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Show I E BREVITIES. Mud. lialn. Snow. This li awful weather. "Old Prob." it getting even. The. Marine bund of Washington, D. C, is coming. The hank clearings today amounted to $317,010; same day last year, 8801,818. The Salt I. ike City Hailroad company have a large fans,' of men at work today on thei' Hue ou Teulh East. Kev. W. S. Hawkes, superintended 01 Congregational missions, spoke at the Wra Presbyterian church yesterday niomiug. - The funeral services over the remains t f , the late John Qarrans were held at the M. E. ' church at 10 o'clock this morning. Be-" Ike Salt Lake Improvement ami Natural ( HfM company will begin in a few days drill ing for No. Swell, 100 yards east uud sout;. of No. 1. Rev. Ur. Clarke of the Congo Baptist m b-iion b-iion Moke at the First Baptist church last cvcnitiL'. He labored iu Africa for thirteti. years. The Burlington liaptist chapel was dedi- caled yesloWlay. Uev. 8. fr. Adarts preached the sermon. J The new chapel is a neat little building ana coat WOO. The Spanish Fork Grading and Constructing Construct-ing company have secured the contract for the four miles of grade for the Kio (irandc Vestcru railway between Mammoth nud Silver City. At the Tabernacle yesterday, Wra. O. I.ee, who has just returned lrom a mission to the Samoan islands, was the tlrst speaker. He was followed by Kobert I're and II. Kmery, two uiissiouai lea who have last returned from the southern states. Elder Penrose was the last speaker. At Ogden last night at about 10:110, while John Walker was escorting a young lady home from an evening coll at a friend's house, he wns assaulted by a miu who struck him several blows, evidently with some heavy instrument, cutting lus face ami head horribly. Walker clinched, the man and threw him, when two men rushed up "" and, taking hold of tho assaulting party, told WalkW to go, for he might get killed. The lady was near home and escaped to her home, and Walter came down town to get his wounds dressed. Tho hold-up escaped. |