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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-15
JOHN M DEAN
COMPANY.

To everyone buying FURNITURE this sprg wetink
hat the perusal of this advertisement will be benefit
Are you interested IN PARLOR SUITEp
II would like interest least that you
will CALL We show 81 different patterns
ssooo elegant Rug apesty Suite handsome
enough mansion, $5ooo These suites CASH
$500 down on the last and have from to months
looking Our Chamber Set show long
wide and is full of samples In you will find very good substantial
Black CHARTERED Mahogany and every price
between Soo payment the first and last
the balance be paid If prefer pay
Perhaps only RANGE you wish If so there are 10000 families
Providence who using the Beauty and Quaker Ranges prices
follows:
Beauty B, cabinet $4,000
Beauty B, II closet, S78oo
The Quaker Ranges $500 Terms $50 $500 down
$500 per month
sDEBoARDa They are so cheap now that there is
take $a5oo $4,000 Sdeboad of
for Seo and for $500 you buy 5000 not do
all proporonaty soo $500 Soo SIS 90 per
month on the balance. We have styles o from
EXTENSION TABLES cheap the new square
shape Solid Oak 5000 and have them advancing and dol
until reach $4,000 From $4,000 get elegant
popular
exchange the old style of table
Our DRAPERY DEPARTMENT proven immense success
We have made efforts this Our stock full line
of Nottingham Irish Points Brussels Point Applique Swiss
with good line pieced goods and
Laces. Also, an elegant line of Chenille Poreres
CARPETS wholesale
prices the heretofore and at the bottom prices
Ingrans asc $780, 4oc, 6oc 6sc 7sc. ssc per yard
Tapestries Csc, &c., S5c, ooc, $Ioo per yard.
Brussels $780, $IIo, $Is5 $I35 per yard.
Moquettss s1'.5, sI.ss, $3.50 per yard
Cash or
CROCKERY DEPARTMENT. A Decorated Dinner Set is no
longer luxury You buy of that will
patterns paying you
In your house. Balance easy
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OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL 8 O'CLOCK.
JOHN NJ. DEAN COMPANY.
CONVENTIONS, cAyCUsEs, ETC.
Republican State Convention.

At regular meeting of the Republican State
Central Committee. held at Narragansett Hotel. in
the city =: Providence. on Friday. the Sd day of
March, 1898. the following resolutions were anani-
mously adoptedi
Resotred. That q State Convention Of Republican
delegates be held at Music Hail. In the city of Provi-
dence. March 21st. 1so3 at IL o'clock a. M. for
nominating Stale officers for the ensuing year. and
for the transaction OF such other business as may
properly come before said convention.
Resolved, That the several towns and city COM
mittees are hereby requested 70 call primary
meetings for the purpose OF electng delegates to
said convention, double In number to the repre-
sentation Of the said towns and cities In the General
Asse mbly and to elect members of the STATE Gen.
tral Committee for the ensuing year. follows.
namely; Three from the city Of Providence and
one from each Of the other cities and towns of the
State; also TO elect town and city committees for
the ensuing year, and TO report the names of the
State Committee and the OF the town and city
committees together with the names OF the chair
men and secretaries thereof. with their post ONCE
addresses upon the credentials OF the delegate, TO
he convention and that said meetings be held on
before March IA. 1soa and that the secretaries
Of said primary meetings DO requested to forward
a copy OF the credentials OF delegates Immediately
after their election TO the secretary of the State
Committee
Resolved. That the several town and city COM
mittees be and hereby direc ed TO call the
primary meetings for the purpose OF nominating
candidates for Senators and Representativ to the
next General Assembly not later than March IL,
lso3 and that the nomin alton papers OF the cand-
dates Of said primary meetings he nled forthwith
with the Secretary OF State.
Resolved, That the members OF the town city or
ward committees calling tho primary meetings to
order under the above CALL together with the chair
men and secretaries OF said meeting be instructed
toccrfy upon the credentials OF delegates that said
delegates we're elected pursuant 70 regular call OF
aid town or city committees
HUNTER Q. WHITE, Chairman.
EUGENE r. WARNER. Secretary. mrl-I4t
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In his price, and the COMMITTEES as
promptly dropped that location. They
are now hesitating between two others
equally good and il anything more
reasonable, so the greedy landowner
did not serve them 30 mean @ trick after
all.
The building will accommodate ave
hsndred women, In single rooms or
suites, according to their incomes. The
architect has made out scale Of prices
which are fairly accurate, and which he
predicts will be an inducement to oc-
cupants and pay stockholders reason
able per cent. on their investment.
Single rooms, furnished with heat and
light, three or four dollars q week, ac-
cordingto locations one room and bath,
five dollars; parlor, sleeping room and
bath, seven dollars; parlor, two sleeping
rooms and baths, ten dollars. For those
desiring to keep house" there viii be
unfurnished apartments with kitchen,
to be leased by the year, while the 9TH
ers will be let from month to month, so
that parties away for the summer, and
who cannot afford TO pay for their
rooms during vacation, win not be
obliged to do SO. There will be two ele-
vators In the building, and the services
of porter and a chambermaid at nom-
tnal rates.
The management of the entire house
will be as in any first-class apart
ments. Ironclad references as to re-
spectability and reliability will DO re-
quired and will be thoroughly looked
into, but once woman is admitted
there will be no espionage. OF course,
IL an occupant annoys a neighbor she
will be asked to desist or go, or IL COM
promising rumors force themselves on
the manager of the house they will be
Investigated, but not TO the extent OF
suspicion and spying without cause, as
has been the bette noir of well inten-
toned women from the beginning of
their independence. 1t may be that an
occasional undesirable tenant may be
taken in, but 1t may safely be predicted
that she won't stay long, and the women
in general are not to be treated with any
the less consideration on that account
Their friends, both men and women,
may be entertained in their rooms as in
their own homes-something that is
not permitted In the average New York
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MISS JANET LIwrs.

boarding house. The stenographer may
open an Office In her sitting-room, to
save rent, and the dressmaker carry on
business in connection with her living
rooms The walls viii be deadened 80
that music teachers and pupils may
practice in peace, and the top floor will
be reserved for studios with the neces-
sary top north light. In fact, every
thing will be done with the welfare Of
the worlSingwomen in view-something
that seems too good TO be true TO the
woman who has battled with circum-
stances In New York for the past ten
years.
1t will be essentially a woman's build
ing, and it is TO be hoped that the diff
ferent clubs, schools and branches of
business peculiar to women will gather
under one roof, to be easily found when
wanted. There will be a telegraph and
telephone Office with women operators
and a book and news stand with wom-
en- clerks. The ground floor will be di-
vided into stores, and here should
be installed manicures, hairdressers,
gloves and notions, fancy work-every
branch of business that a woman car
ries on successfully.
The restaurant in connection viii be
under the management of a woman, on
salary If possible, so there will be no
idea of gain, but merely of supplying
the very best that can be afforded at
moderate prices, and 1t will be pub
lie restaurant, open to both men and
women, avoiding the forlornness of an
old maids lunch room.
There will be fine opening for Turk
ish baths, as there Is but one place in
New York where a woman can have a
bath after one o'clock, and that is q
dingy place which Is practically out Of
the busy woman's reach, because II Is
not open evenings, Sundays or holi-
days, as the mems baths are. In a
building where women live there will
be the added luxury of q bath and bed
directly afterward, instead of dressing
and going into the outdoor air, rislxing
ones death of cold.
The open court has already been
spoken for the sale OF potted plants aud
cut flowers by woman florist on Long
Island, and bower of beauty II will
be. A library will probably be donated
as n memorial by a philanthropic
woman, and the Associated Artists-an
association composed mainly of women
will give their services in the interior
decoration.
large assembly room will be de-
cided feature of the building. Sorosis
pays Sherry one hundred dollars a
month for the occasional use of certain
rooms; the Woman's Press club and the
Twelfth Night girls are awfully crowd.
ed for space when they undertake 10
entertain their friends, and the various
other women's clubs greatly need suit
able quarters for public meetings. re-
ceptions, dinners, etc. This assembly
room In a womsn's building will fill
long felt want.
Anyway, next September or October
will find the building ready for oc
cupancy, just In time To get settled for
the winter. and II the building proves
TO have been established on a satisfac
tory basis capitalists will see the ad.
vantage OF such an investment and with
other buildings will rush in whe-a bs.
fore they feared 20 tread
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CITY ADYERTXSEMENTS.
THE CITY OF PROVIDENCE.
SEWER ASSESSMENTS.

The owners Of estates assessed for the construc-
ton Of sewers In the streets herena ftsr named are
structOn were on the s4th day Of February. % 1853 @
lodged at the ONCE OF the City Treasurer
avenue TO sewer in Blackstone PARK.
In Butler avenue east side from President ave-
In Benefit street from Tockwotton street to the
: In OXFORD street fr m about eighty feet east OF
Harriet street 20 Prairie avenue
ter's avenue and in Potter's avenue rom Oakland
street TO Dexter street
In Burnett street from Greenwich street to Dex.
In Melrose street from Congress avenue to Irving
In Mawney street from Greenwich street to Dez-
In Rcdwing street from Greenwich ssrest y
SaTs. street from erssnys street 20 point
In Atw,ll's avenue from Summit west OF Coveu
In Branch haven avenue S and Sorth Main street from
70 sna spa IN ay
Main street to the Moshassuck river
In Salem street. from Waldo street to Potts
IL payment of the whole of any assessment is
made before the cath day OF February. 1894. = de-
percentml er anlum fr m the date Of payment TO
sa d last ment oned date.
Tins, within one year q ON the time the assessment
TIE second installment OF one-tnird may be paid
within two wears g. from the day Of said dgsnent
Sa the s es our BY IN sus
Se a ae sy ste Of % e n @ yes
sa a lodgement 70 the time OF payment
The last OF third installment OF the assessment
meRt By p psyins in adeiton theresotSs M In ssrsss
thereon at the rate OF SIX t6) per eentper annum
Y II The sf st r air s s nos paid a. the end OF
one year from the day OF the 1odgment Of the as
ean b with interest,"
at the rate OF six (6) per cent per annum and ex.
f2 I'm City Treasurer
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woman's apartment house in all its de-
tails, and then submitted it 10 num-
Der OF women of influence anil wealth.
1t was decided TO organize n stock com
pany at twenty-five dollars a share,
each share emitting the holder 10 vote
IN the management of the company and
the building. Stamford White, the we'll
known architect, was called into coun-
ell, and drew up plans for nine-story
hreproof building, of artistic but not
elaborate design in stone and pressed
brick, To be erected on a corner lot,
with an open court in the middle, for as
many light rooms as possible. The site
selected was on Fourth avenue and
Twenty-eighth street. convenient to
car lines and elevated stations, but the
owner of the middle lot. supposing
his land indispensable 90 the scheme,
promptly went un ten thousand dollars
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-15
TROUBLE ABOUT A KISS.
Village GossipS Busy with the Name
Of Their Pastor.
RUM0RS OF AN IMPROPERLY
In Which tho Name OF Married Woman
Figures-Ihe Charge May be Inves-
tigated bv the church People, Who
Are Much Stirred Up Over the story.

HARwIcH, Mass, March 15-East Har-
wich, the little village In the eastern part
of the town that has been kept In excite
ment over many incidents for the past two
years, is still growing warmer over the
rumor that the village pastor has kissed the
wife OF one of our respected citizens and Is
still at his duties unconcerned as ever
Rev. David Chambers, the accused, Is In
North Harwich and refuses to say anything
upon the subject. Prominent people of the
place have been interviewed as to the truth
OF the stories anoat, but all seems to be
a tangled up affair, In which some one
seems to blame, and the facts of the case
will surely be brought to light
From correct sources it is learned that
Mr.. Chambers has been frequent visitor
TO the house Of Norton N. Steele, and the
lady, Mrs. Steele, the one with whom gos-
sip has involvedMr. Chambers, and also
her husband, refuse to say anything on the
subject Everybody Is
Talking the Matter Over.
Mr.. Steele says he wants no newspaper
stories about his wife or any of his family,
and says IL Mr.. Chambers Is to blame he
wants him TO get his punishment; II he is
not guilty of what he has been accused he
wants TO see him used as a man and not be
the subject of scandalous falsehoods.
Mr.. Steele further says Mr.. Chambers
has been on very intimate terms with his
family during the last year of his pastorate
here, that he has made frequent calls at
his home during the winter evenings and
that he had always used Mr.. Chambers to
the best OF his entertaining ability, and in
return had received the same from the
pastor. He also said In his presence there
had been no undue intimacy between Mrs.
Steele and Mrs. Chambers. He refused to
talk further on the matter
In an interview with another citizen of
the place, he says Mr.. Steele admits that
the pastor
Asked For a Kiss,
but Mrs. Steele is now dumb TO all in
quiries. Others of the place say Mr..
Chambers has exhibited an unusual fond
ness for the fair sex during his stay here.
Mr.. Chambers has family in Fall River
which he visits often.
The charge will probably be looked into,
and all the details OF the affair MAGE
known. The people of this village feel
sorry that thing of this kind should hap
pen TO start anew the excitement caused
by past stirring events. and hope that the
affair will prove to be a misunderstanding
and that harmony and peace will once
more reign in East Harwich.
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VERY MUCH MARRIED.
HfRRIsON PRENTICE SHOWS NO
'PRENTICE HIND.
A Springfield Bensd .ct Who Has Already
Buried Three wives and IL Now United
to His Present Wife for the Second Time

SrRNorrELD, Mass, March l5.-Harri.
son Prentice welded Mrs Mary Christie
yesterday for the second time, and expects
TO 1.-Two happily ever after" to borrow
from story book phraseology. His is no
Prentice hand, for this is the fifth time he
has knelt at the marriage altar Prentice
In the man who three weeks ago inquired
for marriage license at his fourth wife's
funeral and hurried from the cemetery to
the city clerks Office with his prospective
bride, causing great scandal. Prentice,
who Is 20 years old and possessed of some
money, has had O remarkable marital
career.
His first two wives were widows Mrs.
Prentice No. 2 was Widow Blackner.
Prentice
Found Fault with Her
because she wanted too much sugar In her
tea and was otherwise extravagant. So,
Oct. q, 1883, Prentice enticed Mrs, Christie
away from her husband, a crippled bar-
ness maker, and fed to Chicopee Falls,
where they were married.
Mr.. Christie and Mrs. Prentice No. Q
naturally objected, but as friend of the
wayward couple harbored them beneath
her roof the superior court was appealed
to. At the trial on the charge OF adultery
the crippled Christie pleaded in his wifes
behalf, and she was placed on probation.
Soon after Mrs. Prentice No. 2 died, and
on Dec IS, 1891, Lizzie Gilbert of West
Springfield became Mrs. Prentice No. 4
She died last month, and IL was at her
funeral that Prentice created such SEN
sation.
; He became frightened at the storm of in
dignation people set up, but retired to the
Broom house, which he owns, with Mrs.
Christie. who has since served as his
housekeeper. The circumstances of Mrs.
Prentice's (No. A. death were so peculiar
that the police were forced to investigate
Mrs. Prentice died in great agony after a
half-hour's illness, the symptoms being of
arsenical poisoning. Curiously enough,
Mr.. Christie had died suddenly only two
weeks before.
An Autopsy Was Held
after Mrs. Prentice's death, but no chemi-
cal examination was made. When foul
play was feared II was found too late to
exhume the bodies. A bottle Of carbolic
acid and lot Of insect powder was disoov-
cred at Prentice's home but no direct evil
dence of poisoning was found. Since liv-
ing under the same roof the couple have
been closely watched by the authorities
and, firing of strict surveillance, Prentice
went to the city clerks Office yesterday
with his blushing bride, who confessed to
ffty-two summers and four marriages,
after she learned that friend cosId not
answer the questions for herself and hus-
band. Prentice still sheds tears at men
tion of Mrs. Prentice No. f.
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PILLS for a bad Liver.
COULD NOT LIVE.

Isaao d. Merrill Commits Suicide In .
Boston Hotel.
BOSTON, March Is - Isaac d. Merrill
committed suicide at the Crawford House
last night by shooting himself through the
head.
In letter addressed my dear wife,"
Merrill stated that he had been involved in
Some criminal transaction, not SO much so
as people would believe, but the strain
upon him was 80 great that he could not
live and stand the exposure that was sure
to come sooner or later. Merrill resided
at Wellington
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commodious structure that shall be well
lighted, well ventilated and well ap-
pointed, where womanlxind can have
freedom and comfort at a moderate
cost, and where climbing stairs-that
bane of woman's health and consumer
of woman's strength-shall give way to
the restfulness of an elevator
It is peculiar fact that, while all
avenues of work and study have been
opened up TO woman and she has DEM
onstrated her ability to earn her own
living and ta)te care of herself, there
has never been any cognizance of her
individuality, no place provided for her
TO live.
Bachelor apartments, with elegant
entrances suggesting the Injuries with
in, display their aggravating signs in
every quarter; old-time mansions. in
convenient locations, have been
thoroughly renovated and rearranged
In suites and single rooms, for gentle
men only" and even the high-toned
boarding-houses imagine it adds to their
dignity to advertise gentlemen pre-
ferred."
What, then, is the business woman TO
do? A single woman looking for de-
sirable quarters In New York at pres
ent will have some very amusing as
well as annoying experiences. She
will find IL hard to get into a first-class
house unless it is so late in the season
that the landlady has no hope Of secur-
ing another man, and she will not sell
dom find that she Is paying dollar or
two moro by the week than did the
man occupying the room before her-to
cover gas used in crimping her hair,
extra service required Of servants, ETC.
A woman asking accommodation for
two will be met with the utmost gra-
ciousness until the landlady discovers
that the second party is not husband.
but another woman; then there is
crawfshing and finally a fat statement
that she makes II rule to take in ''only
families and gentlemen"
This sort of thing leaves the woman
little choice and usually drives her into
an ordinary house where she must paw
eight, nine or ten dollars week for
board and hall bedroom she can't turn
around in. These hall bedrooms have
no means OF heat except from the halls
or by gas stove at one dollar a week
extra. The coziest of them have a
mantel bed and two chairs, but II is OBJ
vic rs that to see callers in such GUAR
ters is out of the question. 1t is not
home in any sense of the word.
Perhaps the woman rents square
room, furnished; here at least, she can
do as she pleases. But she is compelled
to go out for her meals, in all states of
health and weather; only bachelor
apartments have restaurants attached
The only alternative is fat, at from
thirty to fifty dollars q month. with
steam heat, and perhaps gas. In this
fat there will be one light room, the
front one. 1t will glory in the posses
sion of two windows, while the kitchen
In the rear will have but one, and the
rooms between none at all unless there
happens to be an air shaft or a sky
light And, by the way, these make
shifts are advertised as eight" rooms,
New York being built up so solidly that
every inch Of light space Is valuable in
proportion to the ground space.
Mrs. wheeler and Miss Lewis between
them evolved by degrees and much
dehberation a practical plan for a
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Home Rule Bill Reading Postponed.

LONDON, March 15.-Mr. Gladstone's ILL
ness has finally decided the postponement
of the second reading of the home rule
bill The Irishmen complain loudly, but
are themselves partly blamable. Their
absence from parliament so reduced the
government majorities that the speaker
did not feel justified in suppressing the
'disgraceful organized Tory obstruction.
The Tory elation is tempered, however, by
a suspicion that something remains behind
Mr.. Gladstone's apparent surrender.
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Is IL n Consniracxa

CHICAGO, March l5.-Eugene Dunnivant,
the newsboy who was formerly loved by
Gertrude Potter, the daughter of mil
lionaire of this city, is in Jail here on
what he declares is a charge of larceny
trumped up in order to get him out OF the
way, so that his $4,000 damage suit against
the girls father for false Imprisonment
cannot be tried
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Charged With Abduction.

PATERSON, n. j., March 15.-Harry
O'Laughlin was lodged in the county Jail
here charged with having seduced Lizzie
Stark, pretty weaver, living in Passaic
O'Laughlin was loom fixer Lizzie Stark
worked in the same mill with him.
OLaughlin has wife and three children,
and is SO. A short time ago the pair
started on an eastern trip together.
O'Laughlin returned and says he left the
girl In Boston
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Death In n Mine.

KANSAS CITY, March 15.-An explosion
occurred at coal mine No of the Choctaw
company, caused by a shot fired by some
person unknown. There were only 1Smen
in the mine at the time, all whom were
firing shots. OF these nine were killed
outright and eight so badly burned that
they will probably die
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Concerning Quarantine.

New HAVEN, March l5.-Health Officer
Wright of this city received a request from
Surgeon General Walter Wymans Of the
marine hospital service to attend meet
ing Of 10 other officers fsom other cities
along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts which
is soon to convene st Washington for the
purpose of deciding upon uniform rules
and regulations regarding quarantine mat
taro
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A Big Strike Predicted.

PITTsBURG, March IA gentleman at
one time connected with one of the most
influential labor organizations in this sec
ton of the country, and who is still in
touch with the latest developments in the
industrial world, is the authority for the
statement that the coming summer will
witness conflict between capital and
labor engaged in all branches of the iron
trade unparalleled in the history of the
United States.