The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-08
TELED.. .alc n4.4viTIEs.

Eastern freight rates are to be advanced.
Montreal is TO have o $4,000, 900 bridge
The price OF besscmcr ore is tc be in
creased.
Philip Reclaim, the publisher, died at
Lcpsc
Consolidation of art societies in New
York under way.
The New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio
railroad is to be sold
A scientist has discovered light which
will penetrate wood or flesh.
Incoming vessels at Boston are coated
with ice for 20 feet above the water.
Dean b. Mason, vice consul general Of
the United States at Vienna, is dead
Anti-Platt Republicans of New York
city have decided not 20 bolt at present.
Italy's hold over Abyssinia is regarded
In St Petersburg rs extremely tenuous.
Secretary OF State and Mrs Olney gave
dinner to the president S,1d the cabinet.
h. NJ. Forbes class o. '96, OF Paris, was
chosen captain of the Harvard senior crew
The New York police commissioners are
not alarmed at the alleged increase OF
crime.
English capitalists are said to consider
the report OF the Nicaragua commission
unfair and absurd.
Rev. Hhrold Pattison Of Rochester has
accepted cal! TO become pastor Of the
FRAT Baptist church at Hartford.
Zimmerman g. Forshay have deposited
$J0O0g0 IN gold with the New York sub
treasury in exchange for greenbacks.
L. g, r,', sce'"n
for trac; ,th.'e- 10 4t,in lpr no Mot,
Haven gpiD,,, sol candidates presented
themselves
A tr:ight '-.i1 nlaarol tnrouyh mn open
draw ou to- ot - ap1upilg ;he Rigolcts
near New )..o1s. Tarse white trssnIps
were >jLa
Th2ro is 1 .u1vS'"9ua rsDOs among tenn.
pegapca fcar.r - 1Ed indictments against
every ana~ ioa.er doing business in Man
chester, &. ~.
At ColumhuS, O., Judge Pugh charged
tho grand Jay concerning alleged bribery
OF n member OF The last legislature The
namc is not known.
Pndan Bros a. Co, Portsmouth, O.,
manufacturers of ladies' shoes, one OF the
lhrge,- houses in the west, assigned. AS.
sct', elSl0ll liabilities, $4,000.
Chlrr. o.. Blssctt known % the sport
ing 'rtt"rli,7 an over the country aud u
prominfJ5 q lrA Ia the frontier days OF
Krn,'s, iicui 90 Eot springs. Ark.
TIC annWi mccting Of the Mime
SportSmcu's Fish aud Game association
was held in Bangor. Measures were
adortel FOR the further protection OF game
In Maine.
Tiiton II Doolittlc since 1879 state at
torncy for Now Haven county. Conn,
rendered hi3 rcsignarion. Judge Wheeler.
I'm accepting no resignation, praised Mr.
DOulittlc. services.
John V. Barkcr. aged 80. father OF Judge
James Nj. Barker ~ the Massachusetts,
supreme court. died nc Pittsfcld. Mass
Mr.. Barker was a member of the legisla-
turc In 1915 1852 aud 1857.
The D.. = Il. Smith memorial commit.
tee have decided to make efforts % have the
Smith homestead preserved Intact. y
rooms will be left as they were at
time of The authors death.
Fire at Bristol. VT, destroyed the Com
mcrcial House. harn with nine horses.
one COW, ,hrco hogs wagon. carriages aud
other contents. aud the house and black.
smith shop OF f. Grccnough
In behalf of the Armenian relief fund,
Boston thcater was filed At matinee.
Tho performances included numbers by
theatrical people anu companies who are
playing nc the several theatcrs here.
The Vermont Dairymcn's association
opened IT. session In Rutland. VT The
annual address was delivered by President
Sanford, and a musical and literary pro.
gram was carried out by the ladies' aux.
iIiary.