The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-11-28

An in vain, for not trace
Found they Of his chubby face,
TIN a Bstter came one day
From the earth so far away,
Written with starlit dipped in dew
Penned upon cloudlet blue,
And the truant cherub wrote
In a most ungracous note
That he'd found the world so fair,
He'd become a baby there
Now, when cherubs disappear,
All the Others fiutterng near
Whisper of the fatal day
When the first one ran away.
Life.
Morris Ross boot -blacking stand was
stolen from the corner of Weybosset
and Eddy streets, last Saturday night.
Pehsr Monahan was fined 81 and
costs in the police court, today for
revelling in Prairie avenue, last night.
Walter Clevelands wheel was stolen
from the corner of Dorrance and West
minister street, at o'clock last even
ing.
James Carroll. driver of a short wood
wagon, fell from his seat, while on
Spruce street, yesterday afternoon. His
face was quite badly cut.
Francisco Demareo pleaded not guilty
in the Sixth district court. today, to
making an assault with "A fiat iron on
Antonio Del Sesso. last Saturday and
was held in $500 for trial next Friday.
Frank Oliver, years old, was knock
ed down by a wheelman and severely
cut on the face while crossing the
highway at Brook and wickenden
streets yesterday noon.
Edward Hughes of Bristol, was fined
81 and costs in the Sixth district court,
today for the theft of an umbrella.
valued af 81. the property of II. L. Pal
mer. an Arctic storekeeper.
Foster Crocher and William ID. Cole,
prominent members of the P.A.A. are
spending the holidays in New York and
are arranging for the production of a
sporting play of which they are joint
authors.
Peter Jacobs, a barn robber of Woon-
socket, who confessed his crime at a
recent term of the court and was let
off on probation, was yesterday SEN
fenced to the reform school for Eve
years. He was a Juvenile offender with
several other boys.
George s. Thurston. s. years old,
foreman OF the Providence Gas Com
pany, was found dead in his chair at
Al Cottage street, yesterday afternoon.
The old gentleman had been suffocated
by gas which had escaped from a small
stove used TO warm his room.
Charles F.Jackson, of 155 Indiana |
avenue, reports that at 6:15 last even.
ang he saw a suspiciously acting man
hanging about Ohio avenue and at ! |
p. m. on Maryland avenue. He de- |
scribes the man as 35 years old. about |
feet inches in height ana wearing |
dark clothes.
prayer meeting will be held under
the auspices Of the Providence Christ
lan Endeavor Union on Thanksgiving
morning al : o'clock IN the Beneficent
congregational church. MIR. Alvers n.
Benson viii head the meeting. Members
OF the Young Peoples Baptist Union
and Epworth League invited to attend
The threatened strike OF the union
weavers at the Valley Queen mHl. own.
ed by the Knights, has been ayerte1
The four non-union weavers agreed ~
Join the union yesterday, and the
meeting callei for last evening 10 10
clare strike If the employers refused
TO discharge the nom -unionists was mo-,
he'd.
Antonio Valon was tried in the Sixth
district court. tosay. for an Assault
with a knife upon Allen Brien. on No
vember 10th. Valonl. who has a hoo,
olacklng chair on Exchange Place
came out Of saloon and chased Brlen
about the street. armed with a small,
knife. Valoni was drunk. and made
one or two passes with 1t at tho how
a policeman came along just then and
took Valoni into CUSTODY. Tire respond-
ent denied chasing the boy or having
knife In his possession. but ne was
bound over to the grand jury in $500
Edward Burns was tried In the Sixth
district court today. for an assault
upon Alfred Busky The latter was
fined last Friday for an assault on
Burns. This affair occurred last Thurs.
day night and the police claimed. grew
out Of a quarrel over a game OF cards
which ws yelng played In a house on
North Main street. Both men ham
mered eacn other savagely and neigh.
bors added 60 the confusion and ere.
ated an impression that murder wa,
sn progress. by discharging several re
volver shots. Buslsy appeared as
witness for Burns. and said that no
Busky. struck the first blow. Burnl
Das aned so and costs.