The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-08-01
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Oh, love, my love, SO true;
God gives him grace his foes TO face
With your sweet knot of blue,
true knot. blue knot,
lovers knot Of blue.
THE Puritan.
BENJAMIN Shippee OF Cranston has
\ been granted a pension Of IS a month.
Mary West. common drunkard. was
sentenced to one year at the state
workhouse by Judge Sweetland today.
stephen OToole pleaded not guilty
TO charge of vagrancy in the Sixth
district court today. and was held for
trial Friday.
Nellie Smith pleaded guilty to being
. common night walker In the Sixth
district court today and was senenced
90 nix months at the state workhouse.
James Mcconnell was charged before
Judge Sweetland with assaulting John
Murphy. He pleaded not guilty and
was held for trial Friday in the sum Of
500.
Some time last week one of the poor
5oxes in st. Joseph's church on Hope
street was broken open and its contents
carried on. The thief secured less than
-. Il IL thought.
Oflicer J. F.. Lyons last night shot a
dog owned by w. #. Mason Of la Tock-
wotton street at the request of the
owner who feared that the animal was
shout to become mad.
saturday afternoon one of a pair OF
horses owned by the Earl & Prev Ex-
press Company died from heat at the
Providence, Warren and Bristol railway
Z vtation on India street.
In the sixth district court today be-
fore Judge Sweetland, John Bowie. COL
ored, pleaded not guilty to having as
saulted Addie Cross and was held In
9soo bonds for trial Friday.
The IRE commissioners although they
are much pleased with the working Of
the flre alarm system say that yester-
days storm demonstrated that the lat
ter could be greatly improved by put
ting the wires underground.
This morning at o'clock0fficer #. f.
Blake took to the Central police sta
tion . bay mare attached to a Demo
crat wagon which he found standing in
B Aliens Lane and which had been there
since { o'clock. Later the outfit was
found to belong to Walter F. Anthony
o. Swansea, Mass. who said that it had
beon stolen from his barn sometime
during the night.
while driving through Atwelis ave.
nue. yesterday Mrs. Eugene Emmons
of omithfeld accidentally ran over a
four-year-old Italian boy named Charles
PolAnizl. whose home is on Spruce
okroet. Several Italians who saw the
accident gathered around Mrs. EN-
mons carriage and made an angry dem
onotration. but were driven of by the
police The little boys arm was frac-
tpred.
Nathaniel Thompson, a waiter on the
steamer Plymouth, saved 10-year-old
walter Robinson from drowning at Fox
poInt Saturday. Robinson. with other
boyo, was In a small rowboat when the
wash from a passing steamer capsized
the craft. Two OF the boys swan
ashore and ran of. Robinson could not
swim and had just came up for the last
time when Thompson in his clothes
Jumped into the water and rescued the
boy from drowning. The boy was taken
49, - ID.
and South Main streets.
Rev. Wilford l.. Hopes, who for sew
eral years has been first assistant TO
Rev. DR.. Parks at Emmanuel Church,
Boston. has accepted a call to the rec
torohip OF Calvary Church. situated on
Orchard avenue. this city, and will as
sumo his duties on September 1. This
onDouncement was made during the
moruing service at Calvary Church. yes
terday. Mr.. Hopes is about IS years Of
age. and In said to be well qualified 10
build up a strong parish. something
that q needed In the section where
Calvary Church is situated.
The intricacies OF obtaining n mar
rIoge license In Providence under the
new statute were experienced Saturday
By coIorcd couple who were love lorn
and anxious TO be joined In the bonds
Of mnff@mcpy and the groom-that-is-
to-br after making the third trip "a
The City Hall. found the Office OF Dr.
Chepin closed and thercupon the pros
pcct'vc husband got angry and said
th!ner nboui s'ich a system OF red
top,. sa be termed II. Tho couple are
minors ana are named Louis Green OF
~ rct'<cr street and Miss Cora Mason
q I< y sffcct. Green obtained the re-
cfi~cu I'rctne fo5ny and his "cup OF
o':>~'' he f,ts 10 rapidly filling He adcs
<t>f there viii be hot time IN the old
|<r Wednesday, nicht when the we'd
<;<s {c<.isit.ts viii be held az the resi-