The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-15
? ews Condensed.


The explorer, Junker, well known as a
friend Of Gordon and Stanley, is dead at
st. Petersburg.
Frank @. Bancroft of New Bedford,
Mass, is 20 manage the Cincinnati league
team next season.
Authentic reports received say full
ice crop will be harvested all along
the Hudson river.
IL. Il. Wells house and blacksmith shop
at Apthorp, N. H., were burned Saturday
with loss OF $500; insurance, $1,000.
II is reported on reliable authority that
the Sauveur Summer College OF Languag-
es will hold its 18th annu al session at Ex-
eter, n. III.
Mgr. Boccali the private secretary and
intimate friend OF the Pope, died Satur-
day of influenza. His loss has caused
great grief tc His Holiness.
Maytown, Lancaster County, Pennsyl-
vania, is terribly scourged with diph-
liberia thirty new cases have developed
in two days. The public school has been
closed.
Prof. Upton OF Brown University took
a measurement at the Ladd observatory
of the largest spot on the sun, and has
stated that he found its diameter TO be
1900 miles.
JOnu u. llHtllb Will Dt
mitted TO membership in the G.. A, X. in
time to participate in the Kansas state
encampment, which meets in Atchison
the last week of this month.
While going home Saturday night, a
young Biddeford, Me-, woman named
Elliot was stopped in public street by a
man who demanded her purse. She gave
her pocket book and the man fed.
In the supreme court at Exeter, N. H.,
Saturday, Isaac Nolan, indicted for the
abuse OF little girl less than 10 years of
age at Newmarket last June, was convict
ed of aggravated assault, and sentenced to
six months imprisonment and to pay
fine of 900.
Near Winsted, Ct, Friday afternoon,
mad dog, after attacking two horses and
yoke of oxen, went into the yard OF
farmer named Floyd Tiffany, bit his sheep
and fearfully lacerated the hands and
arm of an employe named Alfred Evans.
Tiffany killed the dog with an axe.
Walter f. Chickering, the travelling
photographer, wanted at Concord, n. H.,
who escaped from Bethel (Me.) officers, is
supposed to have gone to Canada. Many
of his patrons have received by express
packages of photographs ordered long
ago, and one of them got postal card
from Chickering, postmarked Island
Pond, VT.
The cases against the 140 Chinese who
were charged with illegally entering the
United States were called Saturday in the
United States court at San Francisco, Cal,
and, as neither principals nor sureties ap-
peared, Judge Morrow ordered the cases
defaulted, and the bonds amounting to
$4,000, forfeited.
Archbishop Corrigan of New York sail
ed today from Rome on the Santiago for
New York. The Archbishop has been in
specting the sisal hemp plantations on
some OF the "outn islands with Gov.
Shea. His visit has been of great benefit,
and he will return much improved in
health.
The grand jury at Sacramento, CAL, re-
ported that its investigation of the
rumored corruption in the election of a
United States Senator to succeed Senator
Hurst elected positive and damaging
testimony, but the preponderance of evil
dence was so great that the jury was un-
able to find indictments.
The English admiral, Sir Provo w. p.
Wallis, G.. G. b., is dead. He was over 100
years old. Sir Provo William Parry Wal
lis was the senior admiral of the British
feet. He was also styled the father of
the British navy. He served as a mid
shipman on the Cleopatra when that ves-
sel was captured by the French frigate
Vile de Milan In 1906.