The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-07-03
Per z. II. $. 5. Alameda, San
Francisco, June rs.
From our san Francisco Correspondent
(Continued.)
San Francisco News.


for the three fremen who were
killed at the Page-street fire have
reached $3.50.
The widow of Charles Lux, the
great land baron and cattle king,
has sued the surviving partner,
Henry Miller, for an accounting
and dissolution of copartnership.
The property is valued at 100000
coo. Miller & Lux began life in
San Francisco as sausage-makers
on a small scale.
Charles Offer, the wholesale
tobacconist, is in the hands of the
sheriff. His liabilities are $22,-
900.
Edward Curtis. for years a polit-
ical agent for the late Senator
Stanford, is a physical and mental
wreck, and his friends have ap-
piled to the court for the appoint
ment of a guardian.
The DAVE Ferry and Transpor-
tation Company has been incorpo-
rated to run ferry between Oak
land and San Francisco.
The receipts Of the San Francisco
Postoffice for the fiscal year ending
March 81, 1898, show quite a nota-
BILE increase. The gross receipts
for this period were $816,947, and
the total increase was $36,195. San
Francisco ranks very high with
other presidential Offices rated in
the first class.
The Donahue Steel and Smelt-
ing Company has been incorpora-
ted with a capital Of 100000 to do
business here. It is intended to
turn out from 80 to 100 tons of
steel per day.
The Jory Bros, shoe dealers,
have failed for $4,000.
Fred w. Lees has been appoint
ed city license collector to succeed
George w. Lee. The new collector
is the son of Captain Lees of the
detective force.
Ralph G. Woodward, president
of the Crocker-Woolworth Bank,
died of heart disease.
The twenty-one brightest chill
dren in the State have been sent
to the Worlds Fair by the Exam
liner and are receiving great deal
of attention.
DIR. Jas. Stanton has been ap-
pointed supervisor to succeed VIM.
Montgomery deceased.
J. Downey Harvey, the society
pet, has been arrested for drunken
ness but he says he was not inc
briated. Those who saw him say
he was.
VIM. II. Croker has purchased
the new Rosenthal building on
Market street near Seventh for
100000.
The Democrats have settled
their factional fight by appointing
Max Pope president of the gen
eral committee. This makes him
the boss and shows that Buck
ley and his crowd are at
work again.
Attorney Colonel Kowalsky who
has been on trial for disbarment
before the supreme court for I'M
professional conduct has been ex-
onorated.
J. K. Firth of the Phoenix iron
works has been forced by his cred
itors to make settlement on debts
Of $4,000. They accepted forty
cents on the dollar and Firth will
continue business.
The Great Northern put the
knife into transcontinental rates
again on the Goth by announcing a
rate of $51 frst-class and $33 sec
ond-class from St.Paul to San Fran
cisco. This includes q berth and
meals on the steamer from Seattle
to San Francisco. This will drag
the Union Pacific into the fight
unless that road is prepared to
sacrifice its Portland business.
D. J. Murphy, the well-known
banker of San Jose, Cal, is dead
He accidentally shot himself while
cleaning a pistol.
Ex-Cashier Flood of the Dono-
hoe-Kelly bank has been convicted
of embezzling $4,000 and is
awaiting his sentence. Flood is an
old man.
Thomas St. Clair has been con
victed of murder in the first degree
for the killing of Mate Fitzgerald
Of the bark Hesper. Two more
men are to be tried for the same
offense.
The widow of the late James NJ
Donohue is endeavoring to break
his will and secure her community
share Of the estate which was given