The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1876-08-13

On August 10Th. at Oakland, q purse
OF $500 is offered for the trottinr
horses, Gold Note May Howard. De-
fance, Chicago and George Trent.
yInoNlA Cr11, Ncy,, Aug. 0.
Samuel Rowe, y rginer, was killed
this morning in tho Utah mine. Ho.
was at tho bottom Of the shaft whom Tho
cage came down and crushed him TO
death. -
New YoRx, Aug. 10.
Gold closed at 1:1lL and I:11Lx
money TX aud 2; GoYernment's teady,
There was large meeting Of the
Cooper Greenback State Committee NJ
the Aston House to-day, which broke nm
IN row, on an attempt 10 20 over 10
Tilden. Tho contrary members left.
threatening to Gull En independent con.
vention ut Troy at once.
Ihe first wires were strung over ih9
tower OF tho Brooklyn bridge to-day,
They. will be brought to position carly
next week, when temporary foot
bridge will DO completed ms soon ns
possible, something like a month. This
immense ship Three Brothers, formerly
tho steamship Vanderbilt, yesterday
passed up the East River. Whom 0bser-
rations were tnken it was shown TINT
her top-mast was at least two feet under
tho lowest part of the protected bridge;
thus dispeliing the idea that the bridgg
will disturb navigation. a.
ST.. LOUIS Aug. 10.
Newsboys are striking against tho
Evening DispGteh. No copies of Tint
piper arc being sold on the streets to-
day. i,SI5 ~
ctScrSSATr, Ohio, Aug. 10.
SiIty-five OF seventy brakcmen on Tho
Ohio and Mississippi Railroad hnyo
struck, and hold several freioht tTains
along the road by uncoupling the cars
and throwing tho pins away. !.
CnErESNE, Wy, Aug. 10.
A Government courier, who left Fort
Laramie for Red Cloud Agency ON
Monday, was attacked before DAYLIGHT
on Tuesday morning, near Running
Water, by six Indians, firinn from a
Distance of sixty yards. They drove
him into the sand hills and chased him
twenty miles, when, his horse having
been wounded, he left him, and hid in
gulch nll dry, md at night returned
to Fort Laramie. Company f, Fourth
Cavalry, arrived at that post to-day, and
will leave for Camp Robinson to-mor-
row. =.
PARIS, Aug. 20.
A dinpatch says the Sultan IL batter
and his recovery Is noarly certyip
VIENNA. Aug. 10.
Beaie, United States minister IN
Austria, had an audience TODAY with
tails. - y = :
LONDON, Aug. 10.
AN offensive movement OF tho Turks
hagusa special announces that
l!eiadin Pasan has arrived at Uerczeuie
with reinfGrcements. Additional rein
dorcements are expected at Scutari.
Ihey ar1 under Nohomet Pasha, who
Will assume chief command,
Goaernl Tchernayoff Is advancing in
tho direction Of Banja.
PoRr CoLDopNE, Ont, Aug. 10.
Tho skiff Grace u, from Boston TO Dc.
troit, on wager Of $4,000, to go inside
OF lZo days. passed through WelhaI j
canal to day u days out.
SAN Francisco, Aug. IL.
The heavy failure OF D. G.. Scofield,
n member Of the Pacific ExcbanqT
BoHrd, having caused the temper arr
suspension Of Perry, Woolfskill & Co
it has became current rumor tilso Tin
Hnrris Hnrt, we'll known firm Of
stock brokers, had met with such ro
verses as TO necessitAte suspension.
Currency 30 and 9OL; trades So md
90; silver 94H and Of.
Tomorrow evening thrce.bnlI enron
match gnmo of billiards will take place
at Mercantile Library Hall between
NIauri 20 DAILY and Geo. +. sIosson
game GOO points; stake $1,000.
Another rousing ratification meeting
was held at Union HILL lost even ing
under the auspices OF tho Republican
State Central Committee, TO ratify tbI
nominations and endorse tho action O
the State Convention.
NeternnB who served In tho Uuio1
army during the la!e war will hold +,
mass convention ut horticultural Hal
this evening. It will BIO u rc-union O
the soldiers OF tho Pacific Coast, mum
beers having arrived from tho interior
Delegates will be chosen 10 represe,
California in the National ConSontio,
Of Boys in blue, to be held soon ut In
dianapolis. The Veteran Gnard OF Mi,
city Will appear i'll iEoir new uniform
Yesterday forenoon ut 1850 O'Clock
tho new broadway sewer cnyed I'm nj
the junction Of Webster street, buryim
alive workman named j. Lewis. Tho
fallen mass of earth was removed IN
about half nh hour, but II oily rove lied
to Wow the li!eless form of Lowis
whose body WINS crushed into q shane,
less mass. :
The San Frni cisco Yncht Club I'm.
decided to hayo its sixth annual regatta
OH Saturday, September 2nd, over tho
usual course; under the rules governing
former rcgnttas. Tho new SCHOONER
yncht being built for cx.0oyorno,
Pachoo1 and 9th rs. md which. Il "a
sntd, will DO called tho Lnlla RDokh
will participate in tho contest.
HARVEST or IIEALTII..
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