The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-10-02

Brownies.
KrITH's OPERA HoUsE-Yalo's "Greatsr i2
Temptations"
LoTHRoP's OPERA HOUSEHOLDER in "The
Wife of Two"
WESTMINSTER THEArER-Flynn g. Sheridan >
Double show.
The Myrtle Whist Club will meet again
tomorrow evening.
Officer Kent found a bay horse and ex-
press wagon on Potters avenue Yesterday.
II was taken to the pound.
Miss Ruth A. Haskell OF So Congdon
street returned home yesterday after an
eight months sojourn abroad.
The third annual opening music ride at
the Providence Riding Academy at 179
Aborn street, will be held this evening.
day are as follows: Public buildings,
2:30; ordinances, $3.50, and police at s
p. In.
Next Tuesday evening Crescent Lodge,
/. o. o. +. will confer the first degree and
have a collation.. large attendance Is
expected.
Warrant officer Edwin X. Jones and
family, who have been visiting friends i'm
and about Brooklyn, n. Y, have re-
turned to this city.
The Rhode Island Tool Company has re-
ceived q permit TO erec. a one-story brick
workshop, 73x145 feet, on West River
street. This Is the lo59th permit isued
this year.
There was slight fire in the shop OF
George III. Baker at the corner of Clifford
and Page streets at 80 last evening. An
alarm was sent in from box 24s.
Up to 8 O'Clock yesterday afternoon, 397
tax bills had been paid, amounting to
$50, 222. 40. This ia g, 644.S3 more than
was received for the same time in 1894,
or Is more bills.
The passenger boats on the Providence
line viii be discontinued a week from
Saturday evening, after which the
freight boats Nashua and Pequot will be
put into commission.
Helen Sullivan got drunk Sunday even-
ing and assaulted Alice Gormly, one OF
her neighbors In court this morning
the Sullivan woman pleaded guilty and
was fined s16 and costs.
stephen Rodgers, who was captured by
oaicer William n. Sherman in the Cove
land yesterday morning, admitted TO
Judge Sweetland that he was a burglar.
He was bound over in tn sum OF $1,000 for
the action Of thesgrand jury.
The Evangelical services conducted by
the Rev. 5. Hartwell Pratt at the Pearl
street Baptist Church, was very largely
attended last evening. He had for his
subject, "Decision in Religious Matters"
and 1t was handled IN most effective
manner.
The Grand Orients OF Rhode Island did
not go cod fishing today,as proposed, the
weather was all right, plenty of bait, but
there was no boat. The steamer Francis
was chartered for the occasion but that
craft is still in the hands of the ship car
penters in New York.
The special meetings of the Pearl
Street Church continue 10 grow in inter-
est. Last evening Mr.. Benjamin Ward of
Boston spoke on the love of Christ with
great effectiveness. Mr.. Pratt followed
with stirring words of appeal, and many
responded with testimonies, some for the
first time. Mr.. Ward will be present also
this "wednesday evening.
A driver of one of the phosa teams of
the Rumford Chemical Works undertook
to drive across Broad street in front of an
electric car at 7:20 th morning and had
il not been for the vigilance of the mo-
torman, there would have been a serious
accident. The wagon was carried along
% feet or more before the car could be
stopped.