The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-07-21


Manila's walls.
The Philippines so frequently have yielded
10 his power,
ahere,s very little left of them. Pm certain,
at this hour;
rd when at lasthe falls asleep, 1t is to wake
again
"a hasten into troubled seas and go and
conquer Spadn.
Ella wheeler wilcox.
Thomas r. Randall OF this city is
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Greene at
Phenix.
Superintendent of Health Chaplin re-
ports one case of diphtheria on Glad
stone street.
Five hens have been stolen from the
yard at 2S7 Oxford street. They were
the property of Mrs. Abbie Connors.
Today Is the anniversary of the first
hattie of Bull Run, and, as a veteran
Of the civil war said this morning, 1T
was good deal hotter than 1t Is to-
day."
The number of inmates at the state
institution at Cranston on July ID was
221s. which is said to be larger than
was ever confined there at any one
time previously.
Mayor Baker is still absent from the
executive Office in City Hall. being with
the Rhode Island Yacht Clubs cruise
TO the waters of Narragansett and
Mount Hope bays.
The mines planted at the entrance to
NarraRansett Bay have nSS yet been re-
moved but Mayor Lockwood who will
have charge of the work says they will
soon be exploded and that due notice
Will be given.
Sergeant Munroe OF East Providence
came to this city this morning TO find
the young man that attempted to as
eaulf the little girl at Bullock's Point,
Tuesday afternoon. he having learned
where he lived.
Nathan w. Littlefield. Esq. has been
appointed referee for Providence coun-
" under the national bankruptcy law
BY u. 8. District Judge Lrown. There
will be several other referees, but Mr..
Ltttlefleld is the only one yet ap-
pointed.
Mrs. William III. Phillips who lives at
the corner of Grove and Knight street
reports to the police that she was the
victim OF petty larceny yesterday when
some unknown party stole pint jar of
milk from her doorway.
Pensions have been granted Rhode
Islanders as follows: Additional, Geo.
l.. Prentice. Sc to IS. Restoration and
supplemental, VIM. A. Luther. Provi-
dence, s6. Increase, John Mather
Providence. So to ss:Frederick A. Inger-
SON. Providence. $50 to $50.
Clerk Field of the Municipal Court
has received a communication from In
ternai Revenue Collector Lake of Hart
ford, Conn, stating that notarial certi-
ficats to unstamped documents must
bear a ten-cent revenue stamp. This
ruling will be enforced by Clerk Field.
A Providence man. who served under
Admiral Porter during thelate unpleas-
antness, calls attention to the fact that
the yard number OF the new battIeship
Alabama is 200. which was the yard
number Of the famous Confederate
cruiser OF the same name built I'm an
English shipyard during the civil war
At noon yesterday John Flanagan of
lo5 Putnam street picked up a carrier
pigeon on the dump behind the fire
station on Putnam street. The bird
had on it's neck a ring which bore the
word jerks and number $685. The bird
was about exhausted and was about
70 be caught by Putnam Dump" cat
"a Mr.. Flannigan came along.
At their pleasant home No. 81 Glen
ham street. Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas T..
Kenney who were recently married. re-
ceived their friends last evening. En-
5oyable musical selections were rem
dered and collation. served. The host
and hostess were the recipients of many
congratulations and wishes for long
and happy married life.
william R.Young son OF Hugh Young
Of Bristol Is among the American SOL
diers wounded at Santiago He left
Bristol early In the spring and enlisted
in the 9th ennsylvania Volunteers
soon after. His family have learrAd
that he received serious wound in the
aide near El Caney when the American
troops were charging upon Spanish
trenches.