The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-02-22

WkslMiNsTEh ihtAIEh - Lord Rooney
The Affair Dramatic Club will give an
entertainment this evening. -
Feb. 22.-"Take bacl. your hatchet;
broke the window with brick
The patrons of the Cranston Postoffice
are to petition the Government for better
postal facilities.
The celebration OF the 10th anniversary
of the paid lire department will be held
mt Music Hall on March 1.
Rt. Rev. Matthew Harkins will assist in
the conservation OF Rev. Michael Tierney
as Bishop of the Diocese OF Hartford to-
morrow.
The firemen are much interested i'm the
outcome OF the suit for damages brought
by Captain Beehler against the Daniels a.
Cornell company.
William Dinman, 10 years OF age, living
at 126 burlington street went out TO seek
work Tuesday and has not as yet returned.
The police were notified.
Maggie Abraham, the young girl who
claims that she has been abused by her
parents, will tell her story at the Munich
pal Court next Tuesday.
An unknown inebriste fell through
Hutchins, Langford * Hutchins store
got away in comparative safety.
The patriotic church bells will discour-
age the sluggards this morning. George
w. was up and doing before the chanti-
cleer warbled his OPEN TO the orb OF day.
Irving's Life of Washington Is a timely
book to read just now. THE NEWS
edition, two beautiful volumes in neat
box, Is offered 10 NEWS readers for 80
cents.
There will be no yacht racing for the
Americas cup this year, but Lord Dun
raven promises there will be lively sport
next year, when he thinks the cup win go
abroad.
Now, il DIR. Garvin Will inaugurate a
close time limit on his hours OF beloved
oratory in the House, he will find that 1T
will not be accompanied by any reduction
in his wages.
In the Sixth District Court this morn
ing Owen Moen, charged with stealing
watch from Bernard Hanback,, pleaded
guilty and was bound over for trial before
the grand jury.
John Rigney, teamster who lives at
133 Oxford street, was badly injured by
being thrown from his team on Union
street last evening. He was taken TO the
Rhode Island Hospital.
Battery F, 1st r. ]. Artillery, held their
fourth annual reunion az Golb & Norton's
restaurant yesterday afternoon. Twenty
four members were present, Ii of whom
went out in the battery in '61.
The American Band has been q most
popular feature of the Food and Health
Exposition at Worcester for he past fort
night. Manager Collins is said TO be
making the venture very profitable.
The only department in the municipal
palace which is open for business today
Is that presided over by the chief of
police. Criminals and drupkards are
largely in evidence on national holidays.
Speaker pro tenn. Brown was content to
sit on the Democratic throne yesterday,
when he discovered that Leader Wilson
had not .materaljzed. He wasn't called
upon to ventilate his knowledge of parlia-
mentary science.
Paul Jones, the globe trotter, ran up
against a civil suit for debt at the instance
of a Boston firm OF auctioneers yesterday
afternoon, while he was selling cigars
He settled, and will resume business in
Fall River today.
The district court room at Pawtucket
will be monopolized by Robinson's cleo
tion committee after the criminal docket
has been disposed of. There is small
army of witnesses, and Hugh Carroll will
oificiate as interpreter.
The blue Jaws and bobolinks are hunt
ing up the nests of the sparrows and
snowbirds in anticipation of an early
spring. In the tickle condition of the
weather market they ought to pack up
their winter ulsters and snow shoes.
Bre'r Honey has segregated himzelf at
the summer capital for the past two days
The strain OF the preparation and de-
livery of that constitutional MASTER
piece doubt ess demanded his temporary
retirement from public life.
The boards of canvassers will enter upon
the revision OF the voting lists incident TO
the State election in the several wardrooms
Monday evening at 1880 o'clock, the trans
fer to close at \ o'clock. The flight of
time since the municipal contest seems 10
have been uncommonly vapid.
The Brownson Lyceum has endorsed the
West proposition III the school committee
for the extension of thei.school age of
children pending before the school com
miltee' With such powerful endorse
mcnt, the educational body should not
hesitate in its immediate adoption.
The Cornell students hit upon a novel
but deadly device to shut off the fresh
man oratory at the banquet table.
moderate injection OF ether in the cham
ber OF the House of Representatives might
prove boon on the days when special
orders encourage long-windcd discourses.
A well-known doctor entered weybos-
set street restaurant this morning some
what distrait on account OF n relapse of
the grip. He sized up the bin OF fare and
III sheer desperation cuiled for strawberry
shortcake. He sal" hc wanted reminder
of warm weather cvcn # IL doubled him
NJ with misery.
The most fetching conundrum which
j. akitnting the mtcllccts of the members
Of the City Government Just at present is
a TO the precise length cl time which the
Consolidated Railroad will consume in
complying with The request for an object
lesson in train sheds. IL Is likely 10 be
sometime in 1899.
The House financial committee will
have TO hustle along those hearings on
the appropriate ION bin next wp,k, for the
senators viii vGcate the upper chamber
and give the Democracy sole possession
early i'm tho Ides of March. They obtained
few crumbs Of comfort from the Secre-
fary Of Stafc