov. 12. Henry S. Smith, Vice-President Mechanics' Institute, dies.
Nov. 15. Officer Wallace charged with making unlaw- ful arrest of Charles Crocker.
Nov. 16. Reports of amounts contributed to Yellow Fever Fund show : total forwarded, $119,587.80; remain- ing on hand, $6,398.64.
Nov. 17. John Corning, Assistant General Superin- tendent C. P. R. R., dies at Los Angeles.
Nov. 18. Edwin Stanton, a Lincoln School boy, proves to be a girl in disguise.
Nov. 21. George M. Smith kills his wife for refusing to live with him. .. . Bernard F. Kenny, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, dies.
Nov. 22. Charles H. French, hackman, killed by the
overturning of his hack. ... Corner stone of Beth Israel Synagogue is laid.
Nov. 23. Giovanni Mirasole suicides. .. . Tom Wallace sentenced to penctentiary for fourteen years.
Nov. 24. Mary Rodriguez dies from wounds inflicted by J. B. Ayres.
Nov. 25. William Grifis, alias Saville, the London bank forger, arrested.
Nov. 26. The Workingmen give Kearney a grand reception on his arrival from the East. .. . The Supreme Court affirms the legality of the Dupont Street and Montgomery Avenue widening assessments.
Nov. 27. Thanksgiving Day generally observed by a suspension of business.
Nov. 28. The Bulletin publishes the questions pre- pared in State Superintendent's office for teachers' exam- inations .... Wilhelm Taureck suicides.
Nov. 30. Louis Deverger suicides.
December 1. Jean Papon and Charles A. Bauer suicide. Dec. 2. Fire Commissioners dismiss their secretary, J. J. Henretta, and elect John P. Shine.
Dec. 5. George Gardiner suicides.
Dec. 7. William K. Black dies.
Dec. 8. Ernest A. Blackburn suicides.
Dec. 9. Patrick Thornton suicides.
Dec. 11. Supreme Court decides the appointment of a Receiver for the French Bank unlawful. .. . N. Landry, real-estate agent, suicides.
Dec. 13. Carsten H. Warmholz suicides .... Fire on Hayes street destroys property to the amount of $12,000. Dec. 15. General B. S. Alexander, U. S. A., President Board of Engineers Pacific Coast, dies.
Dec. 16. Trial of J. C. Duncan begins.
Dec. 17. Clerk Hall, of the London and San Francisco Bank, absconds. The Bank loses $60,000.
Dec. 18. Andrew J. Pope dies.
Dec. 24. The Relief Committee yellow fever fund, ap- propriates the unexpended balance in Park improve- ments. .. . Charles E. Gorham and Jerome Barabino sui- cide.
Dec. 26. William S. Wells drowns in Lake Merritt.
Dec. 27. James Gordon Bennett's Arctic yacht Jean- nette, arrives.
Dec. 30. Thomas' Crossley shoots his wife and then suicides. .. . Another stormy meeting of French Bank depositors. . . . John H. Coover suicides.
Dec. 31. Meeting of French Bank depositors in Platt's Hall. .. . A fire at the Golden Gate Match Factory burns to death thrce Chinamen.
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EXPLANATORY .- The Ordinance for re-numbering the buildings of this city provides that "Market Street shall be the starting point for the numbers of all buildings fronting on the streets running therefrom in a northerly direction and also for those running therefrom in a southeasterly direction. The streets laid down in the official map of the city as forming the water front thereof shall be the starting point for numbers on all streets running westerly and southwesterly there -- from, except upon such streets running westerly commencing from Market Street, and upon all such streets, Market Street shall be the starting point for numbers. On all streets the numbers on the right hand side, starting from the point of beginning, are even numbers, and on the left hand side, odd numbers. One hundred numbers, or as many thereof as may be necessary, shall be allotted to each block bounded by principal streets; numbers 100, 200, and 300 being respectively the numbers for commencing the blocks distant one, two, and three streets from the starting point on the side designated for even numbers, and numbers 101, 201, and 301, in similar manner for the opposite side of the street, throughout its extent ; so that the initial figure of the number placed on a building at any street-crossing shall indicate the number of main streets such street-crossing is from the starting point. Not less than twenty feet in frontage of all vacant lots of ground shall be allowed for each number. On all cross or intermediate streets the numbering shall commence where said streets begin, and shall conform to the plan specified in this Order.'
By this new decimal system of numbering buildings, the exact location of any number is readily ascertained ; for example, if you want to find 624 Montgomery, it is on the east side of the block extending from Clay to Washington, which is the seventh from Market-Commercial and Merchant being private streets. Again : 825 Clay is on the ninth block from the water front, which is the one extending from Dupont to Stockton. It must be borne in mind that one hundred numbers are allowed on each block between principal streets.
The following streets are but partially opened, and each differ materially from the plan originally laid out, viz : Clementina, Ecker, Jessie, Minna, Natoma, Ritch, Shipley, Stevenson, and Tehama.
The territory lying west of Laurel Hill and Odd Fellows' cemeteries, and generally known as the Outside Lands, has been recently surveyed, and is designated on the new official City and County Map as avenues and streets. Those running north and south are named respectively from First to Forty-ninth avenues, and those running east and west, from First Avenue to the Ocean, and parallel with Point Lobos Avenue, A to W streets. There are a few avenues and streets out- side of the boundaries of the foregoing, the names of which will be found included in the Street Directory.
Reference is frequently made in the Register of Names to the following, and which are located as follows : Hoadley's Addition, situated west of Pierce and between Geary and Washington; Horner's Addition, south and near the Mission Dolores ; Western Addition, west of Larkin; San Miguel Ranch, southwest and near the Mission Dolores : Bernal Heights (B. H.), south of Twenty-sixth Street, between San Bruno and San José roads ; and University Mound Tract (U. M. T.), west of San Bruno Road, five miles from the City Hall. See, also, Prominent Places, end Street Directory.
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