The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-22
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22O TO 232 WEYBOSSET STREET
TELhGRApIIIC BREvITIES.

German residents OF Mashonaland CEN
sured the kaiser.
Thc'Nntional Linseed Oil company has
been declared illegal.
The Nicaragua Canal company threat
ems TO apply 10 England.
Torpedo tubes may be placed below ths
watcr-line on the Kearsarge.
The New York city postoilice showed a
profit OF S. 443. 800 last year.
The South Carolina house Of representa-
tives passed the anti-lynching bill.
The Malta is said TO be the head and
front Of all counterfeitng sources.
There is movement in Canada toward
reciprocity with the United States.
Abysslnlans seem TO command the situa.
tion at present, Italian troops being impo'
tent.
Treasury officials suspect that New
York bankers are not exporting gold hon.
estly.
Lizzie Sullivan, aged years, was
drowned ut Lawrence, Mass, while play.
ing on the ice.
The persons accused of completely In
the murder OF the Queen OF Korea have
been acquitted
Billy Ernst OF Buffalo knocked out Joa
Flahsrty of Lowell, Mass, in tho ninth
ronnd ut Lynn.
Fire destroyed the entire business por-
tion OF Newcastle, Ont, and also many
private residences.
The wife of Hon. g. n. Cursor formerly
Miss Mary Letter of Washington was de-
liyercd of daughter mt London.
Henry III. Dldllebocll OF Philadelphia
was sgnca by President Won der Abe as
manager OF the st. Louis baseball team.
A jury at Boston gave Mary f. Fitz.
gerald n verdict Of $3.50 against Arthur @.
Jones', dentist, for pulling the wrong
'ootb.
The Maine Steamship company are to
build o new steamer TO run between Port
land and New York, to be completed by
the season Of 1897
Tho large number of incendiary fires
which have occurred recently at Bangor,
Me-, nay be the cause of an advancement
OF Insurance rates.
The fencing challenge issued by Albert
Lewis of Boston to Lucicn Fournon has
hoon accepted, and the match will occur
Feb. a. at Providence. "a
The Maine ice crop IL now being har.
vested, and reports indicate excellent
quality. of good thickness, cut and stored
ut nearly normal figures.
The Lowell Mass. J board OF trade de.
posed Secretary James L. Smith, who has
hold otIice for over Ave years II. v. Huse
WIS elected his successor.
Tho Brazilian warship BENJAMIN Con-
staut has started to occupy the island Of
frinidadc The Constant Is a protected
cruiser OF 2T5j tons displacement.
1t Is stated that n rupture between Bra
zil and Italy is imminent, owing to Bra
zils tardipess In satisfying Italian claims
arising out of the civil war in Brazil
At Baltimore Judge Dennis has named
three receivers for tho Woodbridge Fertil-
izer company. The judge fixed the amount
OF the bond jointly or separately. at $780,.
600.
The annual report OF the target firing
of the United States army during the last
year shows that the troops in the depart
ment OF tho Columbia easily led all Of
their competitors.
Schooner Ethel b. Jacobs arrived at
Gloucester, Mass, breaking the sailing
record from 1t. Jacques, Fortune Bay, n.
f., in 80 hours. or 10 hours better than the
best previous record.
The Massachusetts, Republican state
committee have named March 27, at Bos-
ton, for the state convention to nominate
delcgatcs-at.large and alternatcs to the
national convention.
The kenEebec Steamboat company were
so we'll represented at meeting of the
Eastern Steamboat company at Bath.
Me. that it is credited with having Sc
curcd control of the directory.
stephen Aldrich, the fattest man In
Rhode Island, died OF heart disease at his
home An West Greenwich. He was 81
years old, mud weighed 40S pounds. Ho
was married three times and died a wild
over