The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-25

The city's ash carts have been repainted
and look like new.
G. s. Howard, well known officer of
Pasadena, CAL, Is the guest of Deputy
Sheriff Ham today.
A bag OF green corn was stolen from
the front of John Cummings store, 6l6
Potters avenue, this morning.
John II. Blodgett was today appointed
by the appellate division of the Supreme
Court standing master Cf chsncery.
enjoy their annual outing at Rhodes-on-
the-Pawtuxet, two weeks from today.
The highway department has given
Cushing street a new dress and the steam
roller puffs up and down the hill all day.
Alfred Jeans was fined $40 and costs by
Judge Sweetland this morning for steal
ing tools valued at 80 from James Wat
rous.
Yesterday the A. b. Rice Lumber Com
pany assigned to r. NJ. Sackett, and to-
day the president, Archibald b. Rice, as
signed to John u. Thurston for the bene-
fit of creditors.
John T. Tank has been awarded the
contract for foundations and piers for the
bridge over the Moshassuck river, and the
contract for the new Exchange bridge
was given to John Il. Reilly of Trenton,
N. j.
IL Is stated that the Italian counsul has
requested his king TO send a Legion OF
Honor medal TO Charles Cassidy, who
bravely rescued two Italians from death
ty sewer gas, at the North End, few
weeks ago.
valuable horse, attached TO covered
democrat wagon owned by the Bcrke
brothers, was stolen from Ia front Of their
store on Eddy street at 7;40 last evening.
Detectives Merrill and Cannon are hunt
ing for the turnout.
Oliver Clark reported to the police that
two cans of milk were stolen from the
front OF his store on Snow street this
morning, and the Armstrong Brothers,
at the corner OF Back and Orms streets,
report the loss OF one can.
An enterprising Providence jewelry
firm has secured all the aluminium and
manganese bronze buttons punched out
OF Defenders plates and all the manga
nese borings and clippings and made
them up into Defender souvenirs.
: George II. Pettis, superintendent OF
street signs and numbers, says that he is
going to knock the stuffing out of Hslsey,
Jenkins and Custom avenues, that lead
from South Main to South Water streets,
and call them gangways-just what they
are.
The steamer Chatham of the Merchants
and Miners line, in charge of Captain
Johnson, with it's powerful electric search
light, lit up the harbor on both sides las I
night, not forgetting the residents OF
Kettle Point and the happy residents of
Washington Park across the water.
The examinations for admission to the
bar closed this afternoon. Samuel Norris,
Jr., has charge of the students today.
The committee will report the result Of
its examination of the papers submitted
by the candidates to the court at as early
day as possible.
The two-mile championship OF the
Utopia Wheelmen was won by u. Me-
Carthy, in four minutes and thirty-two
seconds. Their five-mile road race will
be run the first part of August. Captain
David Mccarthy is making arrangements
for the club to have a relay race against
time over the triangle of Providence, Bos-
ton and Worcester, sometime in August
President J. ID. Hunt OF the Fifth
Ehode Island Heavy Artillery and Battery
to attend the annual reunion at Silver
Spring tomorrow His Excellency Gov
ernor Lippitt and staff, Department
Commander Ballou and other distin-
guished guests will be present President
Hunt is brother to Charles III. Hunt OF
Portland, Oregon, formerly chief of
police OF Providence. He has lived in
Brooklyn since the close of the war.
There. is not a day passes but that one
or more persons calls at police headquar-
ters and reports the loss of bicycle, and
this is not TO be wondered at for owners
of machines are in many cases extremely
careless about them, for it is not a strange
sight to see a wheel standing tipped up
against a curb stone or house at a time
while the owner Is In the second, third or
fourth story of some business block.
Frequently the police have spoken to
strange looking chaps about to hop on
a machine. The answer the officer would
get, was that il was none of his business
who owned the machine or something of