The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-03-23
San Francisco Ne ws.

the United States has been con-
cluded.
San Francisco News.
The legal struggle to save the
neck of Sidney Bell the convicted
murderer of ]. jacobson continues.
The case is one of the most re-
markable ever known in the Grim
inal history of the city.
The local Worlds Fair Commits
sioners have been asked to give up
about one-ffth of the space as
signed the State at the Worlds
Fair. They have refused to do so.
The land is wanted for an elevated
railway.
The Union League Club is con-
templating erecting a permanent
building.
Affidavits on affidavits for and
against the proposed Post Office
site at Seventh and Mission streets
are being piled on Treasury
Agent Gibson. The government
will also have borings made to see
whether the site is bog as has
been stated.
Sarah Althea Hill-Sharon-Terry
has been sent to the Stockton In
sane Asylum. She is insane on
the subjects of hypnotism and
electricity.
1t is expected that the area of
the Lick Observatory reservation
will shortly be increased by the
gift of 900 acres to the observatory
by the general government.
Ex-senator James G. Fair is
back from a pleasure and health
trip to Hawaii The physicians
state that he has fatty degenera-
ton of the heart and his death is
only question of a few years.
There have lately been numer-
Gus labor troubles in the city and
in most cases the employers have
won. The combination of shoe
manufacturers was too strong fol-
the Union, the brewery workmen
have decided not to strike, the
longshore lumbermen have been
beaten by the Pacific Pine Lumber
Co., and all in all it looks as if the
labor unions which are controlled
by demagogues had received a
very severe setback.
A troop of cavalry has been sent
to the Round Valley Reservation
to drive out infringing sheer
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Joe Jefferson, the veteran actor,
has been giving a marvellous repre-,
sentation of Sheridan's Rivals" at
the Baldwin. The company is
one of the finest ever seen here and
the engagement has been one OF
the most successful ever known.
The Stock Exchange Building
is soon to be sold. It is thought
that the Western Union Co. will
get it.
Jacob oppenheim, discharged
messenger boy. tried to kill E. F
Weibe, Superintendent of the
I-->Iserican District Telegraph Co
on the l -, because Weibe would
not pay 1921 tnas w. con;ng IT.
him. Three shots were fiTed
Curiously enough all passed
through Weibe's clothes yet his
skin was barely grazed.
1t is commonly believed that
Mrs. Sarah Althea Terry now in
the insane asylum has hidden
from $4,000 to $4,000 worth of dia
monds, besides some that have
been discovered hidden under the
carpets of her Fresno house.
Russell A. Alger one of the Pre-
sidential candidates is in this city
He thinks that Blaine will accept
the nomination if offered to him
but will not make a special effort
to get the nomination.
"Butcher-town" in San Francisco
has a prodigy in an Englishman
named Alexander Jones, who can
knock down steers and break hard.
wood chair bottoms with his head.
He challenges the world to but.
ting match.
The Highlander war in China
town threatens to break out afresh.
This time it is not between two rival
''Tongs," but is caused by a split
in the Suey Sing Tong. A new
society has been organized by the
malcontents, called the Suey Sing
Dong Tong, and revolvers and
hatchets are being prepared for use.
A most daring and desperate at
tempt to get out of San Quentin
prison by tunnelling has just been
discovered. Three men, Chris.
Meikle, George Ross and one Hall,
the latter a life term convict, were
the leaders.
Rev. c. D. Barrows, who left the
First Congregational Church of this
place under cloud, has been COM
mitted to the insane asylum at
Worcester, Mass. His case is con-
sidered hopeless.
A London letter says: "Stagna-
ton seems to be settling down on
everything, and with dull times