The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-10-18
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
San Francisco, October 9th, per S.
australia.
tErom our Special correspondence
Points on Sugar.

Points on Sugar.
At meeting of the local Tammany
Club, at the instigation of Boss Buckley,
a committee of three, consisting of At
torneys G. L. Alderman, P. F. Dunno
and R. L. Mitchell, was appointed to
" unearth the nefarious practices of GER
tain trusts, particularly the sugar trust. "
This is political movement aimed di-
rectly at the American Sugar Refinery,
but it is probable that further action will
be checked by the New York Democrats,
as the sugar trust subscribed largely 10
their campaign funds.
The electric process of refining sugar
is being widely discussed by the press.
The stock is largely purchased in Eng
land and is quoted at from $500 to $500
per share. Nobody has yet seen the
machinery, but thirteen barrels of sugar
have been turned out as the result OF its
successful working. E. ". Keller, one
OF the projectors, is in San Francisco
with samples which very much resem-
BILE beet sugar.
The jacksonville beet factory COM
menced operations yesterday, all pros
poets being reported favorable. The
average percentage of sugar in the beets
is found TO be Is to 20 per cent, while
in Germany it does not average more
than ii to Is per cent. The farmers
were guaranteed 81 per ton for their
beets with higher figures according to
higher saccharine contents. They will
really receive from 81 to IS per ton, and
are naturally very jubilant. One lot of
beets analysed 22.7 per cent.
The contractors of the Spreckels' re-
finery at Philadelphia are at work on the
fifth floor of the buildings, although the
contract has only been let for couple of
months.
Rened sugars declined a cent on 8th
inst, and the same to-day, making gran
ulated IA cents.
Judge O'Brien, of New York, has
granted permission to AttOrney-General
Tabor to bring suit against the Have
meyer and Elder refinery to annul its
charter Roger A Pryor will represent
the AttOrney-General in the case. The
object of the suit is to annul the cOrpOr-
ate existence OF the company and to va
cate It's charter upon the ground that 1t
has violated the Act under which it was
incorporated, and has exercised privi-
leges and franchise not conferred upon it
by law.
Political P1easantries.
The election of 1888 will be recollected
in San Francisco as having been charac-
terized by a most blackguardly and cow
ardly display of rnffianism. The Demo-
Gratis took occasion to celebrate the Re-
publican primary elections Bye manifes-
tatiOn unequaled since 1856. During the
day they attacked the polling places with
bricks, CObble stones, and axes belong
ing to the Fire Department. They tore
HnyE,T1 onH hrOlya T1fn hI1ilHinnC cnfza1
and smashed the ballot boxes and de-
stroyed their contents. Pistol shots were
exchanged at various places, and at one
precinct an effort was made to burn
Inspector j. ID. Brown to death because
he defended his ballot box. A lighted
lamp was thrown at him, cutting a cash
in his head. The oil ignited and poured,
burning, all over his body inficting
severe injuries. The police were either
in sympathy with Buckley's lambs or
were afraid to interfere. Members of
the Fire Department were conspicuous
as the ringleaders in these outrages.
The law-breaking and violence Gull
minated in the evening at 7 o'clock
entered the Republican County Com
mittee's headquarters. They were
headed by ruffian named VIM. Har-
rington, renegade Republican, re-
warded for treachery in betraying his
party by receiving office from Buckley
under the License Collector. This black
guard entered the Republican head
quarters solely for the purpose of Great
ing riot, and he had not been there
many minutes before he drew his re-
volver and fired five shots, hitting three
men one of whom received three of the
bullets in his body. David Donohue
was shot in the abdomen and died
within half an hour Antoine Chris
Hanson was dangerously wounded by
bullet entering his chest, and which
was extracted from the back. Martin
Kelly was wounded in three places, in
the left side, the left foot and the chest.
Kelly was the man that Harrington
chiefly intended to kill, though he was
not particular whose gore was shed. He
himself received two bullet wounds, one
in the neck, and the other entering the
back near the right shoulder, passing
out in front. Who fired these two shots
is not known, but seven were fired in all
within about minute. The widest ex-
element and confusion existed on
KearneY street, the Republican head
quarters being near Market. This was,
throughout, the most disreputable and
most disgraceful days electioneering
tactics that ever occurred in the city of
San Francisco.
American Affairs.
Isaac E. Davis, of the firm of Davis &
Cowell, is dead.
Fifty Irish athletes are exhibiting
throughout the United States.
The case against jury briber McCord