The Arizona champion., 1886-08-21
EVERYWHERE.
Wales now demands home rule.


 committed suicide near Boston on the I7th inst.
 The town of Bellinger, Tunnels county, Texas, is only one month old and already has population of over two thousand.
 In pulling down the main building of the New Orleans Exposition, three men have already been killed and several seriously injured.
 NEEDLES, Aug. I3.--Patrick Kin ney, a section boss, was found in his house murdered at Franconis, twenty miles east of this place.
 In the horse and man race at Santa Cruz, Cal, last week, the horse to run ten miles while the man ran five, the horse won by nearly mile.
 The Chicago races ended by the arrest of the secretary of the club and two of the jockeys for cruelty to ani mals in hurdle-racing and steeple- chasing.
 Sixteen valuable horses in a stable at the Omaha fair grounds, were kill ed by lightning on the 9th inst. They were in training for the con- ing races.
 There has been more rioting throughout the week in Belfast and Doublin, between the Catholics and Orangemen, in which 90 have been killed and I5o wounded.
 While salute was being fired at Fort Alcatraz, in San Francisco har- Dor last Saturday, in honor of the Grand Army excursion boats, Dennis Driscoll, of Battery D, First Artillery, had his arm blown of.
 The Black Hills tin mines, disco vered some years ago, are proving very valuable, and it is said they can supply our domestic consumption of that metal and save us s3,ooo, 900 annually which now goes to foreign countries for tin.
 Two square miles of land have been upheaved by some internal commotion on Cimarron river, in western Colo rado;a lake has been drained of water the bed standing at an angle of forty five degrees, new hills and valleys have appeared, and trees are turned upside down.
 A young couple were recently married at La Grange, Ga. The bride was only sixteen, but the groom swore she was of age. He was arrested for perjury and kidnapping, and she was held d prisoner by the sheriff on writ of habeas corpus. The course of true love never did run smooth.
 Helen Armstrong, aged oS, died where she was born at Moffat, Scot. land, June r3th, She was known to be the illegitimate daughter of Robert Burns and Nelly Hyslop, his sweet heart, and bore to the day of her death striking resemblance to the poet.
 Dynamite is now used for driving piles. A cartridge containing seven- teen and half ounces is placed on an iron plate on the top of the pile and exploded by electricity. It will do five times the work of an ordinary pile driver in the same time, and the cost is comparatively nothing. Thus science advances.
 For one hundred miles along the Wisconsin Central R. R., forest fires have been raging during the week. Several towns were burned, and mll- lions of feet of standing pine and thousands of cords of wood piled along the road were destroyed. Sey- eral hundred people are destitute and homeless.
 Capt. Wallace W. Hall, of the U. s. Secret Service, was shot and in- stantiy killed by his own revolver at Chicago on the nth inst. He and his wife have frequently quarreled of late, and in struggle between them in their bedroom the pistol was dls- charged, the ball entering his breast. The woman was arrested.
 Mrs. Robinson, a widow of Somer- vile, Mass, has been arrested for poisoning at different times her hus- band, her children and other relatives, in all eleven persons, whose lives were insured in her favor in various societies. She is also accused of poi. soning the ice cream at church fes- tival last June, by which over one hundred persons were made seriously ill. She is calm and collected, but the plea of her counsel will be in- sanity.