The herald., 1897-08-27

woodville fell, badly skinning his knee.
F. A. Coty rode an exhibition third mile,
unpaced, in AZ 2-5 seconds.
BREvITIEs
Fred Wilson. aged Is, pleaded guilty to
the charge of petty larceny before Recorder
Rossiter, and will be sentenced Monday for
stealing a number of barley sacks, which
he sold. Fred is from Whittier and is now
out on parole. He struck the town few
days ago and put up at the Los Angeles
house, promising to pay his board bill
later. He says he does not wish to go
back to Whittier because the boys there
beat him.
Robert E. Ford of the manual training
department of the Minneapolis high school
has been elected by the Throop board of
trustees to take charge of the machine
shop in place of W. H. Parker who re-
signed this summer. Mr.. Ford is grad
uate of the engineering department of the
University of Minnesota, and is very high
ly spoken of by his former teachers OF
late he has held the position of consulting
engineer in his own Office
S. D. Carey, DR.. Norman Bridge and H.
Fl. Klamroth were today appointed the
music committee of the Pasadena Oratorio
society. They will select solosts and at
tend to other musical matters and do
| everything in their power to insure the
| greatest success to the society during the
coming entertainment season.
| Town Talk, recently purchased of w. S.
| Gilmore by George Rice & Son of Los An
geles, has been resold to H. D. Thaxter of
| this city and L. B. Pemberton of Los An
| geles. Messrs. Thaxter and Pemberton
have been in the electric light business in
this city and Los Angeles and have also
had considerable literary and printing ex-
perience. They will take charge of their
| new acquisition at once.
| Charles PrinZ, a well-known young man
| Of this city, who was prominent in po-
| litical circles during the last campaign, left
| this afternoon en- route by vessel for the
Copper river gold fields, place that has
been little prospected on account of the
hostility of the Indians Mr.. Prinz ex-
poets to keep on to Klondyke, If he does
not meet with success at Copper river.
| The African M e. church. through its
attorney, j. G. Rossiter, has made ap-
plication in the superior court to be al
lowed to sell lot adjoining the church in
the Painter & Ball tract. The church owns
two lots. upon which debts for taxes and
assessments have accrued beyond the abli-
ty of the twenty members to meet, hence
the sale. The trustees hope to get about
500 for the vacant lot. Their indebted
ness is S125
| Articles of Incorporation have been filed
by the California Cycleway company for
! tie opeIdtioH OIL u pain IOr nOrSeleSS Venl-
| cles between here and Los Angeles. The
| directors are: Fl. M. Dobbins. f. R. Braley
W. R. Stevenson. z. Gronendyke and S. v.
| Landt of Los Angeles, and the capital Is
$4,000, of which Mr.. Dobbins furnishes
$49,6O0 and the other directors the re-
mainder.
| PERSONAL
Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Camper and daughter
spent the day at Santa Monica.
| The death of Mrs. r. A. Marsh occurred
last Sunday from lockjaw caused by a
rusty nail in her foot Mr.. Marsh formerly
ran the North Pasadena blacksmith shop
Mrs. E. P. Terry and son of Long Beach
are staying at Las Casitas.
Mrs. 1. B. Winslow came up from Long
Beach today for day or two's stay.
| May. or and Mrs. Hartwell will go to Cat
alma tomorrow to remain ten days.
| Frank Lyman. the bicycle trainer, left
yesterday with his brother-in-law, for the
| Klondyke.
| Charles Smith of the Pasadena National
bank left today for San Francisco.