The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-12-14
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
San Francisco, December 6, 1889, Per
s. 8. Australia.
(From Our San Francisco Correspondent.)
The Sugar Market.


Eastern, remains absolutely without any
features worthy of the name. The local
quotation for granulated is still TIC, and
SIC for 96 Cuban basis. The only
arrival of consequence is the bark Cash
mere from Manila with 29.064 mats for
the California refinery.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ap-
pointed Special Agents Montgomery
Spalding and Chance as special COM
mittee to investigate the acts OF DIR. Ed
ward Sherer of the sugar laboratory OF
the New York Custom House. Sherer |
is charged with letting artifcially- colored
raw sugar be entered under the grading
which suited the importers. The cases
which he will be confronted with are
Identical with that of the Westmeath's
cargo, which created such stir here
about year ago.
1t is generally reported that G. g.
Harrison, the millionaire sugar refner OF
Philadelphia, and head of the house OF
Harrison, Fraser & Co., will be appointed
United States Minister to Russia to sue
coed Allen Thorndyke Rice. Harrison
has the backing of the Wanamaker wing
of the party and he is known all over the
country as one of the principal refners
outside the trust.
On the 9Th inst, Mrs. Olive E. Friend,
Mrs. Emily Toward, Orrin A. Halstead
and George Halstead, four of the con-
spirators who assisted Howard in foisting
the electric sugar refining swindle on
deluded public, pleaded guilty in a New
York court. They will be sentenced for
grand larceny in few days.
Jefferson Davis Dead.
Jefferson Davis, ex-President of the
Confederacy, died on the 9th inst. at the
house of his lifelong friend, j. U.
Payne, in New Orleans. Mr.. Davis had
been in failing health for two months,
and only recently went from his home in
Mississippi to New Orleans, in the hope
that he might be benefited, temporarily
at least. But no relief came. On the
evening of the 5th, he was taken with
congestive chill and rapidly and pain
lessly sunk into slumber, which termi-
mated in death. He leaves a wife and
one daughter, Miss Winnie Davis, who
is now in Europe.
Work of Congress.
Congress has already evinced much
aptitude for work. The silver question
is now the all absorbing one, and it and
the tariff question will be the great ones
at this session.
Bills have already been introduced to
suppress trusts of all sorts to locate the
Worlds Fair at st. Louis, Chicago and
New York; to place all Federal elections
under Federal control; and to protect all
United States officers from attack.
The Canal and Union.
A treaty has been signed admitting
Nicaragua into the new union of Central
American States. The union is to last
ten years, after which republic is to be
formed. The republics of Nicaragua,
Costa Rica, Guatemala, San Salvador
and Honduras are now all in the union.
| Chief Engineer Menocal, of the Nicaragua
| canal, was handsomely received at Man
aqua, Nicaragua. November II, by Pres
ident Sacasa. The details of the canal
management were satisfactorily settled.
Menecal is now en- route to Greytown.
1t is expected that the dredges will have
the harbor at Greytown ready by March,
| and re-enforcements of men and material
are constantly arriving at the Atlantic
side. The health OF all the construction
parties is excellent.
| San Francisco News.
| The trial of Geshie Stein in the United
States District Court has developed
another possible case OF jury fixing.
Stein is on trial for showing counterfeit
money, and the charge is made that he
and his clerk, Wolf, were in a job to
approach jurors.
A shooting scrape occurred on Sacra-
mento street on the afternoon of the 9th
inst. A man named Blank or Drank
went into Donahue, Kelly & Co.'s bank
that day and tried to sell forty shares of
stolen Hawaiian Commercial stock. The
stock was identified, and he tried to es-
cape by running down the street. He
was fired at five times and was finally
captured.
Frank T. Northey, the convicted jury
briber, has given notice that he intends
to apply for pardon.
The Risdon Iron Works company and
Fulton Iron Works company are both
considering a proposition to establish
steel ship-building plants in this city
They will do so if Congress will encour.
age American shipping by providing for
liberal compensation for carrying the
mails.
General American News.
Harry Carleton, alias Handsome
Harry" whose face and figure are known
all over America, was hanged at New
York December 5. He killed Policeman
Brennan, who tried to arrest him.
A movement is on foot to form straw
and rag paper trust with headquarters al
Chicago. The scheme originated in
Pittsburg.
Nearly all of the Congressman now in
Washington favor passing over the
claims of New York and Chicago for the
Worlds Fair of 1892 and fixing the site
at Washington.
The Mormon problem still engages the
attention of the Dominion Government
The Canadians would like to have the
Mormons, but do not want polygamy.
Foreign News.
Charles Stewart Parnell, the great
Irish Nationalist, who recently disap.
peared from his haunts in London, is
still missing. He has been missing sc
long that some alarm is felt for his safety
though it has been his custom from time
to time to seclude himself for a short
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