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Show DEATH INVADES 11 SPANISH FOB HIDES One Child Drowned and the Other Scalded to Death: Other News. Special to Tho Tribune. SPANISH FORK, Oct. 27. The 13-iuonth-old son of John Rouch of Pal-ni3'rn Pal-ni3'rn was drowned in a water canal this morning. The little follow was in tho habit of following his father when he went to milk. Ho started out this morn-iug, morn-iug, as usual, and his fathor, not thinking think-ing about him, crossed a bridge to the corral and went on with his milking. 'On returning to the house, he inquired of the mother where the child was. She thought he was with the father. A search was made for the child, which resulted in finding him caught on a snag some seventy-five rods down the canal. Dr. 1 lagan was called, but it was too late to be of any assistance to the child , A little daughter of John Becksier of Benjamin was scalded to death yesterday. yes-terday. The mother had emptied a boiler of boiling water into a tub, which was resting on a chair. The little girl, about a year and a half old, got up on a box and caught hold of tho side of the tub, which tipped over, tho contents flooding the little one and so terribly scalding her that only death put an end to her sufferings. , ' .The funeral of John E. Nelson, who died in California while on a mission, was held in the city pavilion yesterday afternoon. The services were largely attended. The 12-year-old son of Sam Comaby. who was taken with malignant diphtheria, diph-theria, is still alive, but very low. His two sisters, who wore taken with the same disease, are improving. There are so many cases of typhoid fever in the city that it would bo well for the Stale Board of Health to make nn investigation an to the cause. |