The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-07

Norwich line Is TO be equipped with al
electric search light.
This evening tho Narragansett Wheel.
men are going to have their housewsrminl
In their new quarters at 103 Fountain
street. Twill be ladies night.
The whistle buoy at Point Judith ID
broken. IL was probably snapped off by
q hawser attached TO tow OF barges. Mr.
Swain OF tug Col. John f. Gaynor makes
the report.
Edwin Burnham Perry employed by
Leavens Birch, and Marie Eliza Pease
were married at the home of the bride 1C
ToDey street, Monday. IL was a very
pretty wedding.
The anchor of the schooner s. s. Scran-
ton caught In the cable of the Union Rail-
road Company last night just below the
Point street bridge, which was the cause
OF the draw being open nearly thirty min
utes last evening.
Ex-Commodore Austin, ex- Rear Com
modore Bloomer and DIR. X. Herbert
Carver OF the Rhode Island Yacht Club
witnessed the semi-centennial races OF
the New York Yacht Club from the lat
ter's steamer yesterday.
There will be a midsummer festival
at the Adelaide Park ball grounds on
Thursday, the proceeds of which will be
devoted TO furnishing the St.Maria Home.
There will be baseball, music, dancing and
other attractions.
The last of the civil war bonds issued
in 1854 fell due August 1, and aggregate
s699, 600. The general treasurer has depos-
tied that amount with the Rhode Island
Hospital Trust Company and it is stated
that they have been nearly all turned in.
Joseph Brichel, State Organizer of the
American Federation OF Labor, complains
that persons soliciting advertisements for
Labor Day programs are using the name
OF the organization which he represents.
Mr.. Brichel desires it understood that the
Federation of Labor has no connection
with the scheme.
An English sailor named Henry Julian
has been looking for his mother for he
past three days. He halls from London
where he received word about four
months ago that his mother was at work
at Riverside. He has been unable to find
any trace of her, however, at that place.
Attorney George A. Littlefield, assignee
OF the Providence News Company, the cor
poration which published this newspaper
next before the present owners, Is paying
a dividend of 80 Ia per cent. and later
will pay another smaller one to all credit
ors who have filed legal claims with him
against the company.
upon the proprietor Of grocery store on
Robinson street, yesterday. The crate in
which the eggs were packed contained
one layer of eggs, but the spaces under
meath were filed with cotton. stone, etc
The victim reported his grievance to the
police Of the Fifth Station.
Captain X. j. Horton of Southold, L. l.,
was the guest OF Captain Williamson on
the steamer Connecticut la night. Cap
tain Horton was for many years master OF
the ship Triad, that was engaged in the
whaling trade, but retired more than a
quarter OF century ago. He is one of
I he best known business men in South
hold.
handsome work is the "Hand Book,
Wooien and Cotton Weayers and Spin
ners of Providence and Vicinity" for
1894. II Is OF large size and handso.n .nely
bound and contains among much infor-
nation of interest, the constitution, by
laws and rules of order of the Rhode
Island District Council of Textile Work
crs and local unions, together with his
tory OF the mill system, graphically writ
ten by Mr.. Richard McGuy. The volume
Is embellished by half-tone portraits of
prominent State officials and citizens
identified with the labor interests.
The First and Second Separate Com
panies, Infantry Brigade, r. l. NJ, and
Ives Post, Grand Army of the Republic,
will make an excursion to Rocky Point
tomorrow. There will be street parade
in the morning. At Rocky Point there
will be bicycle, sack and running races,
jumping contest, tug-of-war and a ball
game. There will be several prominent
military and Grand Army men present
from all parts of New England. In the
evening a reception will be rendered the
guests in slocum Post Hall, which will be
followed by musical and literary enter
Iainment and dancing. 1a
The Hartford Dredging Company, to
which the contract for excavating the
oreachway from Great Salt Pond to the
Yea at Block Island was recently awarded
BY the commission, have commenced
operations. The company will receive
'35 900 on he basis OF 1917 cents per cubic
Yard. Stillman Saunders of Saunders
own will construct the break
water, the sum designated in
he contract being s11,25O. The
oint appropriation by the town Of New
'horebam and the State was $50. 900, leav-
ng a balance OF $3.50 to their credit from
he contract prices.
The following passengers arrived yes
erday from Baltimore and Norfolk, per
team ship Allegheny, Captain Nicker-
on: General Wheelock q. Veazey, Inter-
State Commerce Commissioner, Wash
ngton, ID. c.; Mrs. w. q. Veazey, Mr.. A.
H..