The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1888-01-14
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
A brief Mention of All Events OF Interest
That Have Filled the Telegraph
Columns of Daily Papers for
the Past Week.


Henry C. Wiley and Edward Patland,
indicted In Chicago Tor keeping bucket
shops, pleaded guilty Wednesday last ana
were fined 600 each.
Mrs Frances L Shllaber has recovered
81 Worcester, Mass, "A verdict OF s2,OoJ
against Druggist George T. Fairbanks for
poisoning her husband.
Editor IL. w, Grady. Of the Atlanta Con-
shfutioh, Will deliver an grafton at the open
Ing OF tho suO-tropicai exposition in Jack.
sonville, Fla, next Monday.
The body OF T. Dawmau,a a clock mender
was found on Tuesday iu the woods near
Creswell, N 4. Three negroes aro in Jail
suspected Of numbering him.
Fire last Wednesday destroyed tho new
Turner Hall on Canal St, Allegheny, Pa.
loss 81, 0O0
VIM. Ayers was run over by passen.
ger train and killed Wednesday evening
near Queensvillo, Ind.
A vein OF mi-bituminous coal eight It,
thick has boon discovered in Rye township,
Perry county, Pa
Several persons were seriously injured
In Chicago Wednesday by explosion OF
saltpetre at small fire.
Ernest Hopnel, a workman on tho Saint
Paul ice palace, fell " ednesday from a
turret and was fatally hurt
A fire in Beaufort ~ c., Wednesday,
estimated at $4,000.
Gov. Ames, OF Mass, Wednesday, In re-
ply 10 query, said he did not intend to
pardon Rev Mr.. Davis, imprisoned in Bos-
ton FOR preaching on the common without
the requisite pormiL
Congressman Alexander Cochran
counsel for the 1ehuaDtepeo Ship Railway
Co, says his corporation have not been
able TO raise the requisite fifty millions to
build the line IN this country and an agent
will be sent to England u place stock
there.
Early Wednesday morning burglars
blew open the safe in w. T. Payne's coal
Office, in Rockville, Conn, ana stole si5.
They also entered the mill ofico Of j. J.
Ryan, drilled "a hole In the safe door ana
filed II with powder but apparently were
frightened Oft without exploding ~.
Gems worth $1,000 were stolen Wednes.
day at Kansas City. Joseph Bean being
arrested, part of tho plunder was re.
covered.
At Milan, Mo, Mrs. Mary Caldwell,
eighty years old, was burned 10 death on
Wednesday by fire catching IN her clothing.
Alexander benson colored, was arrested
at Wichita, Kan, on Wednesday for "a
murder at Galosburg, H., last August
Mr.. Charles =. Moore, one OF the best
known young lawyers at Washington, ID. c.,
dropped dead in that city Wednesday.
James f. Coyle, baggageman was
crushed TO death Wednesday between two
trains in tho Union Depot yard at Albany.
The large store and warehouse OF the Los
Angeles, Cal, Furniture Company was
burned Tuesday Loss Sl50,OO. Moro than
one hundred mon are deprived OF work.
An explosion OF natural gas Wednesday
morning in the residence of Alexander Pat
ton, at Marion, Ind, stunned all the sloop-
Ing inmates and caused damage estimated
at $1,000.
Two trains OF the Missouri Pacific Rail
road collided Wednesday near Houston,
Texas, and were badly wrecked. Engineer
Ward and mail agent were injured, but
not seriously.
Miss Eta Albro, who died at Newport,
r l., about u month ago, left will in which
she gave her interest In "a large estate TO
James Hazard. a mulatto. The probate OF
the will Is 10 DO resisted.
w. II. Jardone, a prominent lawyer OF
Galveston, Texas, while suffering from
temporary mental alteration " odDosday
stabbed himself four times with a pocket
knife. II il feared his wounds will prove
fatal
Two hundred feet Of the new central
yiaduct "A structure 900 feet in length and
eighty feet high, spanning the valley la tho
centre Of the city Of Cleveland, OHIO, fell
shortly after 10 O'clock Thursday, carrying
down six men. The drop WAS eighty
feet, and ir IA was piled up In masses that
weighed tons. The crash was terrific, III.
q. Burton was mashed 10 pieces and man
paTned Hardy was instantly Killed. Several
were more or less severely hurt.
The two Clarks, alias Reeves, brothers,
and Mollard. were tried on "Wednesday at
Tompkinsville, KY, for two burglaries and
for burning the Court House Each Of tho
three was sentenced 10 terms OF imprson-
ment amounting 10 thirty-one years.
An oncer OF the Humane Society in Chi
cago inspected the horses OF tho North
Side Railway Company Thursday. Less
than a quarter were found ~ 20 work He
forbade tho sending out OF veral, but
was disobeyed, and caused the arrest OF 3
driver.
Miss Harper, while walking Thursday in
ono OF the most fashionable sections OF
Pittsburg. Pa, was set upon by two ruf-
fans who knocked her down twice, seized
! he wallet aud ran. They were pursued, but
drow their pistols, covered the crown and
escaped
The Brick Shoals Company at Jasper,
Ind. smelted twenty tons Of rock, pro-
ducing from sixty-fve 10 seventy-fve
pounds Of metal daily. An assay shows In
The ore is mined on White River, Du BOis
county, Ind.
Five Chicago dressed beef and canning
companies have made claims against tho
several railroad companies for excessive
freight charges under the Interstate Com
merce Law amounting o. sgJO,OJJ, for which
they threaten suits which Will test the
constitutionality OF tho law.
WI. McMaster d Co, wholesale dry
goods dealers, of Toronto, Ont, have sus-
pended.
Wm. C. Duor, an insane man, a rosiden Of
Accomac county, Va, killed MS wife near
Bellhavsu, Thursday, by emitting her throat
! whil0 r4ding with her in wagon with two
I small children.
| Most Of the business portion Of vandalia,
Mich, was destroyed by FIRE Thursday
morning.
VIM. y HOwells. mine boss, was killed
Thursday by falling rock in Murray shait,
Wilkosbarre, Penn, while trying " save a
minor
A premature blast Thursday on the new
line Of the Lehlgh Valley Railroad, near
\ Laursl Run, Pa killed four Italians and
wounded seven others.
I've Reading freight trains collided on
/ Thursday near Legisburg, Pa. Jacob LILY,
fagrnan, had MS head and face cut and j.
Z Bralnsr, a tr@inmsn, was hurt.
Indans's ~ coal mines produced last
year 89lT,Til tons ~ coal an Increase over
The previous year ~ 2l7.7ll tons. Capital
invested was s2, ,i22, %; miners employed,
I 1874
Ofrc.rs Of the nsssachusetts State 10
publican Cou mitte- for l-S5 are. Chairman,
fredsrick l. Bowden, North Attleboro;
lecrOt.ry, RoOert A. SOuthvOrth, Boston
Trsssgrsr, Henry J Wells, Cambridge.
The body Of Ef. Archibald McNsill, the
reporter on tho staff a the London 6IDrfs