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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-28
Loss by a Water Spout,

ZACATERAs Mex, Aug. 2S.-The village OF
Huatingo was visited by water.spout yes
ter day causing, great loss OF life and prop
erty. Many houses were washed away and
eight persons met death by drowning. The
food also destroyed all the crops IN the val
ley. The storm came up very suddenly and
the water spout burst directly over the town.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-28

Don't forget OF ignore the special excursion
20 Nantasket by special train over the New
York. New Haven A. Hartford Railroad on
Friday next, Aug. 81. Only s10O for round
trip tickets from Providence aud Pawtucket
and gOc. from Attlcboro.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-28
Justice Duffy IL Dead.

NEw York Aug. PA dispatch from Toms
River ~. J., says that ex-Police Justice
Patrick q. Duffy OF this city died there this
morning
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-28
The Eber Hapdican Winner

YORK, Eng, Aug. 2s.-Sir r. Jardine's
Llanthony by Ormnde out of Alice Ben
timex, won the great Eber handicap TO
day. Dumbarton was second, Boxer,
third
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-28
Women to BE Admitted.

HELENA. Mont. Aug. 2s-At the Helena
Methodist Conference last night, the question
of admitting the women 10 the general con-
ference, on the same footing as men, was de-
cided In favor of the women by vote OF "a
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-28
STEAM BOILER.

City Clerks Office, City Hail.. Aug. q, 1895.
Notice Is hereby given that the Board OF
Aldermen Will be In session in their chamber
III the City Hall, On THURSDAY. Aug %,
1895, at O'Clock, p. M, when all persons in
terested in the petition of Richard T. Hulme
to locate a Steam Boiler at No. $50 Harold
street, may appear and be heard thereon.
BY order of the Board OF Aldermen,
WILLIAM Il. CLARKE, City Clerk.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-28
CIR AN STON,

Town Hall, Knightsville WEDNESDAY EVEN
ING, August 2s 1895 All persons interested in the
report OF the Commission on Cranston Street are
invited 10 attend. Meeting called 90 order at s
sharp. Per order, COMMITTEE.
-N
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-28
FOURTEEN KILLED.
Fires Terrible Harvest In a Church
at Ribordone.

IvRKA, Italy, Aug. 2S-lt now appears that
IA persons were killed and a number injured
by the fire which broke out in the church at
and which spread TO the pilgrim shelter ad.
joining the church. where most Of the persons
were burned TO death.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-28
CHARLES H. AUTY,
MERCHANT TAILOR.

On or about September I, 1 shalt remove to nv
new rooms in the STUDIEY RUE SO
lmportRtions.
Pending removal am prepared to take orders
IRON my stock at No. 81 Dorrance street. Nara
sash. CHARLES III AITTy
aus20-H
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-28

Subscribe for the Weekly News,
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j. WILLIAM BRADY,

Mattress Maker ana Uph0lSlereF.
Feathers. Bedding. etc. Telephone. 27o and a72
Weybosset street opposite snow street. Richmond
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-28

The Board OF Aldermen will meet to-
morrow afternoon at o'clock.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-28

The Bridgham street school rs being re-
fitted with new furniture-at least three
rooms are.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-25
WHITE HOUSE CHRISTMAS
The Presidents Little Girls Have q Cav
h.. Time
They Take n Carriage Load of Pres
ents md Deliver Them in Per-
son to Their Friends.

The President and cabinet and official
Washington generally. with the exception
of the republican members Of the ways and
means committee. who labored to complete
the text Of their tariff and bond bills, spen;
a quiet and enjoyable Christmas. free from
the anxiat.eS and excitements of the past
six or eight days.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland had
provided Large Chris mas tree for ti,..ir
thee little tLes-Rrth. Esther and Marc IL
and Spent a great part of the day making
merry with the children and their numer-
GUS presents.
2 The Vice President and Mrs. Stevenson
ana their daughters were the guests Of
Mrs. Stevenson's sister on 10th street.
The members of the cabinet remained al
their homes. and nearly every one Of them
had with him members of his family or
k.nsfolk from out of town
Ruth and Marion Go Present-GfvinE.
About noon the Presidents carriage
dove up to the White House. and was
laden with about a hundred packages Of
various sizes. containing presents Or the
friends Of the Presidents children. They
were distributed by Ruth and Marion, with
the material assistance of their governess
These three drove away in the carriage
and personally delivered the gifts at the
residences of those whom it was desired to
remember in this way. The packages took
up so much room in the carriage that the
governess and her two small charges had
almost to squeeze themselves in. The trip
around the city occupied over an hour, and
the visits at the various houses. where
stops were made necessarily very brief.
The cabinet houses. where there are chill
dren, naturally received the most attention
from the Presidents daughters, and the
longest visits made were at the residences
of Secretary Lamont and Private Secre-
tary Thurber, the juvenile inmates of
which were the recipients of many hand
some presents from their playmates of the
Executive Mansion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-25
RUSSIA'S GOLD CHEST
Continued from First Page.)

way involve the United States in the en-
tangiements of continental Europe.
1t does not involve a military alliance, and
1t is not understood that Russia desires any
military assistance from the United States
for any project she may have in the future.
There is one proposition which has not yet
been developed. under which the two nations
might become associated in a semi-military
way. That's In the protection of the fish
cries in the vicinity of Boring sea. Russia
is suffering, as the United States has Suf-
fered, from the slaughter of seal by Cana
dian poachers, and it Is regarded as not I'M
probable that Russia and the United States
may unite to demand the absolute with
drawal of all Canadian fishers from these
" aterS. 1t is held that the United States
has had ample provocation for the most
radical course in this matter, inasmuch as
even the treaty obligations of Great Britain
Under the very unfortunate arbitration in
which the United States suffered. have not
been observed. and no effort has been made
by the British cruisers to prevent poaching.
This proposition, however. has only re-
note connection to the present situation.
In the present situation Russia and Eng
land by radically different policies, are bat
Ting for commercial supremacy. and the
United States is involved through the ag-
gressions of England. In a different way,
perhaps, but hardly less seriously, the in
terests of Russia are involved. as are those
of the United States. In England's getting
foothold on this continent. The Russian in
terests. as we'll as the Russian sympathy
are with the enforcement of the Monroe
doctrine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-25
LATE NEWS BY WIRE
Fresh Street Railway Trouble in
Philadelphia.
new MEN TAKE THE PLACES OF old
Concessions Made by the Com
panies.
A BLOW AT MIR. WELSH

PHILADELPHIA, December %. = The
today on the G.rard avenue branch and as
a consequence no cars are running on that
line.
The men claim that the division Super.n-
tendent in sending out cars this morning
gave preference to the rev men. The old
men stood around and saw nearly all the
cars going out with imported mOtormen
and conductors running them, and finally
they started a revolt. Distractions were
piled ON the tracks and threats were made
of riot If attempts were made to remove
them.
squad of mounted police was called
for, and the scene OF the trouble Is now
surrounded by a how':ng mob Of ten thou
sand people. who, however. are not mo-
testing the cars
The ID and Sd streets branch Of the
Union Traction Company was also partially
tied up through the efforts of the eX-strik-
ers. who found their places being filled by
new men. On the other branches the cars
are being run almost altogether by old
men. consequently there Is no trouble. 1t
Is feared that If the company persists in
giving preference to new men all the lines
Will again be tied up.
avenue branch by the company agreeing
to put the old men to work. The same
pacific measure was adopted on the I'd and
I'D streets branch and at room cars were
running regularly on both lines.
The brick stable attached to the hand
some country residence Of John Lowber
Welsh. president of the Union Traction
Company. in Germantown, was burned to
the ground this morning. The fire is be-
lieved to be of incendiary origin. There is
a bitter feeling against Mr.. Welsh because
of his attitude toward the strikers. and It
is supposed that some sympath.zers set fire
RI q "A in q
authorities are making searching investi-
cation. The loss Is $4,000,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-25
DYING LIKE SHEEP,
Starvation and Fever Rapidly Kill
ing Spanish Troops In Cubn.

Starvation and Fever Rapidly KILL
ing Spanish Troops In Cuba.
Further details of the terrible sufferngs
of the Spanish troops in the outlying and
remote Cuban districts, and accounts of
their dying like sheep from the fever and
starvation, are brought by the crew of the
Norwegian steamship Moringer, which ar
rived at Philadelphia yesterday from the
town of Baracoa, laden with cocoanuts and
bananas. The sufferings of these soldiers
and the restitution in this portion of the
island. as told by the Moringer's crew, is
horrible.
The Spanish soldiers cannot secure suffi-
cient food to live, and sink into such a
condition through weakness that they are
seized by the fever and die by the hun
dreds. There was no trouble about Bara-
Goa. No Skirmishes had taken place for
some time, but the excitement is still at
fever heat. Every vessel arriving from the
north is looked upon and treated with sus-
picion by the Spanish authorities She is
and the movements of such of her crew as
go ashore are carefully watched
The general impression held in Baracoa
seems to be that the insurgents are gain
ing signal victories all over the island and
that in short time the Cubans>will gain
their freedom. The greatest reficence is
maintained by all the officers of the Nor
niger, and it is difficult they are persuaded
to talk at all. They fear violence on their
return, being regularly engaged in the Gu
ban trade.
The Mornger brought no passengers
Her trip north was a rough one, heavy
gales having prevailed throughout the en-
tire passage. A number of vessels were
sighted hove to in the locality of Cape
HatteraS,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-25
INVENTOR OF THE AIR BRAKE.
The Thing That Started Westing-
house on the Road to Fortune.
fhn vrnn inf

The Thing That Started Westing-
house on the Road to Fortune.
From the Boston Transcript.
A number of years ago Pennsylvania
inventor wanted to sell Mckee Rankin, the
actor. large interest in a patent air brake
for railways for a small sum. The actor
did not feel Hike investing even on the SOL
em1 assurance Of the confident inventor
that the apparatus was greatly needed
but he has always wished lie had advanced
the sum desired, for the young inventor
was George Westinghouse. and the ar brake
has proved one of the most important and
valuable Inventions of the century. West
inghouse is like Edison in his capacity for
hard work. After a day spent in directing
the great commercial organizations of
which he is the head, he goes to his labor
atory and private shop to conduct the ex-
periments which it is, his delight to carry
on. TO such a man the invention of the air
brake was merely a step In career of
fertile planning and investigation. When
his brake was well started on the high
road to success he turned to the steam EN-
CINE and brought out a practically new
type in that field.
By the time this engine was placed on
the market electricity was attracting the
attention Of inventive minds throughout
the country. Westinghouse viewed the sit
uation and decided that the then common
use of low-tens:on, continuous currents,
while good for incandescent lighting ard
power purposes on circuits of limited eX-
tent. was unsatisfactory for longer cir
cults He looked forward into the future
of electrical distribution of power and saw
that high-tens!on, alternating currents
would prove the most important in few
years. So he bought up the leading for
eign and domestic patent in this branch
of electrical development. then neglected.
and went to work improving and perfect
ing his apparatus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-25
TO COMBINE AGAINST ENGLAND.
Venezuela Invites South and Central
America to Join Her.

Venezuela Invites South and Central
America to Join Her.
Special Cable Dispatch to the New York Herald.
CARACAS, Venezuela, December 24.-The
government has ordered that the national
militia be recruited from all classes of citl-
zens.
The authorities have cabled to all of the
South and Central American republics ask
ing their assistance in the case of a war
with England and proposing that their
forces be combined.
A great mass meeting of citizens will be
held tomorrow to pledge the support of the
people to the government in resisting en-
croachments of Great Britain. The city is
profusely decorated with American and
Venezuelan flags. All the church bells will
be rung. and the clergy of the city will
take part in the meeting.
The commercial warfare of Venezuelan
firms against English houses and English
goods is in full blast. and the leaders in the
movement have called upon the general
public to make suggestions as to the best
methods to be pursued to make the war
fare successful.
The alleged interview with President
Crespe published in the London Times has
been officially repudiated.
Leon Ponte, editor of Pregonero, has
been arrested for republishing the inter-
view
Much excitement has been caused in
Caracas by report that the concession to
the Hastings Anglo-Venezuelan Bank is to
be extended Minister of Foreign Affairs
Rojas says the report is a mistake and the
concession will not be extended.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-25
CARLIN SPRINGS.

A very enjoyable Sunday school enter
tainment was given Christmas eve at Cur
tbs Hall, under the management of Mrs.
NJ c. Mitchell. Miss Mary King and Miss
NJ NJ Stockbridge sTfre room was prettily
decorated with trees and greens, making 1t
look as much like out Of doors as possible
After a short program and an address by
Mr.. R. c. Cowling. superintendent the
children INDUCED in outdoor sports and ate
their lunches in true picnic fashion. Alto
gether the winter picnic passed Off very
pleasantly, and at an early hour the conf
pany adjourned.
The Oldest Inhabitants Whist Club held
the last meeting of the quarter at the resi-
dence of Mr. W. l.. Stockbridge. Mr.. H.
B. Hedrick. having won the highest per cent
of games during the quarter, was appointed
president for the next term.
Among those who are spending the holi-
days IN the village are Mr.. VIM. Mason, at
his home on Walnut avenue; Mr.. Frank p
Stock bridge, at the residence of his parents
and Miss Helen Beall, at the home of her
sister, Mrs. VIM. NJ. Backus
Mr.. C. A. Uber. L. S. N. ritired, has re-
turned home to spend the winter. after two
months stay at Virginia Beach.
The quarterly meeting of the Euchre Club
will be held Friday evening at the residence
of Mr.. and Mrs w. P. Jones'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-25
CRAPS RESULT IN CARNAGE
Richard Epps Gets Severely Stabbed in a
Street Fight.
Georgetown is Given an Unusual
Share Of Holiday Excitement
Fog n Christmas Gift.

AS the result .oS crap game about noon
today, the Usually quiet streets of George
town were made decidedly lively, and Rich
ard Epps. colored man about twenty-five
years of age. is suffering with two severe
stab wounds of the abdomen.
According to the story of the wounded
man. as related to a Star reporter at the
Emergency Hospital, Jerry Jones was the
person who inflicted the wounds, and Jas.
Bell. Berthe Edwards and another man,
unknown to Jones. aided in the assault
A crap game was i'll progress at nth and
NJ streets, in which Bell, Edwards, one
Harry Active, and several others were en-
gagged. Epps, SO he declares. was merely
spectator. While Active was engaged in
conversation with another bystander, dol
lar belonging to him, which had been lying
on the sidewalk, disappeared. Thinking
that Epps had hidden it as Joke, Active
accused him of the theft. Epps denied the
accusation, and at that moment Edwards
produced a dollar bill from his pocket re-
marking, maybe this IL yours
The Fight Commences.
Active grabbed the money and Bell, Ed
wards and the other man struck him, and
the quartet became involved in scufile.
Active broke away and ran up the flight of
stairs leading to a porch He slipped and
fell to the ground, however, and his as
sailantS threw him under the porch. That
Is the last seen Of Active. for the three
men. so Epps says, turned their attention
to him. The unknown member Of the
party, it is claimed, struck him across the
head with club, and while Bell and Ed
wards pinioned his arms Jones slashed
him with knife.
With an effort Epps broke away and ran
toward the house of Mrs. Diggs, 1874 18th
street. with the three men in pursuit. AS
he turned into the gateway, Jones again cut
i'm with the knife. Mrs. DiggS, according
to Epps. slammed the door in his face, and
the three men again grabbed him.
Slipped His Coat and Escaped.
By slipping out of his coat, Epps man
aged to escape them, running down the
street. with the blood streaming from the
wounds. He made his way across the NJ
street bridge and in an exhausted condition
reached his home. 1928 25th street The
wounded mans father went in search of
policeman. and Epps was hurried to the
Emergency Hospital. where the injuries
were dressed by Drs. Smith. Mcdonald and
McGrath. Later in the afternoon the
wounded man returned to his home. He
claims that the assault was unprovoksd.
The fight attracted a large crowd. but no
policemen. 1t is alleged by the injured man.
The police are now endeavoring to arrest
Epps assailants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-25
A KLEPTOMANIAC TRAP.
Tale of n Lady, Grocer and an Elcc-
trio Bell.


trio Bell.
From the New York World.
The proprietor of big grocery establish
ment OF the Boulevard Sebastopol in Paris
rugged out an ingenious device the other
day to prevent petty thieves from pilfering
the goods exposed in front of his shop. 1t
was electric contr.vance designed to
ring a bell inside the shop the moment any
of the pots. jars and boxes outside should
be lifted from the stand. Then the grocer
waited. Two days went by fruitlessly. and
the enterprising grocer was growing dis
gusted with the apathy of the Fingered
fraternity.
The third day he was standing in the
dooc Of his shop, depioring his wasted ex-
pense and ingenuity, when a richly dressed
woman wearing a suit of costly furs drove
up handsome equipage. Seeming a
new customer and assuming her to belong
to the aristocracy, he went behind the
counter that he might fill the lady's orders
himself Then once more the grocer waited.
He was still waiting when a little tnkling
bell startled his ears. 1t was the sneak
thief alarm!
Spring.ng over the counter and adding to
the CONSERVATION I'm the shop by upsetting
a pyramid of bottles. he rushed to the
street door, calling "Police!' as he ran.
There, in front of the pavement showcase,
stood the richly dressed woman, a stone
jar of pate de foie gras in her hand and a
look of dssmay on her face. Her coun-
tenance betrayed her late intentions, and
the evidence was strengthened by small
boy, who declared he had noticed the lady,
after looking about to see If she was OBJ
served. pick up the pot and try to hide it
under her fuf coat.
Meanwhile the electric bell was still ring
ns for the faa sss to
stand. A crowd, soon formed, and after
awhile a policeman appeared. He led the
woman to the station house, where she told
her name and declared that she was the
wife of former government official. She
was so overpowered by the situation that
she disclosed her exact age. She was,
moreover. frank enough to admit that since
the death Of her husband she had preferred
to acquire table fhxuries by the method she
had essayedc with the pate de fore gras
rather than 10 go without them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-25
A REMARKABLE CAREER.
George Augustus Snln Tells Of the
Men He Knew.

Men He Knew.
From the Philadelphia Ledger
at is something to be able to tell the
present generation" said the late George
Augustus Sala, that l have seen Louis
Philippe while he was still king Of the
French; that l have seen Soult, Thiers
Guizot and Lamartine; that l have wit
messed three revolutions in the French
capital; that l followed Garibaldi In his
campaign in the Tyrol; that 1 have heard
Daniel O'Connell deliver a speech at the
London Tavern; that knew Lord Palmer
ston: that knew the first Lord Brougham;
that l was in the Franco-Mexican war at
the storming of Pueblo; that L spent thir-
teen months in America when she was in
the midst OF war; that was personally ac-
quainted with Abraham Lincoln. with Sc
ward, with Stanton, with Charles Sumner.
with George Bancroft, with Longfellow and
with Bayard Taylor. with Grant and with
Mcclellan. with Horace Greeley, Raphael
Semmes and Jefferson Davis.
have conversed at Algiers with the EN-.
peror Napoleon III; have been patted on
the head by the great Duke OF Wellington:
slaves there, and in Russia when there
were millions of white serfs in the domin-
ions of the czaE l can remember to have
seen the Gar Nicholas himself at the As
cot races; 1 attended the funeral OF the as
sassinated Alexander ii, and the coronation
of Alexander III: l was in Constantinople
when the first Turkish constitution was
proclaimed from the steps of the old Sc
faglio. and / can hear now the unanimous
shouts of Amin from the Moslem troops
present
From the organ loft Of St. Georges
Chapel, Windsor. l have witnessed the
funerals of the Duchess of Kent, of the
Prince Consort, of the King of Hanover
and of the Duke of Clarence. From the
same coign of vantage 1 have watched the
nuptials of the Prince Of Wales and the
Princess Alexandra of Denmark, Of the
Duke of Connaught, and of the Duke of
Albany / saw the coronation procession of
her majesty, Queen Victoria, and l was in
Westminster Abbey at the royal jubilee
service and in st. PauTs Cathedral at the
thanksgiving service for the recovery from
sickness of the Prince of Wales, and be-
held the second funeral of Napoleon the
Great.
II have seen twelve murderers hanged.
T have eaten the turtle of twenty-five Lord
Mayors and / was at the farewell banquet
of Charles Dickens, prior to his second visit
to America. Dickens and Thackeray were
the friends of my youth, my editors in my
maturity / have been round the world and
seen people and things in California, and
the Sandwich Islands, in Australia and
New Zealand, in India and Ceylon. l have
seen Macready, Charles Keen. Tyrone Pow
err the elder Farren, Charles Mathews.
Nine yestrs, Mrs. Glover. Mrs. Nesbitt,
Rachel Deiazet and Frederick Lamaitre
act l have heard Pasta, Malibran, Grisi
Persiana, Rubiri. Tambolrini and Lablacna
sing and have seen Taglioni. Fanny Ellsler,
Cerrito and Duvernay dance.