The Arizona champion., 1888-05-26
EEKLY CHAMPION
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Rochester, N. Y. was destroyed fire on the I7th inst.
 At Argentine, Mo-, q billy goat Ike into the council chamber l devoured all the city ordinan-
 and records.
 The old Libby prison which wed the death trap of so many
 ion soldiers during the war, is ng moved from Richmond to icago, where it will be used as Iuseum.
 senator Plumb, of Kansas. in a ent debate in the Senate, as- ed the dressed beef ring of the lntry, and asserted that it had the State of Kansas alone 1T $40, ,ooo, 900.
 The Irish Catholic members of
 House of Commons have animously issued a manifesto ;arding the papal res cript and
 rming independence of the ply See in politics.
 osie Mansfield, the handsome yenturer who indirectly brought put the killing of Jim Fisk by d Stakes, died at Beverly, N. ]. ently, and was buried privately
 the I7th inst. The cau>e of death is a mystery.
 At Union, S. C., a Texas pony lked into a store, went behind
 counter, walked up to a mirror l admired. his reflection therein, need contemptuously over the ok and then departed without .ng any damage or making any ;chase.
 The six children, four boys and Q girls, were born living, but d soon afterward. Ths news this extraordinary event, per ps hitherto unheard of in the nals of anthropology, has creat'
 a great sensation, especially in .ly, and doctors are hastening to l, scene from Milan, Como and ner towns to satisfy themselves its truth.
 The wife of the syndic Mayor, stagnola Ticino, has given birtb
 six children. This fact IS itifed to as absolutely correct an authoritative Berne cores Indent. The woman, whose me is Rezzonico, is 3S years of c, and has already had three Id four children at a birth. Her isband is msrried for the second me, and has seven children by { first wife.
 Benson, the slick Jew who yindled the people of the City ! Mexico with bogus tickets to le Patti entertainment, shielded , New York on the I7th inst. n Benson's person money and ,luables to the amount of S4,25o ere found. The body will be lterrsd in the Jewish cemetery conformity with the faith ol is ancestors, the dead man being { Hebrew percentage. His real ame was Clenchwood.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis, an aged oman, and her three grand ,i,dren, were smo,hered to death
 Cleveland Ohio, on the 24th al ,e house of William Llewellyn. ir. and Ms. llexellyn were vay from home during the even, ig, leaving the children in charge Mrs. Lewis, who is Mrs. lrwellyn's mother. Shortly be- re midnigh, the house took fire h w,s partly destroyed. When ,e flames had been extinguiShed, lewcllyn and his wife discovered ,at the occupants of the house ,,d perishrd. The children were ed 6 years, 4 years, and ls ontl,s,
 The financial world is interested I tne report that Henry Willard i' :, return to the arena of his recent ,iup,phs and reverses. This time t i, to be placed at the head O he Oregon Transcontinental and oregon Railway and Navigation .onipanies, it is stated. In th' xperience of "the street. a fai Ike tha, which Willard had three T four years ago is generally ina nd irretrieyable. The men wht ave recovered prestige and posi- ion after failure such as his was ave been few indeed. Per hap he ex Presiden, of the Northern ,acifc railroad, however, will ave to be added to this list.
 The story comes from Michigan hat a few days ago 2 Methods minister called upon a certail merchant in one of :he village md, with tears in his eyes, ae .nowledged his insoility to pa small debt. Inqniry eliclte he fact that the preacher was sic nree months last fall and was re iuced to the necessity of tn ,,ric,est economy to get throug he winter and pay his bills. il actually wintered his horse an .ow on Sa.s 50 each, and the foo or himself and wife per week al not exceed as cents. This yrobably the closest housekeepin