Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-04


cldent and rushed out. but when she
had almost reached the child the ice
gave way under her, and she fell into
tne water, which is about 10 feet deep
at that point. AS she was sinking she
selzed hold Of the ice and managed to
struggle to her feet. Just as the child
was about to sink for the second time
she got the boy in her arms and ran a
short distance, when the ice gave way a
second time. Again she kept him out
OF the water and succeeded in reach
ing the shore, where she fell uncon-
scious and was taken care of by neigh.
bors.
ONE of the pluckiest fellows that ever
lived IN Montana is John Myers. He is
~ years old, and has just gone through
thrilling experience. He is d cowboy,
and was hunting for horses with "a party
on the Still Water River. He was miss
ing when the others came in. 1t was
thought he had stopped at some ''squaw
mans house, and no fear was felt for
his safety. Two days after the men in
the camp noticed dark object slowly
siding down the side of an opposite
bluff. 1t was Myers. Both of his legs
were broken, and his head and face ter
ribly lacerated. He was weak from loss
OF blood and the exposure he had under
gone dragging himself along for thirty
hours in the snow. His horse stumbled
and threw him on the rocks and ran
away. He crawled up the side of steep
bluffs where few men could walk.
A HORRIBLE accident has taken place
in Paris hospital A nurse had taken
a child of five and half years into the
lavatory in order to wash it, and had
had left it there for few moments by
the side of bath filled with boiling
water. During the nurses absence two
girls, aged respectively ten and nine
and hall, entered thelavatory and seeing
the younger child, they began to play
with it, finally plunging it into the bath.
The nurse hurried back instantly, hear
ing piercing shrieks, and then saw the
little one struggling in the water. All
efforts to save the child were Intellectual
and it died, after having fingered few
hours in great agony.
AS John Viege was walking on the
outskirts of his farm on the shore Of
Rarltan Bay, in Union Township, N. j.,
few days ago, he noticed a piece of
weather-beaten canvas stricking above
the ground. With some trouble he OPEN
ed the frozen earth and drew out of it a
tarred canvas hammock strongly stitched
up. In the hammock was the skeleton
of man, still partly covered with rough
sailors clothes. The sea at one time
flowed over this part of the farm, and
the superstition is that many years ago
the man died at sea, and that his ship
mates shotted his hamp7ock, enclosed
him in it and dropped him into the
shallow water.
JAMES DIoKEY owns farm in Fannin
County, Ga. For years the Dickey fam
lily has cultivated it, getting what could
be raised on its rocky soil. Mr.. Dickey
has worked it from his boyhood He
won't work it any longer, for a few
months since Chicago firm that is
looking for marble in Georgia struck
this farm, and after prodding into its
crevices and gullies, told Mr.. Dickey
they would like to lease it for 100 years
on a royalty for every square foot of
marble quarried, which they guarantee
shall reach $1,000 month and not ex-
coed $4,000 month. Mr.. Dickey thinks
this good enough and has leased his
farm.
A BANKER in Lille, France, had the
misfortune to wet eighteen bills of the
Bank of France, and in order to dry
them he placed them on board at an
open window where the sun shone upon
them. They dried more rapidly than
was anticipated. A gust of wind car
ried them into the street, where, unfor-
tunately, a goat picking up odds and
ends at once captured the bank bills and
swallowed them. The goat was pur-
chased, and the bills secured in a very
dilapidatsd condition, but the Bank of
France recognized its obligations and
redeemed them.
A STRANGE phenomenon is noticed in
connection with the natural gas supply
at Montpelier, Ind. Six hours out of
every twenty -four the gas runs down to
a minimum, and six hours daily it
reaches maximum. When at low ebb
the valves are open wide to get a suffi-
cheney and when at the highest point
piio oilihlieou uiIll VI tIle Key Will supply
the demand. The movements constant
with the ocean tides, but whether or not
the same influences are the cause is a
matter of conjecture.
WALKING up Broadway, the attention
of Joe Howard, of the New York Press
was attracted to the driver of hearse,
in which was neat little coffin, one of
those white affairs in which parents
bury their babies. There was a jam on
the street and cigar in the drivers
mouth. Deserving an opening in the
crowd of vehicles, he whipped up his
horse, and, putting vigorously the while,
sped past butcher cart with smile Of
triumph.
NANCY and Sallie Severns, two maiden
sisters, aged respectively 81 and SO
years, who have lived from time immem-
orial in little frame house in Hume
vile, Penn, have just passed away
within few hours of each other.
The costliest stable in the world has
been built in Syracuse, N. Y, for Mr..
D. Edgar Grouse, millionaire horse
man. When it is completely ready
for occupancy, it will represent an out
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