The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-14

shlcii tnht ever Ouenued the nOBtrlls"
-"Merry Wives OF Windsor"
Officer O'Rourke OF Station has sent
his resignation TO Chief Child.
Tramps are making sad havoc of the
gardens along the East Shore from East
Providence TO Nayatt.
The deepest mine in the world is at St.
Andre de Porter, France, and yearly pro-
duces 100000 tons of coal.
The barge Kingston in tow of the tug
ocean King ran aground near Silver
Spring early this morning.
The members of the Cathedral choir
went to Rhodes on the Pawtuxet yester-
day for their annual outing.
Shaking was among the Rocky Point
attractions yesterday and Squire u.
Plinney captured 250-pounder.
Rhode Island and Massachu setts Pro-
hibitionists held joint services at the He
bronville Camp Meeting yesterday.
| Arnold b. Chace has been elected presi-
dent of the Westminster Bank to fill the
vacancy caused by the death Of Judge Eli
| Aylsworth.
Captain Kelcey will take command OF
the four masted schooner George Nj.
Grant during the absence Of Captain Ves-
| per, who is Ill at his home at West Haven,
| Conn.
The pin machines OF England, Holland,
and Germany turn out an average Of
81 900 900 pins for every work day of the
year. AT Birmingham one factory makes
3O,0Oo, 900 per day.
A large amount OF glass was broken last
night in the front of James Tourtellot Il
Co.'s store, 81 Canal street, and the same
depreciation was committed at Preston &
Browns, 16s Dyer street.
Hugh McCaugaty, messenger boy, has
been missing from his home, 20 Bourne
street, since Aug 3. He Is IL years old,
and when last seen wore q dark suit, and
the regulation messenger boys hat.
The local union of the Amalgamated
Street Railway Employees Association will
hold q meeting tomorrow evening when
the committee appointed to lodge pro-
test with Manager Potter Of the Union
Railroad Company will make report.
Sir Walter Raleigh was the first white
man to use mahogany lumber. In the
year 1896, while at Trinidad, he repaired
one of his ships with mahogany plank.
That incident caused its introduction
into England and into the commerce of
the world.
About IL O'Clock last evening a fire was
discovered in q lot OF old rubbish that was
piled against the paint shop of ii. X. Hor-
ton, in the rear of 55 Wickenden street, by
a man named John Meehan, who notified
the police. Hose No. 2 on South Main
street was called.
The smallest quantity of apples ex-
ported in the last IL years was 81 ,532
barrels, in 1883, there having been pre-
v;ously, in 1850, 1,32S sos barrels, and af-
terward, in 1891, the "banner year" in the
apple trade, ,450, 1886 barrels, so that if the
exports OF the current year are to be un-
precedented they must come near /, 500 900
barrels.
Detectives Murray and Swan raided
rooms I and OF Bakers building on
Washington street yesterday afternoon
ana arrested George Bowen, Joseph
O'Neill, John Slattery, Michael Gray and
John Coombs for alleged violation of the
pool law. Each man furnished bonds In
the sum OF $500 and was released.
1t has been proposed by the Union for
Practical Progress that the Manual Train
ing High School construct q model of
Narragansett Bay in the new addition to
Roger Williams Park. A tract about 80
by 800 feet would be necessary for model
on the scale of ten feet to the mile. BY
means of such a model the school children
would be able TO form an idea ofs Nara
gansett Bay that no map can present.
There was an alarm from box late last
night for fire in barn at Hovey's lum-
ber yard on South Main street. The
fame spread from the straw filled loft of
the barn to Doe & Little coal pocket and |
for a few minutes there was very lively
blaze. But the fremen were able TO con- !
troll the flame and soon had it exiting |
uished. The barn burned belongs to the |
L. j, Hill estate and was occupied by |
Nathan J. Shepley.
The words "starbosrd" and sslarboard.n
as used In the nautical vocabulary, are |
from the Italian words questa borda, I
meaning "this side" and quelia borda |
"that side" Abbreviated these two
phrases appear as sta borda and la borda
and by the corruption of languages were
soon rendered "starboard' and larboard"
by the English sailors. Years ago an
order OF the admiralty discontinued the
use OF cardboard" and substituted port
Thomas Booth, the veteran saloon
keeper Of this city. attended the nuptials
Of his nephew, Mr.. Herbert Horsefeld,
youngest son Of the lato Ralph Horsefield
Of Hyde, to Miss Ouch at Leigh Church,
Sussex, England, last Thursday. He was
accompanied by his brother, William
Booth, and the parents and relatives of