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IT is well for a member of an investigating committee to investigate, but one should use discretion in one’s methods of investigation. The city councilman of Ogden, Utah, who, while gouging holes with his knife in an asphalt sidewalk the other day in order to ascertain its true inwardness, was kicked ignominiously into the gutter by the wrathy contractor, will probably in future go about the business in a different way or with an efficient body guard.
WHILE the Pacific Coast was given a temporary rest the East received this week the attentions of the fire fiend. Pittsburgh lost machine, blacksmith and car shops worth $250,000, and at Savannah a cotton compress, warehouse and about 5000 bales of cotton burned to the tune of $400,000. The losses by fire in the United States up to the end of last week were, by the most conservative authority, put at $86,852,000, and at this rate the sum total by the end of the year will reach over $115,000,000.
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