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Show 'hie 1mm city. Tij Arrangements Completed" for tha Grand liepublican Convention to be Held at Oafdun. SNEAK THIEVES AND TOOT-PADS. A Letter Box Filled with Ashes-Doings Among the Politicians Other Nuwi of Interi'M. Bpeclal cnrreioujsucn to The T.mes, 0,ri:.v, July S. The republican centra! cen-tra! committee of Weber county met yesterday evouing and arranged the programme for the conventions of Friday Fri-day and Saturday. The meetings will be held in the (iiand opera house commencing com-mencing Friday morning at 10 o'clock. Afternoon sessions will begiu at 'J o'clock and close at il p. m. At H o'clock Friday evening Hon. Roswell I. Hoar will address the mass meeting, tin Saturday afternoon lion. J. It. !'el-ford !'el-ford of Colorado and lion 11. F. liartino of Nevada will be the speaker. Mrs. E. M. Allison. Mrs. C. 11. McCluro. Mrs. M. N. I.r.ivts and other ladies ill see that tne opera house in appropriately approp-riately decorated. The republicans of l'laiii City will furnish a wagon load of bowers for the occasion and beveral loads of men. -4- - lion. UoRwidl I'. Ilorr will arrive in Ogden at 'A:M this afternoon. He will be met at I ho depot by i committee headed by Judge J. A. Minor. A large delegation will accompany him to Hrig-ham Hrig-ham (lily, where he will" address the people tonight. Tomorrow evening ho w ill speak at Logan. Friday and Saturday Sat-urday be w ill aUeiul the convention in Og'leti and deliver addresses. Monday he will speak at Salt Lake Ciiy and possibly address the citieus of I'rovo on Tuesday. Arthur Watts w hile going home lale yesterday morning was stopped at the point of a gun and commanded to throw up his hands. Ho looked in the direction direc-tion of the voice and saw three men. Instead of stopping to let them rilln his pockets he proceeded to run as fast as his legs would oarrv him. line shot was bred at him but missed. The residence of ollicer Verge of the Merchants patrol was entered by burglars burg-lars yesterday afternoon. Among the articles taken vt as a silver ring presented present-ed to Mr. Verge as a birthday memento severnl silver c! liars of change and the oi'icer's rt vo! or. Tho house was enter. en-ter. m some time iu the uftvraooon while Mrs. Verge was out. -- -i- -t- A game of base ball was played yesterday yes-terday ai'leri'oon between tiie hanking boys ami ',.'. M. 1. employees. The co'op team cauie out belond. The scores stoo, I .' for the banks and 1 for the . C. M. I. A t the fair to beheld in the interest of tha Methodist liiiiver.iity dancing will be piohilii'.eil. I'hc original programme pro-gramme b:'S I '(. -il changed as to fill up the liinc wb ii gomcu:iu ii'ore appropriate ap-propriate to the fi.-un.-e.ou. A republican meeting was held at (be Fifth ward icsliiiiiii Ht evfuing. liev. A. J. Jiailey ami Ten E. liie'i were the s uker.s and very forcibly expounded jti" doctrine of the republican republi-can parly. (r'oieral It. 11. !. Minly, 'J'iiomas Ciiampnevs and T. J. .Stevens were su!eited as delegates to tho convention con-vention 'rfi the loth at trie opera house. .JDje cii'wirganiatiou w as deferred till a later lay. ---)- -t-This evening John Henry Smith will iddre the people of North Ogdeu on the subject of American principles. John Morgan will be the speaker at Harrisville, where a republican meeting meet-ing will be held. Tun Commercial comes out thN morning under the editorial charge of K. E. liown. The business manage, mcnl has also changed, and (leorge F. Kusch of St, Paul, Minn., takes charge. One of the postal boxes was found to contain nothing but ashes and lire crackers when opened yesterday. I ipmocratic primary meetings will be held tomorrow evening in the diliercnt wards to select delegates to attend the coiinly convention. The convention will be held on the loth, at which time candidates for the county ollices becoming be-coming vacant this year will be nominated. nomi-nated. Two selectmen and a superintendent superin-tendent of schools will be elected next ninnlh. -- -f- ,1. 1). Gill, deputy ruited Slates marshal, mar-shal, went to Salt iiftko City lass evening even-ing with J. lirown, sentenced to three months imprison merit for illegal voting. He also took Clarence (ioddard and Maggie Faulkner, the I'eform school runaways. They go to the penitentiary peniten-tiary to await the grand jury call for testimony against Joseph I'larton, su- 1 perintendent of the reform school. j George Wellman died yesterday afternoon at the Tnion 1'acilio hospital, hos-pital, lie was sent here from Shoshone, Sho-shone, Idaho, suffering from heart disease. di-sease. His wife has been notified by telegraph. She resides at Ellsworth, Kansas. Weatherhy &. Kiley of Brooklyn, N. Y., sent, in a subscription of $100 to the Methodist university yesterday. Money is coming in from ali sides, and if it continues the university will probably prob-ably be built. Eii'dne.ss at Iho produce exchange was very lively yesterday. Fruits are coming in hy wagon loads and shippers are kopt busy day and night in tilling orders. Weber coiinly will harvest one of the large-t fruit crops ever witnessed this season. Kev. A. J. Eailev of the Congregational Congrega-tional church is a champion political speaker. I lis arguments are so clear ami forcible that no one can dispute what, he says and the audience sits perfectly surprised by his eloquence, lie addressed the republicans of the Fifth ward last night. i The (ire department had another run yesterday evening. A lire started on the roof" of the Delmonico restaurant about fi lM p m. An alarm was immediately im-mediately sent in. end the hoys made a lively run to the place. The cheinica was directed at tiie li.i'nes, and the lire was almost ins!ant!y f xliuguisiied. -1- -4- Rev. J. We-ley Hill has been delayed in his preparations for going east. He will prvlcililr leave tomorrow. The Sum Sma'l libel suit and soliciting funds for the university takes him to l'lnla-dciphia. l'lnla-dciphia. .1. P. Ledwidge, county clerk, '--siied a ti-.-.Tiroi license vesterdav to J' hna-Ih:", hna-Ih:", . wniug a.'id Lucy ll..teu:au of; Ofc'deu. ' |