The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-08-29
cITY NEWS NOTES.

repaired and enlarged.
Trolley poles for the electrics wers
erected on Exchange street. last night
Capt. Baker Of the second dlskrict ha
returned from his vacation on Cape Cod.
The trolley poles Tor use on jackson
street have arrived and the holes dug for
their reception.
The forge shop Of the CorlIss Steam
Engine company has smut down for :
weeks vacation.
" ctoria lodge. 6503, have leased He'd
ley's hall for five years and have rsiitted
IL TO r lodge work.
Providence and Smithsonian lodges X
Of 4, will have moonlight excursion ou
the steamer Planet tomorrow.
A handsome two-story brick building,
to be known as the Carat building. Il
being erected on Jackson street.
Golden-rod weddings are the proper
caper just now. There have besn several
in the vicinity Of Providence lately.
A new battery Of Babcock and Wilcox
boilers is being put In at the NarrAgan~
sett Electric Light company's plant
The Brown g. Sharpe Manufacturing
company shipped n large consignment Of
machinery to the Drexel institute yester-
day.
Boilers Of new and Improved pattern
are being placed In the basement Of the
postoffice. Thoss in use are being
removed.
The Household Sewing Machine com.
pany shipped a consignment OF machin-
cry to the Columbia Typewriter company
yesterday.--------
An enterprising hat dealer on Rioh-
mond street announces that a certain
grade of his goods has been reduced from
$500 to $50.
The Saranac Worsted mills received q
consignment of machinery from the
American Machine and Tool company OF
Boston yesterday.
The Brown g. Sharpe Manufacturing
company started up yesterday in fulfil
ment OF the exclusive announcement
made in The News last week.
The Loyal Women OF American Liberty
announce moonlight excursion for this
evening. II the prevailing storm con.
tinues 1t will have to be postponed.
The city hall thermometer registered
only SO degrees yesterday but those who
were compelled to move about thouRht
it must have been kiting around the 100
mark.
The members OF Hyland chapNl of the
Society for Christian Endeavor went on
moonlight excursion last evening
aboard steamer Planet TO Prudence
Islasd.
A large amount Of machinery to be used
I'm the construction OF some large guns
for the governments was shipped to the
testing station at Sandy Hook yesterday
afternoon.
ho In xrot, k~ofn nf . h~
on the Consolidated, to Nantasket beach,
will be run tomorrow morning. The
train will leave this city at 9:05 a. m. Ia
tie afternoon there will be u band oon-
cert by Brooks Military band Of New
York.
A horse aud buggy belonging to Burke
Bros, was s'olen from iu front of their
ming. and later recovered on Bridgharn
street by officers Of the fourth station.
The thieves, after driving the horse TOY
three or four hours, had left him hitohec
to an electric light pole.
William Mclaughlin applied to the
police of the third station last night for
assistance in killing dog which he said
was in his yard suffering from hydropho.
bia- -Policemau-Hyoas got hts pistol
ready and went after the stricken canine
which he found suffering with q fit and
brought around all right with pail OF
water.
An incandescent light in one OF
L. A. Tillinghast's show windows
exploded last evening. setting hrs
to the. netting which enveloped the
chandelier. A fragment Of the flaming
gauze fell down on the display and be-
fore it could be extinguishrd had melted
several dollars worth Of angel Q Ike and
macaroons into an unstable condition.
The New York and New England em-
ployes do not at all relish the 10 per cent.
cut-down they have been notified OF BY
President Mcleod. They do not appear
to expect much OF the promise to restore
They talk about protest, or some form
of resistance, but SO far as can be learned