The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-18
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Entertainments Today.

Deputy Chief of Police Patrick Eagan
is confined TO his home sick.
Charles Michalosky, aged 8, is missing
from his home, AZ Julian street.
The little Bowling girl, who is at the
small pox hospital, still continues to i'm
prove.
Oswald r. Brown, a North Main street
merchant, had his watch stolen last even-
Ing in Smith Hill car.
One case OF diphtheria and four OF
scarlet fever were reported TO the super
intendent OF health today.
The Grand Army Monument Associa-
tion will meet at the Grand Army head
quarters tomorrow evening.
Land in New York City has been sold
at price equal to ss,000,000 an acre. The
highest in London at s5,0O0,0o0 an acre.
Clerk Payton, of the city engineers
Office, Is reported as worse today and suf-
fering from an aggravated form OF the
grip.
Superintendent Mansfield is hard at
work renovating the Ninth Ward build
ing, putting in new floors, beams and
castings.
Twenty-four years ago electricity as a
mechanical power was unknown. Now
s9OO,OO0,OOO are invested In various kinds Of
electrical machinery.
Charles NJ. Hughes, superintendent of
the American News Company, died sud-
denly this morning In his office, Al Cham
bers street, New York.
City Engineer Shedd is away for week,
taking a much needed change. He Ihss
had no regular, vacation from city work
since he became city engineer.
Archduke Albert, who, 1t was announced
on Saturday last from Arco, in South
Tyrol, was nearing his death from con-
gestion OF the lungs, died today.
An attempt was made TO enter the store
of Thomas II. Day, on Church street, Sun
day mig hit by prying open a rear window.
The thieves were frightened by the ap-
proach of an officer
The residence of Edward Mann, 1876
Pond street, was damaged by fire yester-
day afternoon to the extent OF $500. The
blaze was caused by one OF Mr.. Mann's
children playing with matches.
Miss Willimina l.. Armstrong, an Indian
missionary, gave an interesting talk at the
Roger Williams Free Baptist Churth last
evening. She will address the Free Bap-
tist Social Union tonight at Tilling hast's.
Joseph Prefontane told the police that
his barber shop on Chestnut street was
enteted last evening and $50 worth o.
tools, clothes and jewelry stolen. An en-
trance was effected through a cellar win
dow.
An alarm of fire was sent in from box
273 at 7:45 last evening for fire in James
McGinn's tenement, 100 VeaZie street.
The fire was caused by the explosion of
oil stove. The damage was about seventy
five dollars.
The third lecture before the Germania
Club will be delivered by DIR. Felix Ham,
burger, the vice president OF the club, on
Tuesday evening, February 10. He will
speak on 1.-The Labor Movement in the
Middle Ages"
Slocum Post 10, G.. A. r., and ladies,
listened to an eloquent sermon in the
Ruggles street Primitive Methodist
Church yesterday afternoon, preached by
Rev. j. j. Armand of Brooklyn. comman-
dor Of George c. Strong Post OF that
city.
Rufus Fuller of Boston, will deliver a
free lecture at o'clock this evening at
the rooms of the Y. NJ. c. A. on "Funda-
mentals in Geometry Newly Discovered"
illustrated with colored charts, and will
also explain the measurements of the
Egyptian Pyramid.
A conductor was of his trolley on Col
lege hill this afternoon. A fuse burned
out, the car came to standstill, the pole
was pulled from contact with the trolley
wire and the damage repaired. Then the
conductor gave the signal to go ahead and
repeated the operation for some time be-
fore it was discovered that the pole was
not released.
Now that the counterweight on College
street, already described In THE NEWS, is
a working example of what can be
ing that j. p. Kuhlman is the engineer
who has been in charge, for the Union
Railway Company, of the introduction OF
the apparatus. Mr.. kaufman has put the
counterweight into various Southern and
Western cities.
At 7:45 yesterday morning Officer Ma,
discovered a window open in the rear Of
the Hartwell and Richards Company
building at 46 Pine street. The entrance
TO the yard l. by IA gate which is locked,
so that the officer could not get into the
yard except by round about way, and
the windows in this portion of the build
ing can be seen by the officers on the beat
only by daylight. The proprietors OF the
store were notified.
Officer Place was called into james Me-
Cures home last evening by Mrs. Mcclure
10 quell disturbance. lie was met by
Mcclure, who pulled him into the house
and began TO beat him. The officer broke
away from the man and, got out of the
house. Mcclure followed hir, into the
street and attacked him again, but the
officer was on his own ground and Mcclure
is satisfied now that he made the mis- take
OF his life. He was locked up and this
morning was fined for being drunk.