The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-29
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PROVIDENCE OPERA HoUsE-"The Flsms {"
KEITH's OPERA HoUsE-"A Run on the Bank
LoTHRoP's OPERA HoUsE-"Peck's Bad Boy"
WESTMINSTER THEATER-city sports.
LoTHRoPs PAwTUCKEr OPERA HOUSE =
"Megs Money"
INFANTRY HALL Arion Club Concert 7ti5
| p. m.
FRANKLIN socIETY-a North Main street,
Lecture, ) p. m
Three cases OF scarlet fever, one on Par
Chaplin avenue, were reported to the sup
erintendent of health today.
The pigeon coops of Joseph Mathe ws,
IA Rachel street and Edward Bamicrat t, 1872
Sherburne street, were broken into last
night and a number OF carrier pigeons
stolen.
About 2:31 o'clock this afternoon an
alarm OF fire was sent in from box 216 for
a slight blaze in tenement house, 50
Richardson street. The damage will not
exceed s..
Elmwood electric No. SO and II. A.
Taylor's milk wagon had brush at Turk q
Head at noon today. Some swearing re-
suited and two cans OF milk were thrown
out the wagon.
The regular meeting of the franklin
Society IS To be held this evening. The
subject for discussion Is, "Some Artistic
Impressions OF California" and the
speaker Is Eugene L. Smyth.
The quarterly meeting of the Free
Baptist Woman's Missionary Society will
be held at the Park Street Church tomor-
row, Wednesday, at 3p. m. DIR. Pauline
Root will address the meeting. All in
vited.
Taxpayers have responded pretty wei
and the yearly water bills are practically
all paid. Real estate, the taxes on which
for 1895 are not paid, will @e levied upon
Feb. 10, advertised May 2 and sold June
next.
Bruch's martial oratorio, "Arminius, /"
will be given by the Arion Club in
Infantry Hall this evening. There will be
prominent soloists and the full orchestra.
The concert will begin promptly at 7:45
O'Clock.
Contractor Tank has been awarded the
CONTRACT for the timber foundation of the
new passenger station, including 2010
piles, laying of 10000 feet of timber and
excavating 1900 yards OF earth. Work
will begin this week.
rhe comm issioners on North Burla
Ground held another perfunctory meeting
al O'Clock, and the committee on assess :
ment and collection of taxes met at $3.50.
The committee on parks will discuss the
entrances to Roger Williams Park at 80
p. m.
A pleasing entertainment was given at
the Trocadero yesterday afternoon for the
benefit of the Home for Aged Colored
Women. Miss Anna Vernon Dorsey OF
Maryland rendered variey OF "Negro
Songs and characteristics
There were three still alarms of fire last
evening, one at 6:45 for little blaze in
the Art Club building on Thomas street !;
another In A. p. Possner's grocery store
on Exchange Place, and the third for n
chimney fire in a tenement house on
Fletcher street.
Mrs. Greene, OF 9S Wickenden street,
was attacked by a large white bulldog at
the corner of Benefit and Johns streets
last evening. The brute tore her coat and
bit her in the arm. She was attended by
DIR. Eaton.
Since Inspector Bemis recommended
that all applicants for plumbing licenses
be iput through regular course of ex-
animation, the master plum bers are about
to petition the General Assembly for an
act requiring ali journeymen plumbers to
pass sanitary examination.