Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1894-06-17
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jALNIAGUNDl.

The storm is over.
The postof1ice at Chat has been
discontinued.
Postmaster Sherwood has received
the new money orders.
Frank Boskowitz, the lesser, is
circulating around town to-day.
Geo. Mcintosh, OF Carlin, took in
the County Seat this forenoon.
Frank Rockwell has been appointed
Express messenger between Virginia
and Reno.
K o. r. Leonard, Ex-Chief Justice Of
the Nevada Supreme Court, has
located in Florida.
Mrs. G, J. Smith, nee Miss Moilic
Sheehan, arrived from Ogden on No
2 this morning on a visit to her sis.
tiers.
The Carson News says that it is
rumored that Il straight-out| Demo-
cratic paper is to be started soon in
Reno.
President Cleveland is suffering
from the effects OF warm weather and
the country is suffering from the
effects Of Clevelandism.
Indian Agent Hargrove is down
from the Reservation to-day to meet
his son and daughter who arrived
from Terre IIaute, Indiana, on
No. 4.
The memory has IL great deal to do
with bodily ills" said the veteran
why my corns on the foot / lost at
Gettysburg still hurt me when I
stub my wooden leg
Express Agent Davidson was taken
quite i'll this morning with Il severe
attack OF plurisy. He is resting com
fortably this afternoon and will be all
right i'll II day or two.
Ernest Herting, the aIdaho detec-
tive" shot and dangerously wounded
VIM. c.. Cox, Il young man 81 years
old, in Virginia City Saturday night
Herting was arrested and lodged in
Jail.
Philadelphia Times: 1t has come
out that Miss Anthony has been talk
ing for woman's suffrage for fifty
years, And yet some men kick be-
GUS their wives merely talk all
night.
a dispatch from Lexington. Ky,
says it was rumored there yesterday
that Col. Breckenridge would with.
draw from the Congressional ace in
Difference to the wishes of relatives
and friends.
They are talking i'll Boston about
Il clergyman who, at n recent dinner,
drank Il quart Of champagne under
the impression that it was appolinar-
il and good for his digestion.
The reports OF the confiagration at
Panama have been grossly cxaggerat-
ed. Only one hundred and fifty cheap
dwellings have been burned. The
loss is estimated at s350,0O0.
u. b. Buck" Zabriskic. late meter
and retiner at the Mint died very
suddenly OF heart disease in Carson
Sunday afternoon. He had been
around town apparently in his usual
health about half an hour before he
died.
There is now living in the city OF
Detroit Il retired burglar, who was
well known to the police of two cont.
nents twenty years ago. He has been
nm honest man for that length oftimc.
His fortune, gaining entirely by
stealing, is estimated to be owe $780,.
600.
The ST. Louis Democrat says:
"Ihe question who is the oldest liv.
ing soldier. of the War Of the Rebel.
ion has been discussed in the papers
OF the country lately, and it has come
to be conceded that Rudolph Kclker,
who WIS born in 1903 and enlisted ut
Pittsburg, is the maj to whom this
fame attaches. There is in this coun.
ry nh old soldier, John Allen, OF
Pennington, who was born in 1900,
was q soldier under Wellington, and
he was in tho Union army through.
utthc war. lie is now 10l, but is
hale and hearty and was in Morgan
town on Memorial dry to assist in
decorating the graves Of his fallen
cOmrndrs.