Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1897 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Three ..thousand people attended the L. A. W. circuit meet races at Beatrice, Neb. W. L. Cook of Chicago was killed at Seattle by being crushed by a fly wheel in the city pumping station. The United States gunboat Castine ran aground outside the harbor of Montevideo and was considerably damaged. Minister Taylor and Gen. Woodford and family attended a bull tight at Sail Sebastian on invitation of the Duke of Tetuan. One person was killed and thirty-two were injured in a wreck on an excursion train on the Maine Central Railroad near Etna, Me. Miss Millie Comstock of Owosso, Mich., wrapped herself in a blanket, set fire to it and died in great agony. She was about to be taken to an insane asylum. Two little girls were killed and four other persons injured at Morton, 111., by the explosion of a boiler in an electric light power house and pumping station. The posse of men that started from Trinidad, Colo., oh the trail of the robbers who held up the Gulf passenger train on Twin Mountain early Saturday morning have taken into custody five, men supposed to be the perpetrators of the holdup. They were captured near Springer, N. M. At Columbus, Miss., a negro woman named Ann Hughes, who had been under guard and isolated, being suspected of having contracted smallpox, escaped and later attended a negro church and created a panic among the congregation. She was rpn out of the church and nothing more was heard of her until she was found dead, with her skull crushed, in an open field. ■ About 1,000 Apache Indians are off the reservation and are scattered through the Pinal and Superstition Mountains, in Arizona, killing deer and gathering wild fruits. None of them is provided with passes and all are armed. They have committed only minor depredations around the ranches of the region, but the settlers are alarmed and are on guard. Albert Jones, aged 20 years, of New Harmony, Mo., angered at something h>s 18-yenr-old sister said about him, shot and killed the girl. The murderer is sai l ..tolliave become insane since committing