The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-27

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A mob of Russian Jews stoned Catho-
lie school in Chicago
4 receiver will be appointed for the Bay
state Mutual Insurance company.
Christmas arrests this year In Boston
were 40i, rs against 432 for last year.
The disabled Northern Pacific steamer
Strathneyis reached Port Townsend.
Dr. Marmoreck of the Pasteur institute
claims TO have made valuable serum dis
coverics.
William Turner of West Fitchburg,
Mass. aged 8, was instantly killed by an
electric ear at West Fitchburg.
Patrolman John f. Desmond heroicaly
rescued Captain Thomas Thompson OF
the tug Robena from drowning.
Detectives and police are aiding in tho
search for Frederick Il. Anthony of Provi-
dcncc, who disappeared in Boston.
Schooner ST. Vincent, which left st.
Johns. y. f., 16 days ago, bound for
Oderin, Placentia bay, has been posted as
lost.
The Anchor line steamship Furnessia,
which sailed from New York. for Glas-
Cow, Dec l2, is still unreported at Mo-
Vile.
Hannibal A. Williams and Miss Jean
$. Brown, Shakespcarean readers, were
married at the brides country home in
Shushan, n. Y.
Much dcstitution is reported from diff
ferent parts OF the Newfoundland coast,
and calls are being made upon the gov
ernmcnt for relief.
Tho Fall River (Mass.) city council
voted an additional appropriation of $685.
900 for state armory, making the total
appropriation for this purpose si5O,oo0.
The statue of Ole Bull, which the Scan.
dinayians of Minnesota are To erect in
Minneapolis is being modelled by Fjelde,
the Scandinavian sculptor, Of that city.
Schooner Nellie Clark is ashore OH
Southwest reef, Petit Manan island, bound
from Eastport. Me, to New York with a
cargo OF lumber. She will be total loss.
The chief of police of jamestown. N. Y,
started in To interfere in l0-round go
between Frank Moynahan and one Ward,
and was promptly thrown out OF the ring.
John III. III listed, N mining man, said to
be worth $500,0UO committed suicide at
Denver. The suicide is supposed to have
been occasioned by dependency, due to
sickness.
The Ohio coal miners convention, called
10 consider whether companies owning
stores shall pay cents more ton than
companies paying cash, is in session at
Columbus, ..
Brigantine Buda OF st. John, n. B.,
bound for Buenos Ayres, was sighted,
bottom side up, off Georges. The entire
crew OF seven or eight men are believed to
have perished.
The first consignment Of angle iron for
the new torpedo boat to be built by the
Herreshoffs arrived at Bristol, II. l., from
Pittsburg The metal is similar to that
used in the Defender.
The annual convention of the Maine
Pedagogical society opened at Bangor.
George III. Martin delivered an address on
American education, and reception to
the visitors was held
The libel suit brought by Harrison H.
Atwood, congressman from the Tenth
Massachusetts, district, against Frederick
w. Peabody, former opponent, was
brought to trial at Boston.
The citizens OF Pittsburg received $780,
600 as Christmas gift from G. l.. Magee
and his associates in the Fort Pitt Street
Railway company. The money Is to be
used In the establishment of geological
garden.
Tho health of Captain Evans, COM
mander Of the battleship Indiana, who
has been laid up with inflammatory rheu-
matlsm, is so far improved that he has
gone on board his ship and taken formal
command OF her.
President Adams Of the Boston, Revere
BeHch and Lynn railroad donies that that
system will bc electrically equipped i'm
mcdiatcly. Tho success of the expert
mcnts made elsewhere must be determines
prior TO changes on this road.
A party Of nearly 100 representatives OF
the dry goods and millinery trade OF New
England LETT Boston for 10 days excur-
sion 90 the Atlanta exposition and other
southern points. II was the largest oxcur-
sion ot the kind that has left New Eng.
land for tho Atlanta exposition.
Russia is said To- be irving to buy the
island Of pulo Way, OF the northwest ond
Of Sumatra. from the Dutch, for coaling
station for her Pacific feet IL would be
near the entrance To the
Straits OF Mala,ca, aud thus would
Threaten British commcrcc between India
and China and Australia.
steven itoss, tnAg.t,ttcst pOssum hurter
In Ohio, died at Massillon at the age of
los. lie wa. freed fcom slavery in Vir-
gnia His ghost stories were celebrated,
aud hc irottcd half OF growDyup Massillon
upon his knee. He hal formula for
cooking 'possum, an important feature "
which was the mystic gibbcrish he uttered
over the boiling mass, that was almost as
famous a. ~. ','rnt for spectral stories.
w. rn Literary Taste.
Representative Lacoy of Iowa received n
postal card from one ~ his constituents
the other day woidcd ~ follows:
please send me n copy Of agricultural
report. and also some memorial addresses.
Thcrc j. nothing ! Rad with so much
pleasure ~ Obituaries ~ congressman.
representative McrUr of Nebraska u in
receipt Iuf q letter ot u similar Import.
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