The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-21
San Francisco News.

The present grand Jury is making
things tropical for the wreckers of the
Pacific and the Peoples Home banks.
The prominence of the men connected
with these institutions in this in
stance does not protect them from the
clutches of the law. r. II. Mcdonald,
Jr., as the principal offender was the
first to be indicted and he has now
been in Jail week being unable to
secure bail of 100000. "A second in
dictment has been found against him
and the bail increased to $150,000. So
it is expected that he will have to stay
in prison till after his trial unless his
wealthy father, who is in New York,
assists him, and thus far the old gen.
tleman has not offered to do so. r. III.
Mcdonald was president Of the Pacific
Bank and has had control of the Peo-
pies Home since its failure. On the
18th inst. another bonn mbshell was fired
into the camp of the wreckers in the
shape of indictments of Frank V.
Mcdonald, a brother of II. H., Jr.,
Hiram Il. Graves, ex-secretary of the
Pioneer Society, Charles Montgomery,
proprietor of the American Exchange
and Montgomery Hotels. and III. L.
Jenkins. The three were released on
$4,000 bonds each and will stand for
trial. Frank V. Mcdonald has fed
to Japan to avoid explaining how
$4,000 of depOsitors' money disap-
peared while in his custody. The
charges are very grave, and it is
among the possibilities that r. III.
Mcdonald will get a term in prison.
He declares he is innocent but the
facts look the other way.
The Chronicle has furnished the
city with a shooting scrape, but this
No do
shooter was "Jake" Rudolph, an old
time Buckley lamb, and who for
years acted as guide and bodyguard to
the ex-Boss. Rudolph got into q
fighting mood and decided that he
would kill Mike DeYOung, proprietor
of the Chronicle, for referring to the
fact that Rudolph was an ex-convict
and bad man generally. At the
business office of the paper the would.s
be assassin in loud voice called for
DeYoung. j. B. Eliot, business man.
ager of the paper, asked what he
wanted. The next moment q big
pistol flashed in Rudolph's hands,
there was a struggle between the two
men, and the weapon was discharged.
The bullet struck some coins in Mr.,
Eliots left trousers pocket and
glanced downward, making a slight
abrasion OF the skin on the inner side
of the thigh. But for the coin in the
left pocket the bullet would have sew
cred an artery and would undoubt-
edly have caused death in few min
utes. Mr.; Eliot succeeded in disarm-.
ing Rudolph, and the latter was
into the street, where a police
man grabbed him. He is waiting
trial with bail fixed at $4,000, and
eYoung is wearing piece of boiler
iron under his vest.
The monument to the memory of
the mother of George Washington
has at last been completed, and un-
yelled at Fredericksburg, Virginia.
The President and Cabinet were
present, Mr.. Cleveland presiding at
.he ceremonies.
William Oldham, of Nottingham,
England, will attempt to cross the
Atlantic in a ten-foot boat.
Seven bandits entered the town of
southwest City, Missouri, on the 10th
instant, looted the banks of $1,000, and
hot down four citizens before they
scaped from the town. It was the
'oidest robbery since the days of the
ames boys.
Dick Croker, the boss Of Tammany,
las finally resigned, and will devote
us time to enjoying life.
The drought in California grows
more severe, and in western Fresno
ounty is the worst known in twenty
ears. In the San joaquin valley the
rain crop is almost a complete failure.
The fruit crops in many sections will
'e very short, but better prices will
'e paid than for any years past, as
rops of the same kind in the Eastrn
nd Western States have been almost
ntirely ruined by frosts.
Wheat is now lower than ever be-
ore in this and the New York market.
John Patton, Jr., of Michigan, has
cen appointed United States Senator