Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01
MEETING Postponed


The meeting OF the police commission
scheduled for today has been postponed
until Thursday morning at 9 o'clock
Relief Fund Contribution
Nearly $1,000 was contributed yester-
day to the San Francisco relief fund
that is in the charge of the chamber
OF commerce. The total amount i9
nearly $1s5000.
Nurses to Graduate
Graduating exercises Of the Pacific
Hospital Training School for Nurses
will be held Thursday night in Cum
mock hall. Rev. Hugh X. Walker. Rev.
Robert ]. Burdette and DR.. J. II. Sey-
mour will assist.
Women Are Committed
BY order of the insanity commission
in Judge Gibbs department of the SUI
perior court yesterday, Tillie Young
and Nellie Mueller were ordered COM
mtted to the asylum at Higland. Both
women were suffering from nervous
collapse.
Snatches Woman's Purse
Mrs. W. H. Isaacs, 1928 West Pico
street. reported to the police yesterday
that some one snatched her purse Sat-
urday afternoon while she was watch
ing the parade of Sunday school chill
dren. The purse contained $5 and val
liable papers.
Mrs. Fishers Meeting
At the Volunteers of America hall, 1913
East First street, this evening at 8
O'clock Rev. j. r. Compton VIII preach.
Mrs. W. W. Scott will sing. Young
people from the New Testament church
will assist in the services. Auspices of
Mrs. Frances Helm Fish,
Myers Lecture Postponed
In consequence of the San Francisco
disaster, the lecture on the Talmud
which was to have been given by Rabbi
.Isidore Myers at Simpson auditorium
on May 3 has been postponed and will
be delivered later on date to be an
nounced in the near future.
Expires at Hospital
Mrs. Agnes Wilson Gregg, wife of
Judge Frederick w. Gregg of San
Bernardino and Redlands, passed away
yesterday noon at the California hospi-
tai following surgical operation. Mrs.
Gregg was aged AZ years and was the
daughter of the late Mrs. Catherine
Wilson of Los Angeles.
Struck by Engine
While walking across the Southern
Pacific tracks at Alameda and East
First streets early yesterday morning,
\ r.. w. Gilkerson. living at 645 Banning
pstreet, was struck by switch engine,
lsustaining scalp wounds and concus-
sion of the brain. After treatment at
| the receiving hospital he was removed
1 to the county hospital. He will prob
ably recover
4Negress Is Sentenced
4 Sadie Young, negress, one of the
Automobile party which was touring
&he tenderloin district Friday night
Iwhen the ahost' was robbed Of $500 and
"a gold watch by an unidentified negro,
dvas sentenced to forty days in jail
Yesterday for vagrancy. The police
Nope to find the robber through the
1fessions of Miss Young, although
vi claims she did not know him.
Eight Falls on Man
III /. Shelton, an electrician, was pain
I'M ly injured yesterday at the Delta
Building on South Spring street by the
falling of an elevator weight At the
1heceiving hospital it was discovered
hlhat the man had sustained fracture
Hi. the shoulder blade and right hip.
Me was removed to the emergency hos
bital. Shelton is 26 years old, single
And roomed at sos South Hill street.
Ministers Discuss Losses
AAt the meeting of the Methodist
inisters yesterday Rev. Otto Wilke,
Nsiding elder of the German Meth
vt churches of the California district,
ke of the great loss sustained by
IA methodist churches in San Fran
..Asco Others spoke of the late suf-
ifter.ng of the Methodist people in the
devastated CITY, E. b. Warman deliv-
Hired an amusing and instructive lee
lHlure on ",True and False Elocution."