The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-07-20
PAWTUXET VALLEY. ,
Phenix and Hope Mills and Clyde
Print Works Start Up.
Crusade Against Bicycle Scorchers--Sat-
urday and Sunday Liquor Raids.

Inc mills NJ fnenlx ana dopo ana the
Clyde print works started up OIL full time
this morning. The mills have been shut
down for week and the print works
partially stopped for two weeks. There
is plenty OF work ahead at the print
works, and the printers and engravers
come.
A crusade has been inaugurated against
bicycle scorchers and those who ride al
night without lanterns, which promises
to make 1t very lively for the law break
ing cyclists and help TO swell the treas
uries of the different towns.
The meetings of the Pnenix Womans
Christian Union and the Loyal Legion
have been suspended until September.
Rev. A. Is. Eddy of Atleboro, Mass,
oIiciated at the Phenix Methodist Church
yesterday.
Saturday and Sunday, liquor complain
ant M. Il, Lynch made two raids on
places where the liquor law was violated
and his sudden and unwelcome visits have
created quite stir among the saloon
Keepers who were Just commencing to
think that his order TO close their places
on Sundays was ouly blum and would
not be enforced. For some time Mir. Lynch
has suspected that liquor was being sold
at place conducted by man named
Palarmo near the entrance to Rocky
Point and Saturday he paid an unexpect-
ed visit to the place ana found that his
suspicious were correct and when he left
he carried away with him / 28 bottles OF
lager beer and the bartender VINO was
lodged in the jail at East Greenwich on a
charge OF selling liquor without license.
Yesterday MIR. Lynch in company with
officers William Tenant and h. M.
Wilson raided q place kept by Gabriel
Biello in Natick and captured Ga bottles
aad four kegs OF lager beer. The news
that the officers were on the warpath
spread rapidly and although some OF
the saloons kept their back doors open il
was with lookouts stationed in every di-
rection.
The apparant indifference OF the officers
in regard 10 the alleged criminal assault
on the Bailey girl and the failure to ar
rest the men she accused of committing
tie crime was explained this morning by
one OF the officials who said that neither
he nor his brother officers had any OFF,
ciai knowledge OF the case and that
neither the sheriff nor his deputies
knew more about 1t than they had seen
In the papers. Ii is usual in cases Of
this kind for tho State officers to notify
the sheriff who in turn sets his deputies
10 work but for some unknown reason
or mistake Superintendent Eastman
placed the case In the hands of town
sheriff, Colonel Amasa Sprague. MIR.
Greene was recently appointed a con-
stable but IL Is not proba ble that he will
lay aside the dignity of the town
solicitor TO assume that or policeman.
large sloop arrived at Apponaug yes
terday afternoon and will load with sand
from the once famous "sand wharf" near
the entrance to Apponaug cove. The
sand from the bluff on the point is of
the finest quality for building purposes
and at the time that Fort Adams was
constructed nearly all Of the sand used in
the work was taken from this place.
Ever since the advent of warm weather
the congregation at the Phenix Baptist
Church have been annoyed every Sunday
by the noise made by number OF boys
who were bathing in the river beside the
chucrh. The noise was at times so great
that IT was impossibls to hear he oiiiciat-
ing clergyman, and finally officer Subway
was notified. Yesterday he found the
boys swimming and making the usual
noise and made them desist, much to the
qualification of the mem bers of the
church and the residents of the neig hbor-
hood.
The Phenix st. Jean Baptiste Society
celebrated the first anniversary OF ils
organization in Music Hall last evening.
There was large mum Der of the mem bers
of the club and invited guests present,
and the evening was most enjoyably
spent in speech making, singing, etc.
During the evening an elaborate dinner
was served.
Another accident occurred at River
Point last evening, occasioned by a. BIZ
cyclist who persisted In riding on the
sidewalk In defiance of the law. About 7
O'Clock Nellie, the 5-year-old daughter OF
owen Carr, was stsnding.on the sidewalk
in front Cf her home when she was run
into and knocked down by a bicyclist
named lucien Jacquemin, who was scorcb-
ing on the walk. After knocking the
little girl down Jacquemin asked her
mother why she did not keep the baby
III the yard. Mr.. Carr came along about
this time and alter few words ex planned
very torcibly why the baby was on the
walk. She was taken into the house
and DIR. Smith sumomnd, who found that
although no bones were broken the lit
tie girl was badly bruised, ana it will be
several days before she can leave her bed.
Jacquemin Will probably be arrested
and called 10 account for his breach Of
the law in riding on the sidewalk.