The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-09-20

The Council committee on highways
met at 2 80 O'Clock this afternoon.
The five masted schooner Governor
Ames will sail from this port tomorrow.
Statistics show that divorced men re-
marry to greater extent than divorced
women.
Officer Charles Smith OF the police de-
partment OF New Bedford is he guest of
Property Clerk Blanding of this city.
The building known as the old board
ing house at Fieli's Point was burned to
the ground late yesterday afternoon. 1t
was unoccupied. The cause is unknown.
John Burns, for assault on Mary Hall,
and n. III. Medbury, for selling obscene
pictures, were given hearing before
Judge Cooke this morning. Both were
bound over until Sept. %.
Last evening Dennis Myland was taken
sick on Elmwood avenue and went to the
Seventh Station and was taken from there
to the hospital where 1t was found that he
was suffering with pleurisy.
Chief Child will not appoint a jaaitor
for the Central Police Station until the
new building is occupied. That will be
in about two months. Until then Isaac
b. Mosby will hold the position.
Edwin Dodge, captain OF the steamer
Ocean View, OF Block Island, called at the
City Hall last evening, and was enter
tanned by Deputy Chief Egan, Detective
Parker and Property Clerk Blanding.
While making the dock in New York
yesterday morning the steamer Rhode
Island Of the Providence line collided
with a coal barge. No one was injured,
but the barge had large hole stove in its
port bow.
At the meeting OF the Providence Bap-
tist association at Woonsocket yesterday
Rev. g. T. Perry OF Central Falls was
elected moderator and Rev. j. Willis Baker
of Pawtucket clerk and treasurer, Rev.
whitman l.. Wood, assistant clerk.
Augustin Daly's famous company will
be at the Providence Opera House next
Monday and Tuesday evenings. These
will be the fashionable nights of the sea-
son. The company will be under the i'm
mediate direction of Manager DAILY.
"Wang" will be presented at the Provi-
dence Opera House this evening by a big
cast OF fifty singers and performers and
an enlarged orchestra. "Wang" was made
famous by comedian De Wolf Hopper aud
il deserves its prominent place in musical
aDsurdltles. Its presentation TINS evening
will be on an ella borate scale.
The initial issue for the new year Of the
college newspaper, the Brown Daily
Herald, indicates that the enterprising
little journal, which was founded by Mr..
Stephen A. Hopkins, one of -THE- -NEXs-
Zone cent? business staff, and his associ-
ates, is to continue to advance and pros
per as it has done under preceding boards
of management. The first issue is newsy
now seem most to absorb the attention OF
college men. Four columns and an edl-
torial are devoted TO football and athlet-
les, and six lines OF matter cover an article
on chapel exercises. The NEWS will con-
tinue to consider the Brown Daily Herald
as one OF its most esteemed OF contempo-
raries.
The marriage license OF Grover Cleveland
and Frances Folsom, formerly OF Buffalo,
has only Just been filed in the office OF
the clerk of the Superior Court, District
of Columbia, by Rev. Byron Sunderland,
who performed the ceremony. Along
with Mr.. Cleveldnd's license were
some two hundred other licenses, being
all the marriage permits OF the couples
whom Dr. Sunderland has united in we'd
lock since 1871. The Law of the District
provides that the minister performing a
ceremony shall return the
license properly certified by him to the
clerk OF the Superior Court, but il
I thoug htlessly omits To fix any time limit
within W hich these returns must be made.
The result Is that the Washington clergy
men make their reports as fancy dictates.