Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-01-20
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sALMAGUNDI.
A stormy afternoon.

a stormy
A regular blizzard struck this sec.
ton shortly after noon to dny.
Mr.. Merkley, OF Mound Valley,
came in to-day. lie reports every.
bedy happy in that section.
New York insurance authorities re
port the fire loss of 1891 in that city
city to be s3Oy 900, 900 less than that Of
1929.
Tho Appeal says that you can hard
ly look up the street now in Carson
without witnessing u scrapping
match.
1t il claimed that the use of bicy.
cles in Toledo, OHIO, has deprecated
the value Of electric street railway
plants in that city s1.500.OOO during
the past two years.
Senator Skaggs told the Reno Ga,
zette the other day that he was in IA.
yor OF the Legislature calling a Con
stitutional Convention and adjourn.
ing within ten days.
Cashier j, f. Abbott Of the Dover
National Bank Of Dover. New Hamp.
shire, IN short in his accounts about
$4,000. and rather tllnn submit to ar.
rest he shot and killed himself.
Both OF the legs OF Miss Eva Dooley
Of Boston were amputated at the
knee recently to save her life. They
were poisoned by the dye OF red
stockings which she had been wear,
ing.
Japanese papers say that the Oldest
married cauple in that country live
in Sawada, in the province Of Sado
The man is 1873 years old and his wife
lI. or the family, numbering four.
teen persons, the eldest daughter is
los years and the Oldest son los.
Rev. f. j., Gillespie. Of San Jose,
Cal, arrived last evening to take
charge OF the Elko Missionary field.
Mr.. Gillespie III highly recon
mended az a man and a minister and
the INDEPENDENT hopes that his stay
among us may be pleasant for him
and our people.
Senator Butler, OF South Carolina,
who will be succeeded by Mr.. Till.
man, is SAID to be one OF the most
polished men III Congress. 1t has
been said OF him that he would fan a
lady or fight a duel with equal grace.
and il In certain that he Is the very
flower of Southern chivalry.
A Danish inventor has constr ucted
a series Of nine aluminium globes, fit
ted with paddles for sailing in the air
and spikes for travelling over ice, by
which he proposes. at one stroks, to
solve the problem of aerial navigation
and to reach the north pole. The
globes being hollow and 6 feet i'll di.
ameter afford the necessary roem for
storage, with a minimum OF weight.
The French, are turning the desert
OF Sahara into garden by mean OF
artesian wells, and already 100000
acres have been made fruitful. There
are 100000 acres more Whiting to
be converted. Twelve years ago the
natives Of the upper Congo had never
seen II steamboat; now there are
twenty steamers III service on that
great stream.
\ young woman Of Butte, Mont,
applied to a court there the other day
for permission to kill her lover, who
had Tilted her. She thought she had
u night 30 to do, but wanted to go
about it legally and d~ecorousIy. Tho
court was inclined to agree with her
i'll the premises, but vas obliged to
dismiss her application. .
One OF the Virginia City exchanges
says that one day last week Mrs. Jas.
MInnedew Of Cold Hill wns subjected
to IN attack OF temporary blindness.
She suddenly went blind at about
noon time and renamed go through.
out the day and part Of the night.
Her sight returned ntabout midnight
and she was apparently NIL right
again next day.
a case approaching muscular Chris
tinnity occurred in Indiana a few days
ago. Al n revival meeting in JefTer.
sonvillc q man entered the church,
walked up the center aisle and seat.
cd himself in the midst OF the con.
gregation and began TO play craps
with the occupant OF the pew. Tho
minister noticed 1t. and walked out
OF the pulpit to where the game was
going II He demanded the dice and
stakes, which wcre surrendered, aud
then preceded to put the man out,
who demonstrated. The minister then
pulled out u long knife, when the crap
player subsidized and was finally land.
ed In Jail. ri'-