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A Rival Of Brigam Young

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
October
Year
1872
Copyright
Public Domain
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Half a contury ago !i Jewish merchaut, Isaac Pordo Come, lived at Grenada, Spain, in a house built ut tho baso of a. : lofty rock. Ho devoted himsclf to niarrying and making monoy, and suoceoded so wcllinboth that he atrfaugd a largo fortune and took untü bnUBölf soveu wives, not pólygamously, but in succession, nsone at'ter tho other WM transferrcd frora hiá anus to tho grave. It was bis habit,t'o bury his spouses at night and uuattended. It was probably this tact that caused the suspicions that iiïially drovo him fróm the city. Ho raarried agaiq twice, aird finally, having buried his nino wives, fo was buriod himself at Veta Cruz in IS'ji). Ilia nous ure, siid to be now living in America. His story had well-nigh been forgotten in Grenada whcn, a few weeks unce, soma workmen employed in repairing his old houso, discovered a subterrancan pass:ige, 135 fect long by 7 1-2 vide, at tho end of vrtiicb. woro Beven feniale skelctons. Mcd- ical experta say that they must havo all' been placed thero during the modem B'lueboard's lifc. Grenada is propcily oxcitfid. ïh! skeletons have been taken' away, but, it' anybody doubts tho story" , ho can go and suc tho cave.

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Old News
Michigan Argus