The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-09-18
NEWSLETS


No more his billowy length extends;
NO more the kissing bug 80 bold
Salutes, unintroduced, the fair
our summer joys have all grown cold
And fancy fees, we know not where.
exhausted are those themes 20 rich
Which once employed our ablest pens.
No more we hear Of haiistones. which
In size out-do the eggs of hens;
No more We laud the honest dame
Who with bankruptcies has been blest:
No dazzled frog steps into fame
Released from some big tree out west.
And though we love the simple truth,
Our mighty nation must bewail
That fond companion OF its youth,
The journalistic fairy tale
And though our power may unfold
Until II touches every Cline
Wen miss those gentle yarns of old
Which soothed us so in summer time
Washington Star
A lawn mower. worth s3-60-was- taken
hardware store, at rs weybosset street,
yesterday
A pair Of rubber boots valued at $3.50
was stolen from In front OF George A.
1905 yesterday afternoon.
Peter Casely pleaded not guilty and was
held in $1,000 for trial Sept soth. by Juoge
sweetland. today, ON the charge of main
taining a common nuisance.
Rev. John T. Barlow OF A Ruggles
street warns the public that the young
man who "a canvaesino for tba Iadtaa,
Journal and the Philadelphia Post and
using his name, is a fraud.
William j. Mckenzie was held In 5000
by Judge Sweetland today for trial Tues
day for simple assault upon Mary Costi-
gan. The principals ere neighbors. and
It is alleged that last Friday Mrs. Costi-
gan was pushed aside by Mckenzie.
Charles Tremaine, a gentleman OF ex-
treme leisure, and OF the travelling va
riety, called at Luigi Santuccis barber
shop in olneyvillc yesterday. and calmly
appropriated a razor valued at S. Judge
Sweetland fined him $40 and costs today.
Pensions have been granted as follows:
Increase, reissue. etc, Edwin Appleby, |
Rumford, IS; Thomas Rice, Providence. |
s12; Henry c. Palmer. Potter Hill, $40: !
Starr l.. Booth. Bristol. s12. Widows,
minors and dependent relatives, Alice |
Heagney. Providence, s..
Max Silverman was held In $780, by |
Judge Sweetland. this morning, for trial |
next Tuesday. Max denied that he had |
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through a barn scuttle, some time ago, |
badly inJuring his shin. He had been |
not to use the animal until its leg |
vas we'll; but he disobeyed that command. |
Judge Brown, of the United States Cir
cult court has exonerated the winsor
& Jerauld Manufacturing company from |
the charge OF infringing upon the patents
granted to Alfred A. Whitley for i'm
proved automatic clamps for sketching
machine and to N w. Butterworth Sons
company for an Improvement In auto
natic clamps for tentering machines.
The seventh precinct officers were noti-
led. yesterday. that a young colored man
vas acting suspiciously and paying too
much attention 10 certain hoIses. An offi.
'er was sent who placed the fellow, Harry
Jackson, under arrest as suspicious
,erson. At the station he was found to
nave a revolver in breast pocket. To-
lay Juage Sweetland fined him 500 and
,osts for carrying a concealed weapon.
Clarence II. Rich, letter carrier, had a
lispute with neighbor. Mrs. Isabella C.
Kane, on Tell street, Tuesday. The be-
ginning was a quarrel between the chill
iren OF the two households. Rich was
ising garden hose and Mrs. Kane got a
lucking. Today Judge sweetland had
Rich In $500 for trial next Tuesday on
he charge of making a simple assault.
James Campbell. the well-known stucco
worker. took a 800 diamond ring of his
niger. yesterday. while washing his
lands. few minutes later he missed the
ewel. He suspected Michael Washington.
aused him TO be arrested and in Mich
els pocket was found the ring In the
sixth district court today, Washington
'leaded not guilty OF having stolen the
ing. He had, he said. worked for Mr..
'ampbell for nine years. knew that II was
lis ring and took 1t for safe keeping. lie
vas held in $500 for trial Tuesday.
The employees of the General Fire Tx
inguisher company on West Exchange
treet were agreeably surprised yester-
ay by an order from Superintendent
Ohm c. Meloon granting them a satur-
ay half holiday. The young men in the |
ales department had been very active IN
REGULATING a petition among the men IN
ne other departments and secured the
gnatures OF about every employe This
was just upon the point OF pr,-
snting the petition 10 Superintendent
Ieloon when he handed them the very
rder they were petitionins for.