The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-06-22

Wray Taylor, electoral registrar
and organist of st. Andrews Cathe-
dral, returned on the Australia from
his six weeks vacation in California,
which he appears to have thoroughly
enjoyed. Many favors were shown
him by prominent musicians and
business men in San Francisco. He
furnishes our readers with the follow
ing interesting budget OF news:
The fearful disaster to the steam
ship Colima has been the one topic of
conversation in San Francisco. On
June 9th the steamship San Juan ar
rived from the scene of the disaster
with sixteen out of twenty-one men
she had saved from the sea. The
other five had left the vessel at Man
zanillo. 1t appears the Colima went
down at IL AS o'clock on the morning
of May 9th during a storm. She was
too heavily loaded on deck to stand
this storm and an explosion shattered
the steamers decks before she sank.
An official investigation of the sad
affair was in progress when the Aus
tralia sailed on the 18th inst. Among
those lost on the Colima was Thomas
Gray, the ice engineer. He will be
remembered in Honolulu as the hus-
band of Mrs. Ernestine Gray, the
music teacher.
The Monowai was s days and 8
hours on her last trip from the ISL
ands. She was detained outside OF
the Golden Gate no less than twenty
two hours, owing to q heavy fog.
President Cleveland has appointed
Attorney General Olney to be Secre-
tary of State, and Judge Judson Har-
mon, of Cincinnati, Attorney Gen
eral.
At San Quentin on the 8th OF June
three murderers were executed. Death
was instantaneous in each case.
A terrible murder took place on
Ellis street, San Francisco, June 1st.
A Miss Nellie Harrington, a spinster,
was found butchered and her body
partly burned, in the middle Of the
day by neighboT. Though the po-
lice have been hard at work, no clue
to the perpetrator OF this foul deed
has been found as yet. An intimate
friend of Miss HaTrington's, eX-Sen-
ator Buck, was sent for from Oakland
to assist the police, but on his way
was DDEOWH Oub III II cdIIIdNe anu
fatally injured. He died four days
afterwards.
In many Eastern cities there has
been excessive heat. Thirty-hve
deaths took place from the heat in
one day in New York.
The San Francisco variety actress
Loretta Adds, who has been playing
at the Auditorium, was married May
3lst to Lord Sholto Douglas, a son Of
the Marquis Of Queensbury.
Ii is announced that the Prince Of
Wales will visit the States in August,
and be the guest Of Ogden GOelet at
Newport, II. /.
The new American steamship st.
Louis arrived at Southampton, Eng,
from New York June 18th on her
maiden voyage. She was only fifteen
hours behind record time, which is
considered excellent for first trip.
Alex Lyle and his wife, who arrived
by the Monowai, have gone East 20
Boston.
The weather was very fine during
only one foggy night. / met many
HOnoluluans.
Colonel A. G. Hawes, father of Mrs
+. NJ. Hatch, has had high honor
conferred on him, by being transferred
from the general agency Of the New
York Life Insurance Company in San
Francisco to the one in London, Eng.
Colonel Hawes was banquetted by
the Bohemian Club before his depart
ure for England.
Miss Genevieve Nannary. the act
ress who was in Honolulu with the
Daley Company, was married June
9Th to Irving l.. Blinn, son of the Los
Angeles millionaire. Among those
at the wedding were w. w. Dimond
and wife and Fred Wundenberg.
Honolulu musical people should at
tend the concerts to be given by Mr..
John Marquardt and his wife, violin
and harp sOlOists respectively. Both
have been with Scheeps orchestra.
and are magnificent performers. Thev
are on their way to the Colonies, but
were persuaded to stay at Honolulu
two weeks. Mrs. Marquardt has
two beautiful harps, and Mr.. Mar
quardt plays an AmatI violin.
/ spent a delightful morning with
Mr.. Sigmund Beel, the San Fran
cisco violin virtuOso in his study on
California street. He played beauti-
fully for over half an hour and then
showed me his rare collection OF mu-
sical curiOsities. / also tried a num-
Der Of the large church organs, and
visited no less than twenty-four
churches, simply for the purposs OF
hearing the music.
The new Sutro baths when com