Mohave County miner., 1884-05-11
News of the w eek.

Holmesburg, Pa.
 The Western Union has reduced telegraph rates at the Fast.
 The Marquis Tseng has been su- perseded at Paris by Lii Fong Poa.
 Benjamin Wallace. a wealthy soap manufacture, has been missing since Tuesday morning, when he left the office of McAdams, his lawyer, III company with a stranger. He had large amount of money ard valua ole jewelry on his person. Foul play IS feared. His business is in a fc UT lshing condition and he is said to be worth S7,OOO,OOO.
 The ship Alandne of Drammen, Norway, was wrecked on Wednesday night in northeast gale and snow storm five miles east of Wolfe Island station on the Magdalan islands. She broke up immediately. Nineteen lives were lost. The second mate was tue only survivor.
 4 Journal Harper Kan.) special says: Swift retribution has overtaken the Medicine Lodge murderers and robbers. A posse in pursuit yester day came up with the robbers three
 miles from town.and captured them
 after brief struggle. They brought the prisoners back to town and lodged them in the calaboose. A crowd gathered at 10 p. m. and at tackled the building. One rCbber l opened fire whereupon the crowd
 riddled him with bullets. The re-
 maiuing tLree robbers were then talk en out and conlucted to the edge of town and hanged, The excitement of the crowd was intense. They re l fused to listen to the officers who en-
 deavored 10 quiet them. One prison
 CT begged for mercy, but the others 3 died game as the saying goes. The | excitement increased when 1t wae : found that two of the robbers were 7 Henry Brown and James Wheeler = Marshal and Assistant Marshal ot . Caldwell. The other two, John Wes
 ley and Henry Brown, were cowboys ] from the "Seventy-fve range" All Z the men are well known here. Mir
 Powne is reported to be dying, {
 bullet having entered his breast ovel | the heart and come out under the
 shoulder. Geppert was first shot il ] the back and then in the forehead : He died instantly.
 There is a prospect of mob lynch 1ng James Kirby, who killed mal
 at Clifton, ". Va, and who was 6neC
 S1O0 and imprisoned for thirt!
 days,
 l. is reported that worthless bonds ! of the Washington Real Estate Loal
 and Trust Company have been dis
 posed of on the Pacific coast b.
 Sharpers,
 Forest fires are raging in New Jer ! sey and Pennsylvania. The English detectives accuse pas sengers from America of carrying dy l namife in spirit fasks.
 Fitzgerald still leads in the New e York walking match. P LleuteDant Fargas killed the Colone of his regiment for intimacy with hi i wife,a daughter of Chief Justice Der mudez of Louisiana. The General Conference of th' Methodist Episcopal Church me
 at Philadelphia May 5th>)
 SamRee11 Jackson killed Edward
 White near Lone Park, Ind.
 US. Tall (colored) and Maggi'
 Burton (~hlte) eloped from Mechan
 icsburg, O., on Sunday. P Jim Keene's affairs are almos ' hopelessly involved. } France has couditionally consented to a conference on the Egyptian ques tion.
 Suspected nihilists are being arrest
 ed daily in Russia. ; The friendly relations between
 France and Morocco have been rup tured.
 David Swartz, an old resident OI
 O -egon, WIS found murdered on the
 road near his home. short distance from Salem.
 The Cl)verdale and Eureka stage was rifed of the mail and express by bighwaymen near Cloverdale May { 9th.
 5 Samuel Stevens, a foreman in { mine near Salt Lake, was killed by falling out of cage. S26OO belonging to a guest disap I r.,orod from tIa cafa Of a POrtIdI q