The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-07-03
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER
Per s. S. Umatilla, San Francisco, June
81, 1889.

(trom our special correspondent.)
American Affairs.
A bank sneak has relieved the
French bank in San Francisco of
several thousand dollars.
Morris G. Baum, young San
Francisco lawyer and prominent Off
cial of the Republican party, has
been travelling in Europe with a
young woman on money raised from
the money lenders. His notes were
endorsed Auspacher Bros, and the
endorsements are discovered to be
forgeries. He is now on his way
back to San Francisco.
An enquiry is being made into the
death of Mrs. Theresa Honey who
died nearly a year ago. She was
formerly the wife of Captain Bur
roughs who died in Honolulu. Il is
thought that she was slowly pois-
oned by a man named Warneke,
who disappeared soon after her
death with all her money, amount
ing to $4,000.
T. K. James, steward of the Zeal
andia, received an ovation from the
passengers on arrival here. They
were highly delighted with the cour
tesy and commissariat of the stew
ards department.
A disaster occurred at Holyoke,
Mass. Three canals supply the
water-power for the mills. The water
broke through the raceway of the
Cabot-street Mill, demolishing the
southern part of the building and
carrying away the railroad bridge.
Only for the lower canal to empty
into, the water would have submer-
ged the entire lower part of the city.
The canal contains one hundred
times as much water as the Johns
town reservoir did. The damage
will amount to 100000, and the &C
cident will necessitate the closing of
all the mills.
The Comptroller of the Currency
has received a telegram from the
cashier of the Puget Sound National
Bank at Seattle, w. T., saying:
"The loss to the banks by fire is
nominal. All the vaults stood the
test we'll and the banks are now
doing business in temporary quart
ers."
Secretary Tracy has transmitted
to Rear Admiral Kimberly a copy OF
the minutes of y. S. Grant Post No
327 of New York, G.. A. r. It is 6
greeting on the lucky escape of AID
miral Kimberly and the officers and
men of the U. S. S. Trenton, Wanda
liza and the Nipsic, and to Captain
Kane, the officers and men of the
Calliope for their noble conduct.
Lightning played havoc with the
churches in New York. The spire
of the Church of Immaculate Con
ception was struck and a panic en-
sued among hundreds of women who
were going to confession. Two
churches in Newark were struck, and
the Standard Oil tanks at Communi
paws, N. j., and Long Island City
were struck and fired. The tota
loss in Jersey City amounts tc
100000 A thunder-bolt struck the
National Storage Dock at Communi
paw, ripped off the roof of large
oil-tank head and hurled it serenity
feet in the air. The total damage in
this city and vicinity will reach
100000.
Colonel Rogers, who has charge
of the registration at JohnstoWr
states that from all he can learn the
population amounted to about 25, 900
This accounts for 10000 people sup
posed to be lost The earlier report
to the effect that $4,000 to $4,000
people were missing was based upor
the supposition that there were
$4,000 inhabitants in these boroughs
The general opinion among vel
posted people is that the loss of life
is between 5000 and 1000.
The total number of bodies recov
cred is 1899.
The mass at the stone bridge has
been fired and is burning furiously
With it is destroyed all hope of re
covering the bodies that are certainly
there entombed.
The mail train on the Panhandle
road, West bound, was wrecked near
Steubenville, Ohio. Two persons
were killed and four severely in
| jured. Several postal cars were
wrecked. Tho train consisted of an
engine, one express car and foul
postal cars, and was running at the
rate of forty five miles an hour.
Sporting Notes.
Commodore James D. Smith
chairman of the Cup Committee OF
the New York Yacht Club. bv q
letter to Earl Dunraven, accepts the
English challenge. The races will
be sailed over the outside course
General Paine will be the umpire
and Captain Phoenix is suggested as
alternate.
The sixty-ton center-board lugge1
Paradox, destined to race in Amer.
lean waters, was launched at East
bourne, England. The Paradox is
70 feet in length by 20 beam, and
will draw 9 feet Of water. She will
carry twenty-six tons of lead on the
keel and spread 1000 square feet Of
canvas. Experts are enthusiastic
over her.
OConnor defeated Lee by one