The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-08-10

and Summit was lost and the fever for
reducing expenses having apparently
taken sudden grip on the voters the
compensation paid for two-horse Teams
employed I'm highway work was reduced
from forty TO thirty-five cents an nour,
that OF one-horse teams from thirty 70
twenty-five cents an hour and the
wages of the workmen from $1.50 to
81 25 a day. Both the refusal 10 make
the usual appropriation for the pubic
libraries and the reduction OF pay LOT
highway work We're entirely uheh-
pected and are looked upon as the re-
venge of the party which was defeateo
at the last election.
Sealer OF Weights and, Measures
Charles Westcott has commenced the
work OF testing and sealing the scales
and measures used in Warwick anu III
cidentally causing constefnstlon anu
making life miserable among the itin-
Grant peddlers and junk men, VINO
learned last year TO their sorrow, tnat
scales and measures with iast year
seals on them do not pass muster IN
Warwick and are liable TO sudden ues-
truction unless the sealer's Zee is iortn-
coming. IN.
Rev. c. III. Smith, pastor OF the Phe-
nix Methodist church, Is spending MS
vacation in bingham, Mass.
Patrick Carley owns CONSIDERABLY
possessions on Allen street is sniaiI
house about fifteen by twenty-five ieet
i'm size, which stands a short distance
hack from the sidewalk, and severai
feet below the street level. some .ii,ie
ago this house was condemned py
Health officer Sprague, but Iarley uiu
not tear II down, for he had scnenie
which would make it pay better than
the gold mine on Bald hill. AS the iano
on which the shanty stands slopes down
from the street at every heavy ram
the surface water would run owe, ,ne
edge of the sidewalk and downthe pank
sometimes running into the pasene,s
of the shanty and then CAREY woulu
straightway present a ciaini ie. ~
ages to the town council. Al mrs, me
scheme worked to perfection anu tne
| town council settled by paying the ten
ant $50 for the alleged damage uohe py
| the surface water and later paVihs .As
| gutter i'm front of the property ana
| building a substantial sidewaik. ms
| was very encouraging and after the
| heavy shower last Friday in whicn the
cutters were unable to carry of the
| unusual amount of surface water, Car
| lev at once drew up another claim TOT
| damages, amounting to $2OOO, wnicn ne
| presented to the council at i,s ias
| meeting. The claim was not ailoweu,
| but the council decided to view tne
| premises ana investigate 'ic N'' 80 =
| il Is rumored that Carley mas killed
| the goose which laid the golden egg,
| as the investigation may result IN tne
/ health officer taking action against
| Carley, and forbidding the use OF tne
| house on sanitary grounds.
The seven months old daughter OF
| George Laroque died at her home IN
Crompton this morning after shor'
/ illness.
Joseph Lawton of Phenix left yester-
/ dav on his annual vacation, which nc
will spend on cruise down the coas'
in one of the large four-masted scnooh,
ers running between Providence ano
southern ports. la
] Maid Marion Circle. c. of F., held
very pleasant meeting in Forresters
hall at Clyde last evening
Mrs. Edward Dyer of Lynn, Mass.
is the guest of Mrs. Frank Aipro a.
Quidnick. LA .
The Philomathean society Will hold :
meeting at the residence OF Mrs. Josepf
Iawton at Phenix tomorrow afternoon
Theodore Lafayette OF Clyde mas ac
cepted position in Providence.