The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-15
OLNEY EYvILLE.
Gambling and BoxingTabo
by the Athletic Association.
Proposed Conference With City Off.
ciaIs on Annexation.
Installation In the Royal Society of
Good Fellows.
The NEWS BUREAU, oLNEyviLLE,
No Harffort Aueuua

No 5. Hartford Avenue.
DIR. F. A. Twitchell, representing the
annexation committee, was assured by
Mayor Olney yesterday that he would for
ward a message to the Council at their
meeting next Monday evening requesting
them TO appoint committee OF confer
ence in regard TO the annexation
question.
A we'll attended meeting Of the new
athletic association in this section was
held in Liberty Hall last evening. A code
OF bylaws was adopted which contains a
clause prohibiting betting or gambling in
any form and boxing or prize fighting in
the organization or under its auspices in
any way. The admission fee was fixed at
S3 with dues OF 81 per month.
The officers elected are as follows:
President--J. Frank Russell.
Vice Presid ynt-George Farnell.
Secretary Walter Halliwell.
Treasurer--John p. Thompson. Jr.
Governing Board-George Farnell, Daniel
Sullivan, Frank O'Neill, A. III. Longfellow,
Luke Kavanaugh, Charles W. Thompson,
James Fricker, Joseph Heenan.
The Neutakonkanut Whist Club was
entertained by Mrs. Resolved Waterman
at her residence on Plainfield street last
evening. Mrs. John Sawyer and Mr..
Frank Crowther received first prizes and
Miss Lena Waterman and Clinton Peck
ham second.
District Supreme Deputy George ID.
lansing installed the following officers at
the regular meeting OF Narragansett As
sembly No. IA, II. 5. of q. f. last evening":
Ruler-Patrick Padian.
Instructor-Michael Lynch.
Councillor-Thomas Healey.
Director-Fred Richards.
Prelate-William A. Carroll.
Sentry-Edwin Reynolds.
Guard-Mark Premo.
Treasurer-James NJ. Showcross.
Recording Secretary John J. Mcdonald.
Secretary John O'Connell.
James M. Shawcross and Leonard
Baten, who were delegates to the district
assembly meeting vest erday, gave an In
teresting report of the doings of the as
sembly, and ID. s. d. Lansing spoke of
the advantages and standing of the order,
after W hich light lunch was served.
A coffe supper and social In aid OF tho
Park Street Infants Asylum was given in
Irons Hall, last evening. The attend
ance was large and 1t was finan-
ancial success. Edward McDermott, Nj. B.
Milan, T.. l.. Cannon, Il. j. San Souci,
Maurice Lynch, ID. +. McWiliams, Daniel
Sullivan, Peter Bourgue, Peter Healey
and Andrew Cannon were the committee
OF arrangements.
GIeanings About Town.
The Excelsior Quartet is arranging to
give a concert in ODD Fellows Hall,
Plainfield street, next Monday evening.
l.. b. Shumans' milk team met with an
accident on Cranston street this morning.
Slight damage.
William Bolan was arrested for truancy
by officers of the Sixth Station and taken
before the district court for hearing this
morning.
Miss Alvina Beudry Of 2i8 Valley street
received a surprise call from some twenty
five OF her friends last evening, who pre-
sented her very pretty ring with
moonstone setting. The evening was en-
joysbly passed, listening to vocal and
Instrumental music. Refreshments were
served by the hostess.
A stone quarried at Greenville, weighing
between six and seven tons, that Is to be
used as the base for the Titus monument
at Pocasset cemetery, slipped from the
sled that was hauling it on the Killingly
road yesterday afternoon near the st.
Cloud Hotel.