The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-02-20

News is at Hefrernon's News Store. IL
Hartford avenue. Telephone p-West.
The final touches OF preparation by the
olneyville Checker club members for the
great meet at Boston on Monday have
been made.
Tomorrow II is generally agreed Is TO be
day OF complete rest rest that is
greatly needed and deserved for the evil
dences go to show, the exciting scenes
witnessed at the college the last few
weeks have told terribly on the nerves of
the many lovers OF the game who nave
been gathered there.
For instance. only yesterday Ernest Will
lams was known to have given more
than the right amount OF change to two
customers also TO have told the truth no
less than three times, this Is perfectly
unnatural, then again the other evening
although the snow was falling heavily,
one of the members left the board ana
was half way home before he realized he
was hatless, while on another occasion
three OF the devotees on leaving the club
near midnight entered the lunch wagon In
mistake for a car.
While the reporter was waiting patient
ly amidst a fury of checker talk Tor ms
turn for a. shave he was moved 10 laugn-
ter by the customer, who was partially
asleep while Mr.. Williams was shaving
him. on being asked by the barber. his
choice I'm face washes dreamily answer
ed 'Ill take the blacks by George, l
want TO see how you beat that pet Kelso
OF mine" while another individual start
/ ed I'm his slumber in the corner muttering.
"Tll tell you the 2s-2i wins, my boy, II
| winsi'
Yes. said NJ. williams. TO our query. to-
he Ca
for yourself they need IL badly for there
is nothing so Indispensable I'm checkers as
steady nerves and a clear head.
I am much elated at the prospect OF
| good representation at the meet II the
weather holds good ] am pleased 10 learn
such grand men as Dearborn and others
! OF Lowell Hill and a host or players with
Lyman Stearns from New Hampshire.
Ed Nee and Davidson and bunch or
! friends from Woonsocket, and with our
own little Sunday school crowd from
! Providence and Olneyville shall join the
crowd Monday from Millbury, Natick and
| other places too numerous TO mention 70
| do the honor for sociability ana the golu
medal.
! our chances OF winning? Well we must
not be too sanguine, of course we are up
/ against the hardest crowd OF players In
| the world but If our boys turn out as
| things seem to suggest they are going 10
| we hope TO make this notice something
! different TO an obituary.
| NV own individual chances? Well (Mr.
| Williams face became wreathed In q
smile) I play Mr.. Pigeon he Is a hard
proposition and If the prophecies of my
| friends prove true my tas you put III
young mani individual success will not be
published only by my enemies. but come
back again on Tuesday morning and IL
you find a piece OF Grape on this door and
tnI al md
'I told you So" young man for Heaven $
sake first send a physician and bottle OF
smelling salts TO my home and do your
best out of kindness 10 me 10 suppress
every edition OF papers published In
Providence that day.
A CLOSE CALL.
That a dozen or more persons were not
killed with illuwn,;stins ga, IN nss,erGsv qsw
morning Is nothing more or less than
wonder The house. which is q three
who with his wife and three children oc-
cupy the upper floor, the next by James
| Burns and wife on the floor below and
Bridget Flynn and her three chiidren the
About o'clock yesterday morning Mr..
Burns arose to make hre In the kitchen
| stove and when he reached the Kitchen
fell TO the floor. His wife hearin him
fall ran to his assistance, and when she
passed over the threshold' OF the sleeping
| room door she, too fell over the body OF
her husband. Mrs. Flynn, hearing the
noise. ran TO the home OF the Burns fam
fly d ssSut sss tms to Mr MurTny
on the scene and he detected the snfsil
OF gas and ran for DR.. Kean, who 9TH
the assistance of Mr.. Murray and others
s,icceeded I'm getting the man and women
| out OF the room, and IL took the doctor
more than three hours to get them out of
! danger.
The strange part OF II was that the
Burns family did not use gas IN their ten
ement and for this reason Mr.. Murray
! could not see how they could be anected,
but later IL was learned that the gas
pipe leading from the street to the mouse
had bursted. and that the How or gas
followed along the pipe and found an
outlet i'm the tenement OF the Burns
family A.. ,.
did not care to make any report to the
police. and In fact would not tell the pa
trolman nthe beat but little OF the al
fair. but last evening Sergt Potter was was
sent there, and full particulars were
sN'" "'''' LOST A THUMB.
George. Hinckley. night engineer at Taft
weedens mills sidrs met ,S,s Mtn morning While I
engaged in cleaning his engine with :
piece OF waste. The thumb OF his right
engine, and that member was neatly sev.
cred Mr.. Congdon who has charge ol
an engine I'm another part or the plant
Patroiman Sf Connorton. who. wanted &c
send Tor an ambulance. but Mr.. .Hinchle,
preferred to 20 TO the Rhode island nos
pItal Via the electrics. which he did A.
The hospital the thumb was amputated
He was tak>n later 20 his home. corner
OF Union and Huntington avenues.
BROKE A LEG.
Mrs. Annie. mother OF William Tracy
slinped and fell on the ice last evening
while walking on Pocasset avenue. Sh'
was picked up by two young men ant
,atcr taken TO her home. 20 Magnolit
street. and attended by DR. Milan. wh'
found that her right leg had been frac
tured by the fall.
NOT TO BLAME.
The police Of the Chafree street station
have investigated the case OF Patricl
Nangle on Huntington avenue. reported
by owen Farrell. yesterday morning an'
found that he. Mr.. Nangle, is entirel,
blameless. for they learned that Farrel
received his wound by falling on the Ice
GENERAL MENTION.
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