Mohave County miner., 1884-03-09
News of the Week.

works at Philadelphia, the largest III the United States,were destroyed ny fire, involving a loss of over million dollars. Five other fires occurred during the same night causing fur ther loss of S250,000.
 4 clerk in the St. Louis office ot the Pacific Express company. to- gether with a confederate managed to steal S75.0O0 in money from the packages, on Sunday afternoon, and left for parts unknown. Tue watch man was at lunch at the time. The company have offered S7OOO reward for the capture of the men.
 Leonard Welndel, member of the St Louis firm of Weindel & Werth- elm, shot hls wife while under thein fuence of liquor.
 The boilers of a sawmill at Bat Greek, Pa, exploded Monday killing three men named Sipler, Whitehead and Kocht-
 The green glass bottle manufac- turers, at Pittsburg, Pa, receded from their position and the men have resumed work pt the old prices
 A Martinyilla, Ind, special says that a child named James Robbison was murdered by bis father and mother. The method employed was that of starvation.
 An explosion at the Virginia Cot ton Compress Works wrecked the washing and engine room, and It IS feared buried one or two persons. The company lately adopted a new method of compressing three bales into one and were experimenting when the explosion occurred. The loss is $25,000.
 Oliver Lane, wife and child, were all murdered at Perkins, Dakota, by some unknown man.
 The annual Ohio Republican Con ference was held February 18th, being the largest since the war, and dis closing to the surprise of all that the Sherman. Foster and Arthur workers constituting three separate factions, were actively at work FEngeratory to the selection of a delegation to Chi cago. The State committee meets to-day to fix the time and place for the next Ohio State Convention. It is found that John Sherman has 6 better organization than in 1882 that the Federal office holders were ! all in line for Arthur and that Eos ter had an organization on had fol Blaine and Foster or Logan and Eos ter.
 Martin. Turner & Go, merchants
 of Glasgow, engaged in the Eas . India trade, have failed. Their lia } bilities are roughly estimated at iron . G4OO,OOO to f500,O00. The failure i attributed chiefly to heavy losses il sugar sustained by the firm. 1t I ! believed that a satisfactory settle . ment will be made. The correspond ents of the firm at Singapore, Bata via. and Manila are Martin, Tyce { Go.
 i terrible tragedy was enacted las , Friday in the South of France. 4 gardener named Chave, employed a a convent at Seryaine, near Marseil ! les, was recently dismissed for lazi ness. To-day, when the sisters wer ' walking in the grounds and at mo
 ment when they were in seclude'
 place. ChaYe suddenly appeared The Lady Superior asked him kind ' Iy if he had found work. Chave
 without replying, drew revolve , and discharged the six barrels, kill
 Ing the Lady Superior and mortall.
 wounding one of her companions
 The remainder fled shrieking fo
 help. A number of peasants gatt
 cred, but Chave reloaded and keI them at bay. Two gendarmes the
 arrived and closed with Chave, wh
 fired twice, without hitting then
 One of the gendarmes shot Chave !
 the chest and another bullet Pene
 trated the murderer's ear. Chav, !, in his dying agony, inflicted on hin
 self a third mortal wound with hi
 own revolver.
 ,s The French and Chinese are ski ,d mlshing in front of Bacn!nb, i The Senate has passed the bill al e thorizing the construction of ste le cruisers for the navy.
 It The amount of the Postofice Al ce propriation bill is $45, ,16I,900 Or President Arthur heartily approv,