The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-10
NEWS CONDENSED.


Boston Feb. IL.
The town OF Dennis, Mass, has voted
for no license.
Mike Kelley says he wants to play ball
in New York next season.
Thomas w. Davis, city surveyor of Bos-
ton for IS years, has retired.
Woburn wants to raise by taxation
$500 TO celebrate its 250th anniversary.
William Grinnell of New York has been
appointed third assistant Secretary of
State.
Hon. Edwin Eastman of Exeter has
been congrmed attorney general of New
Hampshire.
Hon. John Jay Knox, ex comptroller Of
the treasury, died at 2.32 p. m. yesterday
of pneumonia.
A miner named Lalus, Myelovitz, Prus-
sian Silesia, has just awakened from q
four months sleep.
Representative Carter OF Williamsburg,
Mass, had q paralytic shock on the street
in Boston yesterday.
Rev. Charles II. Spurgeon's body was
viewed by $1,000 people as it lay in state
in London yesterday.
NC NOAblCIu hcpOAS III Dobtou tIt W
be united and the Haymarket square de-
pot of the Boston * Maine will be aban-
doned.
o. j. Markle, about 20, a clerk in the
war department, wants to marry Miss
Hattie Blaine, daughter of the secretary.
He is probably insane.
John Gupolo and Nioholo Martelli got
into a dispute at the North End, Boston,
Monday night. Gupolo struck Martelli
with an axe and fractured his skull.
Chief Wade of the district police, +. II.
Fowler, chief clerk of the board of agri-
culture, and j. w. Haiti, second clerk,
district police, want their salaries raised.
Pm. Hurley, proprietor OF the Sher-
wood House, Worcester, and john Bow
Ter, the brewer, indulged in street fight
yesterday noon. Bowler attached Hur-
ley's hotel.
Assemblyman Stein OF New York saw
the clectrocution of Charles McElvainc
and then hurried to Albany and intro
duced an amendment TO repeal the cleo
trocution law.
Judge Sphinx Of the municipal court, in
Providence yesterday morning decided
that Maria sherman was not the widow
of Amos n. Beckwith, and refused to
grant her a six months allowance from
his estate.
Officer George T.. Bragg OF Needham,
Mass, yesterday morning committed
Eugene w. Clayton 10 the town lookup
on a charge OF numbering Mrs. Sarah A.
Bradbury OF Dover, Mass., on the 10Th OF
last October. Death was caused by Paris
Green.
Twenty-one members Of International
Boot ana Shoe workers Union 8, employ
ed by Webster, Haverhill, struck yester-
dey morning, bccause non-uniou man
was pat at work with them. This cleans
out the entire shoe making department
and throws 100 hands out OF work.
The Duke Of Devonshire (Lord Harting-
toni, vino succeeded TO the title upon the
death Of his father, took his seat in the
British House OF Lords yesterday, and
vas warmly greeted. In the House OF
Commons q number OF new members took
their seats Mr. j. II. Madden, the Liberal
from Rosendale, being vehcmently
cheCred.
In the district court at Newport. n. l.,
yesterday morning, Peter Habbett, an
Arabian pcddler OF Providence, was bound
over 10 answer 20 n charge OF receiving
ESQ yarus Of garter webbing known to
have been stolen from the r. Read Good
ride Manufacturing Company OF Newport,
which has within The past TWO years, been
relieved Of several thousand dollars worth
OF raw aud manufactured rubber Foode.
AT Providence, Il. L., yesterday. Judge
Carpenter OF the United States circuit
court dismissed the petition OF Marie
Eleanor Glet1en OF Amsterdam, Neither
lands, for m iniunct ion against the Amer
ican National Rank OF Providence. re-
straining it from di8posing OF 100 shares
OF stock of the Forcsldsle Manufacturing
Company. The court held that the bank
could 90 with the stock AZ IL saw II.