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Show A partt of young people from Provo went over to Springville last evening to attend a ball. The ladies of the party loRt trom the dressing room some toilet articles, valuable Ecrafs. and other trinkets the work of a thief or thieveB. A cOBREsroNDENT writing from Eureka under Friday's date informs The Dispatch that a man unknown to him called "Big Luke," a timber man, fell down the shaft at the Key stone mine a distance of 200 feet at noon on that date and met his death. The men were all out of the mine at the time. There is no blame attached to anyone for the accident. The man's real name was Luke Skinner. The Salt Lake Herald this morning reports the death at Holden, January 2, 1S94, of Wm. Probert Sr., father of Wm. Probert, well known in Provo here. The demise of the most estima ble gentleman was wholly unexpected. The night before his death he was up quite late reading, and at 3 o'clock the next morning complained ot a pain about his heart. Neither he nor his wife thought the matter serious, and he returned to bed. At daybreak Mrs. Probert called him but xz ?eived no answer an-swer and then found that he was dead. Mr. Probert died full of years and honor and his relatives and legion of friends feel deeply their iloss. Luston, Herefordshire, England, was his birthplace birth-place and he emigrated to Ut-.h in 1862. He was born November 3, 1813, settling first at Croyden, Weber county. In 1870 he removed to Holden, where he resided up to the time of bis death. |