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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-27
DEMOCRATIC CITY COMMITTEE
MAKES ARRANG' M:NTS FOR BRYAN

4 meeting Of the Democratic city
committee was held last evening to
make certain arrangements Tor the
visit % Col William J. Bryan to this
Gay ,n Morday rext The fa.owing
wee appointed TO ao. as ushers az In
f.";ry lal; J. =. Murphy, Ward T.;
u. V. CpGrty. Ward p James D.. 10.
Vett, ward 3. L. r. Mullen, Ward g.;
Lawrence Canning. Ward 3; g. w.
O'Brisu. ward 6, !. J. Louth. Ward Z;
Frank Canning. Ward s, II. j. Dorncy,
Ward g, - ID. Donovan. Ward 10. The
reception comm ttcc includes Chairman
McNamee. J. II Magudre. Thomas a..
Dorahuc j. A. Williams NJ. j. McGar-
ry. r. Il. West.
IL was also voted that n committee
consisting % John IT, Mcguire. Thom-
as H Donahue p. ". Mckenna. j. a.
Williams. will guard tho cloak room
at Infantry hal. IN which Col Bryan
VIII spend a bricf time before taking
BE place on the platform
a committee WAS appointed composed
Of Chairmgn NcNamec. Peter ! Ian
non, Thomas ~ DJnahue and Thomas
Y. Wee 90 raise the funds needed.
| after which the committee adjourned
| 20 meet sunday afternoon with the
| Democratic state central committee.
! is now understood .haf. col Bryan
will leach Providence al about
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-27
SHORT SESSION.
Little Business Transacted by The
School Committee.
Bills Approved and Teachers Nominated
Text Book for High School,

The regular meeting of the school
committee was held last evening in the
lecture room of the Classical high
school. President Barney in the chair
and a quorum present.
After the usual routine business MI
Gardiner, from the committee on ac-
counts, reported back 66 bills, amount
ing to $40. 393.6O. The bills were ap-
proved and ordered paid.
Mr.. Metcalf, from the committee on
grammar and primary schools. nonl-
mated as teachers Estelle G. Batchelder'
Isabella NJ. Connolly, Emily M, Cor
coram. Maude l.. McGlaulin, Catherine
+. Nolan Mary G.. Walsh Amey L.
Arnold. Alice o. Kimball, Ellen NJ
Adams, Mabel l.. Blaney, Frances v
Freeman and Catherine a. Riordan.
The nominees were then unanimous
ly elected.
Mr.. H. G. White introduced reso-
luton providing that Botsford's HIS
tory of Greece" be adopted as teN'
book in the high schools on recon-
mendation of the high school commit
tee. Principal Peck requires the booh
to prepare pupils for Wellesley college
The resolution was adopted.
There being no further business the
school committee then adjourned.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-27
THE CONTIGUOUS WARD IN The
NEWPORT HOSPITAL BURNED

The contagious ward Of the Newport
hospital, two-story wooden structure.
was burned last night The training
OF the hospital corps Of nurses came I'm
maintained among the patients In the
several detached wards The fremen
worked hard. but the annex was en-
tirely burned. In IL was one young
woman patient, but she was removed
without danger. The FIRE was discov-
cred near the furnace by q nurse. who
gave the alarm. The loss Is covered by
insurance.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-27
LARGE ATTENDANCE Ar THE
TRADES COUNCIL MEETING.

The regular semi-monthly meeting or
the Rhode Island Trades council con-
vened last evening a very ilattering
attendance of delegates were noted.
The secretary read a communication
from Chicago Trades council regarding
the establishment of government irri-
CATION plants in the several states and
territories for the purpose Of reclama-
ton OF arid lands and censuring the
present system OF allowing these lands
TO be gobbled UP by capitalists for
purely speculative purposes. This APP
peal was referred 10 a special commit
tee for Investigation. The movement
VI the Mulet Spinners union 10 secure
9-hour law i'm their trade was indors-
ed and "A committee consisting OF SUI
nvan. Br4cken and Codrington were
appointed by the chair tD confer with
the spinners and proffer the council' :
aid i'm securing their legislation
Messrs. Hayes, Nee and Cook were
also appointed a committee 20 investl-
gate the eight-hCur law as now in vo-
que In the city of Boston and 20 take
initiatory steps toward circulating pc
titions for signatures for the purpose of
securing sufficient slgners 90 have
a similar act placed before the electors
at the next city election.
The election ~ officers was deferred
until the first Friday I'm Februa v, wher
a social VIII be given IN conjunction
with the event.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-27
MUSICAL WORK.
Method Of Tra'nH Hg Illustrated at the
State Normal School.
Large Audience Listened 10 a Very Interest
Ing Program.

In the study hall at the State Nor
NAL school yesterday afternoon an ex-
cellent musical programme was pre-
sented by the different grades of the
observation department and the nor
NAL students, consisting OF selections
from the work from the first UP to the
ninth years work, Illustrating the diff
whcie being under the direction Of
Emery +. Russell.
There was a large audience and all
who were fortunate enough to attend
spoke in terms OF praise of the excel
lence Of the work. An interesting fea-
ture of the first years work is that
songs are taught by figure instead of
the ordinary note singing method. The
efficacy Of the former method was
plainly demonstrated by the excellent
work of the little ones. The rendering
cf Good Night" from Martha. in
the eighth and ninth years work de-
serves more than passing mention. The
programme was as follows
FIRST years work, Miss Case,
teacher; A-Scale work. intervals; Z
- Songs 1. "Old Winter" .. The Pret-
ty I lowers Are All Asleep
Second years work, Miss Gaynor
teacher: A-Scale work, Intervals j
Exercises, reading in the keys G, L
and +; C-Songs, l. "Child's Graft
tude;" ?. Lullaby"
Third years work, Miss Lanphear
teacher: A-Interval work in keys G
G. and y hat; B-Exercises. readinl
i'm several keys; calculation drill
D-Songs, /, "A Magic Ride" ., "Oh
For the Peace"
Fourth years work, Miss Bonneville
| teacher: A--Interval work in severa
/ keys. Breeding exercises i'm keys ID
: Il fiat and \ nat: C-Solfeggio eXer
\ cises: D-Chromatic work E-Songs
/ !. Sunset Peace" ,, "A Novembe
| Goodnight"
Fifth years work. Miss Aull
teacher: A-Dictation OF tones 20 diff
ferent voice parts; B-Chromatic worl
and minor scales, C-Solfeggio eXer
/ else: D-Readlng OF exercises in two
voice parts; E--SOngs, l. "Barcarolle,
/ ., Good Night.
Seventh years work, Miss McArdle
/ teacher: A-Dictation OF chromau
work; B-Spelling and pronouncing O
| chords: C-Reading Of exercises II
three-v0ice parts; D--Songs. l. Eve
ming STAR" ., The River Song"
Eighth and ninth years work Mis-
! Brown and Miss Rothwoll. teachers
! A--Reading OF exercises; B--Songs.
THE Dawn OF Day" g softly NoN
the Shadows FAIL" 8. Good Night,
from Martha"
Normal school work-Songs.
Cease this Dreaming" Abt. arr;
Last Night" Kjerulf. arr. 3. Neat
! Foreign Skies" +. Click. arr.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-27

Earl r. Briggs, Il years OF age, step
son of c. b. Briggs Of No. 1856 Elm
street, met with terrible death on
Broad. near Fenner street, last yester-
day afternoon. He had evidently been
behind a high backed wagon, which
was proceeding up Broad street. and
suddenly started 20 run acrus tho gen.
ter Of the street to the west sidewalk.
A Pawtuxet electric. one OF the big
lO-wheelers, was coming down the west
track. and was making pretty fast time
The boy did not see the approaching
car. Ii was impossible for the motor
man, Arthur Fairman. TO see the lad
until the instant that he ran from be-
hind the wagon and directly ln front
OF the car. There was no tune IN
which 10 operate the fender. but the
brake was iammed down so hard that
the car was quickly brought TO stop;
The forward truck. however, passed
over the boy.
Those who witnessed the fatality
agreed I'm describing II as pLre.y acci'
dental and cOrrOborated Motorman
Fairman's $ story OF its occurrence. Inc
boy, he stated. ran from behind
wagon directly i'm front OF the car when
II was but three feet from him. Al
most at the moment the m0tOrman saw
the boyish form in front Of the dasher
the car knocked him down. the forward
wheels passed over him and when the
car came 10 a stop his mangled body
was pinned TO the ground by the mid
die truck.
The boy was not killed outright, ac-
c,ording tn Drs Arthur +. McGinn and
Charles O'Leary. While attempts were
being made 10 back the car up 20 al
low the removal Of the body, the lit
tie fellow was stll breathing and DR.
McGnn injected morphine into him:
But to all appearances he was beyond
suffering pain. 1t took nearly an hour
to remove the remains and at one time
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-27
,FosTER Store
ZlzGzZzZ Ns1yZEVHS
OPTICAL pepARTMENr

Fromelc-s Eyeglasses, special lot
formerly sold Tor sl.d, To close 8 so
Fyeeia.~cs and Spectacies,ah styles
aud prices, rom .....s ....-.s.... 10
SPs'iss' ss Spectacle. %a'ss -, 200
We have marked our Opera Classes ~
ouicK selling prices many - them at half
the usual prices
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-27
CRUSHED TO DEATH
UNDER TROLLEY CAR.
Shocking Death of Twelve-Year-Old
Earl II. Briggs on Broad Street,
Near Fenner Street.

II looked as though the body OF the
car syould be literally toppled from the
trucks into The street Ii was taken
out finally. however, when the car had
been backed sufficiently 10 relieve ths
pressure which bore 10 down.
The body was placed on the side
walk and Medical Examiner Palmer
who had been summoned, viewed the
mangled remains and after hearing the
statement of The motorman and others,
came TO the conclusion that the death
OF the boy was due to accident. Or,
Palmer measured the distance owes
which the body had been dragged. and
gave rs his opinion that the car had
been stopped almost instantly. The
body. up TO that time unidentified. was
placed I'm the Central station wagon
and taken 10 the moreue
IL was shortly before . o'clock last
evening when Charles y. Briggs, n
foreman employed I'm Calvin Dean =
tewelry factory. came TO the station
and identified the body as that of his
step son, Earl r. Briggs Mr.. Briggs
said that when the boy failed 10 ar
rive at his home 1856 Elm street at
supper time his mother became anXi rus
He had left home in the forenoon 10
go and spend the day with Mrs Stone
at 90 Broad street Mr.. Briggs went
there and was told that Earl had start
ed for home. He had spent the day In
play with a boy name George KIM
hqll. who lived IN the neighborhood
About O'Clock Mrs. stone had given
him something 10 eat. kissed him good
hve and he started for home.
later she heard that n boy had been
killed near Fenner street When she
told Mr.. briggs Of this fatality he at
once hastcnad 10 the Central station
He found his stepson in the morgue
The boys mother Is "A sufferer from
heart trouble and Mr.. Briggs feared
that the news OF her sons untimeiy
end would precipitate a serious shock
The remains were delivered to an un-
dertakcr.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-27
for Over finy Years

MRS. wINSLowS SOOTHING
SYRUP has been used for over fi.tv
wears by millions NJ mothers fo- thc'r
ctfftruu while teething. with perfect
success. 10 soothes the child. softens an
gums. allays all pain, cures wind collie.
and IL the best remedy for Diarrhosa
Il will relieve the poor little sufferer
Immediately Sold bv Druggists I'm ev.
cry part OK the world. twenty-five cents
a bottle BE sure and ask for Mrs.
winslow's Soothing Syrp p." and take
no other kind
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-27

soutb America has greater undevel-
o,,od resources than any other conti-
nent Its sot can produce any crop
crown on earth. and It's mines OF gold
Ana silver and coal have been scarcely
f.ttYhn1
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-27

o. Won .Stan's ,'' \
Medical science BY accident discovered
tho potency of the pineapple as pan
acca for stomach troubles NE I'M
,,,,,1sa ,,et,ccptage Of vegetable pepsin
nnrtaInssl I'm the fruft makes " an al
most Indispensable remedy In cases OF
Dvspepsia and Indigestion, and the
whole train of ailments that follow one
- after each meal will aid diges-
,ion and cure most chronic cases. Is In
n box 10 ceuts.--'O.
sold by Blanding & Blanding, 81 wey-
bossst street, Geo. L. ClanIh, ~ 10 q .
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-27
The WEATHER.

Washington, Jan. 27.--For New Eng
land: Fair tonight increasing clo"di-
ness and warmer Sunday; fresh west
erly winds. shifting TO southerly.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-27
ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

PROVIDENCE OPERA HoUsE-
'The Christian"
-:o.-
KEIrHs NEW THEATRE-continu-
Gus performance.
--:c.-
EMPIRE--"A Wise Guy"
-:o.-
OLYMPIC-Tuxedo Club.
-:o:-
wEsTMINsTER-M -Miaco's City Club
Burlesquers.
INFANTRY HALLr-Polo.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-11-29
k.pIina Runs an Errand.

Il walked over to the infantry camp
at Sea Point the other morning with
Rudyard Kipling," says.a Cape Town
correspondent. "As we neared the
camp we overlook a private carrying
n his hand q large pair OF boots.
Mr.. Kipling asked if We were on
the right road and the man said: Yes!
Are yer goin' there? Then you can
tike these boots. 'av to entrine at ~
o'clock, and l int goin' to miss it for
no blessed boots. Ere tike old he
continued, thrusting the boots into Mr..
kipling's hand, and give 'em to
Private -, - company
Mr.. Kipling promised faithfully.
and gave a receipt, which he signed,
but the man did not notice the name.
My friend, said Mr.. Kipling, you'll
get your head chaffed off when you get
back to the guardroom.' What fol? p
vainly asked the man, and departed.
mo sooner were we inside the rail-
ings than Mr.. Kipling was accOsted
by military policeman. What are
you doing here? You must keep out
of here, you know-sharp,'
I'm taking these boots to Private
-, said Mr.. Kiplins Well, you
ought to take them to tbs guard tent
and not go wandering about the camp
like this. Out of it, now!'
Now, Mr. Kipling has a pass from
the commander-in-chief TO go where
ever he pleases in South Africa, and.
besides that, he is Rudyard Kipling,
whom private soldiers call their
brother or father.
Just then police sergeant rode up
and said; Please, sir, lived 10 years
with the man as you got your tobacco
from in Brighton Anything l can do
for your
Yes said Kipling. | want this
man taken away and killed.
SO Private - had his boots. -
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-11-29
Municipal Manufacturing.

Pittsburg, which is about to under
take the building of hose and patrol
wagons and of other vehicles used by
the city departments, is warned by
the Boston Transcript that the ven
ture will not pay. The warning is
based on the experience of Boston
along similar lines. The latter city
has maintained for many years, in
connection with its fire department, a
repair shop equipped in the best man.
ner and employing the best machin-
lists, wheelwrights, blacksmiths, paint
ers, ETC., that the market has af-
forded. 1t could build hose wagons
and ladder trucks, but it would not
pay. Apparatus harness used to be
made there, but it can now be bought
more cheaply outside The depart
ment formerly made it's own mat
tresses, but it is now more economical
to purchase them. In short, the
shop has stopped manufacturing along
all its former lines, and now devotes
itself almost wholly to repairing. AS
a matter of dollars and cents, even
this could be done at less cost by
private shops, but the element of
necessity comes in at this point, for
fire apparatus must be done when it
is needed, and repairs may be re-
quired at any time of day or night,
Sundays or holidays, SO there must be
a force directly under department con-
troll. Other Boston experiences In
the line of municipal ownership have
not been to the advantage of the tax
payers. The municipal printing plant
is self-supporting, to be sure, and
ought to be, as it makes its own rates
and controls its own bookkeeping, but
the departments are paying more for
their printing. More is paid, too, for
general repairs, since the city es-
tablshed an institution of that char
acter, than when each department
looked after its own interests, making
the best terms it could.-New York
Evening Post.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-11-29
A Monster Photograph.

The latest monster monograph is
one at Brighton, England, that shouts
so loudly every word can be heard at a
distance Of 10 miles away. You can
whisper a sentence into the machines
small, funnelshaped mouthpiece and 1t
will repeat it in tones that are more
deafening than the shrieks of liners
steam siren. Yet every word is per-
fectly articulated, and a shorthand
writer 10 miles away can take down
the message as easily as if you were
debating to him in small room. The
machine is the invention of Horace l..
Short of Brighton. In appearance IL
is merely an ordinary monograph,
with a large trumpet measuring four
feet in length. Inside this trumpet
there is a small and delicate piece OF
mechanism that looks something ike
a whistle. This is the tongue OF the
machine. Instead of the records
being taken on wax in the usual man
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-11-29
LONG ON POTATOES
WASHINGTON REPORTS VISION.
SIN SECOND.
MAINE ONLY CAN BEAT US
Starch Factories Becoming Familiar
Institutions in the Potato Belt of
the Badger State-GIaciaI Drift
Land Right Kind for the Tubers
to Thrive in.

According to bulletin recently
issued by the United States depart
ment of agriculture the total annual
production of starch from potatoes in
the United States is about $4,000 tons,
OF which 5000 tons are produced in
the county of Aroostook in Maine
Wisconsin is one of the most inn
portant potato-producing states and
stands next to Maine in the production
OF potato starch. In the immediate
neighborhood of Stevens Point, in
triangular area of which each side is
about thirty miles, there are over co.
600 acres of potatoes grown.
This belt is composed of glacial
drift. The land adjacent to the Wis
consin river is made up of level de-
posits of sand and gravel covered with
a light loan. The sand is usually
found underdrained by bed of coarse
gravel. Back from the river are up
lands, rolling surface covered with
drift composed of clay sand, gravel
and powders, variously intermixed.
Sandy loan prevails. Clayey loans
occupy some acres, but are not preva-
lent
The three great potato producing
counties are Portage, Waushara and
Waupaca, the acreage planted in 1899
being 25,026, 1880, 1902, respective
ly. AS further indication of the size
of the industry, it is only necessary to
state that Plainfield, in Waushara
county, has shipped as high as 1865
carloads in one season; Hancock,
within eight miles, 1000 car loads.
Waupaca in Waupaca county is Sec
ond only to Plainfield in shipments.
The average yield to potatoes is 100
bushels per acre.
Factories are operated at Stevens
Point, Waupaca, Black River Falls
and Grantsburg. The industry is tech
nically more developed in the west
than in the east. The factories must
content themselves with the small, I'M
ripe, rotten, scabby stock, unfit for ed
ible purposes. The starch content is
low, and with good factories eight
pounds of starch a bushel is a big
yield; the average yield is from six to
seven pounds. The quality of the
starch produced is not uniform. Even
in the same factory the quality varies
from day to day. Mechanical impuri-
ties abound.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-11-29
Religion Of Laziness In Kieff.

Kieff papers give particulars OF an
extraordinary religious community in
that city, whose chief tenet is idle
ness. They are known as the Mel
avantchina, from the name OF their
founder, Corrado Malevaning, who
was released from lunatic asylum
in 1872 and straightway began to
propagate his strange sect. Basing
themselves upon the parable OF the
lilies, which toll not. neither do they
spin" the Maleyantehina reject all
work except that of the household,
wear coarse, somber garments and
restrict themselves to diet of bread
and cheap fruits.-London Express.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-11-29

The function at Greensboro, KY.
Wednesday was the first time in Ken
tuky that governor has been married
while in office. Miss Fuqua, who then
became the bride of Gov. Beckham, is
the eldest daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. ].
A. Fuqua of that city. She is beautiful
and attractive young woman and has
always been a great favorite. She has just
reached her twenty-first year. Gov
ernor Beckham, besides being so well
known politically, comes from one of
the Oldest southern families Of Ken
lucky. He is a son of Mrs. Julia Beck
ham, who has beautiful country seat
at Bardstown, KY, and is a nephew of
Ex-Governor Wickliffe of Louisiana
and of ex-senator Yulee OF Florida.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-11-29

Molten wood is a new invention by
Mr.. DeGall, inspector of forests at
Lemur, France. By means of dry dis
tillation and high pressure the escape
of developing gases is prevented, there
by reducing the wood to molten con-
dition. After cooling off the mass
assumes the character of coal, yet with
out showing a trace of the organic
structure Of that material. This new
body is hard, but can be shaped and
polished at will; is impervious to
water and acids, and is perfect cleo
trical nonconductor.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-11-29
General Grant and Mrs. Tom Thumb,

The first meeting with General
Grant interests me now, in the light of
all that has occurred, but at that time
| thought little of it. While | was
travelling on the Mississippi our boat
stopped at Galena, and Grant, recoe-
nized then only as a private citizen.
came down to the museum to see the
little woman" of whom the papers
had spoken. He was introduced to
me, and stayed awhile, showing in his
conversation at that time little of the
reticence afterward pronounced one of
his leading characteristics. When he
went away he said he would bring his
FAMILY next day. This he did, and
they, too, remained quite a while. /
found Mrs. Grant most genial and
pleasant woman, with the same I'M
affected kindness of manner which so
graced the White House when she be-
came the First Lady of the Land. Mr..
Grant-how odd it seems to say
Mister" Grant. yet that is what pc
was then called-bought my photo
graph, and asked me to put my auto
graph upon it.-Countess Magri Mrs.
Tom Thumb in Home Companion.