Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-11-20
SOMEWHAT \ STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.

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EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Episodes 69d Thrilling Adven.
lures Which Show that Truth il
Stranger than Fiction.
KING JONATHAN CHARLES FREpER1cg,
who reigns over the Mosquito reservation,
IN the Nicaraguan territory, is one of the
most remarkable "monarchs' outside OF
Central Africa. King Frederick has
only been short time in power, and is a
man about twenty weight years of age, Of
small stature, and thickly built. He
dresses in navy blue uniform, somewhat
IKE that of a New York policeman,
trimmed with gold lace and ornamented
with brass buttons, and wears epaulets of
black velvet, marked with the letter IN. y
and the same letter graces the front of
the small cap which covers his head. The
kings enemies say that he is a man of
weak character and heavy drinker. In
tact, they go SO far as to assert that
whiskey of the strongest character is too
weak to suit his majesty's taste; SO he
dllutes his whiskey with Worcestershire
sauce and Chill vinegar. King Frederick
has always lived at Bluefelds or at Corn
Island, where, in his earlier DAYS, he
worked cargo" for the different steam
ship lines, shelled cocoanuts, or turned
his hand to anything that would produce
his meal. The predecessor of his mai
esty had no family, and after his death
tuue to poison administered by mem
Der of the Council, according to popular
rumor) King Frederick, who is distant
relative of the late ruler of the reservation,
assembled the throne. The kings salary
5000 soles month, without expenses. !"
2 One has heard of good many extraor-
binary suicides, and of a. good many
people who, despising such common helps
out of life as the rope, the river or the
pistol, have taken pains to shuttle off
this mortal coil by means not generally
used. Rarely, however, we think, has
anyone adopted the plan of running up
and down stairs as fast as possible in the
hope OF terminating his or her existence.
such course was resorted to lately In
Berlin by young lady. She was suffer-
ing, it appears, from heart disease, and
possibly this may have been the origin of
her suicidal ideas. In any case, having
been warned by her medical attendant
that any great emotion or exertion might
prove fatal, and having also been spec
tally forbidden to go up or down stairs,
she profted by the instructions to do
precisely what she was told not to do, in
order to kill herself. Being left alone
one day at home, she began running UP
and down three flights of stairs, contin-
Jung the exercise for an hour, when she
sank down on the floor quite exhausted.
She did not, however, die, as, according
to the doctors, she ought to have done
and after restoratives had been admins
tered she was as well as ever, much to hel
distress, as she really believed she would
have accomplished her purpose.
AN interesting romance comes from
the Crow Creek Reservation. B. F.
Balch, a badly crippled veteran of the
civil war, now settler on these lands,
has just received intelligence which
makes his heart glad. Some fourteen
years ago, while living in Missouri, Mr..
Balch's little girl, then years old, was
stolen from her home by some unknown
persons, and for many years although
much money and time were spent in the
search, no trace of the lost one could be
found. A communication of his to the
authorities at Washington recently in
regard to his pension was published in
the newspapers and caught his daughters
eye, who had been residing in Texas.
She at once opened up communication
with Mr.. Balch, and with the aid of
pair of earrings on her at the time of
her capture and in other ways convinced
him that she was beyond all doubt his
long-lost daughter, and whom he had
long since given up all hope of ever
seeing again. The unbounded delight
of she father can better be imagined
than described, and he can hardly con
tain himself until her arrival, she having
left her home in Texas to join her father
in his reservation home.
A MARVELLOUS recovery from paralysis
Is reported from Eureka, Tex. The pa
tient, Joel Norton, had been unable to
move either of his lower limbs and one
of his arms for three years, and was
bound to an invalid's chair, hopelessly,
1t was supposed, by the grim hand of
musCuidI paralysis, Dut inc SlBnU Oh MS
little daughter Lillian in flames broke
the bones of his living death. The child
ran into the room where her father lay
with her dress on fire, screaming and fly
ing about, when, without thought of his
condition, her parent sprang to his feet
and catching up rug wrapped her
tightly in it and succeeded in extinguish-
ing the flames. His excitement dying
out, he realized that he was once again
capable of motion, and actually tainted
from JOY and the nervous reaction.
Physicians declare it miraculous restor-
alton of vital force, and have visited him
from all parts of the country. Mr.. Nor
ton has walked two miles daily since his
recovery, and can scarcely be induced to
go to bed at night for fear lest his
malady attack him while he is asleep.
He has also resumed his occupation,
which is that of a machinist.
A MONTHS Imprisonment for OCCASION
ing the death of woman by cutting
open one of the veins in her arm appears
a light sentence, but probably, although
No statemant IN that affact is ,na1o +he