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Show TERRITORIAL TOPICS- Logan w iil bond their city for water works, the amount of the bond be:og 40,000. Judge Blackburn intends to r i and Sam Thurman is spoken of as tue most likely f utnre judge of this district John Connors, the man found wander ing over the mountains between Is. aver ptrk and Cripple creek, several days ago. with nothing on but bis nnder cloths, has died as a result of she exposure. ex-posure. Things are in a bad way for newspa ptrs in Ogden, This wk th Pos( quit this mundane sphere, and the im ported printers on the Standard havep gone on strike because the rules prohibit pro-hibit profane language, and whiskey in the composing room. Ogden, 10. ilrs, Laura May Lit'.S Jants, aged 21 years, a bride of bn" ten hours committed suicide yesterday morning at the Pacific hotel by shooting herself through the heart. Dfatii was almost iostantaneous. Tho caue was. to alloutward appearances, despondency brought on by a fear that her parents would not approve of her marriage-Standard, marriage-Standard, A story eomes fjom T9rrace that J. D. Alford, a Californlan sheep herder, com mitted suicide at that place, Wednesday. He stole a razor from the barber shop and concealing himself in an outhouse cut his throat from ear to ear and died. The ghastly figure saturated and reeking reek-ing with its own blood, wss afterwards found cold and stiff In death. The coroner's verdict was to that effect. Bugler, Enoch Gtrr, a fifteen year old boy of Sigurd, met with a probably fatal acci dent last Friday. Enoch was herding sheep about a mile from his mother's boose and he bad with him a rifle, A smaller boy accompanied him and while 'Enoch was sitting' on a bank of earth with the gun lying carelessly in his lap the younger boy ihoughtlesely pulled back the trigger and the w"eap on was diichajged. The ramrod was in the barrel at the time and itstruek Enoch just below the heart, passing entirely through his body. Although suffering awful agony, the boy managed to reach borne and medical aid was summoned. At last report ho wes hoi ering between life and death and but little hope was entertained of his recovery, Later Gerr died Tuesday. Salina Press. fMUITeiVUhT-lvnrrch- 13-At S o'clock this' afternoon it was reported that the three-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Berry was lost, The news spread rapidly, and in a short time the hole population were in search. Horses Hor-ses were secured and the country for miles was scoured, About 5 o.elock the mother, crazed with grief and calling to her child passed near the bank of the river where a few moments after one of the searchers found the body floating in an eddy of the river. Lonj and dilll-gent dilll-gent efforts failed to restore conscious ness to the little one. The mother is prostrated with grief and there are grave fears that she will lose her reason The father with a party left earlyin the day to be absent two days. A messenger was dispatched to inform him. A highly interesting and rather S6U sational case was tried before U. S, Commissiener Johnson, Friday last, sr.ye the Brigham City Report. It was the United States vs. Lars Anderson, cf Bear River City, The charge was that of adultery, alleged to have been commit ted with one Mrs- Sina Johnson, of the same place Jidge Utinsaker appeared for the plaintiffs and Attorney Coombs for the defendant, Quite a number of witnesses were examined, and after hearing all the evidence the commis sioner decided there was not sufficient evidence to ,bind the defendaut over to await the action of the grand jury and he was consequently discharged. Mr. Anderson confessed to being on familiar terms with Mrs. Johnson, also said that he loved her. She admitted the same thing. Mrs. Anderson is now suing f r divorce from her husband. Ogden was visited by a destructive fire on Wednesday morning and the finest building in the city, the loan aud trust building was destroyed. thoO.OOO is tho estimated damage. The Salt Lake fire brigade were the meaus of getting the fire under control and tvo"of their company com-pany were seriously injured. Horrible to Contemplate, t Alice (in a big dry goods store) Goodness, isn't the crowd something dreadfull Supposing there should be an accident an explosion, or Maud Or suppose some- one should nry '.'mice!" Boston News. |