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

They now propose to stretch wires charged with electricity along the
 Brooklyn bridge to prevent fools from jumping off.
 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. ". H. Bolton, chief of the newspape. department ofthe Chicago postofice, was arrested last week for embedding SIoo, 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 a 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 3rst, at 3.15 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 Hattie 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 ming 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 Rolin M. Squire, comm issioner of public works, accusing him of having surrendered | in writing the entire control of his office and patronage to Maurice B. Flynn. a heavy contractor.
 Jack Dempsey, the middle-weight champion pugilist, who has fought battles and never been de- feated twas lately married at Portland, Oregon, to Maggie Brady, a stately dark halred 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 fourteen 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 fill columns of the eastern papers, and it is impossible to give all the delails or estimate the amount of damage done.
 Mrs. John Prill, of Pittsburg, Pa,, being frightened during a thunder storm last week, thought to protect herself with holy water. In her ex- citement she seized bottle of sul- phuric acid instead, and sprinkled her face with it. Her eyesight was des. troyed, and her face dishgured for life.
 A Mrs. Elizabeth Clairmonte, be- longing to some of the old Knicker. booker families committed suicide by shooting herself in the temple with pistol, at the Barrett House in New York. The cause ot her downfall was an intimate friend and schoolmate of her husband. She left a letter ac-