The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-03-13
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sets
Up half the night his clothes to fix,
And every one just stews and frets
Since. mother took to politics.
Sometimes they chance to meet, and
then
They argue till the air gets hot
And he calls her a misfit hen,
And she calls him a Hottentot;
And 'twouldn't sprize me If 'twould get
So bad that they'd be throwing bricks
And things at one another yet,
Since mother took TO politics.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Twenty-Five was the number of ineb-
rates fined in the police court yester-
day morning.
In the disSpict court this morning Ed
ward Mason pleaded guilty To the
charge of common drunkenness and
was sentenced to six months at the
state farm.
Mayor Baker, who was to have left
Providence today for Hot Springs, Va,
is confined TO his home by sickness,
which will probably delay his departure
for day or two.
SUPERINTENDENT of Health Chaplin re-
ports two new cases of diphtheria on
Richmond and olney streets, and two
new cases OF scarlet fever on Gallup
street and Lexington avenue.
roh,, c,,rl;xap xuac arrairned I'm the
district court this morning on the
charge of stealing from Henry Nj. Wood
a bicyle value at $40 and rings worth
$40. He was adjudged probably guilty
and was ordered held for the grand
jury in the sum of $500.
II now transpires that the English
built racing cutter. Queen Nab, will
not come to Narragansett waters, as
had been hoped by Rhode Island
yachtsmen. The boat has been sold to
M. c. l.. Robinson. of New York, and
is at present at Newburg.
At a quarter past o'clock this morn
ing officer ]. NJ. Ahearn found a clipped
bay horse, weighing /, 100 pounds, in
silver mounted harness and attached to
an old phaeton, astray on Cedar street.
The officer drove the rig To Station 4,
where IL now awaits an owner.
Yesterday afternoon delegates from
Divisions 3, 5, IL and II. A. o. H., held
a meeting in Hibernian hall. at the
corner OF Dorrance and weybosset
streets and took steps for the forma-
tion OF a company OF the Hibernian
knights. This organization. which will
be the first of it's kind i'm Rhode Island
will be a uniform rank similar to those
supported by several other fraternal
orders. State President John It. Quinn
presided at the meeting and County
President John Dillon was among those
present.
A writer i'm the Boston Advertiser
says: There are not many such happy
mill girls in the country as those that
toll and spin in the Hazard mills at
Peace Dale, II. /. Just when the noon
bell rang the other day l saw them
come pouring out OF the gates and go
hurrying homeward. The young wo-
men were all so fresh and rosy looking.
and they were nearly all Americans
Peace Daleites-born and brought up
there. account for their happy looks
because they are not mentally starved,
but are generously fed by Miss Hazard
the newly elected president OF Welles-
ley, with the best OF music and the fin
est in art. These mill girls remind one
Of those OF Lucy Larcom's time.
Simple but very impressive services
were held over the remains of Ella
Angel Boardman at her late residence
O'clock yesterday afternoon. There was
a large attendance OF relatives and
friends and many very beautiful floral
tributes were bestowed. Rev. Willard
SeIleck OF the Church OF the Mediator
conducted the services. referring in
touching terms 20 the memory OF she
who had been taken from the midst Of
a devoted family and large circle OF
lifelong friends. lie spoke Of the truth
and fidelity that made up the character
OF which the departed woman was so
Justly yet simply proud. and reclted
several very fitting verses After the
exercises at the house the family
escorted the remains TO the North Gem
etery where they were entombed for
the present. The bearers were Walter
Murdock. Levi johnson, Charles Davis
ed hr. Davis.