The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-15
OLNEYvILLE.
Attemp to Wreck an Electric
Car.
Weavers Strike at the Merino
Mills.


An attempt was made to wreck the last
Hartford avenue electric car last night at
point where there Is an embankment
several feet high and swamp land on either
side of the roadway just above Merino
village. heavy timber was placed
across the rails at point between the
street Iig hts where IL was darkest, and
the motorman failed TO discover
it until within few feet of the obstacle.
He applied the brakes, reversed the power
and checked the speed to such an extent
that the car only left the rails with the
front truck.
1t was evidently intended to throw the
car into the swamp, W hich, had the car
been under full headway, would have
been accomplished. There is no clue to
the guilty parties. There were several
passengers who received q severe shaking
up as the car struck. The car was In
cnsrge OF Henry Searle, motorman, and
William Tanner, condnctor.
Strike at Merino.
Sixty-two OF the "a weavers at the
Merino mills came out yesterday after
noon ana have not returned as yet. They
ask for a II per cent. advance In wages.
They claim they are running from TO
looms at present and the average pay does
not exceed % per week.
AOnRUOu says bItit III
they do not return by tomorrow morning
the mill will be shut down.
The help at the factory boarding house
have been given notice to vacate.
A committee TO seek aid was appointed
at meeting OF the strikers this morniug.
Church Officers Elected.
At q business meeting OF the Broadway
Baptist church society last evening in the
vestry of the church the following
officers for the ensuing year were elected:
clerk, V. +. Horton; assistant clerk, w.
ID. Waterman; treasurer, L.. *. Magoon;
assistant treasurer, K.A. Mowry; deacons,
B. S. Magoon, j. 5. Hodgson, 4. Water
man. w. =. Clarke, j. :. Eddy, Z. Moore;
superintendent OF Sunday School, G. w.
Celdar; first assistant, w. l.. Clarke; sec
ond assistant, Il. Il. Mason; treasurer, III.
Il. Clarke; superintendent OF Dyer Ave-
nue. chapel, Charles Moore; secretary and
treasurer, w. ID. Waterman.
Sewer Committee Organized.
The committee appointed by the Town
Council regarding a sewerage system for
Jonston organized this morning,
with g. II. Beane as chairman and w.
F. King as secretary. The secretary was
authorized to arrange an interview with
Commissioner of Public Works Smith in
regard to entering the city sewers.
Also with Engineer Bowen as to the
probable cost of trunk sewer in Plain
deld street.
". NJ. VI. /. s. Meeting.
The Young Mems Mutual Improvement
Society connected with the Methodist
Tabernacle held their annual election of
officers last evening with the following
result.
President, William French; vice presi-
dent, William Fido; secretary, Clarence
Leech; treasurer, Francis Long; chaplain,
Charles +. Ludden; vice chaplain, Walter
Sherman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. T. Sheldon entertained
q large number of children at their resi-
dence on Plainfield street last evening,
in honor Of the eleventh birthday of their
youngest daughter Beulah.
Rough and Ready Meeting.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Rough and Ready Fire Company was held
In the engine house last evening. Fore
man w. w. Fiske presided, and over
thirty-fiv mem bers answered at roll call.
OThrec gentlemen were elected as honor
ary mem bers and three were proposed for
membership and referred TO a committee
to investigate. George II. Beane, Samuel
T.. Groves and John Il. Kenyon were APP
pointed committee to revise the bylaws
aud constitution.
w. ID. Harris, Henry o. Martin and G.
II. Edwards were appointed committee
to put the records OF the company from
its organization in book form, after
which The meeting adjourded.
Probate Court.
Before Judge w. +. King this morning,
Harrison T.. Winsor and George F.
Aldrich were appointed administrators
of the estate OF Tillinghast Winsor
A. Waterman Smith and George II. A.
Beane, sureties In the sum OF 5000; John
II. Kenyon, Abel Reynolds and George +.
A. Beane, appraisers.
Notes About the Square.
J. +. Livingston's delivery team ran on
Hartford avenue yesterday afternoon; no
damage.
DR.. Thoms has taken up residence on
Messer street.
The Olneyville Temperance Cadets i'm
stalled officers at their armory last even-
ing, followed with an entertainment OF an
athletic nature and social.
Samuel Whitley, w. l.. Whipple, w. A.
Phillips, George II. A. Beanc, James T.
Kennedy and II. g. Lswton, NJ. d., have
been appointed as reception committee at
the Business Mems banquet Thursday
evening.
In the Eighth District Court this morn
ing three runsways from the State Farm,
Peter Hackett, William Daley and David
BoucAe, wers fined s. and costs, and
George +. Brainard, for the same offense,
was given 60 days in jail.
A petition against the adjournment OF
tho Legislature before the repenl OF the
pool Law" N being circulated by local
church members.