The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-06-23

Association gave banquet on the
18th.
The new company which Is to
operate the San Francisco breweries |
is about ready to start into bust
ness. E. A. Denicke, late of the
Fredericksburg brewery, is to
manage the affairs Of the big cor
psration.
The political pot is boiling. Con-
gresham Morrow is in the lead OF
the Republicans for Governor, with
II. HI. Markham good second, and
any number of dark horses. Mayor
Pond, J. V. Coleman and w. Den
glish have the inside for the Demo
cratic nomination.
All the business firms have united
in petition for better fire hose.
The Santa Fee Co. is endeavoring
to get control of the Baltimore Il
Ohio road SO as to have a line of it's
own from seaboard to seaboard.
The Pacific Linseed Oil works at
Second and King streets was burned
on the 18th. Loss 1925 900.
Rev. CD. Barrows has resigned
the pastorate of the First Congre-
gational church.
Eastern American News.
The Cheyennes of Eastern Mon
tana are threatening to so on the
warpath.
The steamer Rescue of the Mer.
rift Wrecking Co. of New York
has sailed for Cape Henlopen to
begin operations for the recovery
of the British sloop-of-war De
Braak, which was capsized off the
Delaware coast on the 25th of May,
1898. There is every reason to
believe that S10,O0O,OO0 in Spanish
gold is in the hold of the sunken
vessel, which is supposed to be
lying on the bottom somewhere off
Cape Henlopen.
Wharton Barker has organized a
great American and European
banking company with $25, 900, 900
capital, one-half of which is to be
issued at once. The company will
conduct general financial bust
ness. Among the American direc-
tors are Wharton Barker, President
Wilbur of the Lehigh Valley Rail-
road, Vice-President King of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
George D. S. Klein of the Reading
Railroad, John II. Converse of the
Baltimore Locomotive Works and
others. There will be European
branches.
Judge Wallace of Syracuse, N.
Y. has dismissed the writ of
habeas corpus in the Kemmler case
and remanded the prisoner to the
custody of the warden of Auburn
Prise, to be executed by electro
city
Stewart of Nevada and Reagan
of Texas nearly came to blows in
the ante-room of the Senate on the
18th. The row was over the arid
land surveys Of Major Powell.
Barrie, Ont, was flooded after a
big storm on the 9Th. Much dam
age was done.
The Window silver bill provid-
ing for the purchase of S4,5O0,00
of American silver each month and
the issuance of silver thereon has
passed the House and will go
through the Senate.
Chris. Buckley is in New York
and it is said would like to lead
Tammany Richard, Croker hav-
ing completely lost his influence.
T.. d. Dozier of St. Louis con-
firms the report that a Cracker
Biscuit Trust was recently formed.
The New York Biscuit Company,
with a capital of five millions; the
United States Baking Company,
with a capital of three millions, and
the American Biscuit Manufacture
ing Company, with capital un
known, have bought up all the |
cracker biscuit concerns in the |
country. Western capital FREEDOM
mates in the trust. The object of |
the trust is to reduce expenses and |
to handle business more economi-
cally.
Two freight trains colllded just
out Of Warrenton, Mo-, on the Wa
bash road, sixty miles west of St
Louis, on the 9th. Both engines
and eighteen cars were wrecked.
Eight men were killed and more
were injured.
Judge Cowing OF New York has
dismissed the indictments against
John keenan, and ex Doodle Alder
man Sayles. They were charged
with bribery in having participated
in the steal of the Broadway Rail-
way franchise.
At 1870 A. n. on the 10th, the
express train on the st. Louis,
Arkansas Il Texas road was held
up by six masked men. About
$4,000 was obtained. An express
messenger who resisted was DELHI
erately shot three times and seri-
ously injured.
The sale Of the Union Stockyards
of Chicago to an English syndicate
for s20,OOO.OOO, is beng resisted by
some of the stockholders.
Shipping News.
The men in the engineers de-
partment on the Pacific Coast
Steamship Co. line have prepared
to resist a threatened cut in wages.
The yacht Neva is trim little
x,ocooI of l;~lt T.