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Show EXCOMMUNICATED. <br><br> We clip the following from the Deseret News of May 3d: Louisa Y. Ferguson, Vilate Y. Becker, Emmeline A. Young, Dora Y. Dunford, and Marinda Y. Conrad have been cut off from the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by the Bishops' courts of their respective Wards, and Elizabeth Y. Ellsworth by the High Council of Salt Lake Stake of Zion, which High Council also unanimously sustained the action of the Bishops' Courts in the other cases. <br><br> The above action was taken for their joining together and making a complaint, entering and prosecuting the same in the Third Judicial District Court of Utah Territory, wherein they falsely charged their father's Executors and the authorities of the Church with defrauding the heirs of the late President Brigham Young, out of one million dollars, and for causing the imprisonment in the Penitentiary of the Executors, and jeopardizing the liberty of President John Taylor, Trustee-in-Trust for the Church, and for refusing to make restitution. <br><br> James Ferguson (commonly known as Harris) was also excommunicated for encouraging and indorsing [endorsing] his wife in her course. <br><br> William W. Taylor, Clerk of the High Council. |