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Show TERRITORIAL TALK. <br><br> ---- Ogden wants a telephone system; <br><br> ---- Lead at $65 is Utah's best mining boom. <br><br> ---- The proprietors of the deceased Dispatch and Episcopal minister at Ogden are liable to be the defendants in a heavy suit for libel?. <br><br> ---- The evening Dispatch of Ogden has collapsed. Lack of patronage is said to be the cause. Another death in the afflicted family of anti-Mormon journals. <br><br> ---- Z.C.M.I. at Ogden is to have a very fine? mercantile establishment. The site of the proposed building is the old Tithing Office corner, at the junction of Fourth and Main streets. <br><br> ---- On Sunday last, a shooting affray occurred at the Kerney? House in Ogden. One John Mansfield fired five shots from his revolver; two of which entered the body of William Kerns, wounding him, though not seriously. Mansfield was at the time under arrest for stealing some clothing. The real cause of the shooting has not been ascertained. Charley King, the victim of the recent tarring and feathering affair in Ogden, was confronted by an individual named Swigart Thursday, at the depot. Swigart presented a document to King and demanded him to publish it, which the latter declined to do. Thereupon Swigart knocked him down and drew his revolver. King, however fled behind the news stand and escaped. The cause of the grievance was an article published in the Rustler, of which paper King is city editor, which, although mentioning no names, is understood to reflect on Swigart's wife. <br><br> ---- Thursday morning the body of Mr. O. Hallstrom, a tailor, who has been doing business on Main street, was found lying at the back door of his shop, with his throat cut. His hands and clothes were besmeared with blood, and a razor blade was lying near his head. Mr. Hallstrom had been out last evening playing a game of pool or billiards. He is supposed to have gone to his shop and inflicted the wounds upon himself, which produced his death. The cause of the act is unknown. An inquest was held and a verdict rendered in accordance with the above facts. The deceased leaves a wife and family. <br><br> ---- FROM THE NEWS: Wm. [William] Everill, an employee at the Temple Block, was badly bruised Friday afternoon by a block of granite falling against his legs from behind and trampling him between it and the block he was engaged in cutting. A surgeon was immediately summoned to attend the patient. <br><br> ---- On the afternoon of Wednesday, January 28th, a case of sudden death occurred at South Cottonwood. An old gentleman named John Smith, aged between 59 and 60 years, a resident of that Ward, was in McMillen's saloon, and after taking a drink, had seated himself on a bench near the stove. He had been sitting there for a few minutes, when he was observed to fall backwards, off the bench, striking his head on the side of the counter as he went, but not hard enough to tear the skin. It was supposed, for a time, that he had fallen into a drunken sleep and he was therefore allowed to remain, until a gentleman came into the store; who remarked that the supposed sleeping man looked vary pale. He was then assisted into an arm chair, and it was thought he breathed once, but it was soon ascertained that his [unreadable line]. The deceased was a well disposed man when sober, and harmless when intoxicated. He had been up before the Bishop several times, for drunkenness, and was kindly remonstrated with on his conduct; and had repeatedly repented and promised reformation. The last time he was arraigned he said to the Bishop "I hope the next time take to drinking, the Lord will strike me dead." The Bishop, at the time, corrected him for his hasty expression. He was evidently beset by an almost ungovernable appetite for liquor, and like many others who tamper with the fiend, fell a victim to its deadly influence. <br><br> ---- On Friday last a man named Elliot wandered from his home in the 19th ward, and has not yet been heard from. It is feared that insanity is the cause of his leaving home, and that he many have gone up among the hills and been frozen. A search should be made for the missing man. |