The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-01-20
late local News
hIe DOings Of the Day in
and About the City.
Short Stories of Minor Happen.
hgs Among Our People.
IineIy Tepics Of GeaeraI Interest TerseIy
Ted TO Tribune Readers.

Bridget, wife of John Meary OF Ceda
street, died at an early hour this morning
The cast of the ''Silver King" will hol
rehearsal this evening at the rooms @
the Young Mems Catholic Association.
James H. Finnegan died yesterday after
noon at his residence on Division street
The funeral will take place tomorrow
morning.
A meeting of the Girls Friendly Societ,
of st. Paul's Church will meet this even
ing at the residence OF Mrs. j. l.. Chase
Park Place.
j. Osfield, Jr, p. Henry Quinn and
Alfred 8. johnson were admitted yester-
day as practicing attorneys In the United
States Courts.
Traffic on the Broad street car lines
was delayed for short time yesterday
afternoon by the breaking Of a jou vnal on
one Of the electrics.
The members of the committee fr cm
Tower Post, appointed to arrange for the
observance of Flag Day in the schools, re-
port encouraging progress.
Central Falls Assembly, Royal Society of
Good Fellows, will hold public installa-
tion Wednesday evening. An entertain
ment program will also be rendered.
Patrolman John O'Brien has brought
suit against the Evening Times for libel,
and the amount Of damage claimed Is $10,-
600. The writ in the case is returnable
Feb 19.
Miss Loretta M. Brennan, the we'll
known soprano, will sing at the annual
banquet and ball of the st. Lawrence T.
A. and B. Society at New Bedford, Mass,
this evening.
Officer Mowry captured stray team
yesterday afternoon and put 1t in Arnold's
stable for safe keeping. The owner soon
came for the rig and proved to be John
Cunningham of Berkeley,
The entire stock Of white topaz stones |
on sale at p Broad street, next door to |
Misft Parlors, will be sold at public auc-
tion by Carlos L. Rogers, auctioneer. Sales
occur at 2:3O and 1880 p. IN. daily.
The funeral OF Josiah Tompkinson, who
committed suicide at the police station on
Saturday night, was very quietly held at
his late home yesterday afternoon. The
interment took place in Oak Grove ceme-
terry.
Mrs. Mary A. Babcock, State President
Of the Women's Christian Temperance
Union Is expected to address the ladies
interested in that subject, at the residence
Of Mrs. Adams, Belmont street this after
noon.
Several people from this city attended
the nth annual ball of the Journeymen
Tailors' Union at Liederkranz Hall in
Providence last night. The affair was
successful one and all present had an
enjoyable time.
In justice to Officer Callahan it might be
said that he sent in the alarm for the fire
Monday morning at the request Of a citi-
zen. The officer was on his way to the
station when he was accosted by Express
man Jencks and asked to ring in the
alarm.
The regular meeting of the Pawtucket
Universalist Club will be held in the vestry
of the High Street Universalist Church
this evening. The election of officers will
take place and the members will be ad-
dressed by visitors from the Mems Club OF
the Church of the Mediator, Providence.
A new price record on common stock Of
the Rhode Island Perkins Horse Shoe Co.,
was established yesterday. Auctioneer !,
William II. Hall sold, by order of p.edgee,
80 shares, and the successful lad for It was |
q share. The par valae is 800 share. |
The stock paid Gividends amounting TO
$50 per cent In 1896, but has paid none
since July Of that year. For long while
it was 10 per cent stock.
A manufacturer who recently returned
from New York, where he went for the
sole purpose OF getting at the real condi-
tion OF the woolen industry, says that
men with long experience in the trade
very generally expressed the opinion that
there could be no improvement before
next summer, and until then the business
must remain in the same depressed con-
ditien as at the present time.
giee club has been osNAnized from
among the members OF the Young Mems
Catholic Association and II Is the inten-
tion to give concert very soon. Follow
ing are the officers: President, Clarence
Buckley; Secretary, Joseph Mcclure;
Director, James p. Gallagher; Committee
on Constitution, Patrick Rooney, James
Haberlin, Joseph Mcclure. The club will
meet next Sunday for rehearsal.
Patrick Moran of this city and who is
employed at the factory Of the Queen
Bleaching and Dyeing establishment In
the rear OF Atwell's avenue, Providence,
yesterday, suffered painful larcerations OF
the flesh on the back of one OF his hands.
He was engaged at a printing machine
when his hand came in contact with some
part of the machine. lie was taken to the
Rhode Island Hospital, where his wounds
wers dressed.
The body of Clarence Gladding, who
lost his life in the surf at st. Augustine,
Pa. will probably reach Providence some