The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-05-23

Detroit Free Press.
Charlotte ID. Chase of this city has
been granted a widows pension of s.
a month.
John Coyle got 1 year and Thomas
Brennan6 months in Judge Sweetlands s
court today for being common drunk
ards.
Arthur Guertin was adjudged insane
In the Sixth district court today and
was ordered committed to the state in
sane asylum.
John o'NeIl pleaded not guilty in
the Sixth district court today of a sim
pie assault on Joseph Reilly and gave
5000 bail for trial on June 6.
ii. Metcalf. instructor in botany in
Brown university, viii speak on How
Plant Lives" at the meeting of the
Providence Fraklin society tonight.
Michael Sullivan was arraigned be-
fore Judge Sweetland today charged
with keeping liquor nuisance, and
was held in $1,000 for trial next Tuesday.
Graham Brothers report that seven
pieces OF lead pipe and two brass stop
cocks, valued at $3.50 were stolen from
new house on Chester avenue, on the
night of May 2lst
Alexander Maynard, Is years old, who
would neither work nor go TO school.
waa hefora tho iuvarila cn,r. ,olo,, -,
the charge OF vagrancy He pleaded
not guilty and will be tried on June 8.
George Flowers was fined $40 and
costs in the Sixth district court today
for an assault on lanes L. Boyd -Elnm.-
ers struck Boyd on the back of the
neck and did not infiict any particular
damage.
Frederick ]. Lee. Howard Rice, Ma
poleon Giroux. and Louis wicakger.
were b.fore the Sixth district court
today on the charge of "scorchng" on
Elmwood avenue. Each pleaded guilty
and were fined SIS and costs.
Philainena Davol was bound over 20
the grand jury in $1,000 from the Sixth
district court today as probably guilty
OF keeping a nuisance on Spruce street.
According to the police testimony the
type.
sThomas A. Masterson, boy. pleaded
guilty in Judge Sweetland's court to-
day to the theft OF $40 bicycle from
Herbert A. Bens. the property of the |
Household Sewing Machine Company,
and was bound over TO the grand jury
n $500.
Frank McMurray pleaded guilty in |
Judge Sweetlands court today for an |
assault on Margaret Toohey. He was |
drunk and meeting the woman, with |
out any provocation struck her, black |
ened her eye and in knocking her down |
injured her back. He was sentenced to |
Jail for so days.
Albert Johnson, accused of the theft |
OF a pocketbook and contents valued at |
80 cents, from the person and possess
sion of Kate c. Greene. waived an ex-
animation before Judge Reuckert OF the
Sixth district court, today. and was
held for the grand jury in $780,
The complaint against May Gibbons,
as a -railer- and -bfaltief, ef,-r-ssts- tt, have
been tried in the Sixth district court.
today, was continued until next Fri
day, owing to the absence OF Mary A.
Hartford, a material witness for the
state. A writ of attachment was issued
for Mrs. Hartford.
Thousands of seized cigars which the
local internal revenue officers recently
captured here with counterfeit stamps
on the boxes are 10 be burned like a !
pile of rubbish by the federal officers.
The former owners refuse to pay one
cent piece for them. The tobacco
was that done up by a Pennsylvania
firm. the members OF which are now
In Jail awaiting trial for gigantic
frauds on the government.
The summer season OF the Providence
and New York line will open Monday.
June 10. and the handsome steamers
Pilgrim and Plymouth are to be placed
on the line There will be no departure
ON Saturday evenings but the boat that
arrives Saturday will SAL Sunday eve
ming. The boats on each trip from New
York will touch at Newport. but the
only stop made at this port will be
by the boat that leaves here Sunday
evening
The Merchants Freezing and Cold
Storage Company has awarded the con-
tract for the second extension of the
warehouse on Kinslry avenue to Hart
well, Williams and Kingston OF Provi-
dence at $4,000. The architect is George
Leach Of Butler Exchange. The build
Ing Will be built Of brick. two stories
and basement 20 by go. I Will have a
cement noor I'm the basement. a sort of
artificial stone. and a tar gravel roof.
II VIII contain four electric hoists and
be divided into shree sections Of fire.
proof walls. a spur Of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad con-
meets W.f(n the building.