Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1897 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Sir Edwin Arnold, poet and journalist, has married a Japanese lady in London. M. B. Tucker, an Associated Press correspondent in Alaska, died of exhaustion on a trail. " . ' < It is said Li Hung Chang’s health has failed and he is about to retire permanently from public life. All navigation upon the Yukon river is now closed by an ice blockade. Several vessels are frozen in. Fielder Keeler of Baltimore has an official battering average of .432, according to President Young’s figures. Lotta Crabtree, better known as “Lotta,” an actress, has sued the estate of Henry E. Abbey of New York for $20,000 and two years’ interest on promissory notes. Admiral John Lorimer Worden, hero of the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac and one of the bravest sailor fighters ever produced by the United States navy, died in Washington of pneu-mft-rfa. / Mill Creek, a small town in the Chickasaw nation east of Berwyn, I. T., was raided by thirty-five Chickasaw braves, ■Who terrorized the inhabitants, drove the merchants from their houses and engaged in a wild orgy which ended in a killing. The Indians drew up in front of a cider mill, broke it open and drank all the hard cider and other drinks they could find. Then they began a systematic raid on the stores, helping themselves to whatever struck their fancy. The redskins kept up a continual shooting, having supplied themselves with ammunition from a hardware store. Luxy Lewis and James McKinney engaged in a duel in which the latter was killed. A tramp was killed, fourteen cars ditched and two engines demolished by a collision of two freight trains near Mexico, John W’. Baker, formerly assistant city Sltseasurer of Butte, Mont., killed himself by shooting. He was formerly with the Northwestern in Chicago and Union Pacific In Omaha. Col. Peter C. Haines of the engineer corps of the army, at present in charge of ‘river and harbor improvements for the i fifaltfmore district, has been appointed to |be engineer commissioner on the Nicara-