The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-02-18

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But she'll probably marry the youth
who devOtes
His resources to gathering cash.
Washington star.
In the District Court this morning
Alexander Mcdonald pleaded not
guilty to the charge OF vagrancy and
was ordered held in $500 for trial next
Friday.
Before Judge Sweetiand this morn
ing Donate Vacarro pleaded guilty to
the charge of assault on Donate Fon-
detti and was ordered TO pay a fine Of
so and costs.
The funeral service over the remains
OF the late officer Peter III. Healey will
be held tomorrow afternoon at O'Clock
at the late residence of the deceased,
so Dudley street.
Yesterday afternoon officer Monroe
stopped running horse which had
cleared himself from sleigh at the
corner of Westminster and Courtland
streets. The horse is owned by Charles
cady. who later claimed him at Sta
tion 4.
The Young Mems Democratic club OF
Providence will have a banquet at the
Providence Athletic club house on the
evening of February % next and among
the prominent speakers will be United
States Senator Lindsay of Kentucky
and Edward NJ. Shepherd of New York.
horse attached TO n sleigh owned
by the Old Colony Bill Posting COM
pany and driven by Benjamin Grant,
jumped and turned the sleigh over at
the corner of Benefit and Wickenden
streets yesterday afternoon. Mr.. Grant
WAS thrown out but was not injured.
A shaft of the sleigh was broken.
Michael III. Higgins was arraigned be-
fore Judge Sweetland this morning
charged with stealing from Peter Ruin
a watch and chain valued at $40. Ac-
cording To the police the two men
boarded in the same house and Hig-
gins entered Ruins room and carried
off the timepiece and chain. Higgins
pleaded guilty and was fined $50 and
costs.
Ethel Coulter, aged % years, who is
employed as a domestic by Paw
tuxet family. was found suffering from
illness on the corner of Eddy and Ship
streets by a citizen at s o'clock last
evening. She was taken TO the home
OF Mrs. Margaret Marsh, nearby, and
cared for until the arrival of the am
bulance, when she was removed to her
home at Pawtuxet.
on Saturday next. Feb. 25th, tho
Rhode Island Bar Association will meet
at the County court house to take suit
able action on the death of the late
Justice Bosworth. The meeting will be
held at Il m. and committee that was
appointed soon after the death of the
late judge will present resolutions for
the consideration of the association.
A decree pro confesso was entered
in the Appellate Court today i'm the
case OF Horatio II. Nightingale VS..
Stephen A. Arnold ct al. trustees, talk
ing the bill as confessed against Annie
r.. Warren, the Ministra at Large, the
Providence Charitable Euel society, st.
Johns lodge. A. L. and a. NJ, the Union
for Chrlstion Work and the Rhode ISL
and Hospital The bill in the case is
FOR an accounting.
The weather at st. Augustine, Fla,
Is now warm again after the past few
cold days. The hotels are well filled
with guests and there is much gaiety ut
the winter resorts along the east coast
Of Florida. Among recent arrivals from
Providence are Mrs. Walter S. Stew
ems, Mrs. Manton Chandler. Mrs. j. p.
Lawton. Mrs. X. r. slade and son, Mr..
and Mrs. r. Slaee, at the Ormond; MIR.
and Mrs. @. II. Haskell are at the Ponce
de Leon, st. Augustine.
About 1880 o'clock last evening on
Ger Collier arrested a man on George
street, who was wandering about with
a vallse that he could not account FOR
The man was taken To Station where
he gave the name OF Frederick G.
Briggs He is still held but the detec-
tlves say that he has been in dement,
ed condition and '- not really response
BILE for all he does. They state that they
have sent him out Of the state on pre-
vious occasAns and that he has but
just been dscharged from the Insane
Hospital at Taunton, Mass.
Strains Of music penetrated the base
11ent OF city hall about il:S0 o'clock
This morning. and the notes OF "Bcn
Bolt" Home. Sweet Home" and THE
Last Rose OF Summer" brought the
employees Of the several departments
into the corridor 10 see what II all
meant Some believed that II was q
screnade 10 the dog officer. while others
maintained that Italian musicians from
Federal Hill were sercnading Truant
Officer Whittemore. but all were mis-
taken. 10 was simply wide-awake
agent for some sort 0f n semi-automstlc
Instrument who was trying TO sell his