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Show I vv.if'-rj (,;..;! tmt! st:.-te.l I'm. the boy hr.tt art ;mih-1 i;i the a!rn ;.nd want to the l"-x li'm.-e'f, On inveMiga tion hii fear'3 u-r eoniirn: d (md lie'im medinte!y p !; a vigorous twist An instant Ir.t.T ' t'.e fir? bell at the Ciiy Hall rang out ku", ii- knew th.it the. fire men were on th. ir wj.y to the sceu of the fire. Put tho :'.i.tanco was great consid.-rably over a mils and tho grade heavy and w'jpa the brigade arrived ouly the four smoking waIN of the house remained. It had been completely destroyed with all of its contents-News YYillara Xoble the little five-year-o'.d son of Sir. and Mri, DjualJ Noble who have rooni3 or. the CMi fioji of the Grand Opera home building, met with a frightful accident yesterday, About 1 o'clock in the afternoon, &f,er he had catoi his dinner, the little fellow went out into tho corridor of the building. build-ing. His parents had repeatedly warned hiui not to play around. the stairway, for fear he mighVmeet v.li'-i an aecideut by falling and bee .me jencusW injured. He seemed to haw forgotten or nt least disregarded the instructions given him' although ho had 1 rtviously bceu vry mindful, of his parent t, and bsgaa am as ing hlm5tlf by sii'Jiu down the banie-tor banie-tor of the kaira leading to the upper fior. ,In doing so ho lost his balance and' fell with terriffio fores to the second floor, aliigi.ting on his head. Dr. Gordon was -CiLcd and rendered the necessary mcdlcsl and surgical assistance." assis-tance." Unless the child's brain is injured by concussion, it h jiot believed the fal, will resnlt fatally. .News. TERRITORIAL TOPICS- President Smoot of 1'rovo fell while getting out of his balh, and it is feared broke two of his ribs. An engineer on the R,G. W.who at present resides In Salt Lr.ke city obtained ob-tained a divorce from his wife six years ago, One of the children died in Denver last week, and the parents met for the first time sinoe the divorce. The result is that the wedding bells will ring before be-fore a great while, The peaceful citizens of the Eleventh ward have been greatly annoyed of late by a gang of youthful de?peradoes who have been making night hideous by boisterous demonstrations of various kinds. The lads are organized and hare chosen a . chief, says a gentleman who has been one of their victims, after order of the notorious Jesse James gang. They have masks, pistols eud gnns, and gath r in a vacant lot for tar8et practice, build bon fires and make speeches. They even went so far it is elaimed, as to burglarize a store in the neighborhood. The boys range from teu to fourteen years of age. The police have been notified and will look after them.-News. Last week an exciting scene was eti acted on the treacherous banks of Bear river, not far from the romantic gorge, and above the great canal dam. A young man drove a hsrd of cattle down to the river to drink. Thick ice protrn ded from the bank to a considerable dis tance Into the sullen stream, The thirsty cattle close pushed by the boy, walked cautiously out on to the ice. Their combined weight proved too much for the brittle shell. Suddenly there was a loud crack, instantly followed by a tremendous splash. The boy and his entire herd were precipitated headlong into the deep, cold water. For a 'few moments there was an awful scrambling for life. Thirteen of the brntes were drowned outright, Fortunately for the lad friends came to his rescue. A rope , was thrown to him and he was drawn safely to the shore, Bugler. The Brigham City Report says; The recent fall of snow was uncommonly heavy out on Bear river: immediately west of town. James Knudson informs us that on their ranch the snow is at least three and one half feet deep, . In Geneva it fell to a depth of two or ttiree feet, while in this city about ten inches was the limit. The fall has been heavier in the mountains moun-tains thau for many years, and every indication poiets to an abundant supply of water the coming season. If the recent storm was as heavy on the west-tern west-tern ranges as it was in this vicinity it means death to many thousands of sheep on this range, and sheepmen who are not prepared to feed (heir flocks wi 1 uudoubtediy meet with ex'remely heavy losses. Particulars are anxiously awaited by ail inteiested in the sheep industry. A Kanab correspondent of the De?eret News writes as follows; While.Brother James Henry, whs w as hauling sand out on the lot, stopped to unload part of it, James Dnuhan a three year old son of Levi Dnnham, attempted to get but of the wagon over the hind wheel. Brother Henry not seeing the child started the team throwing th child under the wheel and breaking its neck, lnstmtly killing it. Brother Henry being vi ry hard of hearing did not know what had occurred until he had stopped the with grief over the sad accident. He" ssys that he was warned iu a dream the night before that some accident would oecur. The peoplo all sympathize with him and the griefstriken parents. Another accident occurred on Thursday, Thurs-day, the 2nd inst Several of the young men were on the race track training horses for a race, when the horse which Feramorz Brown a son of J. G, Brown, aged about twenty years was riding, suddenly shied throwing the young man against a poet of the judge's stand., fatally injuring him. This sad accident aids to the sorrow of the griefstriken parents who had buried an elder son just two weeks previons. : March 17. About 2 o'clock thin after noon a three room fram cottage at No 1C Seventh street was discovered to be in flames. A small boy ran to the nearest alarm box, broke the gla-s and inserted the key, but in his excitemeut forgot to turn it, and ran back to tho scene of the fire which by this time en veloped the house. The fire brigade was waited for in vaiu. An employee oj the city water |