The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-03-05
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
San Francisco, February f3, per Brig
Geo. II. Douglas.

tErOm our Special orrespOndent3
The departure of the brig George
H. Douglas, two days after the Ala
media, affords an opportunity for
sending a little later news of the
worlds happenings.
Sugar Subjects.
Justice Barrett of the Supreme
Court has denied the application of
the North River Sugar Refining
Company, recently dissolved by him,
for stay of proceedings pending its
appeal to the general term.
This is the case in which Judge
Barrett decided that by joining the
Trust the company had forfeited its
franchise. He appointed a receiver,
and the company, giving notice that
it would appeal the case, asked for
stay of proceedings.
Large quantities of Trust certif
Gates have been disposed Of by the
original holders.
Foreign Affairs.
The labor troubles at Rome con
tinue, and the troops were COM
PEELED to make bayOnet charge to
dispense the crowd. Several persons
were wounded.
The value of the plumber secured
by the mob in the recent riots IS estl-
mated at G75,000. The Government
possesses evidence that Anarchist
leaders fOmented the agitation.
The Radicals of Milan made an
attempt to celebrate the revolt Of
1853, but were forcibly dispersed.
An accident near Halle was caused
by an express train dashing into
workmen who were clearing the
track of snow. Ten men were killed
and eleven injured.
Severe snOwstOrms are reported
throughout Austria and Switzerland.
The storms in Germany continue.
The railways are everywhere blocked
and accidents frequent.
A shock of earthquake was felt at
Bolton and Manchester.
The Soudanese have evacuated
Handoub. They destroyed the town
by fire.
Monsignor Prototypes, Primate Of
Greece, died of heart disease.
At consistory the Pope nomin-
ated for the Cardinalate Mgrs.
Macchi and Dannibale and the Arch
bishop Of Cantarna. The condition
of the Pope's health prevented him
from reading his allocutiOn.
A cablegram announces the death
of Cardinal John Baptist Pitra,
second in rank in the Sacred College.
Emperor William has officially
notified Prince Alexander of Batten-
berg that he does not desire his
presence in Berlin either in connec-
ton with the settlement of the affairs
of his father, the late Prince Alex
ander of Hesse. or on any other bus
mess.
A dispatch from Dundee says:
The murderer of a woman whose
mutilated remains were found in a
chest there to-day is w. H Bury,
husband of the victim. Bury was a
resident of Whitechapel, London,
and his antecedents, which have been
traced, suggest that he is probably
g Jack the Ripper" and that he is
subject to fits of unconscious murder
mania. The post norton examina
ton held on the body of the Dundee
victim proved that the woman had
first been strangled and her body
had then been mutilated, the abdo-
men being ripped open and the legs
and arms twisted and broken.
Bury says that he left Whitechapel
three weeks ago He refuses to say
why he left there, and acknowledges
he had no business requiring his at
tention in Dundee. He says that he
and his wife drank heavily before
retiring, and he does not know how
he got to bed. Upon awaking, he
says, he found his wife lying upon
the floor with a rope around her
neck Actuated by a sudden mad
impulse, for which he cannot ac-
count, he seized knife and slashed
the body. Upon reason returning
he became alarmed and hastily
crushed the body into the chest in
which it was found, thinking to fly
and make his escape. He found,
however, that he could not leave his
wife's remains, and finally resolved
to inform the police.
The theory of the police officials is
that Bury's wife knew of facts CON
Meeting him with the East End at
rocities, and that she took him to
Dundee in the hope Of preventing a
recurrence of the crimes.
The Russian Government has
granted a concession for eighty-one
years to company to join the Black
Sea and Sea of Azov.
American Affairs.
E. E. Burden d Co, wholesale
silverware merchants Of Boston, have
failed. Their liabilities are thought
to be heavy.
Col. Dan Lamont is to be presi-
dent of the Avenue G street-car line
in New York. The capital is $780,
900. Colonel Dan took the position
at the request of Secretary Whitney.
The President on February 11th
sent to the Senate the following
nominations: Adelai L. Stevenson
of Illinois, to be Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court of the District
of Columbia, vice William NJ. Mer-
rick, deceased; Norman Z. Coleman