Mohave County miner., 1884-04-13

Eeefetaly sFolger keeps aprlYafe
 boarding ghouse in Washington.
 The bill providing for the erection
 of public building at Sacramento
 has been reported fa,vorably to the
 Jenate.
 The Republican Convention of the
 Eighteenth Congressional district, of
 Pennsylvania, representing Hunting
 ton, Juniata, Fulton, Franklin, Perry
 and Snyder counties, elected Blaine
 delegates to the State convention.
 Credentials were not given to the
 delegates until they signed written
 pledge iu support of Blaine for the
 Presidential nomination
 ! The Delaware county delegates to the State convention were instructed for Blaine and Lincoln.
 ] The following is the vote for Gov
 ernor in the Rhode Island election,
 with one district lacking: Bourne ] (R), 11,627; Tegare O), 9545; scat tering, 15. The Legislature will
 stand: Senate-27 Republicans, g 1 Democrats, House-57 Republicans,
 15 Democrats. The Republicans
 lose in the Senate. There is a Re
 publican gain of four in the House.
 Mrs. l.. U. Beach, wife Of promi : nent physician of Altoona, Pa, was discovered in her room with her head almost severed from her body. The
 circumstances are so suspicious that the doctor has been arrested. It is
 said that he has already admitted to
 member of the family that he com
 mitted the deed. Two large knives l and cleavers, used for amputating
 purposes, were found besides the = victim
 The annual boat race between the Oxford and Cambridge University crews occurred last Monday morning The course was the regular Thames course-four miles and two furlongs from Putney to Mortlake. The
 weather was very unpropitiOus. The air was filled with dr1zzling raiu, q heavy mist overhung the rIver while the water was decidedly shippy. } There were but few spectators. The : Cambridge crew were the favorites } from the start, and won an easy vic tory.
 Halifax, April 4.-The steamer
 Daniel Steinman from Antwerp for this point is reported as sunk off Sombro, about twenty miles from this
 port. She struck during last night } and only nine men are so far report . ed to have reached land out of 40 on ] board.
 Later.-Intelligence so far from i the wreck of the steamer Daniel
 Steinmann Is very meagre. It Is 1 said the Captain and five of the crew , were the only persons saved. The ship had ninety passengers and th1r-
 ty-four of a crew. Twenty of the passengers to iand here were all , Germans and seventy were for New . York. She Is supposed to have struck
 on the Sisters off Sombro last night t and shortly after sunk. Her mast Is 3 now visible from the shore. Intelli 3 gence dld not reach here until this
 afternoon. Considerable of the cargo
 was for here and the balance for New York. The owners have gone
 to the wreck.
 7 For three days and nights the
 most destructive fires ever known 7 have been devastating the southern border of North Carolina, extending
 into six or seven counties. Vast for 3 ests of long leaf pine have been at
 tackled These form the chief source of the timber supply. The high winds famed the flames into a terrible fury, 3 hundreds and thousands of trees were burned and some of the largest l turpentine plants are charred and [ ruined. Many farms have been de r stroyed, but the people are bravely s fighting the fire A number of towns f narrowly escaped destruction. At s Manly, on the Raleigh & Augusta g railroad number of houses were f burned, while large amount of stores, 9 lumber and railroad sills on the line , of the road are destroyed. Dozens of . turpentine distilleries are ruined. s The country in great stretches is but : a blackened wilderness. The extent q of the disaster is not yet known or
 fairly realized, many families are
 homeless. The fire swept fifty miles