The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-13
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Burglars got $500 worth OF sllyerware
ct Hampstead, l.. ].
Samuel Ruff was killed by Henry Mar
tin at Unionyille, Conn.
England is said TO be seeking an alliance
with Japan In Korean affairs.
Mrs. Frost got verdict OF $500 against
Rev. j. ID. Waldron at Saco Me.
g. II. Parker OF Athol, Mass, was
killed by woman at Baltimore.
General Francis C. Barlow. the widely
known lawyer, died in New York.
The GiIlett baking powder factory at
Chicago was burned. Loss, $4,000.
A bill was introduced in the Virginia
legislature TO restore the whipping post.
Charles f. Martin of New Haven com
mitted suicide while temporarily insane
Three wheel shops at Bristol, Conn.
were nearly destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
Prince Henry of Battenberg was stricken
with fever while with Ashantee expedi-
ton.
John T. Spaulding and John l.. Bremen,
two leading business men Of Boston, arc
dead.
Russias action in securing part OF
Kiaow-Chow is viewed with distrust in
Japan.
Richard Barry, aged 45 years, fell 100
feet into a quarry AT Quincy, Mass, and
was instantly killed.
The Fifth Avenue Savings bank, Column
bus, o., closed its doors. The officers say
everybody is secured,
The Republican convention OF the Sixth
Texas district ended in a split, with Reed
and Mckinley delegations.
William Pride of Pennington, n H.,
secured his 2-year-old child on q habeas
corpus writ in Lynn, Mass.
The principal business block in New
buryport Mass, was completely gutted by
fire, causing total loss oh$2l 600.
Horace +, Snow, former salesman for
Ross w. Weir, New York, was arrested at
Boston Oh charge of embezzlement from
Weir.
Mark Peterkin was arrested at Boston
as fugitive from justice, he being wanted
on the charges Of arson and larceny in
Ontario
The breakwater at Fortune harbor,
n. f., on the southwest coast, was de-
stroyed in a storm. The loss is estimated
at $4,000.
The Sixth congressional district Of
Texas elected delegates To the national
Republican convention. Both are pro-
nounced Reed men.
The ice on the river at Suncook, y H.,
where three daughters of Robert Hum
phrey were skating, gave way and Que of
the trio was drowned
Captain Parker and crew, of schooner
Jennie Parker abandoned at sea, dis.
mastcd off Turks island Dec 80, arrived
at Halifax on steamer Alpha.
sir CiHud Macdonald has been appointed
British minister at Pekin in place of Sir
n. II. O'Conor who has been made Brit
ish ambassador at St. Petersburg
Among the passengers on the steamer
La Champagne, which arrived at New
York yesterday, were Sarah Bernhardt
and the members OF her company
Frank II Lummus, who owned two of
the largest cotton gin factories in the
south, died at his home in Brooklyn. He
was born in Massachusetts, i'm 1884.
Joseph G. Earle died suddenly at New
Haven Of hcmorrhayo OF the brain. He
was well known throughout the state. and
was prominent in Masonic circles.
Frank Cook, n strect-car conductor OF
Pawtucket. Il. l.. died from compound
fracture of the skull, caused by being bic
by car while leaning from his own car.
The Waldo County (Mc.) Bar assacia
ton adopted resolutions condemnlng the
action of ex-County Attorney Bunnell In
assailing Attorney Bowdcn in circular.
The Partisan, n general store ut St.
Louis, run by Slegcl, Hllman & Co, DC
cupying fye-story building, was de-
stroyed by fire, causing an estimated loss
of $4,000
Three brothers were fatally injured hy
an explosion OF dynamite at Philadelphia.
Their names are David, William aud
George Mcllisson, aged, respectively, 10,
10 and years.
The incoming Of the new year by the
calendar according to the Greeks and
Russians was noted at Lowell. Mass, by
the arrest OF % Greeks for card playing
on tho Lords day.
Mrs. Susan Carr the oldest alumne OF
Bradford academy, died at West Nowbury,
Mass, aged 80 wears She was the widow
sf the late alajor Carr, and entered Brad
ford academy ia 1898.