The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1885-02-15
oxr1RAL news.

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$4,000 or thereabouts.
An ItAli4n expedition consisting of
1850 men las been ordered TO proceed
At onoe to Suakim. Its reported IL. coo
more troops are b ing mob:liz d for ser
vice in Egypt.
The New York State Executive Com
mittes of the Anti Monopoly League has
passed a resolution recommending ex-
Senator Thurman is a member of Presi-
dent Cleveland's Cabinet.
Tnmps placed u hand-car with the
wheels locked. ON the V. Il /. road
Thursday, which was thrown from the
track by the engine OF the passenger
train without damage TO the train.
Wayne Powers and George Bibson
were hanged in Virginia, Friday. for the
murder OF VIM. Gibson in April last.
Both addressed the crowd, acknowledged
the crime aud exhonoratiug Jonah Pow
ers, who had been convicted Of the same
offense. The parting between Wayne
Powers and his brother Jonah, who was
Ieprieyed by the Governor, was very af-
fecting. Wayne Powers in u pamphlet
confessed he attempted to murder his
own brother and many others.
An extra freight train from Philadel-
phia, Saturday, stopped on Il bridge
across the Fiaritan canal to repair u
broken truck, and was run into 10y the
through southern freight train, which
telescoped the cabcose and exploded All
oil tank ON the special, the burning oil
nlG wrecked cars being thrown TO the
streets below. The burning OF! set iire
to several dwellings and manufacturing
establishments in the vicinity, which
were destroyed. The loss is estimated
mt u million dollars. brakeman on the
oil train is supposed to have been burned
to death.
A bill Is now before the Legislature
which provides II line OF sou aud six
months imprisonment Tor persons on
yicted Of sending anonymous letters on
tanning threatening or vulgar language,
or for the purpose OF Llack-mnil. The
object Of the bill is n most worthy one,
and il properly drawn, should become Il
law. II there be one class of m~iscreants
who deserve punishment more than
anather, it is the loaths0mc creatures
who distribute filthy anonymous letters.
A cold blooded murder near the viii
lage Of Radical City, Kansas, was dis
covered Thursday. Frank Bonham, the
oldest son of a widow living on a farm
near Radical, on his return home after IA
three days absence, found his mother,
brother and sister murdered, and 10 all
appearances th"v had been dead IL day
or two.
While in the act of putting a belt on
n swiftly revolving pulley at the Rich
mond works in Eureka, last Tuesday,
Christian Hanson. an old employee OF the
company. was caught in the belt, whirled
Ground the shaft and literally dashed to
pieces before the machinery could be
stopped.
The fast overland freight trains via
the Central Pacific will commence run
ming about March /. The trains will be
nine days. The line is composed of the
Central Pacific, Union Pacific, Rock
Island, Chicago. Milwaukee Il st. Paul.
and the Northwestern. About 900 cars
will be equipped with u~ir-brakes. Freight
will be brought by n con inuous line
from Chicago without breaking bulk.
Hugh Park, n settler on Shaw's Island,
San Juan county, became insane last
week and shot md killed James Baker,
II neighbor. Sheriff Kelly vent with "a
posse to arrest him, but he had his doors
and windows barricaded and would not
let them in. The house was watched
from Friday till Sunday. Finally a
neighbor named Wilson broke the door,
and Park shot him, killing him instantly.
Monday afternoon the Sheriff and posse
were worn out and set fire to the house,
e Park shot at another man, but
missed. After the roof fell in, Parks
body wos recovered from the danes.
Deceased left a farm and some stock and
was known to have several thousond
dollars in money.
The Chinese New Year occurs ON the
10th, instant, which ushcrs in the cley.
enth yearof the reign of Kiyang Shu, the
present Emperor of China. The Chi
ncse New Year differs from the Christian
New Year i'll that it simply celebrates n
new period in the reign Of the monarch,
and not a religious event.
These newspaper men are terrible fell
lows. On Friday last, II Wabash ink.
singer pulled his little gun and killed n
fellow named Hickey just because Hickey
had threatened his lie and then was so
unmannerly as to SO to the newspaper
Office with the intention Of furnishing Il
funeral-nnd he did.
Edward Arnot. an actor and at one
time leading man at Wallack's and the
Union Square ihcGtcrs, New York, com.
mitted suicide in Chicago, Thursday, by
cutting his throat with a razor, seSerinC
both jugular veins.
Alex. Jones. meil.carrier from Grant,