The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-05-13
)UR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
Per >. >. Alameda, san Francisco, May
), 1889.
(From Oar Special Correspondent
Sugar Matters.

(From Oar Special Correspondent
Sugar Matters.
There Is no change toreport either
IN the price of raw or refined sugars
Since your last advices, on April
10Th, the basis in New York, for 90
degrees, has remained at TAT cents,
all arrivals deriving the benefit of
the high rate.
Assistant Secretary Tichenor has
sustained the appeal of the Ameri
can Sugar Refining Company from
the decision of the Collector of Gus
toms at San Francisco in assessing
recent importations of sugar from
Java IN excess of their polariscopic
strength, on the theory that they
had been artifcially colored SO as to
degrade them below No. ID, Dutch
standard. Samples of the sugars
were submitted to experts at Boston,
New York and Philadelphia, who re-
ported that the sugar is perfectly
normal, containing no artificial color
ing. The department therefore de-
cldes that these sugars are liable to
duty according to their polariscopic
test or their apparent color at the
tune OF their importation. This de-
clsl0n is IN the matter of the cargo
OF the steamer Westmeath, on which
the American Refinery under protest
paid over $4,000 duties, in addition
to Sl44 ,354.17 paid on the invoice
valuation.
American Affairs.
Frederick Augustus Porter Barn
ard, late President of Columbia Col
lege, died at New York on April 9th
from paralysis
Il. 5. Spalding of Honolulu passed
through Chicago on April 29th en-
route to New York. He SAYS that
while he was riding from San Fran
CISCO to Chicago he made $4,000 by
a rise of two cents pound in sugar.
Three thousand miners have quit
work at Brazil, Ind, on account of
reduction in wages.
len thousand pounds Of dynamite
exploded at ODell Station, near
Hastings on the Hudson, in a stor-
age shaft of the big aqueduct with
out hurting a single person. The
aqueduct was damaged to the extent
of nearly $4,000.
ST. Paul, on May I'd, Washington
Irving Bishop, the mind-reader, and
Mabel Clifford Tabor were married
at St.JOseph's Hospital, to set at rest
doubts about the legality of the pre-
vlOus contract of marriage entered
into in California.
The Spanish-American CONNER
cial Union has been organized in
New York for the development of
trade between the United States with
Mexico, Central and South America,
the West Indies and Philippine Isl
ands.
FoTeston, about twenty miles
north of Dixon, H., was swept by a
terrible confiagration. Three bust
ness blocks We're entirely destroyed.
Loss about $125,OOO.
A circus exhibition was given by
society people of New York in a
large tent erected in the grounds of
James Waterbury Jr. The perform
w "OAO SOSAO'J POOpAS duN dI1dGSurS.
San Francisco Notes.
Philip A. Roach, a pioneer politi-
clan, is dead.
On May LIST seven cases of violent
and sudden death were reported at
the Morgue before 1870 o. m. Cap
tain q. A. Holt, of the steamer Ajax.
dropped dead on the Oakland ferry
boat. Captain I. Fogg, of Red
wood City, dropped dead in the Post
Office. E. o. F. Hastings, a well
known lawyer, was killed by Suffer
street cablecar. A boy was crushed
to death by large truck in front of
the Grand Hotel. An unknown BODY /
was found in the bay. A coIored !
man was found dead in his bed. !
and Chinaman was found dead in |
a hallway. |