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Show UTAH STATE .NEWS. Daylight burglaries continue to be a daily occurrence in Salt Lake. The tinner, uhtiot iron and cornice workers of ftitlt Lake havo formed a union. Dr. C. R. Snowden, found guilty oi adultery com mi t ted wUh A udrey Keeler, ban beun grunted & new trial. There are over 20,000 aheep to be sheared at Henefcr thin year. Moat oi the wool has already been contracted for at 18 cents per pound. John C. JohnHon of Kphraim, wa thrown from his wayon while hauling atone, the wheels passing over his body and inflicting serious injuries. Tlie 3-year-old daughter of William Anderson of Manti was kicked by a horse while playing in the yard and fears are ontertained for her recovery. The directors of the Descret Agricultural Agricul-tural and Manufacturing society are making-arrangements for a magnificent mineral diitplay at the state fair this fall. Farmers of Deseret are very much alarmed over the scarcity of water. Tlipy are already having to use it in turn and are drawing it from the reservoir. res-ervoir. Chicken thieves have been visiting the roosts in Huntington with less frequency lately, owing to the fact that four offenders were recently fined to the tune of 817. SO each. Traveling theatrical t roups will not be permitted to appear in Manti for an Indefinite period, the local authorities having takon this step in order to prevent pre-vent all danger of a furthor spread of smallpox. The cannon which was presented to the state by Major It. V. Young has arrived from the Philippines and ia being mounted' It will be placed at the city and county building in Salt Lake City. Oscar Slade of Salt Lake City was drowned while bathing in the Sanitarium, Sani-tarium, and as lie was a good swimmer and iu shallow water, it is believed he drowued w hile suffering from an attack of heart disease. (irantsville is to have an up-to-date opera house which will cost 812,000, every ceutof which has been subscribed by local capitalists, the plans for the building having been drawn by a rising young architect of that place. Sheep-shearing has commenced at Richfield, this being the earliest season ever known in that section. Thesheep are iu unusually good coudition for this time of year, and they will shear a heavy crop of wool. Lightning struck a flouring mill at Monroe, burning a number of belts, disarrangiug the machinery, shattering shatter-ing the windows and causing the walla of the building to bulge out; but the owner considers that he "vas lucky to get off with such a small loss. While driving in from his farm near Mendou, some loose horses frightened John Walker's team, which ran away and hurled him from the vehicle. He lauded ou a boulder, breaking three ribs and his hip, aud his recover ia very doubtful. Lorenzo Weech of Goshen has been placed in the insan asylum. Weech was a hermit aud was possessed with the idea that the people of Goshen were trying to poisou him iu order to secure his farm. He finally became dangerous and had to be locked up. An elopement between a man of 40 and a girl of 19 was frustrated at llene-fer llene-fer last week by the brother of the fj'irl, but afterward opposition to the match was withdrawn and the ceremony cere-mony was performed at the home of bride with due elact. George Leonard of Perron is under arrest on a charge of robbing a store of SS5. It is said that Leonard was preparing pre-paring to elope with a young married woman and that he committed the robbery in order to secure money with which to perfect his plans. For several days last week Eureka suffered from a water famine, occasioned occas-ioned by a break down of the machinery of the Homansville Water conrpanv, which supplies the water for the camp, but the break has been repaired aud all danger is now past. The remains of Hop Kee. an aged Chinaman who died in Bingham recently, re-cently, has been shipped to Hongkong for burial. Hop had been a resident of Utah for the past twenty-five years, and had acquired considerable wealth before his demise. Nathan Haworth, accused of murdering murder-ing Watchman Sandall at Layton on March 25, eutered a plea of not guilty in the Second district court at Farmington last week, and his trial, which will be watched with much interest, in-terest, has been set for April 26. William Harris of Xepbi, died very Buddenly aud in a mysterious manner on the 2'Jth. He and a companion had just finished a day's plowing, when Harris started for camp and fell dead in front of the tent door. The cause oi death has not been determined. |
