Mohave County miner., 1884-03-02
News of the w eek.

New burg, on the IenEeSSee IlEef, Ihe skifT was dashed against tree by the current and upset. Mrs Beatty, all the children and one of the young ladies were drowned.
 While trying to cross the Colum- bia river on the ice one night last week Daniel Conroy broke through the ice and sank to his shoulders. He chung to the edges of the ice, and four men on shore hearing his cries went to him and by lying down full length and holding each otber hv the heels they pulled hm out. l They got him to shore with di lculty, but tho man died Of exposure before medical aid reached hi.n. In hIs pocket was found a discharge from 1 the Fifteenth Infahtry made out to Daniel Conroy and thls led to hls identity.
 James Laford, who shot himself at Passaic, N. J., because his wife's relative induced her to sign will on her death bed, giving to them the home and property which he. had struggled hard to provide for his old age, l,ft q note explaining thereason for lis suicide to his sister, Maggie Harte, at Benicia, Cal; also the fol- lowing epitaph, to be placed on his tombstone: James Latford, late pri- vate Company H, Fifth United States Infantry, loved and hoa"red the land of his birth, and faithfully veithe land of his al0ptlon."
 Three survivors of the bark Ada Barton state that they chung to the masts for five days and nights with out food, The third day the dog tried to devour one of them. When rescued they were casting lots to de eide which of the threo should die to furnish focd for the other two.
 John Heith, one Of the Bisbee (A. T.) murderers, was lynchea one day last week.
 James Helt shot and killed ayoGng man named Bob Scanlon in Stockton. The Coroner's jury returned verdict 
 of iustifable homicide.
 The jury fn the Murray murder case at Portland returned verdict of guilty of murder in the first de- gree.
 l L. G. Durgan committed snicide at Tacoma, ". T.
 Four men were injured by a gas explosion in the Vancouver coal mine, B. c.
 The Canadian House of Commons has passed bill granting joan of $30.O 0.O00,O0O to the Canadian Pacific railroad:
 The garrison at Tokar has surren- i dered to Qsman Dlgna.
 The House of Lords has appolnt- . ed commission on the housing of
 the poor.
 Dr. Friedman, his wife, child and
 servant. have been murdered by rob hers in Pennsylvania. } ;Salnn Morse committed suicide by drowning at New York. The three members of the Taylor
 family, whose bodies were fonnd iu l the Ono Medical College, were mur ] dered.
 ! The bodies of De Long and hi: ! comrades were formally received a
 New York yesterday. Louis Haas claims to have los : 21O,OOO at poker in two nights a
 Chicago.
 H. J. McKusick, superintendent o ] the Railway Mai. SerYIce of the Pa cifc Coast has been removed. Mi } McKusick has had charge of his al f vision, which IS the largest in area Il f the country, embracing three State ! aad six Territories, for the pas = seven years. He has been credltet
 with beng indefatigable in hls work !, devoting his entire tune to 1t, no f having had a holiday as he asserts and spending even Sundays in h. r labor at his office. 2 It is announced that Pope Le = XII has conferred on EdmTnd DunI - formerly Chief Justice of Arizon'
 and now the head of the San Al
 tonlo Colony in Florida, the title ( 70 Count. with reversIon to his male d' is scendants.
 .h An examination of the bodIes ts the Taylor family, found in the Obi 1f Medical College, shows that all thre le had been murdered. All the bodit ], show unmistakable signs of viulenc