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Newspaper
Evening Bulletin
Location
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1899
Page
5
The Honolulu Bulletin notes today’s market activity with price shifts across listed securities. Investors monitor trading, with several key stocks showing gains and others slipping as volumes rise in midday sessions. A brief monthly rate is cited at 76 cents.
Washington January 30 The Senate Committee on Commerce will take up the Pagaw measure extending navigation laws to Hawaii. The bill passed Hawaii without amendment and is seen as favorable in the Senate if California members’ assurances hold. Other customs and Chinese exclusion amendments may be added on the floor. No shop worn goods are advertised in The Bulletin.
A notice column reports a couple seeking one or two central rooms, mentions ships off port, a piano player wanted for the Lent Show, Crawford hosting visitors at River Street, Willie Packering now a Rio de Janeiro parser, and Kamehameha Alumni Association meeting at the naval place at 7:30. It notes Chief Justice Judd visiting his country place and a memorial court session for the late Justice Widemann slated after his return.
Manila reports Major General Otis recalling the Fifty-first Iowa Volunteers from Iloilo to allow repairs on the transport Pennsylvania, which carried the regiment most of its time since Honolulu. the Eighteenth Infantry and Sixth Artillery stay at Iloilo indefinitely, while the Brutus storeship left. The first Japanese battleship Centurion, flagship of the British vice admiral in command of the Chinese station, has arrived.
Corporal Abbott of Company D, 22d Infantry, aboard the Senator, went overboard between 8 and 9 o'clock on the night after leaving San Francisco. He was seated near the after hatch with comrades, became seasick, and during a heavy lurch was hurled over the rail. A boat was lowered but no sign of the soldier was found as darkness prevented search.
A Hawaiian fruit cluster from J P Mendoncas ranch at Kaneohe shows nine limes as large as pas oranges jammed on a single stem with rind abraded by a knife. The cluster weighs four pounds, challenging doubts about local citrus production.
Recorded by Phonograph, Father Valentin performs the funeral hymn in his fine tenor. The record is sharp and clear, rivaling phonograph cylinders from the States.
The will of the late H. A. Widemann was opened to the family by F. M. Hatch, attorney, at 11 o'clock today. Hatch was authorized to proceed without delay to probate the document. No further publication details could be released at this time.
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