Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-07-10
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.

ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
ouecs Episodos and Thrilling Adven
turos Which show that Truth i,
Stranger than Fiction.
MISS CYRENA ALICE BoYp. ared i,
years, whose parents reside In Yolt
County, CAL, died under peculiar cir
cumstanccs A few weeks ago she wa,
visiting friends ia San Francisco. and
while there had her ears pierced. She
was very particular to urge that white
SILK be Inserted in the puncture. but The
thread used contained some colorino
matter. A day or SO after the operation
PISS Boyd returned to her parents home
IN Yote, Within few days she expe.
rlenced soreness about the ears, but did
nos regard the matter rs Of much conse-
quonco. One day she and her sister
happened to be out in q shower and Miss
Boyd took cold. The effect Of the exno-
sure began to manifest itself in her ears.
already swollen and sore. Then she
became alarmed, and upon her fathers
advice, she came to Sacramento to secure
mealcal attention. Her ears swelled
rapidly, the swelling extending to her
1ace. and finally one of her eyes was
closed completely. Erysipelas set in,
oiood poisoning followed, and then it
was evident that her life was beyond the
power of saving.
/, In the desert Of Cobb, which divides
the mountainous snow clad plateau of
Ihlbet from the milder regions of Asia.
travellers assert that they have heard
SQUADS high up in the sky as Of the clash
% arms or of musical martial insti uments.
- travellers fall to the rear or get scpara-
ted from the caravan, they hear them.
selves called by name. If they 70 after
tho voice that summons them they lose
themselves in the desert. Sometimes
they hear the tramp of horses. and taking
1t for that of their caravan, are drawn
away and wander from the right course
ana become hopelessly lost. The old
Venetian traveller Marco Polo mentions
these mysterious sounds, and saws that
they are produced by the spirits that
haunt the desert. They are, however,
"ieo eAPiicaUic. On vast PLAIN
= sne ear loses the faculty OF Judging direc-
sion ana distance OF sounds; it fails to
possess so to speak, acoustic. perspective.
Whsn man has dropped away from the
caravan his comrades call to him; but he
cannot distinguish the direction whence
their voices come, and he goes astray after
them.
HE climax is soon to be reached in a
oase SO dramatic IN its details as to seem
allnost Impossible. In Savanna, N. ",
rvity years ago boy named Hiram
uregg, the eldest OF very large family
q ~ cniIoren, was stolen from his parents,
"a. aus, Mrs. NoDert Gregg. The boy
! w e last seen on the banks of a creek and
,s parents supposed ne was drowned.
hl'er dragging the stream they gave him
Up as ioss; they moved to Rock Island.
IL, ana the father, who died there a few
yoais ascs was one OF the pioneers OF the
so@nSnIty: The other day it was
~ inu,rectiy That the missing mem
M M q lnc lamiiy IS living at Richardson,
wis' under the name OF G. A. Gage.
ane name was given him by his abductor.
= :. INSCRIPTIONS woman who kidnapped
eini 70 avenge herself on his parents,
VII WHOM sne nad had trouble. She
III 'he ooy up IN ignorance OF his
,uaa ,,a.ne, anu ne only learned 1t lew
a man forty-three years Of aoe and mar
ried. The woman who kidnapped him
left him when he married
ABORT 20 o,c,ooL an roo. ;.h.
James c,emens nro % .en' nn.
farmer Who l;uos ;~s. ,.a;ao !uuns
"a swa,lowod s;i Ts o ILL., - 6 n.nems,
WAS vino across hod ~ h;s .o,, ea, "na
had a dollar in b;s mo,th 'I pa; pare u anu
t;rcd he srddanIn dnor'sna 81 S 10y
He a,yola varu 60 dfte om ~ ep,
most cxcrnc;at;ng min and - woe dare,
oned that he had rswal,omod ~ u,ona,,
He arose ;mmsd;ota,n .ond want y
Athens Dr w 4 Cor,ton and Iun
to draw The dol,or fron, tha throot Nv
means NJ an ;nstrmmant hnt nm;nn ~
the nervous comd;t;on 81 the nat;eri ho
was forced TO nostnone the oneration nm.
iii next dav The money had nassod
down the throat and lodrsd in tbe eeso.
nhagns Nayt morn;ua 10 Doctor e 20 90
turned to his patient accomnanied bv
Dr.. John Gerdipe Clemens Was nlaced
under the influence of ether. and after a
dif3so,,lt opd Iocooro,,s o,,orat;ov 49, AL