The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-12
NORTH END NE VS.
Boy Probably Fatally Injured
Sunday Afternoon
P, ompt Action on the Part OF Police
Officers Prevents Serious Trouble.
1HE NEWS BUREAU 4,
NORTH END 42s BRANCH AVENUE. ,
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Telephone s0l-3.
There was bad bicycle accident ON
Charles street, norlh of Ledge street, Sun
day afternoon. Albert Jacobini, young
boy, was run over and so badly injured
by bicycle which Michael Starti was
riding that II is very probable that IL he
does not die within a few days his brain
Will be SO permanently injured that he
will never again be In full possession OF
all his faculties.
The affair nearly resulted in a vendetta,
Tor both the injured boy and the man
who was on the bicycle are Italians, and
when the affair became known, IL looked
| for time as IL there would be a war OF
determination between the friends OF
both parties. Starti, after the boy had
been picked up, went to barber shop,
and he probably would have never left IL
alive had not officer Mclaughlin forced
his way through the mad mob to where
Starti was. The officer took Starti to the
home OF the Jacobini boy, GAS Charles
street, TO see how badly the latter was
hurt, and the father took the hat from
Starti's head and in his wrath tore IL
into strips. The hat was a new one.
Officer Mckenzie had in the meanwhile
put in his appearance, and dispersed the
crowd, which appeared TO be eyiilly dis
posed.
Officer Mclaughlin finally took Starti to
the Second Station, where he was locked
mp, and DIR. Thomas Il. Black of Wan
skuck was called to attend the injured
lad, and latter DIR. John W. Reefe also
| assisted in the surgical operation that
was necessary TO give the lad any relief.
There are several conflicting stories
told about the accident, but the one that
is best vouched for is that Starti had
been riding pretty fast on level ground,
and had taken his feet from the pedals
and could not get them back SO as TO
control the bike until il had hit
Jacobini a blow that threw him several
feet and caused him TO fall so heavily
that his skull was badly fractured.
The condition. of the boy this morning
gives little hope OF his recovery. Starti
was arraigned today in the District Court
and fined go and costs for fast driving.
There are a number OF poles standing on
the streets that have been in the past
used in stringing wires on, which are now
of no use, in fact are in the way, and
should be removed. A citizen who re-
sides on West River street saw two poles
taken down Saturday in front OF his
house that had rotted so badly that they
were kept in position only by the wires
strung across them. In another place
street has been graded and pole stands
in the middle of the sidewalk.
Bishop Hennessy of the diocese of
wichita, KAN, made an appeal at all the
masses at the Church OF the immaculate
Conception yesterday for the needs of his
diocese, which covers a larger territory
than all of New England. He told his
hearers of the arid climate of Western
Kansas, and of the uncertainty of the
crops as well as the hardships his people
had suffered during the past two years
He received quite substantial proof that
the people of the church named sympa-
thized with him.
Graham, the. who tried to commit
suicide last Saturday, may recover, as the
shot he fired, i'm his endeavor to end his
troubles, did not go through his body,
but glanced around a bone and followed
it TO the mans back.
German, the Wanskuck blacksmith, left
his shop for few minutes Saturday
afternoon and while he was gone some
one borrowed his tools. He found out
the person who did the "borrowing"
and forced him to return the articles he
had taken, very quickly.
About S O'Clock yesterday morning
some occupants of the block nearly oppo-
site the second police station on Chalk
stone avenue rushed wildly into the
station and cried something
that means fire. Captain Baker
proceeded to investigate and found
that some paper in an ash bin had caught
fire and the flames had scorched an out
building. He directed the scared on
lockers TO throw few basins OF water on
the blaze. They did so and no damage OF
any account resulted from the fire.
John O'Neill, Jr., left today for a ten
days visit to Nantasket Beach.
Joseph John Mccarthy, head clerk at
Gilbert's Charles street store, is on his
annual vacation.
Pekin Literary Club had as guests yes
terday the Taunton Literary Association
and entertained them in royal shape.
The visitors came in a party wagon and
were taken in chartered car TO one Of
the shore resorts where they were dined.