The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1885-08-02
GENERAL NEWS.

AAN IH6sAsh PaNaR AbAaAAhOO1 -
paying high tnbHte to the life. character
aud enlinen; services of General Grant.
The bunal u the body OF General
Grant will take place in Central Park.
Mes York. en- Saturday. August 9Th and
General HlncOck will have charge of
the military display.
Mr.. Grants share Of the proceeds Of
Grant book vii De betNern three and
four hundred Thousand dollars. -Four
Thousand Egents are out taking sub
seriptious and the number ~ilI be IN
creased 10 i've thousand.
A Camden. y. J. dispatch of the 2ith
says: The jersey forest fires are as
Stunning mos; alarming proportions,
and unless - heavy r.in quenches the
flames they will accomplish the destruc-
ton of "a number OF towns and small
settlements among the pines Of Cam
den, Burlington and Atlantic counties.
Brigadier-Genrra Roberts suddenly
died at Brooklyn. aged sixty. His death
occurred about he saHe time as shat of
General Grant, under whom he served.
The Sun says: The clearing house
banks have decided to give Treasurer
Jordan six millions of gold on Wednes-
day Tor AL quail amount Of fractional
silver.
The records of the week mortality in
New York show for the week ending at
noon Saturday. 1904 deaths, against
S96 in the same week last year. The
highest number o! deaths ever reached
in ordinary seasons was that of the
week ending July 6, 1872, in the dread
full heat OF that summer, when the
record reached 1881,
The intense heat at Pittsburg, is un-
abated. SATURDAY afternoon the Their
mometer stood at 92is d. gr,es. Five
cases o: slnstroke, two being fatal, are
reported
The President contemplated leaving
Washington ncXt SATURDAY on his yaca-
ton. The death Of G. neral Grant has
made it necessary for him TO change his
| Programme, and he will not leave town
for that purpose until after the buIial
OF the ex-PresiLent.
1t is reported that General Smiley,
late Adjuttut General of Ohio, will sue
cced MI. u,rri,on "a, Assistant Com
missioner Of the General Land Office.
The President has referred the charg-
as against Postmaster Jones OF Indian
apolis t. the Civil Srrvic, Commission.
Commissioners Thoman and Chief Tx
aminer Lyman have gone to Iudiauap-
oils to investigate the matter.
The New York Posts Washington
special says: Comparison Of figures ut
the Signal Office shows Washington to
have been the hottest c.ty in the couu-
try during the healed t. ran. rol twelve
day the thermometer has no, been be-
low 81 degrees, and most Of the tinc it
has been much higher. The average
OF the entire day Monday was % de-
grecs.
The S~Piritualist's camp meeting ut
Ncshaminy Falls, Pa, was visited by
three or -four thousand people Sunday.
The rxtreur heat deferred the usual
crowd. Mr.. T.. l.. Watson, of San
Francisco, delivered an address on the
uses Of adversely in preparing men for
higher spiritunl HE. Referring to Gen
cral Grant, she said he had settled into
almost absolute obscurity until the time
came when his services were needed.
The suppression Of the rebellion in
the Northwest has cost the Canadian
Government -, 900, 900, besides a num-
Der OF valuable lives.
An Atlanta, Georgir, dispatch says:
At Suwauce, on the Richmond IL Dan
vile Railroad a train ran over u COW,
throwing one car from the track. In
the car were fifteen negro train hands
and six bars OF non. The car turned
on its side and the iron fell upon the ne
grocs, killing seven aud wJuudips three
more.
The Phi!udc,puit Times continues its
savage opposition TO New York AS
Grants burial place. 1t says: "Thcic
Is yet ample time for unduins the wrong
that has been imposed npum the family
%! the General. II glDvll II, done i'm
refer, nee to the earnest wishes OF more
than fifty millions Of people who pay
sin,crc homage to his greatness and
would guard his ashes from the grovcl.
ing ambition of speculation"
Trial Jurors.