The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-03-21

| LoTHRoP's OPERA HoUsE-Edith Nal In Jack
| narkaway"
WESTMINSTER rHEATER-city Sports Big
Show.
| INFANTRY HALL-Lecture. Islands on the Pub
JEFFERSON STREET BAPTIST cHURcH-or-
gan Concert
Now we're of. Winter is dead. 1t died
| yesterday.
Gas (s) seen by him'--Balxer looking at
the cartoon in yesterdays NEWS.
The annual exhibition of flowers at
kelly's greenhouses Is attracting atten-
ton.
American Electric Company broke this
morning on Cent street.
The fifth anniversary of What Cheer
Lodge No. As, i. O. o. +. Twill be LIBERATED
| tonight with due ceremony at the new
hall on North Main street.
Preliminary work for the Francis street
bridge has been commenced by the sur
veyors and the wall rock, which Is to go
behind the facings, is being carted.
| Rev. Dr. Minot ]. Savage, the distin-
/ gnished Unitarian divine, will lecture in
| Westminster Unitarian Church tomorrow
evening on american Wit and Humor."
| Visitors should remember that the Falls
OF Niagara are travelling backward at the
average rate of . feet year. In a few
hundred years the place won't be mt to
| look at.
Two young truants, Erastus Davis and
| Fred Denoncorel, were brought into the
Sixth District Court this morning by
| Truant Officer Whittemore and were held
Tor trial Friday.
Bridget welch, 81 years of age, is missing
| from the Saint Maria Home on Governor
| street. The woman left the home alto
a.. IN. yesterday to visit relatives and has
| not been seen since.
Miss Evangeline Larry, the accom-
plished violinist, will give a recital in
Blackstone Hall tomorrow evening
assisted by her pupils and Charlotte
Broome, accompanist.
George II. Wood, senior partner in the
firm Wood, Bicknall d Potter, sailed yes
| terday by the North German Lloyd line
for Bremen. Mr.. Wood will visit the
several potteries In Europe.
One OF the pupils at the Friends School
| who has been seriously i'll, has recovered
sufficiently to be removed from the city.
| He was taken to his home in New York by
one of the nurses yesterday.
! Swarts lodge, /. o. O. F., has been in
existence % years today, and the event
will be observed this evening by holding
an entertainment and social in Swarts
Hall, No. 96 Westminster street.
| The Hackett ourt-martial will examine
he testimony tonight and seek to arrive
at a verdict. II will be awaited with deep
interest, particularly by the defendants
fellow officers in the Second Regiment.
At3p. m. yesterday Edward Callahan
| and wife were thrown from their carriage
\ ot, Cran nst at a hQCOmInO
| frightened. Mrs. Cal han was severely
bruised and was attended by DIR. Hum
| phrey.
AS usual the Republicans were first in
the field in filing their papers with the
| Secretary of State. The auspices are ex-
| ceedingly favorable for their retiring from
the polls two weeks from this evening
with flying colors.
Department Commander Baker has is
sued general orders on the death OF Past
Department Commander u. G. Pomroy.
| The funeral services will be solemnized
from his late residence, b3 Bassett street
| tomorrow at IL o'clock.
DIR. Garvin will have to insert some more
| Populists and Socialistic Laborites
are in the field, and they are entitled to
| some significant emblem OF their political
existence even on paper.
| 1t is reported that the substitution OF
| the palace steamer Priscilla for the Massa-
| chusetts on the Providence Line TO New
York is under consideration. She is
| destined to become the queen OF tho
Sound in size, beauty and speed.
young man went to James b. Coles
house at 10 Pleasant street yesterday and
tried to sell some furniture polish. The
family refused to purchase, wbereupon
| the man drew several obscene pictures on
the wall of the entry and departed.
The Young Mems Republican Club will
hold club meeting and banquet in Ipfan
try Hall, Tuesday evening, April 3, the eve
Of the general election. They are now
making arrangements to secure some
prominent speakers for the occasion.
The Farmers Almanac informs shivering
humanity today, that it is the dawn OF
spring. The average outdoor perambu-
lator is prone to the belief that time has
turned backward in its flight and that the
kalends of November are In evidence.
The baseball season was opened this
morning on a made land diamond
in the Cove District with
game between the Fishing Rights and
the Dead Easys. The ID. Els won by q
score which was not accurately kept.
The midnight bells sounded the requiem
to dilatory aspirants for regular and in
dependent nominations to the Assembly
and State Offices last night. Joe Mullen
was on hand to preserve the peace and
protect the capitol from unseemly in
| vasion.
| The Assembly nominations OF the Labor
| party are distinguished by the designa-
tion of the trades of tho candidates. or
| the 13 nominees four are machinists, five
weavers or operatives, two. Jewellers, one
carpenter and the other job printer.
The latter heads the ticket.
Councilman and Representative Nc
Carthy did not neglect the opportunity
that was given him TO address the Demo-
| cratic convention yesterday. IL he, too,
| had refused, the delegates might have
| imagined that the success of the party
was more uncertain than ever.
The wild scramble for positions on tho
Democratic State central committee was a
| conspicuous feature ofthe convention yes
| terday. IT was found that Woonsocket is
| not the only hotbed OF strife and disin-
tegration, aud new apportionmcnt of