The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-03
CENTRAL FALLS.
Town Bonds Authorized.

A special town meeting was held yes
terday afternoon at o'clock at the town
house Ito see IL the town would approve
the form and provisions OF the bonds of
pared by the town officers and the COM
mittee appointed by the town at the
meeting held on the 10th Of March, 1892,
and would authorize the issue OF said
bonds" Fifteen citizens OF the town are
required i'm order to hold toVo meet
ing, and there were two or three over
thaS number when the meeting was called
to order. Samuel Fessenden was chosen
moderator protein, and was sworn In by
the clerk. The call for the meeting was
then read, when the original call was
called for, and also the petition for calling
the meeting, signed by nineteen citizens.
These technicalities were gone through
with in order that there might be no loop
hole through which the illegality OF the
vote could be questioned. The Hon. r. l..
Freeman, of the committee which pre-
pared the bonds, then explained that the
parties who purchased the aforesaid
bonds were not satisfied with the form of
the vote by which they ere issued, as
nothing was said therin about classes,
aud the time of the maturity of the bonds
was not clear.
The following vote. prepared by the
purchasers of the bonds, was then passed:
Voted, that the form and provisions
of the bonds of the town for the aggre-
gate principal sum OF 100000 prepared
for issue by the town officers and the
committee appointed at the town meet
ing held on the 10th of March, 1892,
which bonds are dated the 18th Of July,
1902, and carry interest at the rate of
per cent. per annum, payable semi
annually in u series OF twenty equal
classes, falling due respectively on the
18th of July, 1898, and one OF the other
classes on the 18th of July in each year
h.r m, nd ba
1912, the principal and interest being pay
able i'm gold coin lie and the same are
hereby approved: and that the issue of
the same to the purchasers thereof is
hereby authorized aud directed"
In the District Court This morning Ed
ward Lodgee and James Il. Chace, two
sturdy beggars from Manvllle, were sent
io-the State Farm for six months Aun
ODonnell was sent TO the House OF Cor
rection for six months ms common
drunkard. Three persons were fined 81
aud costs for drunkenne while "a fourth,
who pleaded not guilty, will have trial
week from to-day.
UDont forget Odd Fellows day Mt Rocky Point.
Saturday, Aug. Is. Continental line boats every
hour. See advt In another column.
BERKELEY.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Burgess and
family are enjoying their annual vaca-
tion.
Tomorrow the Berkeley baseball team
will play the Pacifics of Newport at
Crescent Park Saturday the Lonsdales
Mt Pawtucket OH the Dexter street
grounds for $50 side. Fadgen and
Whalcn will be the battery in both games.
ASHTON.
Mr.. Hadfield OF PROVIDENCE is the guest
of Mrs. John Wilds.
Mr.. William Howarth of this village is
the guest of relatives in New Bedford,
Mass.
Mrs John Mills Is seriously i'll.
The insurance inspectors we're around
Monday to test the force ami supply OF
water In the hydrants around the Ashton
mill.
lONSDALE.
On Saturday last an elderly man was
seen To go in bathing by party OF bath
ers just south Of the locks in Scots
pond. No notice was taken of him until
time to 40 home, when n young man
named Taylor, resident Of Dexter street,
Central Falls, found some clothes OH the
bank. He Immediately SWAN To the
spot where the man was last seen aud
diving discovered the body lying in about
thirty feet OF water.
The district police were notified in Cen
tral Falls but as yet they hbre done
nothing towards recovering tho body.
yesterday parties dragged the poud witi.-
out success. The clothes found upon the
bank tally with the description Of the
clothes that were worn by James Deylin