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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-09-27
The late Rowland L. Rose left no will.

The late Rowland l.. Rose left no will.
The Pomham Club had the last OF the
down the bay festivities yesterday.
The squantum and Union clubs will get
two more weeks out OF the season.
The wild lion OF North Smithfield has
turned out to be a lynx and the necessity
Of going in armed groups Is at an END.
A car load Of hay consigned to Hurd
Brothers and sidetracked on Dyer street
was destroyed by fire last evening. An
alarm was sent in from box 81.
u Sixty-flve horses were brought TO this
city on the steamer Rhode Island this
morning for the races at Narragansett
Park. They were in charge of Trainer
Pepper.
Daniel w. Wright, an old Dorr war cap
tain, died yesterday at his home In Wake
field. Tie was so years old ana he leaves
widow, 80 grandchildren and 19 great
grandchildren. sLS5
Rosie Goddard, aged years, was run
over by a team on Chestnut street last
evening and injured internally. She was
cared for by DIR. Terry at her home, 81
Chestnut street.
\ Inc man NJ TIE hnOut lShuN ilOrDilhl
suffering from injuries received by being
thrown from an electric car ON Westmin-
eter street Tuesday night has been iden-
titled as Herbert Mowry.
n General Thomas Levi Cummings, one
Of the founders of the American Academy
OF Fine Arts and the last survivor of the
National Academy of Design. died yester-
day in the 90th year OF his age at Hacken-
sack, N. j.
There was frost on the dial OF the Great
Bridge depot clock at midnight. The
lunch cart proprietors had 10 keep their
doors shut and stand with their hands on
the Frankfort boiler, and the soda foun-
tain call was for the hot drinks.
The Alpha Athletic Association held
It's semi-annual meeting at the Aborn
street clubroom last evening. 10 was a
social affair, and the club talcnt provided
an entertainment in the way of songs ?
dances, recitations and trapeze acts.
There was meeting OF the Republican
city committee at the Weybosset street
headquarters last evening, and the call
Issued for the caucuses to choose dele
gates to the convention OF October IL,
when the Republicans will nominate
,kheir Congressional candidate. The
caucuses will be held one week fsom
Tonight probably, although the date is at
the option of Mayor Olney, chairman of
the city committee.
The greatest length OF the United States
from east To west is on the parallel OF 40
degrees north latitude, that is TO say, from
East port, Me-, on the Atlantic coast, TO a
point on the Pacific exactly 52h miles
due west OF Salem, Ore. On the above
parallel it is exnctly 276S miles long. Its
greatest width from north to south, is on
the 9th degree of longitude, which ex-
lands through the United States in an
almost direct line from Pembina, N. d.,
20 Point Isabel, Tex. The greatest width
= 1911 Y miles.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-09-27
DRAWBACKS OF FREE LIBRARIES.
The Book You Want Is Always Ont and the
system of Fines Annoying.


Here is one mans experience OF free
circulating library: II gave my reference
and took out my first book IL was good
to scan rle library list and see the amount
of literature l could read free. The Sec
ond time wrote, according TO rule, the list
of cabalistic figures which index the book,
and after nearly half hours delay was
told that the ono 1 wanted was out.
Then put down fresh sets of figures and
wasted more half hours, but they were
all out, until finally took, In despera.
tion, book recommended me by the young
woman who disappears for such an age To
make the searches. This book proved so
uninteresting that I brought IL back next
day and again went through the figure
list business and the half hours of waiting
until 1 wound up by repeating my prcvi-
Gus experience and taking a book by rec
ommcndation.
II threw it aside on reaching homo and
forgot had it until N postal warning me
Of the due of l cent for every day over two
weeks i'm which had it, had now set i'm.
turned up with 10 when cents were
due, took out another l didn't want and
forgot 10 until / cents were due, kept mp
the business OF figure lists, waitings, books
i didn't call for and fines afterward
throughout n year until might far better
have bought straightout the books I
wanted, but never got.
AT last one time with book In my
possession, left town. A siege Of postals
and of visits from u mysterious looking
man kept my servant busy. ihad forgot
ten all about the book, aud my friends
were indignant over the dunning Of this
individual On my return 10 town found
that my reference had been called upon TO
pay for tho book which l was I'm the posi-
ton of having stolen from the library. and
that my reputation was in an unpleasant
TX. l now pay for my books. New
York Herald.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-09-27
SHERIFF'S SALE.

BY virtue Of an execution No. $40, issued from
the Common Pleas Division of the supreme
Court, holden AZ Providence, within and tor the
County of Providence judgment was rendered on
the 18th day of June A. d. 1894, returnaDle TO
said court December ~ A. D., 1894, wherein Henry
A. Rowland OF the City and County OF Providence,
state of Rhode Island, Is the plaintiff and stephe n
A. Barker of said Providence Is defendant. VII,
be sold at public auction Saturday, 2sth day OF
September, 1891, at ~ o'clock noon at the
Sheriff's Office In the County Court House at the
corner OF College and Beneft streets in the City OF
Providence all the right title and interest that the
above named defendant had at the time OF the
attachment on the origi"el writ IN the suit Ia
which the above described execution was obtained,
to wit: March 10, 1894, at O'Clock and
rs minutes D. m, in and to the following
described real estate. viz: being lot No. 3 on
the Auburndale Plat. Cranston, *. l., adjoining
Roger Williams Park, Providence, X /, as plated
by the Park Land Co.. 1855, said plat being recorded
in the Town Clerks ONCE In Cranston, In pook L.
page 10.
Levied on this END day Of June, 1894, ats o'clock
snTICienT CHARLES 4. ChAfFEE,
Sopt6-lt thurs Deputy sheriff.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-09-27
THE MARVELLOUS BALDwINs.

At Infantry Hall, commencing next
Monday fT six nights, Will be presented
a series OF performances that are an alb
solute novelty and that are promised to
be more astounding and bewildering than
anything ever seen here. Professor Somri
and Kittie Baldwin and their Butter
fly Coterie, who have been pack
ing the Criterion Theater and Lee Avenue
Academy i'm Brooklyn for four weeks, after
having created furore for two years in
Great Britain and previously In the Orient,
will present here the strongest and new
est things in the way of amusements.
Their management announce that "Even
in India-the home of mystery
The land of the Mahatmas, Madame
Blavatsky's chosen ground for
mountaineering and Theosophy, even
there where the earth fairly teens with
queer and inexplicable marvels, kittie
Baldwin's Somnomancy and Professor
Baldwin's almost miraculous manifesto
tions created an absolute sensation, out
rivalling the mysticism OF the Orient
itself"
The Baldwins have appeared in nearly
every principal city before the most en-
lightened audiences and have never yet
failed 20 give the utmost satisfaction.
People from every walk in life have fioclyed
TO see them and letters from hundreds of
learned men are shown to prove the pro-
found impression they create. During
their recent engag sment in Brooklyn, the
celebrated divine, Rev. John Pilkington,
sent them letter of which the following
is a copy:
My DEAR MR.. AND MRS. BALDWIN:
l had the pleasure and delight of wit
Messing your entertainment at the Crite-
rion Theater last night and to say i was
charmed is putting it lightly. was posi-
lively bewildered and amazed and con-
slider it the most marvellous entertainment
have ever witnessed in my life. wish
all Brooklyn could see it. 1t is clean in
teresting and thrilling. / sincerely hope
for your very largest success. believe you
are deserving Yours truly
REV. JOHN PnLKISGToN,
Pastor, Windsor Terrace M. Il. Church,
BROOKLYN, Sept o, 1884,
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-09-27
SOME MAGIC CURES.
What Superstition Led Many People to Ne
In Former Times.

The superstitious people OF medimval
times had some very odd remedies based
upon superstition. Among other absurdi-
ties of ignorance 1t was held that n chip
from the gallows on which several persons
had been hanged, worn In bag around
the neck, was cure for ague. A halter
by which some criminal had been hanged
was bound around the temples as an infal.
lihle cure for headache. Tumors OF the
glands are said TO be- driven away" by
nine blows of dead mans hand, while
the hand of a man who had been cut down
from the gallows was said to work similar
wonders.
a ring made from coffin was applied
for the relief Of cramps, which were also
said 90 be dispelled by a rusty sword hang
ing over the patients head. IL any one
had the toothache, he was told to go and
drive nails into an oak tree, which, IL is
true, would not kill the pain, but was
sure preventive against future attack.
A stone with hole in it, hung at the head
of a bed, was sure 20 cure nightmare, the
cause of that evil being thought TO be
witches, who sat on tho patients chest,
hence the pendant and stone was called
"hagstone. The "hagstone" was used
generally as safeguard against all the ills
which are ascribed to impish interference.
IL Is astonishing 10 find many such old
practioos--tho rollcs of superstition and
ignorance-still kept up by people who
ought 10 know better It Is, for instance.
a custom to this day for people OF a certain
class TO steal meat from the butcher, rub
II ON warts and then bury Il, the warts
being expected TO vanish as the process Of
utrDfl fn
with pin Gill the blood came and then
thruwing the pin away was also said t.
drive warts away, the warts being prompt
ly transferred 20 the hands of whoever
picked up the pin. A potato carried in
tho pocket Is still recommended for rheu.
matisIn, and hundreds Of like practices are
la vogue at the present day. ST. Louis
Post Dispstch.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-09-27
STATE HOUSE HEARING.

y Messrs. Gardner Simms, Addison @.
Fisher and j. T.. Studley, the commission
DEu appointed by the Supreme Court 10
pass upon the State House Land
oondemnation cases, met Mt the State
House At IL o'clock this morning to listen
20 property owners whose lands are to be
I&eken. George Farnell was appointed
kDnicial rtenographer. Henry c. Dubois,
assistant attorney -generalt requested that
The hearing should be postponed until
pext Tuesday on account OF the Attorney
<3enersl's inability to be present during
he sessions OF the grand Jury. The meet
Ing was therefore adjourned until 10
D'clock, Oct. 2. The hearings will be
open from 10 TO l o'clock daily until ali
n6rties Interested have been duly heard.
"a large number Of attorneys were present
bis morning and the hearings will doubt
- occupy several days.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-09-27
LEG1L NOTICES.
ADMIN INiSTRATOR'S SALE.

VIII be sold at public auction on the premises on
MONDAY October I'D A. ID. 1884 at i2o'ciock m J..
All the right, title and interest that Katherine
Campbell had at the me of her decease in and 20
the following described real estate: certain
tract OF land, fronting thirty 30 feet on Atweil S
avenue, in the city of Providence, and hold
ing tha; width runs hundred and eighty-two feot
To Barstow street, bounded westerly by Cutler
street; being the same premises conveyed TO Dun
can Campbell by two certain deeds, one being re-
corded in Book No 25, at page iSl of the record OF
North Providence registry for recording deeds OF
real estate and the other said registry in Book No
&C. AT page 158 certain other tract of land fronting
sixty (5Ol feet Barstow street and holding that
width extends back ninety-hve feet; and are the
same premises conveyed 10 SAID Duncan Campbell
by deed from Erastus ". S,eere. recorded in the
Recorders Office in said city In deed book No 2f6,
at page $685. The trst described tract of land con-
sists of thirty feet in width of the westerly parts
of lots 3O2 and 37 and the second tract consists of
lot 229 and twenty feet u the westerly part
az lot 29S the "Pat of the Nuremberg house lots
belonging to the heirs OF samuel Ward and Rich
ard Waterman, by Cushing Farnum, 1853"
shown on plat card Sl2, in said Recorders Office.
3 be sold under and in accordance with a decree
of the Probate Court of the town OF Cranston.
JOHN II. CAMPBELL, Administrators.
DEXTER B. POTTER Attorney
sept2i, 2i-octl, 1-octs-dl2t
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-09-27
HANDSOME JACK MARRIED.

Police Sergeant John B. Hartnett, of the
Third District, was married to- day TO M iss
Kate A. Cotton, daughter OF Owen Cotton
of East Providence.
The ceremony was performed at the
Church of the Sacred Heart this forenoon
at o'clock and then there was reception
at the home of the brides parents, 36 Sec
ond street.
Everyone knows the sergeant and re-
members him on the Westminster street
banner beat, first by night and then by
day. Everyone congra tulated him when
the stripes were put on his coatsleeves and
he was sent TO help protect the property of
the rich on Benefit street and break up the
squabbles OF the non-rich at the end OF
the Fox Point district and now every
one in the department and out of it con-
gratulate him on today's affair and wish
him and his great luck.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-09-27
Mortgages Sale.

VIII be sold at public auction on the 2ith dsysf
September \ u. 1894. .t C'clcck y. N, IN the
store sltuGied az sumAers Is ami IS Middle street.
Providence, *. J.. by virtue OF the power of ssie
made ond executed by Albert day dated tie ltn
day OF May, A. ID. isSf. aDd reccrced IN the ONCE
OF tho recorder OF deeat in ssid Providence, "a
55 the conditions OF said deed VI mortgage having
been broken
In a Germ n room ON the ground floor In certain
brick luilcing on the south eide OF Middle sIcet
being numbered 20 and - on said street, IN sEid
city OF Providence. 60 wit; The BAR glasses ara
other furn shings. furniture, hLtuios and sppur-
tcnanCes, gether with ali stock % .iquors gnd
cirars witch on said 18th day of Nsy A. -, 1891,
were in said room, or which have since bee n
poced IN said room in addition TO or IN renewal OF
faid stock.
by order ~ the assignee Of the mortgages, who
hereby gives notice OF MS intention 10 bid st said
sale o. any ndtNurnmcnt thereof
Providence, SEPT IL, lss+ sePt7W
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-09-27

ROLY- PoLY.-Take one quart of flour;
make good biscuit crust; roll out one half
inch thick and spread with any kind of
fruit, fresh or preserved fold so that the
fruit will not run out; dip cloth into boil
ing water, and -four it end lay around the
=pudding closely, leaving room TO swell; I;
|Dteam one and one half hours; serve with
boiled sauce; or lay in steamer without a
|oloth, and steam for one hour.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-09-27
Assignee's Sale.

VIII be- sold NJ Public Auction. ON THURSDAY
October fth. 4. %. It8i. a. m O'Clock a. M, ON the
premises. nt No. rs Mcstmlnftsr street. In room
No. D., IN the CITY Of Providence, r. l., all the
right, title and interest that Al andCr Z. Browncli
had on September 18th. - z. in tnc Photographic
basincss On said premises. Tao property consists
IN lenses stock counters, furniture. nxturcs tools
and parapher MALTA connected with the business
heretofore carried ~ him. 10 Is tsre orpor-
ntss. DEXTER d. POTTER
sepli.gt-d Assignee.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-09-27
Rhode Islanl Perkins Horse Shoe ca.

Ata meeting OF the BOARD 81 Directors held this
day q quarters dividend oi ole aud three gusfters
a.. rer cent. declared on The pteiefred stoek
Of ilis company and tWO and one-haif ttasl pei
crnt or tht general common stock, botn psyso.
or the ibtL day-of october, 1898, TO stockholsers OF
record. Ociolsr l. losi
Tns trau-fer looks win be c'osel a the oNse ~
maitland phelps q Co, transfer agents, New Nefs
Civ. OF L. "a. ~eptomhrr ~, lsi and reopen ON
or he morning o' N.t0rer p. ts3i
tusELFs u sTARK, Trs,surer.
pr,NplNcl ~ Sop. 20, is9i sePtsl-st
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-09-27

RUDY'S PILE SUPPosITORY il euaran-
teed 10 cure Piles aud Constipation, or money
refunded. ~ cents per box. send stamp for
circular and Free sample to MARTIN RUDY.
Lancaster. Ia. tor sale by all irst-class
druggists. CHAMBERS. CALDER a CO.,
Wholesale prpggiis. Providence, h \
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-09-27
he City of Carlsbad Brings snit Against
Imifsfors Of the Celebrated Carlsbad
| <rxu.l.t SALT

The city OF Carlsbad. through the Elsner A.
IeutIcleOD Co. representing said city for the
]1ittd states Of America. has brought an ac.
Ion in the United state. Court nxainst Kuf-
Nv Brother Of New York for selling an nrtl.
hal ard spurious imitation Of the genuine
Upotted Carlsbad salt as Improved Carls-
~ Powder"
If - claimed by EisDer A. Nendelson Co.
64f said kutnow Brothers are selling n sied-
~ Powder MIXTURE o. Improved Carlsbad
OV0Cr" and tlir public II warned against
1<l imposition. The genuine imported Carls-
~ salt u evaporafed from Tho Sprudel
Df1nn ~ Carlsbad. tnder the super, islon of
~ CITY. and has the seal Of the city Of Caris-
CO." - agents. on every bottle, -.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-09-27
Talked About.
Entertainments Today.

PROVIDENCE OPERA HOUSE -LOui. AldrIeh
in"My Partner"
KErns OPERA HOUSE" Darkest Russia
IoTnRoPs OPERA HousE-'rhe shamrock"
WESTMINSTER THEAIER-The city Sports.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-09-27

500 dozen Best Quality French
Fur Felts, in new shapes and
colors, at
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-09-27

a ". wHIT,KER-oHotCE FAMILY GRO.
IA ceries Pure Teas. Cohees Tlcur Grain
nsy and straw. iVoi wcstninstsS ST. Telsphoaa
The herald., 1894-05-29
DIED OF DIPH iberia.

Miss Mabsl Brown OF Hayes Street
School L. the Victim.
Miss Mabel Brown, the assistant
teacher in the kindergarten department
of the Hayes street school. died CT diph-
liberia at her home on South Olive street
Saturday night. She was buried on
Sunday. Miss Brown contracted the
disease from children in the family OF
Mrs, Salmon, l20 Water street, who
have been attending the school. There
were three of these children, one having
died The two others are recovering.
1t is thought the disease originated from
filthy premises adjacent to the house on
Water street.
Superintendent Brown of the city
schools makes the following request OF
the teachers: Asa token of affection
and as an expression of professional re-
gard toward our late colleague, Miss
Mabel Brown, who died May 26th, you
are requeeted to bring flowers or eend
them to the Rosedale cemetery for the
decoration OF her grave, Wednesday,
Nav 30th, at 10 o'clock q. M.
Miss Laura G. Bacon. Mre. Nora D..
Mayhem and Miss Bessie Richardson
are requested to take charge of the
flowers contributed.
The herald., 1894-05-29
THE OCEAN STILL ROLLS
Ocean of People Against the
Doors of the Great Sale.
The Fever of Il uyin z Jewelry Which Has
Seized tho People of Los angeles,
and the Reason Thereof.

Crowds continue to press about the en-
trance to all that remains of the largest
jewelry esta blishment that was ever ia Los
Angeles. Their presence indicates a most
potent present cause, drawing p9ople into
these knots. seeking an opportunity to spend
their mouey. It is that the remnant of the
great stock of Mr.. Germans store is moving
with sn utterly ppreceden ed speed.
Auetioneer r. Z. Dawson, to whom the stock
has been turned over, does not pause at
tribes. Goods are practically being distrib-
uted among the crowd. bid of few pen
MES is taken as pretextto bestow upon the
bidder some valuable article.
The goods have got 10 go. Mr.. Germans
heath is very poor. He has just rallied
rom an illness which has confined h m to
his room for two weeks, and he is anxious
that the stock should be closed out. He
wants, too, the public to have the benefit Of
the last article of stock. That is his purpose
in the present sales at seem ngly absurd fig
ures The stock is select. The goods are all
fne-watches. precious stones, plate jewelry
You can buy these goods feeling you have
always two or three times your money in the
article. bale occurs at IL a. IN. 2. p m. and Z
p. IN. 800 South Spring stree5.
The herald., 1894-05-29
THE HARRls-PLArr CASE.



rhe Case Likely TO Be 'Coatinaed for .
Week.
The pleas of Harris and Plat, under
Indictment by the federal grand jury for
using the mails for improper purposes,
we're to have been made in the United
states district court today, but owing to
the inability OF the defendants attor-
ne& Henry Gage, to be present. the case
will likely be continued until next
Tuesday.
There has been much speculation as
to why all the witnesses in the case who
were subpmnaed for the examination
which was not held owing to the indict-
ment-were not called before the grand
jury. There are those who believe that
all the witnesses, or rather all the names
mentioned In connection with the ca Sc,
will not be subp@naed Tor the trial, but
those in authority say that every person
knowing anything at all OF the case will
be called to give testimony at the trial.
United States District Attorney George
j. Denis stated the reason all the wit
nesses.were not examined before the
federal grand jury was owing to the fact
that 1t was only necessary to have these
who knew most about the case; in other
words, enough to secure the Indictment.
The government certainly would not be
justified in calling 20 or 80 persons be-
tore the grand jury II from ons to two
enough testimony could be sdduced to
indict the men. When the case comes
to trial, 1t is very different matter.
Every person who knows anything bear
ing on the case will certainly be called
into court. There had been at least
several instances where persons were
thought to have knowledge that
would be admissible testimony,
but which, upon inveetlgat ion,
turned out otherwise. Certainly NO
testimony will likely be taken that has
no direct connection with the charge,
viz: the use of the mails for fraudulent
purposes. The United States court OF
course has nothing to do with the charge
OF blackmsil unless the mails were mis-
used thereby, and no testimony will be
competent unless given in this connec-
ton. In the state court, the charge Of
conspiring to defraud by threats
black mail-will bring out many eensa-
tional features that certainly cannot
be heard in the federal court.
United States Commissioner Van
Dyke, in speaking of the matter,
stated that the federal grand jury in
dicted Harris and Platt prior to the date
of their examination before the commits
sion, hence the witnesses could not have
been examined. As to the witnesses
being called before the grand jury, he
said there WAS no desire to trouble any
more persons than would be necessary
to secure the Indictment. In the state
grand jury it is different, as the defend-
ants witnesses are allowed to give testi-
mony in many CASES.
The herald., 1894-05-29

THE extraordinary amount of coin
which is piling up in the bank OF Eng
land is attracting widespread attention.
At last accounts it WAS reported that
there were $155. 100000 of the yellow
metal in that institution, and the
amount was daily increasing. Such a
fact is striking instance of the prostra-
ton of trade. American securities are
coming into greater favor in London,
and this ought to have the effect of keep.
ing gold in this country. The amount
of money in the New York banks, above
the legal requirements, has again risen
to within fraction OF $50, 100000. 1t is
q case with money as it WAS with Cole.
ridges Ancient Mariner and water.
money, money everywhere, and not a
dime to lend" That is the true situa-
ton both in England and the east, for
the simple reason that while the rates
of interest are very low, the security
demanded for loans is 80 exacting ss to
be almost prohibitive.