The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-12-24
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Fournil beat Gallagher in the Now York
billiard match 1000 TO 1927.
A portion Of Mrs. Hetty Green's i'm
menss estate is badly tangled.
The Gloucester (Nass.) fishing industry
has not been successful shis year.
F!H Smith Of Cambridge, Mass, was
killed by q train at Beverly. Mass.
The capital Of the Indian Head National
bank. Nashua n. H. Is unimpaircd.
Mark Wild predicts q fight between
knights Of Labor and Federation leaders
A Chicago alderman Is alleged TO have
offered to sell out the entire board for
So 000.
Burglars cornered in n train at Iowa,
dropped dynamite on the track and made
their escape.
S. ID. Bailey, president Of the Marine
bank and exmayor of Bath, Me- died At
that city, aged 80.
A man was acquitted of murder in Kan
sas on the ground that he acted under
hypnotic influence.
Eighty workmen were discharged from
a Haverhill (Mass.) shoe shop for attend
ing union meeting.
The death in west Africa of Rev. Dr. A.
explorer, Is announced.
Persons implicated by Police Captain
Schmlttberger of New York in his con-
fession are under surveillance
Ex. Bankers Charles and Frank Meadow
croft OF Chicago were released from the
penitentlary on a writ Of supersedeas.
The Unitarian society of Manchester,
n. H., voted to extend call to Rev
Charles j. Staples OF Lexington, Mass.
Mrs. Patrick Clark OF New Haven,
whose husband was killed while coupling
cIrs, nus brought suit TO recover 5000
damages.
Mrs. Richard Ross Of Rockfall, Conn,
has disappeared She has before eloped
with woman. Her husband will not
now look for her
At Ansonia, Conn, w. A. White, city
editor Of The Sentinel, who is slightly deaf,
was knocked down by trolley car and
seriously injured.
S. X Bailey. for II years superintendent
OF the Lippitt woocn mills In Woon-
socket, r.. l., has resigned that position
His son succeeds him
Barbara Meyers a German girl living In
q Northampton (Mass) family, tried TO
commit suicide by taking laudanum be-
cause of homesickness.
At Fall River, Mass, Patrick Madden,
who stabbed his wife, was sentenced TO a
years Imprisonment in Jail. The woman
Is recovering slowly from her wounds.
The three big bells for ST. Francis
church, New Haven, were blessed by
Bishop Tierney OF the diocese of Connecti-
cut, assisted by number of clergymen.
At Greenfield, Mass an unknown man,
aged about 65, was found drowned In u
pool OF surface water not over six inches
deep lie had whisky bottle in his
pocket.
wheatlys hop bitter alo, beverage
which has heretofore been considered
non-lntoxicant, has been decided by State
Chemist Smith of New Haven TO be intox-
icating.
The war on the Manchester On. H.
saloons continues with unabated activity,
ar average OF 10 seizures n day having
been made. The saloonkeepers arc getting
panicky.
The Manchester N H board of police
commissioners found Patrolman j. T.
Welch guilty Of too violent treatment Of
his prisoners and ordered him suspended
three weeks.
The Swedish Lutheran church at Man
chester Conn, has accepted the resigna.
ton Of It's pastor, Rev A. o. OLSON, and
voted to extend call TO Rev. William y.
Anderson OF Waterbury.
Alleged counterselters, George Allen,
Henry Oliver and James Mcguire, who
were arrested in Brdgeport, Conn, have
been bound over TO the January term OF
the district court In bonds Of $4,000 each.