The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-07-31
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Enterfainmonts To-day.

ADELAIDE PAhh-fresidence ana Troy, $50
A new mast is being placed in the yacht
Kelpie.
Alderman Lansing will go to the noun
tains Monday.
Statistics show that divorced non re-
marry to a greater extent than divorced
m
John Addeman's house, 90 Bogman
street, was burglarized Saturday and Q
gold watch was stolen.
Hose IL extinguished a slight fire ut $50
o'clock last night among some trimmings
OF trees on Long Pond dump.
The Rhode Island Association for the
Protection OF Game and Fish will hold .
special meeting tomorrow evening.
The largest police office In the world
Is the new one at Scotland yard, Lon
don, In which 5000 officers can be accom-
modated.
An automatic "penny-in-the-slot" ma
chine was found on the Cove lands last
night by Officer Carpenter, who seized 1t
and took IL to the Central station.
The men who have been obliged to
work on the vessels along the docks the
past few days have suffered considerably
from the stencil that ARISES from the
water.
An interesting lecture was given by
Rev. A. II. Winship before the Institute
OF Normal Methods I'm Normal Hall last
evening. His subject was "The Poetry OF
Music"
The schooner General f.. 8. Merwin,
Captain Smead, q resident Of East Provi-
dence, arrived at New York yesterday
with 1900 tons OF phosphate rock from
Cnisholms Island, s. G.
At 4 O'Clock yesterday afternoon Carl
Lunddrum fell from his wagon on Eddy
street and sustained q bad scalp wound.
He was taken to the hospital and later to
his home, 4 Hospital street.
A man fishing for suckers near
Pleasant Bluff yesterday pulled in sshark
eight feet long-at least, so he says-and
as proof of the veracity Of his story the
shark will be exhibited today.
What appeared to be q new wagon
broEe down this morning near the Craw-
ford street bridge. 1t was loaded with
garden truck. The three reaches were
broken of as clean, as ii cut with q knife.
At 1880 o'clock last night the kingpin
of Robert Berton's wagon broke on Branch
avenue, and the driver was thrown out and
severely cut on the head. DIR. Blake
dressed the wounds, and Berton was taken
So his home, "a Daniels street.
At 5 O'Clock last night James Duffy, 16
years bid, came in collision with q bicycle
fider, Charles X. Tuxedo, on Exchange
Place. Duffy was d~isentangled from the
wheels and was sent to his home, ~
Shamrock street. He was but slightly
hurt.
William Gorton, who sells pond lilies on
The streets, was arrested last night at his
home on Potters avenue. Gorton, better
known as sold Balm of Gilead," was
drunk, and 30 were his son, John, and
daughter, Ida, and they were also ar
rested.
Late last night car number 235 on the
Centredale route, while running down
'Sol Olney Hill" at the city line, collided
with ]. e. Congdon's carriage, containing
Mr. Congdon and wife, Mr.. John Hebden
and wife and daughter Marion. The Car
struck the rear part of the carriage,
w~recking 1t and hurting all the occupants
TO the ground. Fortunately no one was
seriously injured.
The committee of the City Council on
city property is considering the PROPOSE
tion of building q new station for Hook
and Ladder company No. 4, and using
the old for police station No. 3s
new patrol wagon. The site considered
for the new station is the lot owned by
the city directly east of the police station
On W~ickenden street.
The Eastern football schedule of the
Chicago Athletic Association is as fol-
lows: Nov. g., Chicago A.. A. vs.. Boston A.
A., at BOSTON, Nov. z, Chicago A. A. VS..
Brown University, at Providence; Nov. s,
Chicago A.. A. VS.. Yale University, at New
Haven; Nov. 10, Chicago A. A. VS.. Har-
ward University, at Cambridge; Nov. IL,
Chicago A. A. VS.. New Jersey A. g., at
Bergen Point.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lasher were surrounded
by many friends last evening at the sum-
mer residence, Crystal Wave, at Crescent
Park. The occasion was the 18th ami
versary of their wedding. They were
the recipients OF many beautiful presents,
+. X. Richardson, acting as spokesman for
the visitors. During the evening a deli
cious clam bake was served and music
and dancing was enjoyed on the lawn.
The powerful steam lighter, Hustler,
arrived at his port from n. Y. this morn
ing, and is to be loaded with one gun, four
mortar carriages and a lot OF odds and
ends from the Builders Iron Foundry
for the United States. This will be
the last shipment, as the contract OF guns
and mortar carriages by the Builders Iron
Foundry is completed. The number was
90, and in the future the Poole Brothers OF
Reliance, o., will make the larger part OF
this class OF work for the government.
Michael Winters, a we'll known character
TO the police, kicked" up a disturbance
In Halves court last night by assault
ing a man whose name Ia
unknown. Winters uncle attempted
TO suppress the disturbance and retired
from the fight with a cut head. Then the
fight became general among the inmates
Of the court and things were thrown
about promiscuously. Finally wore was
sent to Station 1 and a detail Of officers