The Arizona champion., 1886-07-24
EVERYWHERE.

is worth S3.ooo, ,ooo.
 Peru proposes to adopt the U. s. gold dollar as the basis of all its monetary transactions.
 Smallpox has broken out in Fl Paso, Texas, in an epidemic form. A quarantine against il IS advocated.
 The Minneapolis postoffice has been robbed of S2o,ooo in stamps and money. There Is no clue to the thieves.
 At the trial of the anarchists now going on at Chicago sufficient testi- mony has thus far been given to hang every one of them.
 At San Diego, July 18th, Justo Palacio was sentenced to 2 years in San Quentin prison, for burning. the s. P. bridge at Yuma,
 An extra section of the legislature of California has been called for July 2oth, to fix the much vexed question of water rights in that state.
 Brooks, alias Maxwell, Swho mur- dered Preller in St. Louis and hid the body in trunk, has been sentenced to be hanged August 27th.
 Providence, R. L, with 100, ,ooo inhabitants, and Atlanta, Ga., with over 40, 900, have decided that no more hquor shall be sold within their limits hereafter.
 Ben. Butler will run for Congress this fall in his district. He has aged much in the last few years, his sight and hearing are going fast and his step Is faiteling.
 There was method in Graham s | madness in shooting the rapids of Niagara-he hopes to have his inven- tion adopted as Iife-saving apparatus Tn case of ship wreck.
 The drivers and conductors on two of the street railroads of San Fran. cisco, who struck for a reduction of hours, have compelled the compa- nies 10 aCcedc to lhe.r terms.
 Old smooth-bore cannon are being dug up and mounted to fire dynamite bombs. Rifed pieces will not do as they tear the castings. This seems to be a revolution backwards.
 Adren Coucy and his sister Lucie committed suicide in New York last week by blowing out their brains with pistols. The deed had long been con- temp!ated and every preparation was made for it.
 The various railroads across the continent will soon reduce the time by twenty-four hours. The flying trains will only carry the mails and passengers, and will only stop at important cities. {
 Colonel Glider left New London, : Conn.,, for the north pole, with only 'ne companion, Wm. Griffith. He will go as far north as possible on a vhallng ship, and try to make the { est of the distance on foot.
 The lumber yard of Knapp, Stout S Co.,. at St. Louis, was destroyed by 1 l'e on the 18th inst., by which 25,- DO, 900 feet of lumber was consumed worth S+oo, 900, on which there was n insurance of S175,ooo.
 A skeleton of man has been found { ndet the nlgging at 6r Rose street, New Yuik, which is supposed to be hat of Alexander T. Stewart, the merchant millionaire, whose body was tolen from the grave in 1878, and as never been recovered. Last Saturday an altercation oc- [ urred in the house of representatives W e;ween Cobb, oi Indiana, and Laird, II f Nebraska, Tn whlch the latter struck he former on the nose and mouth. . hey were immediately separated by v ne crowd. The good old days seem D nave come again, ,only the weapons sed are different. Hrrrah for Sullivan! I The postal laws have been so nended as to permit the transmisison F trough the mai within the United V Iates Of liquids, in glass, not liable to ipiosion or spontaneous combustion, ' ignltion by shock or jar, and no n- such as pastes, confectionery = soft soap, salves and art- es of similar consistency, which, If ' roken open, would not lnjure or de- 1 ce other mail matter.
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