The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-10-15
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
Per o. 8. S. Australia, San Francisco,
October 6, 1891.
(From Our Own Correspondent
Continued
San Francisco News.

The Pacific Insurance Union is on the
verge of dissolution again.
William Martinike, mason working
on the new Croker building, fell nine
stories to the sidewalk, recently. His
body was just a bruised mass of flesh
when picked up.
Evidence in favor of Sydney Bell, the
supposed murderer of Jacobson, has
been discovered. Bell is now under SEN
tence of death.
The power-house of the new San Fran
cisco and San Mateo electric road is
under way.
Colonel William Harvey, the victim
OF the latest Tehachipe Pass railway
disaster, was buried with appropriate
honors on the goth ultimo.
w. Q. Judge, one of the leaders of the
Theosophical Society of America, is here
on a special mission from New York
He is the head of the Order, practically,
since the death of Madame Blavatsky.
The weapons secreted by the seven
convicts who expected to make rush
| from San Quentin prison, have been
| given up after twenty-four days diet of
bread and water.
There is to be contest over the estate
of the late Judge Heydenfeldt, valued at
$1O7 900. Sol Heydenfeldt, Jr., has en-
| tered monastery.
P. Grumwaldt, the furrier of the Gear,
| is here to look after that portion of the
business of handling the Copper Island
sealskins, transacted in San Francisco.
Grattan Dalton, the stage robber and
outlaw, has escaped from the Visalia
Jail. He was soon to go to San Quentin
| prison.
John Gularte, Portuguese sheep
herder, is under arrest at San Luis
Obispo for numbering two men and pick
ling the body of one. 1t is charged that
the flesh was served to others
A most remarkable charge of con-
spiracy is made against w. F. Whittier,
the millionaire head of the house of
Whittier, Fuller & Co. He is accused
with Judge benson, a well-known law
yer, with trying to ruin w. p. Fuller,
Jr., by connecting his name with Miss
Kendall, to compel him iFuller) to sell
out his interest in the business for less
than it was worth. The case will make
great sensation in court.
On August 3lst, Mrs. Emily Maillard,
daughter of M. NJ. Tompkins, one of the
wealthiest men in California, disap-
peared from her home in Marin county
She has been found though a reward of
$1,000 failed to find her. She ran away
with her hired man, and is now in a
logger's cabin in Humboldt county.
The recent Immigration Convention
has passed resolutions favoring COM
peting railroad. a railroad convention
is to be held here on the 18th instant.
Neuburger, Reiss & Co., San Fran
cisco importing firm, have been detected
in an extensive smuggling plot. Ger
tain Custom House officers are also i'm
plicated.
A lone highwayman is operating in
Shasta county. Three stages have been
held up.
American News.
Large sections OF Minnesota and Da-
kota have been devastated by prairie
fires; crops have been destroyed and
many families made homeless.
The city of Santa Cruz, this State,
celebrated its Tooth birthday on Septem-
Der 25th.
Land spectators who invested in
stocks in company of which President
Harrison's son Russell is president, al
lege that they were swindled, and pro-
pose to have young Harrison indicted in
Texas.
Experiments have been tried in the
vicinity of Boston to test the feasibility
of trans-ocean telephones. German Gray,
inventor of the wire on which these ex-
periments have been made, said: " 1t is
practicable to telephone across and
through the Atlantic at a cost far less
than the present cables and of tenth of
the weight, and consequently breaking
the strain on the cables. The use of cop
per, it has been found, is not necessary,
for iron wire, properly shaped, has been
proved to be as reliable conductor, and
its tensil strength is greater. The plan
is under consideration for laying cables
to London, and the subject is now being
figured on by capitalists"
The Cleartield First National Bank and
the Houtzdale Bank of Pennsylvania,
failed on September 30th, owing to an
unexpected run.
Sporting News.