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Show THE LOCAL NEWS. A Successful Balloon Ascension Ascen-sion and Parachute Jump A HEAVr LOSS BY FIRE I Sustained by fil. M. KelloKg- White-cottcn White-cottcn g-ets a J udgrm9iit First National Kink Suia? the Co-op Proceeding today to-day in the First District Court. A g odly uuoi'er of Trovo's peoplt v ho are lovers of the dariug had then cunubitv gratified this moruiiiK to a decree entirely satisfactory in witnessing witness-ing Aeronaut Harris' balloon -ascension and leap for life. On last Saturday afternoon all arrangements ar-rangements for an ascension were made, the scheme being to advertise the Eggerteen general mercantile house at the west end of the city ny Bcaitenng premium cards from the balloon bal-loon while in mid air. The wind blew hard all day, and the ascension was a failure. Ttiere was a great crowd out, and Mr. Harris' conscience didn't rest well over disappointing the public. He remained re-mained in town until this morning waiting for the storm to blow over This m ining, although the ssy wa. overhung heavily with clouds, the air scarcely stirred it was a perfect da) tor an ascension. At 10 o'clock tht balloon was tilled with hot aii, and with Mr. Harris seated in ttie apparatus appara-tus attached to the parachute and that attached to the balloon, it was cut lose from its moorings, and away it shot into the aii at a iternlic rate. It took 'a course almost directly perpendicular, veering only a little to the west. Beaching an attitude of 2,500 feet or more Mr. Harris separated himaelt from the balloon. He dropped, switt as lightning, for a space of at least 50j feet betore the parachute opened. When it did open he came down grace fully though swiftly alighting one block west of the West square from which he ascended. It is understood that another ascension ascen-sion will be made on Saturday, April 21st and that one and perhaps two ladies will go up with the balloon. The demon fire visited Provo again last niiiht aud caused a heavy unanciai loss to M. M. Kellogg and Benjamin Bachuian Mr, Kelloeg and family occupy oc-cupy the premises of Mr. Bachuian in the Third ward. The barn is situated some distance at the rear of the houee and in it Mr. Kellogg had one buggy, one set double harness, two sets single iiarr s, one eaddle, one ton ot hay, two valuable hordes and one thjrougti bredjersy cow valued at $150.00 and a family pet, which property was ah lost aud on which there was not a cen;. of insurance. The were other animals on the premises but they escaped. Th barn worth perhaps $1,500 was completely com-pletely destroyed, insured for 500. The cause of tue lire is unknown, there are two theories of its origin tn Leriaiued. One js that it was incendi ary, the other that tramps were sleep ing there and set It ablaze throuuti smoking. This latter theory is the on-most on-most generally believed, especially as an unusual number of tramps are noticed in the town today, several of whom weri seen in that part oltown last evening. The fire starte 1 from the inside and was not detected until too late to gei the auiniAla out of the barn Tue alarm was sent iu at 11 o'clock and when the department .arrived on th-scene th-scene ail they could do was to save the residence and barn of David Stagg wnioh but for their efficient work would have gone up iu smoke. The Whitecolton vs. Dana case occupied oc-cupied the time of the court and jury until late yesterday afternoon. Ad the testimony on both Bids of the case was orlered by lawyers, and the jury didn't believe any of them. Wnite cotton wanted a fee of $300 and Dana held that50.00 was all he was entitled to. The jury rendered a verdict for $180.00. The time of court this morning was occupied in the trial of the case of the First National bank of I'royo vs. N. Williams et al which is in effect a suit against the Provo Cooperative Institution, a suit to recover re-cover $800.00 on a promissory n. t . Ym, II. King represents the bank and Thurman and Wedgwood the defendant defend-ant corporation. This note was made eight years ago by Mr. Bathenbruck who was then acting as superintendent of the Co-op, What led to the" signme of the note was a debt due the eampany from Nathanial Williams who owned a large number of ties and against whom thre were accounts of other parties who were threatening an attachmert of these ties. Mr. Hathenbruck in order to get all the ties "and dispose of them signed the note, for money to pay off the other creditors and took a biilotsaleof the ties which was supposed sup-posed to bring considerable more than enough to pay alt the claims. Several witnesses were examined on the part of the bank going to prove that the corporation was responsible for the note. The defense set up that the company was not responsible, not ' -ving authorized the siguingofthe te. Ltathenbruck testified tba' the note was to be paid provided it was realized out of the ties. Case still on. |