The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-04-30
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The Pope Manufacturing Company OF
Boston have purchased the stock and
fixtures of the Providence Cycle Company,
and the store hereafter will be known as
branch house OF the Pope Company. Mr..
Rankin, formerly OF Rankin * Bruce,
will be the manager.
The grand master and officers of the
Grand Lodge will publicly dedicate the
new Odd Fellows Hall at Manton this
evening and the residents OF that busy
village community are prepared Tor a
pleasant entertainment and attractive
ceremony.
The annual election of field and staff
officers of the First Light Infantry Regi-
ment will occur tonight. The candidates
for positions of field officers are: Colonel,
James s. Phetteplace; lieutenant colonel,
Harry b. Rose; major, Herbert 5. Tan
ner.
A spark from cigar set fire to lam
beruuin at the residence OF Mr.. Alfred Nj.
Williams, IL Whitmarsh street Yesterday
afternoon. An alarm was sounded from
box 124, but the blaze was extinguishe he'd
before any great amount of damage had
been done.
Mary Burke, the woman who Is i'll with
smallpox at the Fields Point Hospital, Is
reported as being more comfortable and
cases will appear unless Miss Burkes sis
ter, who is now acting as nurse at the
hospital, should take the disease.
The judiciary committee of the Senate
will give a hearing on the act "Of the
District Court of the Sixth judicial Dis
trict" on the rising of the Senate tomor-
row. The same committee Will hear all
persons interested in the amendment to
the judiciary act in the Senate chamber at
10 o'clock.
"Crossed wires" on the Western Union
lines along the consolidated Road in Con-
necticut, have puzzled the linemen re-
Gently until the trouble was located
between Noank and Poquonnock Bridge,
where a large cobweb was discovered
which made the trouble every time the
dew or q rain storm saturated 1t.
The time limit in which the Consoli-
dated Railroad is to notify the City Coun-
Gil of its acceptance OF the provisions of
the ordinance whereby 1t is obligated to
construct union depot with train-shed
attachment expires tomorrow. The city
clerk is the medium through which the
acceptance is to be communicated.
Cosmo Marito, an Italian, attracted the
attention of the police last night, by
wandering at large on Atwells avenue,
frightening the residents in the vicinity.
He was arrested after some trouble and
this morning was bound over in the Sixth n
District Court to the next term OF the
grand jury.
A new publication called the "Narra-
gansett Observer" is to appear this sum-
mer. It will be devoted TO the interests
OF the shore resorts and the summer re-
sidents along the Providence river, and
will be edited by Harry r. Lewis, n former
Brown University student. Waldo p.
Rhodes will have charge OF the business
department.
DIR. Fenner III. Peckham entertained his
fellow members of the board OF directors
of the City National Bank at Squantum
Saturday. IL was remarked by one Of
the veteran members who has been on the
board nearly fifty years hat this was the
first time ia his remembrance that the
board had met for anything but business
or to attend obsequies.
Officers Taggart and Hanrigan arrested
two young men on the charge of breaking
aud entering one OF the stores in Pierce's
after lively chase and when arrested
they gave their names as Thomas Kelly
and Charles Shipp. In the District Court
yesterday they were held in 5000 each for
trial. They are believed to be old offend
ers.
The first annual installation OF Go. B.,
First *. !. Regiment, Baptist BoysBrigade.
was held at the Friendship Street
Baptist Church last evening. The
following officers were installed: I:
President, Edward IIolyoke; treas
urer, Percy Robinson; captain, Ellis
Crsnston; first lieutenant, Allin Ripley;
Weond Lieutenant, Frank Ailebaueh; ser