Show i i i 1 LOCAL PICKINGS jamea E manning one of the negro soldiers from fort duschene who was recently convicted in tho district court in this city of outraging a mother and daughter and sentenced by judd to twenty four years each committed suicide at the penitentiary saturday Satu rJay evening bv cutting his it from ear to ear with a inife ahara as a arzor which he had stolen from the guards room for the purpose the deed was premeditated but hia movements were so sudden that nobody could interfere our new governor ia getting into neto nety evidently judging from the following joke told on him by a salt lake extemporary A gentleman basaing by ge arnor thomas residence on south temple street late the other night saw a man in the act of climbing in at the front window he rushed up ga e the alarm and grabbed the intruder by the heel only to find that it was tho governor Go vernoi hini elf alio had been out late at and left his latch ley in his other clothes the insane negro arrested a few days ago at clear creek by sheriff fowler for to cut everybody up with a large butcher knife which he had m his poa aerion is m the insane cell at the count v jail where ue spends all his time in singing proving and preaching tearing into shreds every thine he can lay hold af and hideously grinning at everybody who goes him he is constantly pleading with the sheriff to let him go to california the man dudlow of spanish fork who was last week for the crime of incest with his 18 year old d aughter lugh ter and who is now in the county jail aw examination 13 in 3 nouh condition Shariff Fow ler says he wont eat his food and spends his time in moaning and arvins he seems tc realize the enormity of his crime and this appears to him to be the only way to partially rehe a himself mr joseph johnson son of bishop J P K johnson was united in the bonds of wedlock to miss emma brown daughter of W H brown esq on wednesday last at the manti temple the event was appropriately celebrated at the home of bebop johnson when presents and congratulations were tendered alie happy couple warden pratt referring to the suicide of the degroat the penitent ary on saturday night says ho will not be surprised if a chinaman incarcerated there follows the example set him at anytime the heathen has shown signs of dementia and has threatened to kill himself and the guards the academy concert last friday at and the party in the evening were a grand success the refreshments w ere a feature of the evenings entertainment tain ment hundred dishes of H Oster lohs famous boston ice cream berged and altogether the as pronounced the best of all the academy parties at a meeting of the provo electric light and power company held last evening at the alio proposition anade by the provo street railroad company to consolidate bolh companies was considered and discarded the company deciding to run their from any other in corpor tion in the john B milner cabage case against provo city equils before judge judd friday afternoon as e went to preas culminated in the motion for nonsuit being granted and complaint as to equitable cause dismissed the second part of the complaint is being tried by the jury to day the roof 13 now being put on the anck church of the latter day saints at and the building will soon be completed it is a handsome structure and will enjoy the distinction of being the first brick structure ever built in the half of wyoming ayno A have just ra bened a ciuc acock of the famous diamanta spectacles and eye glasses from tho celebrated house of M bros they are just the thing for ey es this hot dusty weather the action of president appointing judge zane to the office of chief justice of utah is causing considerable the nest thin in order is for the reinstatement of dikson annan ireland mckay et al in the arnoldus vs arnoldus divorce case heard by judge judd friday the defendant w as ordered to pay to plaintiff 50 per month from june ath for four months and attorney fees bombards express arason met with a serious disaster ast night the fractious animal attached to it got on its hedd and humble itself until it bulted up he wagon m good salpe what are we to do for street sprinkling now that the committee refuse to undertake the responsibility of attending to the matter would it nat pay someone to go into the business the rear portion of the old felt new store recently sold to john liddiard WAS successfully bovea on saturday and joined on to the premises formerly owned by I 1 osterloh Octer loh tho provo silver band gives the first of thir summer evening open air concerts on saturday next fhe concert will bo given in the band stand and will commence at 7 when you come to conference drop in at abo enterprise restaurant next door to felts negib baand and get a good lunch ice cream strawberries and eoda water always on hand tf the lumber company have got the contract to erect smoot haib reed smoots anc to be erected where Bo shards store now stands the stockholders of the froio theatre company held a meeting on saturday night last an I 1 adjourned until wednesday to morrow night at 8 0 clock did you call at the enterprise restaurant last sunday and get some of their giamo strawberry ice cream if you duant then be hire and do so next sunday it is delicious members of the peoples party should interest themselves in seeing that aheu or vote is rolled at the august eit action thin was polled two years ago mr wilt ib around ath his left handline hand lone up n banda 11 hammer and one nail the hammer to connect with the nail mr J T giles was married last w eek to miss agnes A pleasant reception wab tendered m honor of the event alie finest lot of strawberries we have ever seen were displayed this morning ia front of bobards Bo hards place of business |