The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-04-09
AMERICAN LETTER.
SAN Francisco, April l, 1892.
Pacific COAST ITEMS,

An accident occurred ut the Nul-
can Iron Works in this city last
week. A holding flask weighing
from 1000 to 1900 pounds slipped
and fell upon man named John
Cronin, crushing him almost beyond
recognition. 1t also seriously m
iured man named Owen Mcdonald. |
Pretty Anita Baldwin, daughter of
"Lucky" Baldwin, has caused lit /
tie newspaper novelty for herself ny /
clipping with and marrying her |
cousin, George Baldwin, who has /
been employed in the Baldwin Hotel
in this city. They were married on
the high seas.
While Mrs. Terry was going about |
in sadly dilapdated and shabby at
tire, in her rooms at Fresno where
seven or eight trunks filed to over
flowing with her wardrobe. contain
ing silk stockings cheap at $50 a
pair, beautiful lace at $50 yard,
costly silks and other dress materials
made and unmade, bonnets worth
not less than 500. A rough esti-
mate of the value of her wardrobe
reaches close TO $4,000. She has
worn only the plainest dresses since
her husbands death and most of the
time been exceedingly shabby.
The 5. f. Call is doing good
work in its effort to abolish the prac-
tice of selling cigarettes to boys I'M
der sixteen years of age. A number
of the San Francisco retail dealers in
tobacco have agreed to refuse to sell
TO boys under that age, when the
Call had secured fifty signers TO their
anti-cigarette plan. 1t worked like
a charm and they were not long i'll
getting all the signers they desired.
The Examiner will send twenty of
California's brightest school children
TO Chicago to attend the Worlds
Fair. Each class in every grammar
school in the State will select by bal
lot the candidate who is to repre-
sent them in the contest. They will
be examined and those who excel
will be brought together and given Il
final test before the State Superin-
lcnucIll VI ctDDOloi thN oiiS u"NhoN
who pass the examination with most
honor will 90 to the Fair. They will
make the trip in a special car, stop
at the best hotel in Chicago and see
everything that is worth seeing.
Ex-senator JAS. @. Fair had u mar
row escape from death by asphyxia-
ton one night last week. His valet
did not succeed in entirely turning
off the gas. One of the employees Of
the hotel while passing through the
corridor discovered the gas was escap-
ing Mr.. Fair was breathing heavily
and in semi conscious condition.
The steam schooner Ventura went
to pieces on the rocks at Rockport,
during u stormy night last week.
The steward, both engineers, one
fireman, and one sailor lost their
lives. The crew had feaful strug-
gle for life in the boiling waters, and
it was miracle that any Of them
were saved. The loss exclusive OF
the lumber cargo is $50, 900, on
which there was no insurance.
The Nicaragua Canal Convention
was called to order at the meeting
room of the Chamber of Commerce
by NJ. NJ. Estee last Tuesday morn
5 ing and the place was packed, com
prising the most prominent citizens
of San Francisco, together with &
large number of country delegates
After the election of officers, Presi.
dent Doyle said: Forty years ago
was at Nicaragua in the interest OF
, the company which proposed to con
struct the canal. English money
was behind the project at that time
but after studying the situation wei
the English capitalists Withdrew, be
cause they recognized the fact tina
the opening of the canal would give
. to the United States, aud not to Eng
land, pre-eminence in controlling TIT
commerce of the Pacific Coast" Thu
chairman spoke of the surveys which
had been made on the isthmus ant
in its vicinity, and said that eminen
engineers had concluded that TIT
present proposed route of the cana
was the only one that was practical
BILE. On map he traced the lin
of the canal from San Juan de
Norte, otherwise Greytown, on tn
Atlantic side, to Brito, on the Paci
tic, distance of 1898 miles, of whic
but 263 miles will be excayate'
channel, the remainder lying a on
D and through rivers, lakes and basins
D The highest point on the canal viii
be at Lake Nicaragua, ITO fee
above the sea, on account OF whic
rise six locks will be required, tire
i. at either end. All but lG3 miles G
the canal will be level.
Mr.. Estee then read letter froI
Senator Warner Miller, President c
y the Nicaragua Canal Constructio
} Company, which stated that durin
the past year about $1,000 900 la
been expended chiefly upon the eH
tension of the railroad and upon tn