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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-05-01
JEALOUSY CAUSED A
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
Hiss Jones, Colored Servant, Shot
Down by Shine, Who Afterward
Took His OWn1ife.

about this, please" having reference 10
the shooting.
Through this aforementioned note
Shine and his victim were positively
identified. Harvey says that Shine told
him Saturday that he was going TO
Boston next Tuesday. Shine never
drank, had no bad habits, was very in
dustrious, had "a good name and was
very well liked by the colored people of
Meeting street. Miss Jones was slight,
rather good-looking woman, and bore
an excellent reputation.
The colored people on the East Side
discussed the tragedy yesterday while
the remains OF the murderer and his
victim remained in the back shop OF
Undertaken Monahan. Last night
representatives of the Society OF the
Two Reformers called at the undertake
ing rooms and took charge OF the body
OF the woman. and IL is stated that IL
VIII be sent 10 her home in Virginia.
However, all arrangements for send
ing the woman's body South have not
yet been completed and IL is not posi-
lively known just what steps will be
taken. Nobody has put in a claim for
the remains Of Shine, and in all proba-
bility the body will be i'm tered by I'm
dertaker Monahan i'm this city SOME
time tomorrow. Medical Examiner
Perkins will make an examination OF
both bodies this afternoon, IN order to
determine the exact nature Of the fatal
wounds.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-05-01
TOTAL ABSTINENCE UNION.
Monthly Mesiing Of The eoard Of Governors Of
The Diocesan Union ReId al Pavlucke,.

The board OF government of the Prov
idence Diocesan Catholic Total Abstin-
ence Union held its monthly meeting at
st. Marys r. A. Hall. East and Paw
tucket avenues. Pawtucket, yesterday
afternoon, President Miss Nellie
Tripp i'm the chair. A communication
from the diocesan president Rev. p. ].
Malone. was received and in 1t was en-
closed a check for $25 from Bishop Har-
kins.
+. J. Brennan, Cathedral r. A. So
ciety. and Miss Mary McCaffrey. Faith
er Mathew Il. A. Society, of Providence.
and Joseph j. Mcguire, st. Mary's r. A.
Society, of Pawtucket, were appointed
q committee TO visit the Father Math-
ew and st. Michaels l. ID es' 4. A. So
efety=of Providence and report The
work being done by them. The COM
mittee appointed TO arrange for a field
day reported that satisfactory arrange
ments had been made with the manage
ment of Mount Hope Park The field
day will be held in connection with the
semi-annual Diocesan convention, which
will take place at Bristol on Decoration
Day, the convention being held i'm the
morning. and the field day I'm the after
noon. Speakers from the National
Union will be present and will deliver
addresses on temperance.
The board accepted the report OF the
committee and gave Third Vice Pr ST.
dent Jefferson +. Calvin power To ap-
point a committee to have full power
TO arrange the details for the field day.
At the close OF the meeting light re-
freshmcnts were served by the members
Of st. Mary's Society.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-05-01
CHURCH ANNIVERSARY.
Observance BY The Trinity Union N. {. Church
With Appropriate Exercises.

The 10th anniversary OF Trinity
Union NJ. Il. church, was observed yes
terday morning. afternoon and eve-
ming, with appropriate ceremonies. the
church being handsomely decorated
with flags. bunting and potted plants.
At the morning service Rev. S. M. Up
ham, ID. d., OF Drew Theological Sem
mary, delivered an important sermon.
The afternoon exercises were the
most important OF the day, and ad-
dresses were delivered by Rev. A. j..
Coultas and several other well known
pastors, including Rev. j. Il. Gould. ID.
d., who was pastor OF Chestnut Street
church during the war, and by Rev. w.
Il. Buck, a later pastor OF the same
church. Rev. $. NJ. Dick, Pm. d.,
brought greetings from Mathewson
Street church. the mother OF Trinity,
and Rev. George w. Anderson read a
most apt poem on the history OF the
church. The exercises were inter-
spersed with three cornet solos by Bow
en- X. Church and music by the church
quartet
In the evening there was love feast,
and much of the service consisted OF
music. An organ prelude. offertoire,
Moulan. by Earl IL. Leavitt, was fol-
lowed by Hanscom's "Exalt Him., by
the quartet. After the reading OF the
Scripture lesson, from /. Cor. Kill. there
was prayer and congregational singing.
The quartet sang, "The Two Angels"
Kroggman. after which the pastor OF
the church, Rev. A. j. Coultas, spoke
briefly.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-05-01
SUNDAY FIRES.
Early Morning Blaze In a Steam laundy-Mn-up
Of Alarms for q Tenement Rouse Fire.

The fire which started at 1920 yester-
day morning I'm the four-story frame
building on Chapel street, near West
Minister occupied by Stiles steam
laundry and Potter's shell works, gut
ted the two lower floors and caused a
loss OF $4,000. For an hour the fire.
men had all they could do to prevent
the spread OF the flames, which ragged
fiercely. the building being a regular
tinder box, and the flames threatened
to leap across the narrows streets sep
arating the laundry from the more SUBJ
stantial structures near by.
AS 1t was considerable damage was
caused Mr.. Stiles is, of course. the
greatest loser, but the amount of his
loss cannot yet be estimated. The dam
age to the building will probably
amount to several hundred dollars. A
part OF the second floor is occupied by
William X. Potter shell manufactures,
but his loss will be only slight. princi-
pally from smoke and water. The
building is owned by Joseph III Fam
ming. The fire caught, it was stated,
i'm a pile of rubbish in the rear OF the
laundry, but from what cause nobody
knows.
An alarm was rung In just before
noon yesterday from box 2S6 for fire
in a tenement house at i5h Hayward
street. Just as the first call had been
sent i'm somebody sent in an alarm from
box 2S4 on the corner of Pearl and
Broad streets. and in a few minutes a
large force of men and apparatus sur
rounded the Whitfield block and large
crowd of people gathered thinking IL
was a second alarm. The fire was in a
two and a half story building and
burned few bed clothes. The damage
done was slight.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-05-01

PROVIDENCE OPERA HoUsE--Ju-
lia Arthur in "A Lady OF Quality"
KEITHs NEW THEATRE-Contin
Gus performance.
oLYMPIc-John w. Isham's octo-
rooms.
wEsTMINsTER-M Comedy
and Vaudeville Co.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-05-01
N w SLET S

Fair Mildred has a tender heart;
II makes her SAD TO see
Bad boys espy the brides nest
And tear IL from the tree;
Yet while she sorrows for the bird
The solemn truth is that
She always has a wing or two
Affixed unto her hat.
Fair Mildred has tender heart;
She says the butcher who
Would slay a little calfie must
BE cruel through and through;
Yet while she chides the butcher and
Abhors his cruel steel,
Sweet Mildred, tender past compare.
Is very found of veal.
Chicago News.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-05-01
the WEATHER.
Generally Fair Tonight and Tomorrow with Show
ers on Tussday Near ths Coast

Washington. May l.-For New Eng
land: Geasrally fair tonight and Tues
day with showers tomorrow near the
coast.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-11
SMART SHORT STORIES.

Judge Martin Grover, of Troy, N Y,
was at one time approached by a young
citizen who wished to be nominated to
the state assembly. The shrewd old judge
had certain doubts about him, which he
expressed somewhat freely, and yet he
was willing to afford him trial He
therefore addressed the aspirant in this
way: young man, if you will give me
your word that you won't steal when you
get to Albany I'll see what kin he done
about sendin' you there" Judge
Grover" replied the young man, drawing
himself up with great dignity, 'TIl go to
Albany unpledged or don't go at ALL"
The New York Herald was represented
at the Dreyfrs trial at Rennes by Marcel
Provost. Vance Thompson relates in the
Saturday Evening Post that he met Pre-
vost just after the verdict had been an
nounced. Every one was buzzing: 'Drey-
fus has been found guilty-with extenuat-
ing circumstances" What do you sup
pose the eXtenuating circumstances are?"
Thompson asked. 81 care say his in
nocence, was Prevost's reply
An Iowa soldier relates that one day
Gen. Otis came out on the firing line and
ordered the shooting to cease. Kansas
boy, who thought he was doing all sorts
of damage to the Insurgents, kept on
shooting. Didn't you hear my command
to cease firing?" Numbered the general
WHO are your asked the soldier. I'm
Gen. Otis. "Ois, hell" responded the
soldier. II know that isn't so; Otis never
comes out here" And bang went the
gun
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-11
MUSIC AND THE STAGE.
METROPOLITAN.

There was a flavor of old English COM
edy in 1.-The Royal Box" an adaptation
by the late Charles Coghlan, presented
last evening at the Metropolitan. The
philosophy is the philosophy of Dryden,
Farquhar and Wycherly, with the gross
ness of these old-time playwrights wiped
away, and the piece left clean and whole
some.
Then, too, there was modern innova-
ton to prove its Americanism, and the
royal box, draped in crimson and bearing
the English coronet, was a real box in the
theater, and the Drury Lane audience,
addressed by the Drury Lane manager in
the way of apology for the supposed in
disposition Of Clarence, was the Sunday
night audience of the Metropolitan
theater.
There is every element of success in
t'The Royal Box" In the hands of such
stars as Andrew Robson and Miss Cogh-
Ian. Seldom is pathos mingled with
comedy so consistently as In the part Of
Celia Pryce, as portrayed by Miss Cogh-
Ian. "She is not acting" one could almost
believe, "she is the winsome stage-struck
beauty of real life: the matinee girl of
the modern theater." AID it is such deft
touches as this that link the old English
comedy element Of the piece with fin-du-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-11

public examiner which should receive
public attention. The official is quite an
expert In working the columns of the
newspapers of his party for the accom-
plishment of his own ends. He has rare
ly shown this faculty more impressively
than in the mode adopted by him Of
teous inquiry. He refuses to offer any
explanation of the transaction, but. rush
ing off to his newspaper organs with the
complaint that his brusque letter Of re-
fusal-for that is the effect of his letter
to the examiner-has not been published,
proceeds to indulge himself in an ex-
planatory interview, which makes moth
ing so plain as his own bad manners and
his i'll temper.
If McCardy is willing to let that So
called explanation stand, every other per-
son interested should be. Aside from it's
bad taste, it is little more than a plea
which involves a confession of his act
and an avoidance of the inevitable con-
sequences of it. We hope. however. that
the state examiners office will not be de-
TERED by McCardys insolent hectoring
from making the ampIest examination
which its resources will admit of con-
corning the operations of the city comp
troller's office.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-11
ABOUT THE PEOPLES WISHES.

Mr.. Ambrose Tighe Is entitled to the
thanks of the community for directing
the attention of his associates on the
charter commission to the fact that their
DUTY is to prepare new charter, and that
the disposition which the people may
make Of their work is entirely outside
their sphere to consider. There seems
somehow to be supera bundance OF posi-
tive knowledge among certain members
Of the charter commission concerning
what the people will accept and what
they will reject in the way of changes In
the present instrument. Yet no one has
pointed out the source Of this special
knowledge; and 1t is very doubtful, in
deed, If any such knowledge exists.
In this behalf it Is to be said that if
the members Of the comm ssion will ex-
anime the work Of their predecessors
they can very readily find wherein that
work was effective in securing the dis
approval Of the voters of st. Paul The
knowledge which they will come by in
TINS way Will assist them, If not to the
all-embracing knowledge Of the peoples
preferences which certain of them claim
to possess, at least to an understanding
of what changes are reasonably certain
to secure the defeat of any charter which
they may offer to the public If they
will look up the contemporary express
sions of opinion as to the fate Of the
proposed charter, they will find that no
enc seriously thought when it was pre-,
scented that there was any possibility Of
| its being accepted.
The G e believes that the people
are willing to go much further in in
dorsing changes in the present charter
! than the commission is likely to go in
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-11
HL-TEMPERED AND ILI.-MAN-
NERED.

It is not, we apprehend, to be taken
as a matter Of overwhelming Importance
whether Comptroller McCardy should
have charged his initial payment of
school certificates of indebtedness to the
school fund or to the certificate of in
debtedness fund. He charged them to
that fund which suited his purpose best
at the time, and, as he is officially quite
a law unto himself, there Is little Of
practical good to come from the discus
sion of the subject. 1t may not be plain
to the ordinary understanding how a
bookkeeper can find it consistent with the
correctness of his books to charge pay
ments of the same nature, made at diff
ferent times, to- different accounts; but
there is nothing In Mr.. McCardy's official
methods which should lead to the ex-
pectation that they might come within
the compass Of the ordinary understand
ing.
It is the chicane and boorishness which
underlie the comptroller's answer to a
polite inquiry on the part of thu state
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-11
GRAND.

The City Of New York" Walter Fess-
Ter s clever drama, opened a weeks en-
sasement last evening to a crowded ar-
dlence at the Grand. AS the title impltes
IL is story of New York life and there
Is an abundance of realistic stage effects
Inc plot, which is replete with action
ana incident, deals with the adventures
OF Tom Saunders, New York boy. who
DeheVlng his sweetheart is to marry
george leighton, a society man, waylays
leighton and tries to murder him al
Grants tomb. Afterwards, believing that
he had succeeded, Saunders flies to Mon
tana and becomes an engineer. Leighton
VINO RECEIVERS, turns train robber and
the two meet. OF course, Saunders tri-
umphs over the villain, and there Is a..
railroad wreck most realistically depict
ed, that adds to the general interest.
8 The company is remarkably well bal
saneed. Walter, Fessler, as Jack Morgan
: a gambler, is most realistic knight Of
the cards. Henry Bagge is a typical
New York boy as tom Saunders"
George Hope does good work as the con-
ductor of the train that is, wrecked.
James -Devlin does a clever neWsboy turn
and Henry Buckley makes a most ac-
ceptable engineer
On the women. in the cast, Annie Ward
Tiffany, one of the most artistic Irish
character artists in the profession, gives
an admirable representation of Emily
Saunders, Toms mother. Miss Louise
Jeffries does a Bowery act that is fin
ished and artistic, and Nellie Montrose,
the brokers' daughter is characterized
with effect by Miss Nellie McEweA.
Miss Nettie Mcclure does good work as
Daisy Mcclure, the flower girl.
1.-THE City of New York. all the week,
with matinees Wednesday and Saturday.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-11

THAT SHOCKING ELECTION BOARD
That utterly depraved body. the a1ac-
ton board of Kentucky. has wondo.f,,,
to relate, awarded a certificate of cleo
ton to the Republican contestant for
the office Of governor. Of that state.
10 understand how extraordinary and
entirely unreasonable this action IS ona
needs to recall the amount of abuse
heaped by the Republican press on that
body and on all those Democrats. in
Guiding Mr.. Goebel, who aided or abetted
IN any way in It's creation. Was not this
election board called into existence for
the express purpose of counting out all
Republican candidates for office. no mat
ter what their majorities might be?
Could any such unconstitutional and an
tocratic body have been called into ex-
istence' as matter of fact, for anv
other purpose than the preparation of
electoral frauds, which all good citizens
must under all circumstances identify
with Democracy? Was it not one of the
most urgent points made against the pos
sibility of Goebels election, that to elect
any man capable Of devising such piece
of crooked political machinery as this
would be to set a very high premium on
fraud and force in elections?
OF course it must not be lost sight Of
that there was a minority of one mem
Der of the board who was not willing TO
award Taylor his certificate. But that
does not count. Besides everything else.
that unreasonable mortal saw fit to state
his conviction that the certificate could
only be given by the board after iynor-
Ing frauds plainly committed and armed
force Illegally invoked by good. God
fearing Republican politicians No Of
fetal capable Of predicating his action
on any such allegations can be regarded
as fit even to sit on a Kentucky Demo-
cratic returning board.
But, while this minority of one is be-
yond all question a totally depraved DO
Htical entity, what is to be said regard
ing a canvass conducted on high moral
precepts which results in success to the
tissue ballots, the presence of the mill
tary under arms in the vicinity of the
polling places on election day and the
issuance of injunctions through a par
tisan judiciary the very terms of which
suffice to make the most violent partisan
that ever existed outside of Kentucky
to smoker consumedly?
The end, however, is not yet. There
is happily a body somewhere in Ken
lucky politics with jurisdiction to throw
out returns rendered through fraud and
duress and which represent no honest
expression of the popular will. Until
such body is finally heard from 1t
might be well for the moral Republican
brother to be chary of throwing too
many posies in the path of Kentucky
election officials
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-11
BERLIN MONEY STATUS.
Condition of the Market Confines
to Be a Matter of Concern

to Be a Matter of Concern.
BERLIN, Dec. 10-The money market
situation continues to be the chief con-
Germ of the German business world. Lon
don exchange continued to rise all last
week Gold exports are now possible. and
therefore an increase in the bank rate IA
considered virtually certain. The officials
or the Reichsbank were in consul+at ion
yesterday on the subject and there was
general sentiment in favor of an adj
vance TO per cent A definite decision is
hKely to be taken Tuesday
Inc Reichsbank statement YESTERDAY,
showed much less Improvement than "a
usual at this time of the year. Priva re-
discounts, after rising to a point near the
oLIclai rate eased off some yesterday. but
the rise In the London private rate
causes an expectation here that the Bank
OL England will yet make another raise
Ihus far, however. money market condi-
lions do not inspire a feeling of ner-
manent trouble in Berlin, a feeling of as
surance arising from the fact that Ger
man circulation Is so thoroughly saturat
ed with gold that any considerable de-
rangement IS impossible
ICday a high financial authority gaya
the correspondent of the Associated Press
an estimate of the gold In circulation I'm
Germany, placing this at $500. 900 coo
marks. and predicted that the Industrial
situation would continue very strong.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-11
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Chicago News. st.
The greatness of an egotist is all in
his I.
True blue is term that isn't applicable
to milk. t's
The chaff of the joker is wheat for the
comic journals. 1880
A trial of adversely always makes
change Of venue desirable
A fool may be able to answer questions
that g wise man wouldn't ask.
True friendship results from a compact
for frankness and forbearance.
Many Il mans ability to get credit has
prevented him from acquiring wealth.
When woman reads the opening chap
ter of a novel she jumps to the con-
clusion.
me average man would be satisfied If
ne could get the surface of the earth, but
the gas and subway companies want
what's under the surface.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-11

steele decentralization AS truly as Shelly
was poet for poets, so is THE Royal
Box" a play for PLAYERS.
Inc plot is not deep, but breezy From
the Prince of Wales set into the Bohemia
OF an actors life the audience is swiftly
carried, and as swiftly brought back
again. The prince Is as cynical and
chlValrous as history makes him, and
not nearly so gross. Indeed, in the hands
OF James w. Bankson, there is Mephis-
tophelian touch impaired to the character
which, on the whole, is rather winning
and catchy He plays the part as a
man who knows the world and is bound
to get the most he can out of it.
The plot? Simply a love complication
between a popular English actor of the
old school, Mr.. Clarence, and the wife of
Count Felsen, Swedish ambassador to
England. From compromising situation
In the rooms of Actor Clarence, the coun-
tess Is rescued by the Prince of Wales
who also adds an explanatory letter
which fully frees the sorely harassed
countess from the -implica ton of having
leIt her ran In the apartments of Clar-
ence. And it is. Celia Pryce who really
loves the popularf actor, and the curtain
talls on a most enjoyable play, with Clar-
ence introducing Miss Pryce to the Prince
or Wales, both on the eve Of sailing for
America, with the stage-struck beauty as
clarence leading lady. 1t must have
peen evident, even to the most critical in
the audience, that for the wnsome Miss
Coshlan there is-a brilliant future
AS Clarence, Mr.. Robson carries a diff
hcult part to successful conclusion The
breaking up of the balcony scene in
Romeo and Juliet" and his denunciation
OF the Prince of Wales, evoked enthusiasts
tic applause, and in the third act, 1.-The
Cat and the Fiddle Inn," numerous cur
tain calls were responded to by Mr. Rob
son and Miss Coghlan Thomas Nc
Larney might have spoiled his part with
dialect, but he has the excellent judg-
ment to refrain from the temptation.
CHARLES Chappelle, as Tipp, the Bow
street officer, carried the comedy part
successfully sharing this spice of all
dramas with P. M. Austey, as Mont
morency, and Edward Davis, as Marina
duke, actors of Drury Lane.
Countess Helen, the flirting. vet heart
less wife Of the Swedish ambassador, was
well played by Lolita Linthicum. The
juliet OF Louise Grey, not being the stock
JuIlet OF modern times is of course. be-
yond praise or cavil.
1aylor Granville, As Widgets. an aero
pat deserves praise for his conscientious
characterization of an old England tvne
C s might nave, appropriately, stepped
from the pages of tom Jones'" 1.-THE
R0yal Box will be at the METROPOLITAN
al week, with Wednesday and Saturday
matinees. '
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-11
A WIFE's DILEMMA.

Just four short weeks ago today she was
a happy bride;
The q %ss man ian of III others to her for life
But tonight queer sensation fills her
loving heart,
AS she wonders'ff her husbands true or
acting but a. part
ing's one Of PAIN raii1:''' ' ~ 'i
But If his statement is sincere, joyous
tears she canttTestrain.
twas at the dinner table-he into her
eyes did lookE,3d
And said. MY DEAR you doubly discount
any mother as a cook
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-11
A Double Blessing.

Philadelphia Record
Few men can resist a bargain when
they have the money to buy. A good adj
Vert1sement daily reminds them of desir-
able bargains and OF the merchant offer
ing the same, and secures for the adiVer-
tiser the floating custom he would not
otherwise receive. The advertisement
benefits him who buys and him who sells.