Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-09
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TO SENTENCE HATCH-Attorney jack
son Hatch will appear for sentence before
Judge WEIGH of San Jose in the superior
court today at 10 o'clock. His trial the
charge of forging the signature of Mrs Sage
to a note will be fixed at the same hour.
FLEET ENvOYAGE-The battleship Mis-
souri, left Port Said yesterday morning for
Athens Later in the day the Kentucky left
for Tripoli. Nine vessels of the American
fleet, under Rear Admiral Sperry, still
at Port Said, being detained by the poor
facilities for coaling such number of yes
sells at once and by the scarcity of lighters.
WESTERN PASTOR DIEs-Rev. M. E.
Phillips, pastor of the Whitesville Congre-
gational church, is dead at his home in New
Haven, Conn, aged SO years. He was for
many years connected with the Wesleyan
Baptist church, and had been chancellor of
several semiaries in western states, notably
Kansas and Colorado His son, Lee A.
Phillips, lives in Los Angeles.
WANTED BY POLICE-Harry I. Bremen
of Brooklyn, under arrest in San Francisco
on charges of passing worthless checks, will
be taken to New York to answer a charge
of grand larceny which has been pending
against him there for some time. In an
swer to iquiries the New York police yester-
day received advices which led to the de-
cision to send a detective to San Francisco
Immediately to take Bremen there.
CANDY POISONED-Poison in the shape
of Paris green, sufficient to kill fifty persons,
was found in candy sent through the mails
to Mrs. Marie Smith and Mrs. Amelia Wit
wer, according to State Chemist Edward c.
HILL who analysed the contents of the boxes
received by the two women at Denver last
Saturday Ocie and Violet Smith, children
of Mrs. Smith, ate of the candy and were
made seriously i'll. The police are trying to
locate former sutton of Mrs. Smith.
WOMAN ARRAIGNED-Dorothy Allen
the young woman arrested at San Francisco
on a charge of embezzling the property of
Evans S. Collins, a travelling salesman of
Seattle, was arraigned yesterday in the po-
lice court. At her request the was con-
tinued until January IL for preliminary ex-
animation. The police are investigating
Collins charge that the woman was the
complete Of a band of supposed wire tap
pers who secured S2100 from the salesman.
DIPLOMAT TO LECTURE-James Bryce
the British ambassador, will deliver a course
of lectures at the University of California
next March. While the distinguished diplo-
mat is at San Francisco he will be the guest
of honor at a banquet to be given by the
Commonwealth club. He has indicated that
he will accept no other invitations to func
lions of a public or semi-public character
while on this coast, as he wishes to rest
quietly and devote his time solely to his
lectures.
BANKS TO UNITE-It was reported up
on the stock exchange at San Francisco yes
terday that the Anglo California bank,
which was founded in 1875 by the late p.
N 11uenCnal, ndQ Deen cOnSOllQaJeu with
the London-Paris National bank, formerly
the London Paris and American bank.
While the trasfer of stock has not yet been
made, it is believed the Anglo Californian
will be absorbed and the holders Of stock
in the former will be paid $50 per share
for their holdings.
BATTERED TO DEATH-Henry E. John
ston, a machinist employed by the Califor-
MIA Barrel company, was battered to death
in the companys plant at San Francisco yes
terday when his clothing caught in a
volving pulley. Johnston, who was 50 years
old, had assembled ladder to adjust a belt
when his jumper caught and he was whirled
around at a dizzy rate, his body being
hurled alternately against the ceiling and
the machinery When the cloth finally gave
way the man dropped to the floor dead.
CLERK CONFESSES-Harold snowden,
chief clerk of the special delivery depart
ment at Denver OF the postoffice, has con-
fessed to Chief Postoffice Inspector Coch-
ran, it is alleged, that he had rifed scores
Of letters in the past year and obtained
hundreds of dollars from them Complaints
from all sections of the country of undeliv-
cred letters caused an investigation, Snow
den being. taken in the act of conceaIing a
letter. When confronted by the inspector he
admitted the previous thefts. He is in Jail.
PLAN BIG ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ar
engagements completed for the entertain
ment at Salt Lake City of the visiting hotel
men who are to arrive in that city Monday
morning. The gathering is for the purpose
of forming a western hotelmen's associa-
ton, which will have for it's object the
fixing and maintenance of a uniform rate
scale, protection against dead beats and adj
vertising the resources of the west will, it
is claimed be attended by about fifty from
far east the Missouri river and west to
the Pacific coast.