The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-02-26
Talked About.
Entertainments This Evening.

LOIHkoPS OPERA HOusE-"Ihe beNhs fnihe.
WESTMINSTER THEArER-"Razzle- Dazzle"
INFANTRY HALL-Poloi Providence VS.. worces-
ter.
Providence has its share OF the 40,OOO,OOO
babies born each year.
The number OF marriages performed
mated at 5000.
Fifteen year-old Emma Murphy has
been missing from her home at Al Shove
street since Wednesday.
Stocks are so called because the stock
market in London, where securities were
first handled, had pair Of stocks in
front.
A pair of gloves passes through nearly
200 hands from the moment that the skin
leaves the animal till the time when the
gloves are purchased.
The Hackett court-martial will be re-
sumed at headquarters tomorrow evening
with the pomp and ceremony which be-
fits military inquisitions.
The death OF Samuel Fessenden OF Lin
coin, member of the Republican State
Central COMMITTEES, will be tittingly
afternoon.
Ats p. m. yesterday, A. w. Hargrave, 56
years of age, fell on the ice on Pubic street
and sustained an ugly cash on the head.
DIR. DeWolf attended him at his home 2lS
Public street.
III Polo Captain Murray can train and
discipline his base ball team as success
fully as the coming roller champions,
Adelaide park will prove popular resort
next summer.
At II 80 p. m. yesterday Joseph Lapham
while drunk fell into the Cove channel
and was fished out by John Scranton and
Charles Pepper. He was taken to the
Central Station.
The sixth game OF the basket ball tour
nament in the Y. M. &. A. gymnasium
Saturday evening between teams 4 and b
resulted in a victory for No. 8 by score
OF to 2. There is much interest in the
tournament.
The 22-ton armature to be used by the
Union Railroad Company at the power
station on Eddy street arrived at the
freight yard yesterday. The shifting of
the ponderous weight to low gear occu-
pied nearly all day.
Professor George T. Moore OF Andover,
formerly pastor of the Central Congrega-
morning and evening services yesterday.
He selected Life" as the subject OF his
mornings discourse.
Water pipes burst in the following
places last night: At 1856 Mathewson
street, Vaughan building, Custom House
street, Joseph McCarron's liquor saloon,
"a North Main street, and in the Wheaton
block 500 North Main street.
The Wandering Bards gave an elaborate
musical and literary entertainment last
evening on the occasion of the first win
ter social. Miss Fern Melrose of the
Monte Carlo Company contributed solos
which were effectively rendered.
An enterprising Boston music firm have
dedicated a "Two-Step March" to Paul
Jones, which they declare Is destined to
be popular. A far more suggestive title
would be "The Fakir's Retreat" set to
dirge with hand organ accompaniment.
Paul Jones languishes In Springfield
jail and his wanderings are over. He has
confessed that his scheme was cold fake
for the sake OF notorioty- Intended me-
tropolitan and South American victims
can breathe more freely for he even re-
fused to take the poor debtors oath.
drop to itself and early this morning the
snow descended lightly and modified the
very perceptibly. The storm
Is increasing IN magnitude, and Nahum
Willard says that that sun "dog" is to
blame for all sorts OF wicked weather
lately.
The cold wave which smote the city
night performed q beneficent
service III sundry households. 1t discour-
aged the susceptible youth from pairing
on the Westminster promenade and the
master of the domicile gave up the club
and introduced himself to the family fire.
side.
The fourth lecture of the series de-
livered before the Germania Club, the |
literary society OF this city, is
the clubs hall, Music Hall building, |
when Herr Hans Schneider will speak |
about the "Wagner Festival Plays at |
Bayreuth."
II the factory inspector bill should be- |
come a law wild scramble for that |
salary may be confidently an |
Iicipated by the veteran labor agitators. |
IL Is far more profitable income than |
that devised from assessments upon labor |
unions or collections from open-air |
strikers meetings.
Ambrose West will probably avail him
self OF the opportunity to rise to the de- |
Tense of the nine-hour bill tomorrow be- |
fore high noon. He is a willy politician |
and aggressive debater, and is mindful |
that the eyes OF suhdry thousand opera
tives in the Olneyville mills are upon him |
as Honey's propitiated side partner.
Apparently the Democratic party man
ayers expect to score point by deferring |
their Siateconvention until the Republic |
cans have drafted their platform. The gen. |
ius OF Honey may possibly extract some |
upon which to construct device |
calculated TO win the support of the de- |
elements in their body polite. |
The Republican state central commit
tee VIII meet al the Narragansctt Hotel |
tomorrow afternoon at o'clock to arrange !
dates for the primary meetings and the |
State Convention. The party managers |
are already considering measures for a |
vigorous and aggressive campaign, and |
are confident Of success under the plu- |
rality system.
The society dudes are somewh hat alarmed |
over the threatened revival of the old |
fashioned stock neclrtie OF 1910 which |
their grsndpapa's wore doubled around |
the high backed collars. They are power |
less TO set their ears back, and IL puts a |
sort of checkrein on the fashionable |
drawl so indispensable as mark OF blue
blood pedigree.