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Show m bYJ , - ll. " "Hi- 'I11111.'. A ', ' ' Assassination of a Mormon. It jJK " v Sandorson Fla. Juno 0 1808. ' To tho Editor: Wo' , regret deoply lift ''"' that fnto compels tig at times to report flt ,'' anything but pleasant news. But a BB , gloom has been cast over us tbnt will BV """i sadden tho heart of every Elder of our S v , confereuco ntul a grief brought Upon AW '"L 'tj' our friends that tsars can scarcely wash S ''-,' -away. Our noble and staunch friend, B Brother Geo. P. Oauova, was foully as- B ' sasainated a little afterdark last Sunday night, June 5, taking from our midst one whose generosity had reached the V heart of every Elder and Saint wjio B knew him. fl . Brother Canova was a local Elder and B ; presided oyer a Branch of the Ohurch I -at Sanderson. Wo were holding a branch- conferiice '. .' ntNew Zioli on tho 4th and 5th iust, B ; and ho was in attendance lie enjoyed B .tho services and was in high spirits when ho separated .from us to return . home, some twenty-fivo miles away. ' Tho distanco compelled them to travel I in tho night and at Juncture when Bro. B T. Hill, his only companion, was open-B open-B ing a gate, Brother Canova was flrod B upon. Brothor Hill made nood his escape. The porpotrator iinished tho BJ horrid deed and then lied. I Tho mangled body was brought homo I to the gricf-strickcn family and' after H litting services tho remains wero inter- Bj red in tho Evergreen eemetory at Jack- ML aonville. m Brother Canova, since his acceptanco I of the Gospel, has been a sincere meni- B ber striving to live up to all its requiro- I ments, happy and contented in tho hopo of eternal life. No cause existed for the commital of I such a crimp, not the slightest provoca- j tion was given. I This is not tho first ol like happenings I j . in this country and the fact that mur- I der after murder is being porpetrated I !,,' and tlio guilty eyado punisment Jorces E ,,," . j4 our minds to recall tho state of affairs f ' that o'xisted among tho Nepbito nation I, v previous and instrumental to their F 'f " '" , ' -, . "'downfall and destruction ; also tho I?' ' l5j' ' predictions concerning the tilings that 1' - should exist in this our day previous at to Christ's second coming. Wf, " Frank II, Cutler, b , Desoret Nows |