The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-11-21

The new electric road will he RIM
ming to San Mateo by the first of the
year. The North Beach and Mission
road is expected to change to an cleo
trio road at once.
Convict Charles Schmidt, an accom-
pllce of Sidney Bell, the footpad and
murderer now under sentence of death.
has committed suicide rather than 90
to San Quentin.
The City Board of Trade has pro-
tested against the Post Office site
being fixed at Seventh and Mission
| streets.
The California Electric Light Co..
has sold out to the Edison Company
81 ,UO,OOO, subject to a mortgage for
A contest has started up over the
$5OO,OOO estate left by Joshua Hendry
| the iron founder.
The Salton sea has almost entirely
dried up. The spring floods in the
Colorado river will demonstrate
whether or not the water will return
again.
American News.
The Ordnance Bureau of the War
Department has just completed a test
of French "B M smokeIess powder
with rifled field guns. The guns We're
80 inches caliber. The service charge
of ordinary powder is 81 pounds, Civ
ing a velocity to shot of 1850 feet
per second, with pressure in the gun
of from $4,000 to $1,000 pounds per
square inch. One pound and four
teen ounces of smokeless powder gave
the same velocity, with pressure
of only 27,900 pounds. With full
charge of two pounds eight ounces of
smOkeless powder velocity of 2O50
feet was impaired to the shot, with a
pressure of 5000 pounds, we'll within
the safe pressure for the gun.
Mrs. Herman Oelrichs, nee Tessie
Fair, of San Francisco, has presented
her husband with boy baby, weigh
ing II pounds and ounces.
The farmers and other land holders
of Pomona, Gala, are greatly excited
over the fact that cloud has been
thrown upon their titles by the
treachery of b. S. Nichols and P. G.
Tonner of that place. Tt is black
mailing scheme involving large
body of land, and the farmers have
become so violent that the black
mailers have fled.
The failure of the Maverick Bank,
of Philadelphia, has resulted in the
arrest of the President Asa Potter and
Col. J. H. French, the managing di-
rector, charged with misapprOpria-
ton and enlightenment of the funds
of the bank, aggregating $2,500,0OO.
Director Thomas Dana was also ar
rested ON like charge. Potter owes
the bank $1,2O0,000, French owes it
$685. and Dana $500, 900, although
under the law no one person can be
loaned more than $4,000. All three
have been reputed as millionaires,
and their downfall is a surprise to
everybody.
On November 18th at A. NJ. a
band of masked men robbed a train q
few miles out of Milwaukee. A fierce
fight ensued while the train was 60
ing at full speed, but the robbers Sc
cured large amount of money and
got away.
@. J. Griffith a millionaire of Los
Angeles was shot by one Frank Bur
+ kett and seriously wounded. Burkett
/ then blew out his own brains. The
: trouble grew out of land lease and
the collapse of the boom.
/ The wheat shippers find that the
1 crop of the northwest has been over
: estimated. Early in the season it was
} thought that the crop would equal
r that of last year, which gave some
: thing over 18,OOO,OOO bushels for eX-
port. Now that by far the larger por-
ton of the crop has been sold, it is
found that it Will not be over 80 pei
, cent. of what there was last year.
It is announced that the Los An
geles Terminal Railroad will be com
pleted by 1898, to connect at Salt Lake
: with the western trunk lines. This
+ will give Los Angeles another over
: land outlet.
| Thomas Ryan, United States minis.
s ter to Mexico, has returned to report
s to the president and Secretary Blaine
, the sentiments of the Mexican Gov
= eminent on reciprocity and the re-
suits of the conferences on the subject
t so far had.
r "Mexico is enthusiastically in favor
r of reciprocity with this government
e and it is the ardent wish of the
: officials of the republic to bring i
J. about" said Mr.. Ryan. "Ihe MeXI
: can Congress, now in session, favOr
8 the scheme to a man, and all are
taking the keenest interest in fOrmu
e lating plans for the development of it
e "Before I left the City of Mexico
e President Diaz expressed himself OF
t the subject and was sincere in wish
d inc for an increase in the eXcelIen
# good will and commercial relation
n already existing between the two re
s publics."
n By the falling of a cage nine miner
g were killed in the Anaconda mine IL
: Montana on November 4.
i A New York dispatch says: Hlr
n Sal Kirumar of Calcutta spoke ON tn
e opium traffic in India in the Madison
a avenue Episcopal Church in this cit.
l. November 10th. He charged tn
l. English Government with encour
aging the consumption of opium
n among the subjects in India for tn
IF sake of the revenue and IN order Z
d encourage and stimulate the cultiva
e ton of the poppy plant. Upward @
t 100000 acres of the best lands in In
h dia, he said, are devoted to its cult
!. walton, and the annual average pro
v duction is 100000 pounds, which
Is consumed in India, China and Bul
% NAH. Opium smoking, he declared !!
n is increasing to an alarming extent
g India. Concluding, he said tina
e merely for the greed of gain the pee
pie of the United Kingdom have sac
is rificed every principle of morality
ri The unmitigated misery and distres
e. produced by the spread of opium tell
l. heavily on the people of India.
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