The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-03-25
NEWS OF 0lNEYVILlE.
Giving Democrats Dose of Their
Own Medicine,


Yesterday morning Senator Beane OF
Johnston introduced bill in the lower
House of the Senate, providing for the in
sertion of the words highway commits
sionern In chapter 9e0 section 1, of the
public laws. relating to the election OF
town officers by the people. This step
was taken because the Democrats of John
ston, In their cancus for the choosing OF
candidates at the elections OF April o,
made great hue and cry on account OF
the statutes not containing this Office
among the others, they claiming that, In
consequence. the highway commissioners
could not he elected by the people, but
must be appointed by the Town Council,
thinking thereby to rid themselves OF this.
their most fatal stumbling block.
Every EEyeryboby remembers the, the efforts hior tSs Ss
untamed ocean with a broom. and this is
n similar attempt, which will be as
ignominious failure. for IL is q very poor
game that two cannot play at. This bill,
as it stands, was drawn up by Democrat,
introduced into the Senate by a Democrat.
and passed by Republican House un-
suspectingly, they supposing that every
thing was all right without any resorting
so intrigue or doubie-dealing. John
Watch, the commissioner at this time,
has been for several years elected by the
people, aud IL anyone imagines that he
Will hOb Ot dkdiu Otl tbc pbh VI 1hpth, ie'~s
he must soon wake mp from his awful
nightmare, for the bill has been passed In
the House and will to-day go through the
upper swimmingly AS a matter OF fact
IL is more to the task of the people TO elect
their man direct than TO have it done
through second Ierson.
A Woman Knocked Down with stone.
An incident occurred last night about Q
o'clock that is but a repetition OF what
q L. Nrrtf~ 80 lag nd u1a
namely, the lawless throwing of missiles
only this was of far more serious nature,
as ii was by very narrow margin that
fatal results were not the consequences.
1t took place on High street. near the
corner Of Perry, in front of OConnor
Bros tailoring establishments, Several
boys of more or less disreputable charac-
ter were lounging about this vicinity.
throwing stones or snowballs as they
could find them, when three others came
along and in some way offended one or
the loafers. Without further provoca-
tion the injured person picked mp a
large rock. about three inches in diameter,
and hurled il at his adversary.
a young woman, very respectable.
whose name was not known, was passing
along Mt that moment, and the missile, in
stead of striking the one for whom 1t was
intended, hit her in the breast, Telling her
like log 10 the ground in an unconscious
near by, and after about ten minutes ap-
plication of restoratives she was brought
TO her senses again.
Under cover of the Night.
The suit for damages between Olney
Darling, superintendent of the Manton
Mills, and Samuel Bottomley, contractor
and builder, both of Manton, is fresh in
the minds of all in this vicinity. A new
phase of this affair has just leaked out,
namely, that Darling has skipped and
fed to parts unknown. 1t has been ru-
mored that Bottomley has been looking
for Darling for some time, 20 sue him for
an alleged offence, and he would, had he
been able to capture him, have landed
him, it Is said, in Cranston.
The farmer was aware of this fact, IL no
one else was, and has kept shady" for
several days. Last Saturday Mr.. Bottom
fy was to have served warrant for his
arrest, but was unable to find him, as he
hid in the mills all day, and as no war
rant could be served on Sunday, he took
advantage OF the circumstance. packed up
his trunk, taking all the designs from the
mills, and with satchel in hand, started,
under cover of the darkness, for the city.
lie alighted ar Turks Head, and went di-
rectly TO the depot, since which time about
9:30 Sunday evening, he has not been seen
or heard of. He has been superintendent
of the Manton mills for the past seven
teen years, and was always considered
straightforward and upright, having man
aged the place with great success.
Briefs.
The "hurry-up" was called out this
morning for the arrest of drunken man
who was locked up at the Sixth station.
Officer Feeney last night about 9:25
ouelled disturbance in house on Alep-
po street, where the occupants were hav-
ing jolly fight among themselves.
Hose Co No. Ii responded to a still
alarm last night about s o'clock for n
slight fire in dwelling house % Bowdoin
street. caused by an exploding lamp.
Damage insignificant
In the Eighth District Court this morn
ing John Murphy pleaded guilty to being
drunk. and as it was not very aggravated
case he was fined q aud costs, which he
paid
Rats" the horse that does the day
hurry-up service, is a daisy and gets into
the harness like n veteran, although 1t Is
comparatively unframed.
Dennis Connors. night driver Of the
patrol wagon at the Sixth station. was
jumped on last evening by one of the
horses and his wrist aud ankle badly
sprained. He was otherwise badly bruised.