The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-05-22
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An infant son OF John Tracey died
suddenly at No. ITO India street yes
terday morning.
John Whalen. a hackman. was fined
$40 ana costs by Judge Sweetland today
for lettering about the new passenger
station.
Hook and Ladder No. and Hose No.
. extinguished chimney fire at No.
Ill Bond street. at 1855 a. m Sunday.
No damage.
Somebody stole 40 feet of %-inch lead
pipe. from Matthias Cartey's house. at
the corner of Joslin street and Man
ton avenue. Sunday
Philip Coyle was sentenced TO the
state farm for six months by Judge
Sweetland this morning, for being a
common drunkard.
Patrick Gallagher was fined 81 and
costs in the police court yesterday for
revelling and thirty persons were as
sessed 81 and costs each for drunken
ness.
+. f. Perkins, of No. 3l4 Benefit
street. gave still alarm Sunday after
noon, for fire in his house, caused by
the BURNING of a waste paper basket.
No damage.
Arthur Phillips. of No. "a Andrew
street, reports that the Parker bicycle
stolen from William Lynch, yesterday.
was found by him in his yard. at 6:3O
this morning. He gave IL to Patrolman
Mclaughlin. who delivered 1t to its
owner
At 10 a. m. yesterday Patrolman
Foye found stray COW, on Dexter
street, and stabbed II at weaver's sta
bic on Stanhope street. Later the cow
was delivered TO its owner. John Sla-
vim, OF No. 2S5 Prairie avenue.
Philip c. Coleman was fined IS and
costs in the Sixth district court today
Tor an assault on Herbert f. Bowen,
last Saturday night. The assault was
a simple one, Coleman striking Bowen
in the face and cutting his lip Both
men were colored.
Thomas f.. Furey. boss at the
White mill. on Carpenter street, was
today fined s. and costs In the Sixth
district court for assaulting Francesca
Tamborini. last Saturday The boy
tried to leave the mill and called the
boss bad names. Furey boxed his ears
The boy has been an inmate Of the re-
form school and has a record for using
language, as the police assert.
The members of Palestine Temple,
Ancient Arabic Order of the Mobiles of
the Mystic Shrine, will meet at 1880
O'Clock on the evening of Wednesday,
May 81. In Music Hall. in memory of
Ibn-Seena, and ii is said that the affair
will be splendid entertainment, with
fine orchestral music. smoking and a
lunch, which will be served in true or
dental style.
In the Sixth district court yesterday
Davis. whose house on Glenn
ence street was raidcd by the police
last week. was arraigned. She waived
examination and was held for the
grand jury Myra Carr who was ar
rested in the Davis woman's house was
sentenced to six months at the state
work house as a lewd and wanton per-
son. She took an appeal.
John Rafferty,. of the anneved dis
trict, with several other small boys.
armed with a lot OF rotten eggs. visited
Charles Lon Mond,s laundry. ut the
corner of Hardness and Westminster
streets, last Saturday night, and stand
ing In the doorway. covered the China
man with the ill-smeIling contents of
the eggs. He was fined So and costs in
the juvenile court today.
strawberry festival will be held
by the Home Mission Band, Tuesday
and "Wednesday evenings. DIN the Bene-
hcent Congregational church vestry.
The cafe will be open at O'Clock for
supper. and an entertainment given
each evening at o'clock. The proceeds
are for the salary Of Miss Ferris at
williamsburg. An exhibition and sale
pr artistic platinum prints will be held
In connection with the festival.
While at work i'm a sewer trench al
Attleboro Saturday. M. f. Burns.
whose home is in this city. met with a
very severe accidental falling derrick |
struck him on the head, inflicting a se-
we're scalp wound and causing concus-
sion OF the brain. The injured man
was removed TO the AttIeboro Hotel
where he boarded and was attended
by DR.. Butterfield. Although Burns re-
mained unconscious for long time
the attending physician is OF the opin-
Jon that he Will recover.
sergt. Morse found a horse and ex-
press wagon backed up In rear Of tho
Springfield railroad track. neas Atwelps
avenue. at o'clock last night. Three
men were In the act of loading two
large bundles OF telegraph wire on 10 |
the wagon. One Of the men ran away.
The other two were taken TO the sixth |
station and detained on suspicion Of |
larceny. They gave their names az |
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