Mohave County miner., 1884-05-25


 been captured.
 A sawmill and a large quantity of lumber were burned at Fort Spo- kane, w. T., few days ago.
 William Cunningham was con yicted of stealing cattle at San Jose, Gal, last week.
 Jobn Riggs and Ellen Farrar eloped from Greenbriar, White Sul phur Springs, W. Va, in b ;they were pursued by the girls father and brother and the father and lover were drowned.
 Herbert Armstrong and David Brown were shot and killed while blowing at Bardstown, N. J.
 At Glenmary, Tenn, Sunday night, two men named Trindell and Kirby killed each other in quarrel.
 Last Wednesday fire in a Liver pool cotton warehouse destroyed l., 200 bales of cotton.
 Several severe shocks of earth quake were folt last Wednesday throughout the Peninsular of Cy ziers Asia Minor. Several villages were damaged, many houses destroy ed and twenty persons killed.
 A terrific cyclone swept over Akyab, British Burmah, last Wednesday,and immense damage is reported.
 The duty on cattle and sheep has been doubled by France Le Paris (newspaper) says the French artists will revenge the refusal of the United States Congress to reduce the duty on works of art. They will, the paper says, demand that the French salon exclude the works of American artists.
 The celebration of the 500th ami versary of the death of John Wycliffe, the earliest English reformer and translator of the bible, began We'd nesday n London. Dissenters of all denominations were represented. The Lord Mayor presided at the meeting at the Mansion House in honor of the occasion.
 Cairo, May 21.-Zeber Pasha has sent messengers by three distinct routes to Khartoum to discover Gen. Gordon's fate. It is expected the messengers will return in August.
 Randall thinks that Congress will be ready to adjourn by July Is.
 The bill granting a pension of $50 per month to Mrs. De Long will be reported fayorably to the House.
 The convention of the National Brewers is now in session at Roches ter, N. Y.
 At the New Hampshire State Dem ocratic convention, held ;n Concord, May 21st, Chairman H. w. Parker denounced protection, and said that tariff for revenue only would be the issue of the campaign.
 Ferdinand Ward, of the firm of Grant and Ward, New York, was ar- rested last Wednesday evening by the deputy sheriff, on 8 suit brought by Nelson J. Happen. city chamber lain. Ward is held in S30,O0O bail, but has not yet been lodged in jail, being in the custody of the sheriff, Bail Las not yet heen furnished
 i mixed train on tue Panhandle railroad cOIlided with a freight at Wheeling junction Wednesday morn ing, at 5 o'clock, forty miles from Pittsburg, Pa. D. Bartholomew, a travelling salesman from Cincinnati. was killed instantly, and live em- ployes of the road injured.
 At the Kansas City hospital Tues day morning Durfees Weaver (coI- Uredl, an insane patient, attacked two other patients with 8 knife, se- riously injuring them, and attempt ed to burn the building by setting fire to the bedding. He then attack ed Seward Winfrey of the hospital who to save his life, drew a revolver and fired at Weaver, killing h1m. Winfrey was quite severely cut in the struggle,
 Joseph Frazer, who so brutally murdered Wesley Supple last week, hanged himself with a pocket hand kerchief in the Anderson, Ind, jail last Monday night,
 A tornado passed through the country Wednesday morning near Howths station, Texas, sweeping everything before it. A house con Eo. H1,o 1rne k1oo,r IOvuO