The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-23
TELEGRAPHlC BREvITIEs.

Georgianna Curley, % years old, drowned
herself at Boston while insane.
Floods In western rivers are causing
loss Of life and immense damage.
George Myles, aged 80, was ground Il
pieces by freight train at Chelsea, Mass.
Two people wore killed and seven In.
iurcd ina railroad collision ut Frankford,
Pa.
Three Italian laborers were killed by an
explosion OF dynamite at New Rochelle,
n. Y.
Rev. J. NJ Farley was consecrated az
auxiliary Roman Catholic bishop of New
York,
The Consolidated railroad is to cxpend
5000 600 in improvements in Bridgeport,
Conn.
Boston dance hall proprietors have been
notified TO either get licenses or close their
places
Michael O'Brien. n Bradford (Mnss }
farmer, was fatally Injured in collision
Of two teams.
Saturdays dense fog in the vicinity OF
Boston was the cause OF a number Of seri.
Gus accidents.
s. G. Tandy, who shot at three persons
on the street at Concord, n. H., was pro-
nonnccd insane.
Steamships and sailing vessels arriving
In New York bring stories of terrible ex.
periences in gales.
The law for the regulation OF foreign in.
surance companies has been signed by the
President Of Peru.
At Kosse, Tex, fire destroyed seven
brick business blocks, with stocks Of II
firms. Loss, $4,000
Robert Earle, who was confined In
ABderer tN. H. Jail and escaped, was re.
captured at Fort Fairfield, Me.
Part OF the town of Santa Maria, United
States of Colombia, was destroyed by q
tidal wave and many lives lost.
Colonel Collezos, who is charged w h
being the cause of the religious riots al
Cuzco, Peru, has been suspended.
Jack Everhardt issued challenge to
fight any 133-pound man at El Paso, a
February, Lavigne and Leeds preferred.
Barney Brown, colored, was lynched by
drowning by negroes, near Wrightsville,
Ark. He had taken another mans life.
The plant OF the Putnam (Conn.l
Foundry and Machine corporation was
destroyed by fire, entailing loss OF over
t2o0Jc.
James j. Carney, aged Is months, was
scalded so badly by the upsetting of q
kettle OF water at Pawtucket, r. L., that
Inc tiicvf.
Mrs. Ann Kennedy, aged 75. of Middle
burg, VT, died from shock, incident ia
burns received while lighting a fire with
kerosene.
Wilbur ellison, aged CO. slipped through
railroad trestle bridge near Rutland,
VT, and was fatally hurt. His descent
was lao feet
Schooner j. V. Dexter, which was over
due at Liverpool, n. s, with 90 passcn.
gers, has arrived The vessel had been
blown out To sen.
At joss Branch, Va, Alexander Felly
was called 10 his door by two men and
killed with an ax because he refused tu
give up his money.
G. w. Anderson of Springfield, Mass,
was found dead rs Charleston Death was
due to heart disease. Anderson was a
83rd degree Mason
Mayor Jcwett of Haverhil, Mass. will
permit athletic exhibitions in tho future,
provided there are no boxing matches
made for decisions
[Anhlt oiloNbl was ltlallN SnDt Wnlie
acting VS. ~eee#A ia -dtiel- betwertt- -.fcsc-
phinc Clark and Jennie Beard, who
fought over lover
A building occupied by w. w. Thomas
e. Co, wholesale dealers in teas coffees.
spices and baking powder, Cincinnati. was
burned. Loss, $1,000.
Alexis Pclkey is under arrest at Fall
River, Mass. tJ await the outcome OF
wounds inflicted on his father with o
knife during family quarrel.
The body of Patrick Fallon, an aged
man, was fouN in the Pawtuckct river
Although the nose was fractured, Fallon's
death was decided as accidental.
Rose Alger, agsd years, died at Dan.
burn, Conn. OF hydrophobia, supposed to
have followed the bite OF n cat which had
previously boon bitten by u rabid dog
The jury in the case of DR. Hearne
charged with the murder (seven yesri
ago) at Bowling Green. Mo, Of Amos j.
Stlllwcll, returned n verdict OF not guilty.
General James Q. vcatch died at his
homo i'm Spencer county, Indiana. He was
brcvctcd major general OF volunteers after
the battle OF Shiloh, and served through
the war.
H. a. Wood, general superintendent Of
the 1ntcrOceanic railroad, was murder.
'0usly assaulted at City Of Mexico by dis
charged station agent but escaped with G
bad cut on tho head.