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Show SOME PERSON laxslng on tho slrcct In front of the Corlanton saloon. 10i W esv South Temple street, about 1 0 clock es-terday es-terday morning, saw that a small lite was blazing up behind the bar. InHlde tho saloon. A still alarm was Given at No. 2 stutlon and the lire was cxlliigulsheil with nominal damage. Tho blaze appeared ap-peared to have started ln some kind or rubbish bahlnd tho bar and Us origin l a mystery. Richard Frcer.o, the proprietor, proprie-tor, had closed the saloon and left ror homo about 1:30 a. m. Tho lire was put down as Incondlary by the department, but there Is no cluo to the perpetrator of tho crime. A 'WOMAN'S PURSE was discovered last evening lying on the sidewalk at Main and Second South streets. The discovery dis-covery was rmfdo almost slmuluincously by a nowsglrl and a newsboy. Tho girl plckf1 up tho purse first, but a struggle ensued which resulted in the boy carrying carry-ing off the prize. When Patrolman Joe Barlow appeared on the sccno tho news-girl news-girl n mother accused tho newsboy of navlng taken money from tho purse. This accusation tho boy stoutly drnlcd. Whon tho purso reached the hands off the policeman po-liceman It contained a few coppers and nickels, two lottory tickets and a few other small articles, but nothing that would reveal tho Idontlty of the owner. a LITTLE ANNIE STAINES, a pupil at tho Lowoll school, was yesterday playing play-ing c Vck-the-whlp with her playmates on the school grounds, when the Hue broke and, as she was on tho end of the lino, she wns thrown forcibly against a tree, bruising and lacerating hor raco and ronderlnr hor unconscious for some Umo. 4 R. R. GRANT, a sergeant ln battery A of the National Guard, while manipulating manipu-lating tbo guns yesterday, fell from a caisson and broke Ills left leg. Dr. C. M. Benedict, ths surgeon for the guard, sot tho fracture. THE Salt Lake Medical society held Its regular mooting Inst night. A paper of exceptional IntorcHt on "Puerperal Sepsis," Sep-sis," written by Dr. R. C. Smcdlcy, was read by Dr. W. R. Rothwell, and thoroughly thor-oughly discussed by tho members. J. CONNELL, a vegetable vondor. was arrested last night on the charge of giving giv-ing short measure Mrs. Hyde, who lives on East Fourth South street, complained that she had paid him for twenty bushels bush-els of potatoes and had recolvcd only twelve bushels. Thero have been numerous numer-ous similar complaints at police headquarters head-quarters recently, but It has been difficult diffi-cult to apprehend the guilty ones. In this case tho peddler was taken beforo tho ono ho victimized and was positively Identified by her. and there Is a disposition dispo-sition to push the prosecution with vigor. Connell. being unable to glvo ball, was lodged In Jail. BY HARD STUDY during his four-months' four-months' lurlough. a young soldier from Utah named Hoop has distinguished himself him-self by passing tho examination at Fort Lcavrnworth for a Second Lieutenancy, being second In a class of forty-seven. He obtained the straps and was stationed sta-tioned with the Sixth Infantry, which used to be at Fort Douglas under Gen. McCook In tho earlv '80s. MANY COMPLAINTS liavo been received re-ceived by Postmaster Thomas during tho past fow weeks from subscribers to one of the well-known Eastern magazines. Complaints were also mado to tho publishers, pub-lishers, and an Investigation was started. Yesterday It was reported that of 252 copies of the magazine 246 had been received re-ceived with labels torn off, tho labels not being adhesive as required by tho postal rules and regulations. The fault therefore, there-fore, Is with the publishers Instoad of with tho postofflec clerks here, and Postmaster Post-master Thomas will so report to tho publishers. NO BETTER PROOF of the prosperous condition of Utah farmers could bo af- Mde.d than tnc fftct that they have railed In a great many Instances to call tor money which has been due them for days past. Owing to their lack of desire de-sire to collect tho premiums awarded them by tJie D. A. & M. society, tho clerks there are unable to close up their books, and a goodly sum which Justlv belongs to the farmers of Utah Is lying Idle ln one of tho banks of tho cltj'. NINE CASES of smallpox woro reported re-ported to the Bonrd of Health vesterday. Theso wero ln the Gunn family." of which an account appeared ln Tho Tribune on Sunday morning. They live at 323 H streot. Three cases of typhoid fever wera reported: W. D. Llveoncr. 24 Floral avo. nue; Jesse Smith. S22 East First South. 5.n,1.MSL L- cNlchol, 449 South Second East. Thero were also reported ono caso pf acute consumption. Mrs. Jennie Washington Wash-ington Rico, K5 South Ninth East, nnd one case of chicken-pox, Elsie Brown. sa9St.dtftoU&.f A row, S THE Tellurlde Power companv has been n8 ft lhc Count' Commissioner fi ui sh lJle current necessary for the lighting of highways 81. 13 and S In Bingham Bing-ham Junction. This the company is obliged to do In order to ccmpl with the terms of Its franchise. |