The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-22

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Baptist Church, Sunday, with violin
| obligato.
The new rails for the proposed wor-
cester and Webster street railway ar
rived today, and were placed on College
hill. The rails are 60 feet long and
weigh 80 pounds to the yard.
At the meeting of the Painters and
Decorators union Thursday night, John
Anderson was installed as conductor
and this sick committee chosen: A. L.
Barry, Frank Brown and John Swan
| son.
| Rev. DR.. James Boyd Brady will
preach at Grace church tomorrow eve
ming. His subject will be Christ in
the sight of Clark university" This
VIII be his last sermon before vaca-
ton
The next band concert in the city
series will be by Martels band, al
Crompton park, next Tuesday evening
Owing to the work of grading the COM
mon' there will be no more concerts
| there this summer.
Rev. James Boyd Brady who has had
| many hot controversy with the great
infidel during Ingersoll's lifetime, will
| give Ills opinion of his former adversary
usual Sunday evening sermon.
Members of the Bay State Gun club
| VIII pay friendly visit to the North
Grafton club today, leaving city hall
at 1.3O o'clock. The regular Saturday
shoot of the club will be abandoned
ana the Shrewsbury traps will be
closed.
President Jefferson D. Pierce of the
State Federation of Labor, is to call q
| special meeting of the executive COM
mitteee of the state federation in the
near future, for the purpose of taking
important action, to aid the Marlboro
strikers.
The dry goods store of Edward l.
smith & Company, 401, 407 Main street
which suffered heavily from a fire a
week ago, will reopen for business this
morning at o'clock. The insurance ad-
justers have made their adjustment
and 1t has been accepted.
| w. E. Keefe, employed at the Grove
street works Of the American Steel and
Wire Company, had his arm caught in
a machine yesterday afternoon The
injury was so painful that he was tax
en- to the city hospital in the compa-
ny's ambulance, where the injury was
treated.
Patrick j. Dowd was arrested yester.
day afternoon by Officers Dillon anc
Hines of Station q and later transferred
| to the Worcester Lunatic Hospital
| Dowd was recently released from thai
institution, and has been living with his
sister on Bradley street. Yesterday he
acted strangely, and was taken into
custody.
e. R. Cummings stopped one of C. H.
Harrington's horses Thursday after
noon in a manner which made him a
real hero in the eyes Of at least half a
hundred people who witnessed the
act The animal was standing in front
of the State Mutual building, and a
bicycle falling on it's front feet scared
the animal and it made a wild dash for
| liberty.
Harry w. Goddard of Spencer is con
sidering removing his machinery bust
ness on Union street, in this city, to
| the plant of the American Wheelock
| Engine Company. Mr.. Goddard, who is
president of the Spencer Wire Com
pany, says that any transfer of his
machine business will not affect the
| business of the Spencer Wire Conlr any
in the way of transfer.
Secretary Charles e. SQuier of the
| board of trade, always with view to
making the board of trade fully ap-
| preciated, has issued large number
of pocket directories of the board.
which are both artistic and useful The
| directories contain the full lists Of Off
| GERS, with the several committees as
| they have been appointed by President
Irving E. Comins.
DR.. Thomas j. Bassett, secretary of
| the state board of registration is one
| of the examiners of candidates for den
| lists certificates. The examination re-
| Gently held, was tried by lie candidates
! of whom two are women. Certificates
were given to Is among whom are the
| following Worcester men: Michael j.
| O'Reilly, F j. Dolan, Francis j. Ma
honey and Charles S. Gordon.
The recruiting office did little Lusi-
ness yesterday, there being but three
successful applicants. They were
Charles H. Barnes of Potsdam y. Y,
formerly of Company G, Third Connec-
ticut volunteers; Thomas E. Kane of
| this city, who will go into the Twenty
sixth, and Adolph Gamache of this city,
formerly of Company b. Twelfth regi-
| ment who will go to the Second heavy
| artillery. Three were rejected.
The special committee on parks of
| the city council, which was appointed
| to col slider the Quinsigamond village
| park question will report favoring two
parks for the neighborhood. The COM
1 mttee will recommend that when the
city acquires land in this section that
| sites for two parks be purchased. One
( to include part of the land known as
| the Terrace" and the other the Trul-
| son lot on the hill. The estimated price
| for these lots is about $4,000
rhe chair of tie assistant editor OF
| Scandinavia, which has been resigned
| by Hjalmar Nilsson, Is to be filled by
Johan Person, now Of Chicago, and one
| Of the most prominent of the Swedish
/ journalists in America Mr.. Person is
| not unknown to Worcester, having for
| some time filled the editorial chair on
| Svea, the weekly published in the Swed-
| ish language by Hans Trulson, and has
a long experience on the Svenska Tri-
bunen of Chicago, a paper Of wide in
! fluence and circulation
The w. C. I. u. met yesterday after
noon and decided to hold a tea meet
ing at the Odd Fellows Home Friday.
| Food and money are solicited for the
| occasion. The VIC. T. y. women who
are going to the W. c. T. U. day at
| the Cnautauqua Assembly, South Fra
| mingham, are to meet at the corner Of
/, Main and Foster streets, Monday at
a. m. Mrs. X. L. Stevenson, the state
president, is to speak at II in the morn
| ing Their rooms are to be refrescoed
| ana rotif into axcelient condition, du,.iv,s,