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130 YEARS AGO

Battle Near Eureka: At last the threatened storm has broken loose near Eureka. One hundred Carbonari yesterday attacked the Sheriff's posse at Fish Creek, the former losing five men as stated in a telegram to Colonel G. G. Lyon, Private Secretary to the Governor. None of the posse was hurt. The city is quiet.

100 YEARS AGO

Janes and McLaughlin lost the tennis doubles to the national champions yesterday at Newport. Janes went down in a single match, but McLaughlin is yet to be defeated in the national interscholastic championships and is touted as the man who will win them.

70 YEARS AGO

While Mrs. Ada Anderson was at the show last evening, her home was burglarized. The loot, as far as Mrs. Anderson has ascertained, amounted to exactly 37 cents - a quarter and pennies.

50 YEARS AGO

Nevada's gory traffic death total for 1959 stood at 120 today.

20 YEARS AGO

The Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming opens at the University of Nevada-Reno.

10 YEARS AGO

Debbie Cross' classroom is awash with palm trees, techni-colored paper parrots and handmade knicknacks from Bali as the teacher brought the island to her classroom in a vacation/cross cultural exchange.

• Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.