The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-09-24

Fire alarm box rs has been taken out for
repairs aud box 422 has been substituted.
A sick horse owned by John Stephini
was shot by Policeman Mackenzie yester-
day afternoon.
William Andrews, for asssulting John
Boyden, was fined $40 and costs in the
District Court this morning.
A belt in one OF the big Touring mills at
Minneapolis contains 2,W cowhides. II IL
2dO feet long and weighs over ton.
Andrew M. Goldrick and George Muir
ply for an assault on +. l.. Pike were
bound over until sept. IS, when they VIII
be tried.
In the eastern portion of the central
Pacific ocean there In an area of 10,bOO,OO0
square miles in which there are only seven
soundings.
The following Council committees met
today for routine business: Committee
on education, finance, harDors, highways,
and police.
Emma Skuse was sent to the State
Farm for year, Julia Conway and Kate
Stanley six months, for being common
night Walkers.
Lightning is the most destructive in
level, open country. Cities, with their
numerous projections and wires, are COM
paratively exempt.
About o'clock Box was pulled for a
small fire in the old boarding house on
India street, opposite the dock OF the
Philadelphia Steamship Company.
Con Fitzgibbons, for stealing a lot of
plants from Mary Miller, and Bridget
Mallroy, for receiving the same, were
fined S5 and costs each this morning.
Captain Joseph Marston of the Fourth
Police Station left this city today for
Waterville, Me-, where he is TO take part
in family reunion. The captains father
S5 years old and his mother is So.
Water dissolves various substances be-
cause the atoms of water, being very mi
mute, penetrate the spaces between the
atoms of many substances, and overcom-
ing their cohesive attraction, cause them
to fall apart.
A North Carolina man recently found at
the root OF tobacco stalk a number OF
gold coins, which, upon examination,
proved to be British pieces Of the value OF
about s12. The latest date on any OF the
coins is 1877.
The telegraph operator at the Chaplin
street crossing of the Consolidated road
was attacked by number of young
hoodlums yesterday. The operator un-
| dertook to drive them from the track but
| they refused to GO and trouble resulted.
The registration at the city clerks
| office, up to date, is 527 The figure for
| the corresponding day last year Mas 67S
and the decrease is accounted for by the
f.at q 49, f..n N
strike and had plenty of leisure to come
| down town.
Music Hall was filled yesterday after
noon when an address was given by the
Rev. j. III. Larry of the Richmond Street
| Congregational Church. His subject was
independent Citizenship" The meet
ing was held under the auspices of the
stephen Hopkins Literary Association.
| Michael Harrigan went into Frank
| Spencer's liquor store on Manton avenue
| Saturday night and threatened to shoot
| HIM. Spencer struck Harrigan on the
head with q hammer which caused him to
| change his mind. Harrigan had his
| wound dressed and started for his home
in Greenville.
The new catalogue OF the Rhode Island
| Schoo! OF Design is the most interest ing
| and informing issue that has yet come from
that institution. The designs and draw
ings made by pupils of the school are un-
usually we'll selected and well done There
is frontispiece picture OF the Schoo
building on Waterman street drawn by
Mr.. +. ". Marshall of TRE News Art De-
| partment who is also instructor in pen anc
ink illustration and cast drawing at tn,
school and the reproductive work wa,
done through THE NEWS Art Department
According to some statistics compiled
| in Vienna there was a vast consumption
OF beer in the world during the year 1898
| amounting TO over 4,500,000,0 900 gallons
Germany heads the list with 1,202, ,132, OF
gallons, an increase of "a, 900 900 over 1892
the consumption being thirty-three gal
Ions per head, ranging from sixty-two gai
Ions in Bavaria to twelve gallons in 10th
ringen Great Britain second, 1,165, ,752, ,00
gallons. or thirty per head; America in
Guiding the whole of the western hemi
phere, is third, with mo- e than ,0Oo, ,000, ,O0
gallons, or sixteen per head. More thar
| 7,270,0O0 tons of malt and $1,000 tons o
hops were used in the manufacture OF tn
beer for the world.