The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-03-06

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pany.
INFANTRY HALL-Arion Concert, 7;4s p. m.
Judge Cooke of the Sixth District Court
is confined his home by illness.
The Count and Countess de Castellane
sailed for Sout hampton on the steamship
New York today.
The committee on ordinances met at 3
o'clock this afternoon and that on parks
at o'clock to transact routine business.
A class in soul-science will tender re-
ception TO its teacher, DIR. f. l.. III. Willis,
at Blackstone Hall this evening.
The highest velocity attained by pro-
jectile fired from modern rapid tire gun
is 2Ss7 feet per second, or something like
1868 miles an hour.
As soon as weather permits a gang of
300 men will be put TO work at Hazards
quarry to get out stone for the Point
Judith breakwater.
Frank Connaughton, formerly of the
Boston Club, has been secured by mama
ger Kanning, as shortstop for the Kansas
City Blues ihis season.
The Music Hall lectures now being
given by Rev. Justin ID. Fulton, ID. D., are
rapidly gaining in favor as the increasing
numbers bear evidence.
The longest wire cable ever made was
that put in use by the St. Louis cable rail-
road company, in April, 1885. Length 34,-
500 feet, weight s9,5l0 pounds.
According to one of the textile trade
journals, it takes 7,000,000 miles OF thread
every year to keep the people of the
United States in their clothes"
From to O'Clock this afternoon at
the Art Club, Mr.. Sydney r. Burlelgh will
receive his friends at a private view of an
exhibition of his water colors.
Contributors to the Providence Dis
pensary are to hold their annual meeting
| This afternoon in the Washington Insur-
ance Company's office at o'clock.
Rev. DIR. Henry NJ. King read paper on
| ga Summer Visit of Three Rhode Island
Men to the MASSACHUSETTS Bay in 1851"
before the Rhode Island Historical Society
last evening.
The Arion Clubs second concert OF the
season viii DO given this evening at In
fantry Hall. The soloists are to be Lillian
Nordica and William III. Reiger. The
| program is miscellaneous.
There was an interesting exhibition be-
fore the Providence Camera Club last
night of set of prize slides sent out by
/ the British Camera Club for exhibition
| purposes in 1898.
Henry Hines and Annie Cellarious were
| arraigned in the Sixth District Court this
morning on the charges of keeping and
call hon
were held until Tuesday for trial.
"Standing Room Only" is already hung
out over Infantry Hall. Every seat for
| touight's concert of the Arion Club Is sold.
| That Is fine thing for the club and for
the public who appreciate good thing.
| A permit has been issued to Frank w.
| Arnold, lessee, to alter the brick gymna-
sium building, occupied by the Metro
pole Club, "a Aborn street, by adding
stores below. George III. Shaw is the
builder.
A boy named Joseph Fisher, living at 21
| Towner street, was run over and badly in
| jured last evening while making an at
He was cared for at the Rhode Island
Hospital and then taken to his home.
The committee on city property met
yesterday afternoon to consider the vexed
| question Of awarding contracts for two
| on Kendrick street. The bids were opened
and contracts partially awarded.
The Y. Nj. G. A. Lyceum will meet to-
| night in the form of the Common Council
| of the city. Several important resolutions
| are to come up. The last meeting bad the
| largest attendance for more than O year.
Every body is invited to attend.
n. b. Horton & Son have been awarded
| the contract for three-story brick build
| ing, 100x40 feet in the new city yard made
necessary by the removal from the old
cove yard. The Public buildings and
lamp departments will occupy 1t.
OF all the railroad offices which were
formerly in the Butler Exchange, but one,
the Worcester, remains. The ot hers are
now in the old Union depot. With the
removal OF these and the Telephone Ex-
change, the third and fifth floors of But
lers are quite deserted.
1t is rumored that S. S. Sprague & Com
pany are about to move away from Dyer
street, because of the noise and, TO them,
other disagreeable features connected
with their present location. Mr.. Sprague
has been looking at quarters In the new
Studley building on Weybosset street.
Wilson 81 Jenckes are attorneys for the
Kent IL Stanley Company and last night
Mr.. Jenckes went TO Boston with one OF
the directors of the firm to arrange mat
ters with Boston creditors. The result Is
said TO be that ''less wind and more ef-
fort on the part OF the stock holders will
bring about the desired result"
Under the auspices OF local Union 94,
u. b. OF G. and j. of A. public meeting
was held at 30 Exchange Place last even
ing to discuss the eight hour question.
DIR. l.. i. &. Garvin, George T.. Boomer,
John II. McCann and others spoke.
Higher wages or shorter hours, preceded
by organizat ion, formed the weight 1.-THE
discussion. There were no arguments.
Mrs. Abba Goold Woolson opens the
womcn's course of lectures at Sayles Hall
on Thursday afternoon, March z, at
i:45. The hour IL intended
TO specially accommodate the teachers
OF the city and as several