Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-25
NEWS NOTES.

2lst to 2Sd, was IA inches.
Pacific Lodge No. l Knights Of Pyth-
las will give ball in Armory hall to-
night.
Sheriff elect Martin Aguirre announces
that he will appoint A. M. Thornton
Under-sheriff and P. M. Darcy Jailer.
Henry Denken pleaded guilty to the
charge of petit larceny in Justice Aus
tins court yesterday and was fined $40.
The Iowa Associations of this city and
Pasadena, with the Illinois Association,
propose picnicing on New Years day at
Lincoln Park.
Transfers of real estate yesterday
amounted to $16S, ,316, and were los in
number. Of these 3S were for more
than 81 900 each, and 90 were for NOM
inal considerations.
The owner of the property stolen from
Monrovia some time ago by the China
man who was captured by Jailer Russell
Sunday, called at the County Jail yester-
day and identified it.
In the United States District Court
yesterday, five men pleaded guilty to the
charge of selling liquor to Indians, and
one, Salvador Espinoza, pleaded not
guilty to the same charge.
One of the police officers made re-
markable find yesterday in the shape of
a set of false teeth, which he picked up
on Spring street. The owner will find
them at the police station.
A small burglary was reported last
evening to have taken place at No. 210
Myrtle avenue. A detective was sent
out to look into the matter, but full par
ticulars could not be obtained.
Santa Ana contributed to the County
Jail yesterday-one Chas. A. Brown,
who is in for six months for petty lar
ceny, and two vagrants, one of whom
will remain eight and the other thirty
days.
Prof. T. A. Perkins was brought to the
Police Station yesterday afternoon to re-
ceive some medical treatment. He has
been drunk it is said, for the last twenty
six years and is beginning to experience
q good deal of trouble from rats.
Mary Kanestine, Of Pasadena, was
brought to the County Jail yesterday for
insanity. She was brought in some
time since on the same charge, but was
dismissed as she mad recovered from the
spell of sickness which caused the loss of
mental balance. She will now be brought
before the Commissioners again.
Frank Fountain, the negro, who is ac-
cused of having cruelty illtreated his
little son. was taken before Justice Aus
tin yesterday. The charge against him
is one of battery. Owing to the absence
of the principal witness against him,
through sickness, the case was adjourned
until January 10Th.
A young lady, the niece of a we'll
known member of the Chamber of Com
merce, who was out yesterday doing
some Christmas shopping, dropped her
purse out of the carriage into the street,
in front of the st. Charles Hotel. 1t
contained about $50 in cash. A Negro
was seen to pick it up and hurry off with
it, but as no satisfactory description
could be obtained of his appearance, the
police found it impossible to track him.
Frank Bartlett W. R. G. No. has
chosen the following officers: Mrs. G.
Ella Sterling, President; Mrs. Elizabeth
Bilee, Senior Vice President; Mrs. Ger
trude Simpson, Junior Vice President !;
Addie Fairbanks, Treasurer; Lucy Van
Buskirk, Chaplain; s. A. Hickey, Con-
ductor; Annie Kr@mer, Guard; Dele
Qates-Elizabeth Biles, Julia Griddle,
Lizzie Roth; alternates Gertrude Simp-
son, Mary Mannon, Ella Vanhorn.
The following are the graduates of
Woodbury's Business College for the
term ending December, 21, 1888: R. A.
Todd, E. L. Cradle, L. F. Daley, E. P.
Chaplin, David Martin, George w.
Thompson, G. M. Warren, Servy Pegton,
r. G. Bufkin, G. w. Floyd. w. F.
Bundy, Harry G. Wyman, E. B. Ram
saur, John F. Buster, R. N. Newsom, H.
d. Williams, Voldemar Schmidt, J.. q.
Davenport, E. A. Carson, L. A. Gof,
Hattie M. Dixie and Asa M. Buffum.
Herman Pfnetzner, alias Henry
Mueller, who passed the checks bearing
the forged signature, N. N. Morgan, was
9 xamined before Justice Austin yester-
day on the charge of forgery. No new
facts were brought out in the examine
ton other than those already published
in the account of the case. He was held