The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-12-19
AMERICAN LETTER.
SAN Francisco, Dec. 10, 1891.
GENERAL INTEREST .

is to secure the passage by Congress
of a tariff on long staple cotton.
Similar unions will be organized in
Georgia and Florida, which States
cover the long staple producing cot
ton of the South. An effort was
made during the past summer to form
combination of Carolina planters
to prevent the sale of seed to Geor-
gia and Florida planters, but the
scheme failed and the present COM
bine seems to be the outcome of the
former effort.
The people of Alaska are much in
censed because Congress has not
taken notice of their desire for a
proper territorial government.
The Bureau of American Repub-
lies has received information from
Brazil that the total exports of coffee
from Santos during the past eight
months amounted to ,638, 9Sl bags,
of which 433, 248 went to the United
| States.
The new port of Ceibo, recently
established in Honduras, has entered
into active commercial relations with
the United States. In the first two
weeks of September it shipped to this
country $4,000 punches of bananas.
Princeton is defeated and Yale
carries off the laurels for the great
football contest held in New York on
the 26th of November. The score
stood 10 to 0. Over thirty thousand
people witnessed the game.
George Stratton, who tasted at
Hubber's museum for thirty-seven
days, one hour and two minutes on
water alone without stimulants of any
kind, something never attempted be-
fore, and forty-one days, eighteen
hours and thirty minutes without
food, to beat Succi's record of forty
five days, paid the penalty with his
life.
c. w. Wynkoop, has been sent
out by London syndicate to find
the gold mines in the biblical lands
of Ophir, where King Solomon and
the Queen of Sheba got their riches.
He will report to Chief Shift the re-
suit of his Investigations, and pro-
misses to furnish some interesting
matter for the mines and mining de-
partment at the Worlds Fair.
Two more appeals have been filed
in the Searles will case at Salem,
Mass, both on the grounds that the
instrument was not properly attested
and that the testatrix was not Of pro-
per testamentary capacity. The
appellants are Annie Severance of
Los Angeles, CAL, and Lyman Sher-
wood and Della Sherwood of Put.
nam County, N. I.
Bill Nye, varied his entertainment
at the opera house in Jacksonville,
Miss, where he was to appear On
the night of the 28th of November.
He took tumble out of the back
door OF the opera house on to a pile
of lumber fifteen feet below and was
so badly hurt that he could not APP
pear.
Cyrus W. Field is lying at deaths
door, completely crushed by the
death of his wife about three weeks
since and the serious illness of his
daughter who it is reported cannot
recover, as well as the disgrace
brought upon him by his SOD, Ed
ward M. Field. The firm OF Field,
Lindley, Weicher & Co., bankers and
brokers, New York, assigned on No
vember 9th without preferences.
The head of the firm was Cyrus W.
Fields son. The failure was said to
have been caused by rise in corn.
In August the company was rated at
from $4,000 to S1,O00,00Q. He
literally robbed his father, taking
from him securities amounting to
about $500, 900, leaving him penni-
less Assignee Gould pays a high
tribute to John +. Weichers, who
has apparently lost every dollar he
had through Edward Field. His loss
is estimated at $500,00O and that of
his father and uncle at about $780,
900 more. Edward Field has been
adjudged 8 dangerous lunatic and
committed to an asylum since his
notorious failure.
Admiral Browns report upon the
circumstances of the landing of Chi
lean troops at Quintero last summer
has reached the Navy Department at
Washington. In substance 1t is
positive denial of the allegation that
his visit to Quintero led to the Bal
maceda forces securing information
of the Congressionalists' movements.
The President has appointed Will
liam K, Sullivan of Illinois, United
States Consul at Bermuda.
A fiendish attempt was made to
take the life of Millionaire Sage, the
millionaire broker of New York on
Dec. 4th. A man giving the name
of II. ID. Wilson called at his office
carrying Q carpet bag in his hand
and said to Sage, that he came from
Rockefeller and handed him a written
letter in sealed envelope. 1t was
q demand for million and quarter
dollars and stated that If tho money
was not given up at once to the pre-
senior of the letter, he would blow
Cara tho man hirnualf and tha antipa