The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-11-01
LOCAL ITEMS.

THE REV. SAMUEL ii. WEBB returned
Saturday evening from TWO weeks Trip
to W as hingtoD, ID. &.
Mrs. ABBIE FARNUM of the r. l. Hos
pital spent Sunday in Boston with her
sister
THE new inferno. Mr.. Quirk of Bristol
began duty at the X. /. Hospital yester-
day.
Mr.. AND Mrs. JOHN O'NEAL spent Sun
day with Mr. and Mrs. Isaac ,. Cole in
Portsmouth.
PROVIDENCE Lodge Manchester Unity
will hold "a ball in Diamond hall this
evening
THERE will be a big Republican rally at
Narragansett Peir this evening.
GOOD WILL TEMPLE will have a social
in Oriental hall tomorrow evening.
THE Old Colony Railroad Company will
run special excursion to Boston fo.mor-
row.
THE canvass boards will meet to-mor-
row evening at o'clock to canvass the
voting lists.
HOSE IL responded to a still alarm at
o'clock last evening for slight blaZ in
some brush at the foot Of Carter street.
The fire was set by boys.
The Fourth Ward Republican Club
has engaged the American Band for the
that every member Of the club will re-
port at the club headquarters at 1880
sharp.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Board of Trade was held at IL o'clock to-
day i'm the Board of Trade building. w.
III. Burroughs of Brooklyn was admitted
TO membership, after which the meeting
adjourned.
CHARLES WEsTLAND, living at II Frank
Ixr,, int an
down at q o'clock last evening by horse
driven by John X. Pearse. He was taken
to his home in the ambulance
THE three men arrested in Boston by
Secret Service detectives, recently, giving
the names of Charles II. Byron, Daniel
Kelly and John Dempsey, were identified
by Deputy Sheriff Wall AS having served
terms in the State Prison at Cranston.
The prize of $50 offered by the editors
of the Sunday Recorder for the best short
story on an assigned subject was awarded
TO a RHODE ISLAND woman, Mrs. Emma
Ianphear Smith of Phenix. over hun
dreds Of competitors in every part OF the
country.
WILLIAM S. HORTON, living on Pros
pect street, PawtuXet, while driving OF
Pine street last evening, ran over man
named Oft. Ausheld. who lives on Hamil-
ton Place. Ausfield was taken into DIR.
Wagners office and his injuries attend
ed. With the exception OF "A few br ulses
and contusions on the right side he was
uninjured. and later proceeded to his
| home.
WALTER +. LANE, one Of the night
| switching gang on the New England
| railroad was caught betweed two freight
| cars this morning and sustained severe
crushing of the right arm. Lane was
taken to the hospital, where it was found
| necessary to amputate the arm at the
| oh ia ms Q
jefferson street.
THE exhibition of the RHODE ISLAND Hor-
ticultural Society in Infantry Hall will
| be opened Wednesday next and continue
through Thursday and Friday. Secrettry
| &. w. Smith states that tchrysanthemums
were never in better condition. The
| National Band will discourse music on
the first evening and the orchestra on the
second and third evenings.
AT 11:45 o'clock last evening. Officer
Tooe found "A colored girl wandering
around on Point street. She gave the
name of Lizzie Coleman, Is years OF age
aud claimed Woonsocket as her home.
The girl stated that she bad been livin g
with a family by the name OF Rich, who
had stolen her from her home in the
South She was turned over to Overseer
OF the Poor Cummings.
THE following new appointments for
| United states Supervisors were made to-
day Lincoln, first diserict, Emory IL.
Desilets, Democrat; sixth district, G.. IL.
LAWN, Democrat; pawtucket. second
district, Owen keough, Jr., Dsmocrat.
In the seventh ward, first district, of
PROVIDENCE. W. II. Cullman was ap-
pointed TO fill vacancy caused by resig-
nation and in the Ninth Ward, first dis
trict, James II. sMcCabe.
lIoPE Lodge. No 4. !. q. q. f.. held its
first social OF the season IN Odd Fellows
hall last evening. There were not quite
so many present AS was expected. AL
though enough to make the affair profit.
able. The committee of arrangements
was w. +. Cloudman. L. A. Boyce and
II. |. stanton. T.. A. Pearce had charge
of the floor and was assisted by T.. T..
Hathaway, G.. Newcomb and y. Mather.
son. Ioung's Orchestra with Ned Young
as prompter furnished the music.
Court of Common Pleas