The Arizona champion., 1886-08-07
EVERYWHERE.
Abbe Franz Liszt, the great pianist and composer, died at Beyreuth, July ,Icf


 charged with electricity along the Brooklyn bridge to prevent fools from jumping of.
 A milk wagon made its usual rounds
 in Chicago last week, but the driver of it was found to be stone dead, still holding the reins.
 Twenty deaths and eight people wounded are the result of the riots at Amsterdam by the police trying to stop the game of eel-killing.
 The Yacht, Sarah Craig upset in squall off Sandy Hook, with pleas ure party on board, of whom six ladies and one gentleman were drowned.
 Col. w. H. Bolton, chief of the newspape. department ofthe Chicago postoffice, was arrested last week for embezzllng sroo, 900 by false returns.
 Ex-President Arthur, though re- ported better, is still suffering from Brights disease, and indigestion, which fill his friends with apprehen- sion.
 A registered mail pouch, said to contain SIoo. 900, was stolen between New York and PIttsburg, June goth, and as yet the thieves have not been found out. The matter has been kept | quiet until lately.
 Peter Mccoy committed suicide at San Rafael. Cal, Aug. 2d, by swal- lowing piece of bale rope six and half feet long. He had besides swallowed sixteen inches of leather strap all tangled.
 The Baptist church at St. Clair, Pa., was blown up by dynamite on July 3tst, at SIS o'clock a. m. The outrage is supposed to have been committed by liquor men whom mem bers of the church had prosecuted.
 The body of Charles Lockwood, who murdered the young and beauti- ful Matte Randall near Litch- field, Conn.,, was found three days | after the murder hanging to tree near the spot where he committed the fearful deed.
 Near Ottawa, Canada, July 26th, while friends and relatives were sit ting up with corpse, bolt of light hing entered through the chimney, burst open the coffin, killed two of the mourners and rendered the others so insensible that they were unable to give an alarm for several hours.
 Mayor Grace, of New York, has preferred charges against Rollin M. Squire, comm issioner ot public works, accusing him of having surrendered in writing the entire control of his office and patronage to Maurice B Flynn, heavy contractor.
 Jack Dempsey, the middIe-weight champion pugilist, who has fought battles and never been de- feated twas lately married at Portland, Oregon, to Maggie Brady, stately dark haired beauty, just turned twenty. He has promised her never to fight again, and will open a hotel.
 There was occasion to disinter the body of Miss Jennie Fulton, who died years ago at St. Elmo, Ills. The body was found to be perfectly petriied even to the braids in the hair and the finger nails. It weighed 300 pounds, and did not change any { on being exposed to the air.
 A fearful wind, rain and hail storm visited central Ohio, central and south : ern New York and eastern Massachu. sets, dealing destruction to man and beast, tenements and shipping. Ac. counts of the disaster hll columns of the eastern papers, and it is impossible I to give all the delails or estimate the i amount of damage done.
 Mrs. John Prill, of Pittsburg, Pa., being frightened during thunder ( storm last week, thought to protect [ herself with holy water. In her ex- ;itement she seized a bottle of sul- V ,huric acid instead, and sprinkled her s ace with it. Her eyesight was des- a royed, and her face dishgured for C fife. i
 A Mrs. Elizabeth Clairmonte, be- ( onging to some of the old Knicker. C booker families committed suicide by T hooting herself in the temple with a S ,istol, at the Barrett House in New c York. The cause oi her downfall was c m intimate friend and schoolmate of r Ter husband. She left letter ac- S ;nowledging her guilt and ilnploring forgiveness.
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