Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-11-14
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS or
EVERYDAY LIFE.
runny Episodes and Thrilling Al
ventures Which Show that Truth
is Stranger than Fiction.

NSlr 81 81 cry Of an engineer The
49, I'VE O'Clock train over
the Bellefonte and Ia
mont road was coming in at the rate Of
forty miles an hour when, on suddenly
rounding curve, COW on the tract
knccked the engine of the rails. Motto.
ing culvert just ahead the engineer
samuel Cherry, put on all steam and the
engine, instead OF tumbling and wreck
ing the entire train, jumped clean over
the culvert and drew the first car across
The engine then rolled down an embank.
nent and IS complete wreck. One chi.
only was overturned and nobody was
hurt The fireman jumped, but the
eng neer stuck to his engine until II
stopped and he ws~ only badly shaken
up.
TRIAL involving circumstances of an
exceptionally romantic character will
come before the Tr bunal of Ragusa
Austria. "A about twenty years ago a
peasant of the neighborhood of Rao1,sa
peinS no longer able to support his wife,
emigrated to the United States, leaving
his better half In charge of the village
priest. From the first luck smiled on
him, and lie was abe to send the priest
fifty forms a month for his wife. AS
his position improved he increased the
amount OF his monthly remittances. but
the rascally recerendo only handed five
horins O month to the woman. This
went on for fifteen years, when this
worthy clerical gentleman forged a GER
titicate of the husbands death and
placed it in the hands of his wife. whose
death he likewise certified in forged
document and sent it to the husband in
America. Shorty afterward he piously
besook himself to Corfu, where he hoped
to spend the remainder OF his DAYS in
peace, rejoicing in the remembrance Of
his good works. Fate had decided
otherwise. The unfortunate woman,
his victim, was forced to get her living
by begging from the passengers of the
Lloyd steamers that touched at Ragusa,
and her husband sought consolation in
remarr age with rich American lady,
by whom he had two children. After
twenty years absence he resolved to
make tour in Europe with his family.
He visited Paris, Vienna, Trieste, and
finally Ragusa. On landing at that
harbor q beggar woman accosted him
and asked for aims. They recognized
each other simultaneously. The beggar
woman was his wife, whom he believed
to have been dead several years The
priest hos been arrested and will be
tried, when in all probability the second
marriage will be annulled.
A CHICAGO cloth:er and gents fur
nisher has created sensation. He sus-
pended in his show window PAR of
pants and decorated them W til many
placards. One of them read like this !:
sWhv do the newspapers not jump on
the deadbeats as they do on the gam
b.ers!" A business card was pinned on
each log. One card was that of a real
estate man and the other that of bro
ker. On the real estate man leg was q
legend, reading: This man ordered
tn pair Of pants and never called for
them. On tho brokers' leg was this :
This man received similar pair of
pants and got away with the Doodle. :"
Another placard read: "Publish thu
deadbeats for the benefit of other tail
ors, = or something to the same effect.
All day long this display attracted the
attention OF passers-by, and at no time
were there less than dozen people out
in front studying the placards. Many
and vailed were the comments Of the
crowd On Mr.. Browns method of sham
ing people into settlement, but there
was one universal verdict, and that was |:
Any man who would contract for pair Of
pants of such pattern ought certainly
to be published.
NEAR the town of Warrensville, Penn,
are four remarkable wells within short
distance Of each other, on the summit
Of the mountain. Great rocks abound
in the ne;ghborhood, and the plscc is
consi5ered the widest in Lycoming
county. Two Of the wells are ten feet
in diameter, one twelve, and one fifteen.
They sink downward to an unfathom-
able depth. How they came there mo-
body knows, but their existance is a
menace to the safety Of strange hunters
unacqua;nted with the locality, mas
much as they constitute dangerous pit
fills into which careless sportsman
might step without warning Looking
down into the wells one can SEQ huge
masses Of rock jutting out from the sides
here and there, and on these rocks are
strewn in great profusion the ske etons
and antlers Of dear and the skeletons OF
other animals that have fallen over the
brink. These wells have at times been
explored for distance of several hun
ilred feet by means of rope raiders lei
dawn from above, but the investigations
cave no clue to the mystery OF then
formation. All efforts 10 ascertain then
depth with plumb ines have failed, az
AZ a<<l;x,;fxr az all .,ointf ia not Derpen.