The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-01-03

Officers .O'Neill and Mccarthy report
ed yesterday water pipes burst at -
Cross street and 90 Stamford street.
In the District Court this morning
John Conboy. a common drunkard. was
given six months in the state work
house.
One of Mr.. Deming's express wagons
broke down on South Main street yes
terday afternoon, delaying traffic for 40
minutes.
Yesterday Superintendent Cloudman
OF the fire alarm telegraph system was
of his sister.
At 5:25 o'clock yesterday afternoon
an alarm OF fire from box Al called the
department TO Walter s. Hogg's house.
"a Congdon street The flames We're
extipguished before much damage was
done.
At Has o'clock last evening officer
T.. +. Daily found a water pipe burst in
the vacant house of Joseph Nealey on
the corner of knight and Gesler streets.
Officer Daily notified Mr.. Nealey, who
shut off the water.
The Union Street Railway company
hA about completed the removal of the
nSxwork of trolley wires from Ex-
change place. where the Bristol depot
ears used to halt, and the thoroughfare
is now much improved in appearance.
The railway officials expect to have the
new tracks ready for service in about
q week or 10 days.
Articles of Incorporation of the Swe-
dish Coachman's Society have been fiji
ed at the office of the secretary of
< state. The incorporators are John Sune-
son, Peter II. Peterson, Frank Duma-
son, Carl Lundin and Claus O. John
son. The object is TO benefit the social
life of the members.
At 11:55 o'clock last night Thomas
Farrell heard a bell ringing i'm oliver
Johnson & Co.'S building on Eddy
street and notified the protective com
pany on Richmond street. 1t was dis
covered that a sprinkler had burst and
Officer Blessing notified an agent OF
the Sprinkler company, who repaired
the break.
Work has been commenced on the
raising of the building on Westminster
street, below Turks Head, owned by
the yinton estate and recently cleaned
out by fire. Renovation will be under.
taken at once, and the structure vii
be raised one story i'm front TO CORE.
spond with the rear portion. which i:
now four stories in height.
Rev. Oliver III. STILL a temperance
crusader, whose house was blown up In
East Greenwich during the period OF
constitutional prohibition In 1888. dice
last night in Crompton after a brief i'll
ness. Parson Still was at one time sher
iff OF Kent county, and edited a news
paper there. He became active In war
fare against political corruption anC
bribery. After a trial az various occu
pations he again resumed ecclesiastical
work.
Frank Thomas, mate on ths Fal
Eiver line freight steamer City Of Fal
River and residing on Sheldon street II
this city, vas brought 10 the Emer
gency Hospital this morning. suffering
from a deep cash I'm his head Tn
wound was dressed by Drs. Harris an
Eccleston. AS the boat was maxim
into New York harbor yesterda
Thomas started down a flight OF step
TO the lower deck when he caught hi
foot and fell TO the bottom. striking o.
his head. He was removed 10 this cit
on the boat last night, and Is now a
the Emergency Hospital.
Additions have been made 90 the mu
scum at Roger Williams Park AZ FOL
lows: From Dr. ". G. Bumpus.
geological and botanical pamphlets
books and pamphlets from the Unite
states Department Of Agriculture an
the r.. T. College OF Agriculture: ais
Rhode Island onges. from DR. II. {
Bpmpus; case Of pinned butterflies
Charles A. Budlong: butterflies an
moths. from e. Abbott Davis: minersli
implements and n turbo shell. from