The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-04-12

car dragged HasbinB green ute hiong oh
| the end of its pole.
A free exhibition OF North China cities,
scenery customs and people will be given
under a powerful stereopticon at the
| Union Congregational Chapel on Stewart
street this evening. Exercises will COM
mence at 1880 o'clock. The public are
cordially invited.
The April dividends payable in Boston
| are not so large as have formerly been due
at this quarter of the year, but S10 1000
| is very handsome figure, nevertheless,
and it will do a great deal of good when
| II Is distributed among the people, who
ultimately get all the dividends.
Part 4of Picturesque America" offered
| TO NEWS readers, is particularly beauti-
| full number. 1t contains a magnificent
steel engraving of the famous Indian
| Rock at Narragansett Pier. The rest of
| the number is devoted largely to White
Mountain scenery and description.
| That is good story that is newly told
| with regard to the tenor Brignoli and the
young lady who said to him in admiration
"Signor Brignoli, i have known you ever
| since / was a little girl" He turned
around in fury and shouted, "Yes, and
i have known you ever since was little
boy"
Coxey's "advance guard, )" the Maryland
l feacntu NhSnlnRtOn DdtuTudys
Forty of them were in the hands OF the
| police before they had time to land from
| the freight train. Gordon OF mounted
officers is doing "vidette" duty beyond
the city limits, that equally prompt action
may await Others.
At 2:20 o'clock this morning fire was
discovered in the wholesale fruit store OF
j. III. Preston & Co., IL Dyer street. The
| fire was confined to the upper story in
Il.
paper were stored. The damage was
slight, the Protectives covering the goods
promptly with their tarpaulins.
Miss Edith M. Johnson of the girls
department OF the high school, won the
Anthony medal for excellence in En-
| glish composition and elocution yester-
! day afternoon. The subject OF the essay
was "Portia, Prophecy" The judges
were Mrs. Mary G. Fabyan, Miss Amelia
s. knight and Or. Helen 9. Putnam.
| Edward Hatch, ex-policeman, escaped
last night from private hospital on Ben
| eft street where he was being treated for
insanity. He was clad only in his night
| clothes and was barsfooted. He was cap
tured in front OF the Industrial Trust
| Company's building after severe tussle
| with Officer Ahearn. He was taken to the
| Central Station and his brother, who lives
| in Brockton, was notified.
| IL seems that accidents happened to
| learned critics in cultured Zurich as well
| as at home. A music critic there was
noticing Gade's fifth symphony and wrote
a caustic review OF it as ''lacking the usual
| Scandinavian coloring," and by no means
| one of his best works. His attention was
called next morning TO the fact that the
orchestra had substituted Beethoven's
seventh symphony for the Gade.
Chief OF Police Child says that the
police will follow their usual custom
in the removal of dead bodies. They
are ordered to take charge OF the remains,
being held responsible for the safety of
the victims effects, and when the body is
turned over to the medical examiner,
their duty has been discharged. The
chief believes that there should be an ex-
aminer on duty at all times to answer
calls so as to pervent unfortunate delay.
The sale of seats for the Kirmess which
il to be given at the Providence Opera
House all OF next week for the benft OF
the Day Nursery will open at the box
office OF the Providence Opera House to-
morrow morning. To prevent specula-
as far as possible and TO ensure fair treat
ment, the committee OF arrangements
have limited the sale OF not more than 10
seats TO any purchaser for one perform
ance.
missing from Omaha with considerable
money in his possession, has materialized
in Burlington, la. He says he has been
much in evidence and has no desire to be
missed. He is satisfied that the story
emanated from the "fertile imagination
of a neophyte Omaha reporter" He is
still in commission as business manager
of the Craigen-Paulding Co. He formerly
resided in this city.
Ho..,- n.ItoxJ o..;.t... a.. A.
Secretary of States Office, has charge OF the
production of the "Chimes OF Normandy"
for the benefit of the Womcns Exchange.
and proposes to make the production as
nearly professional as practicable. Mr..
Bullard has had large professional
experience himself. He will also assume
the roll OF "Henri, the Marquis" part
with which, though taken at the last
moment TO I'LL a vacancy, he is wholly
| familiar.
A rich foreigner settled in Marseilles
and built a very cSstly villa, Two years
| ago he made elaborate preparations for
| dying by his own hand whenever he de-
cided that the moment had come. He
| built a vault, which could be hermetically
sealed, in corner OF his garden, fur
| nshed with reclining chair, two large
candelabra and two pans filled with char
coal ready TO light. He entered the vault
| frequently, but not until n week ago did
he close the door and light the charcoal.
| lie was found dead in the chair.
The restless and philanthropic soul of
| President Angel OF University OF Michi-
| gan IS stirred by the Coxey army, and he
sends today TO 10000 newspapers and To
every member of Congress a letter propos-
| ing TO establish a national industrial
| army OF 100000 men, and put them TO
work 100000 each on ship canals from the
| Mississippito Chicago, from Chicago to
! Detroit, across upper Florida. widening
/ the Erie 10 a ship canal, and other works
| like fighting the Russian thistle and per-
haps the gypsy moth.
The old Messer Mansion, historic
landmark ON Cranston street for more
than a century, Is To be torn down to give
| way 10 more modern buildings. Until 1929
IL was occupied by Captain Samuel SNOW,
a Revolutionary war veteran. DIR. Mcsser.
! the third president oi Brown University,
came into possession Of the estate
I in that year aud lived there
tin his death in 1885, Charles
HazCltine, maker of decorated compo-
! sition casts, took possession i'm June, 1891,
! but "A few days ago lac was requested 20