The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-05-12
San Francisco News.

| N1NH II AoHI4oCO
Robert NJ. Hamilton Of Baker &;
| Hamilton died recently after a short
| illness.
There is a strike in the Oakland
| base ball team. The players want
their salaries and refuse 10 play until
they get them.
Mrs. Charlotte Zeising, nurse and
confidential friend of DR.. J. Milton
! Bowers, and one of the three persons
supposed to know all about the death
of Henry BenhayOn, died recently at
her home in Contra Costa county.
| There il some mystery about her
death and an investigation will lie
held. For three years while Bowers
was under sentence Of death Mrs.
Zeising stood by him, and she is
| thought to have known all about the
mysterious death of Benhayon which
| secured Bowers release.
Charles A. Carlisle of Brazil is in
the city. He is Ell route to China
with the object of securing Chinese
laborers for work in the coffee planta-
tons.
Harry Baddeley young man
about town was shot and killed on
the city front on the 2d inst. by Mrs.
Louise Worthington, married
woman, to whom he had been paying
some attention but who was leaving
town to get away from her.
The competition GmOng the school
children of the state To be sent to
Chicago by the Examiner is in pro-
gress. Twenty of the highest will be
sent on.
J. ID. Spencer, a drummer, COM
mitted suicide on the 1st inst. at the
Grand hotel. Ee was to have been
married to Miss Ewing, a school
teacher, the following day, but il was
found after his death that he had
wife and children in the east, and had
been living with still another woman
in San Francisco who claims his
name.
Frank Northey, eX-jury briber and
pool. seller. was shot in drunken
brawl at Franks saloon on the 1st
inst. He was abusive to Harry Thorn,
another bookseller, and tried to stab
him. Thorn then shot in self-defense.
Northey died after lingering two days.
1t is said that the Donohoe Kelly
bank will not prosecute J. NJ. Flood,
the eX-chashier, who got away with
$l64, 900. There is some mystery sur
rounding the loss of this money yet IC
be explained.
Plans for the new Union Trust build
ing at Montgomery and Post streets
are in readiness. The building will be
q modern structure of seven stories.
American News.
1t is certain that there will be an
extra session of congress this fall, but it
is expected to be brief one. The
idea is to have the extra session begin
1st or 18th, re-elect Speak
er Crisp and have him reorganiZe the
,nr.fa Mt mi
this is accomplished an adjournment
will be taken until the regular session
of the fifty-third congress meets in
December. The committees can then
proceed with their duties during the
intervening period and will have the
greater part of their routine work
by December.
Speaker Crisp will be reelected and
that the important committees will
be changed is not doubted. Mr.. Sprin-
ger will not be retained at the head of
the ways and means committee. 1t
is uncertain yet who his successor will
be, but w. l.. Wilson of West Vir-
ginia is thought to be the man. Will
son, as is well known, is n tariff eX-
pert and will probably be chosen
because of his knowledge upon this
important question. The president is
that the tariff shall be
revised, and he has no Oppo-
sition in congress on this point at any
rate. 1t is more than likely that MIR.
Holman, the great objector, will be
retired from the craftsmanship of the
committee, but no one
seems to be able to indicate who his
successor will be. There are congress
sional prophets who believe that Mr..
Springer may be put at the head of
this committee
The Lewiston reservoir, in Ohio,
broke on the night of May ID and a
wall of water ten feet deep and three
miles wide swept over the country,
carrying everything before it. No
lives were lost but the destruction of
was great. Should another
break occur and liberate the entire
body of water, an awful catastrophe
will follow.
Earl Craven who married the Chi
cage heiress, and got a settlement
from his father in-law of S750,000, is |
reported TO be dying of blood poisoning |
caused by cutting himself accidentally |
with a razor. The couple had Just |
started on their bridal tour.
Secretary of State Gresham has sent |
to the governors of the Pa |
cific states and territories asking them |
to see that there is no violence done |
the Chinese on the expiration of the |
limit. Governor Pen |
noyer of Oregon replied by wire say
ing he would attend to his business
and requesting President Cleveland to |
ID the same.
The Navajoe Indians in Colorado
have at last opened war on the whites
TO prevent the settlement of certain
lands which the red men claim. The
first attack resulted in the death of
eight white men. Whether any In
iians were slain Is not known. Troops
have been sent to the scene, and a
pitched battle is expected. 1t is fear
I'll that the reds will now start out on
4 massacreing raid, and then flee into
he mountains of New Mexico.
\ New York dispatch says: Now
bat the Columbian naval review has
Sen officially completed there has
naturally been n considerable amount
IF speculation started as to what is 10
De done with the several ships in the
United States fleet. One of the officers
Who. came on from Washington today
made out this skeleton programme
md is strongly impressed it will be
.arried out in nearly the manner in
which he has outlined it: The San
Francisco and Charleston to go back
o the Pacific station, the Baltimore
md Bennington to go to China; the
Newark (flagship), Atlanta and Con-
ord to form the new European squad
on; the Chicago (lagship) and York
own to go to Brazil or the South
Atlantic station the Philadelphia
flagship, Miantonomah, Kearsarge,
Detroit, Vesuvius and Cushing to go
o the North Atlantic squadron. The