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Buying Mules for Spain.

Kansas City, Mo., March 28.-Senor Julian Azcue, an agent of the Spanish government from Havana, and Antonio Maestre, of St. Louis, are in the Kansas City market purchasing mules for the Spanish army. They have practically cleaned the market of medium-sized mules, having purchased 600 to be delivered on the wharf at New Orleans by […]

Mammoth Mule Burns To Death.

St. Joseph, Mo., Aug. 14.-R. R. Warren’s livery barn at Trenton, Mo., burned. Loss, $75,000. The largest mule in the world was among the stock destroyed. It weighed 2,048 pounds.

Horses And Mules.

Yesterday seemed a gala day for horseflesh-runaways innumerable were witnessed, and even a pair of rough stumpy mules felt the mania and started off at full gallop; but becoming convinced of the impropriety of the movement they held up after running a few rods. Two “bloods” from a neighboring county, desirous to display the gait […]

Bears And Mules.

A grand fight between a bear and a jackass was advertised to come off at Mokelamme Hill, California, on Sunday Dec. 10th; Admission $1.50. This is cheering evidence of the progress of civilization on the Pacific slope.

A Panic In Camp.

Three Thousand Horses and Mules Create Havoc Among the Soldiers at Tampa, Fla. Washington, June 17.-A special to the post from Tampa, Fla., says: At ten o’clock Thursday night 3,000 horses and mules broke from the corrals and stampeded through the camps of Gen. Carpenter’s brigade. It was so dark and the excitement was so […]

Purchase Of Mules Ordered.

St. Louis, April 19.-A telegram from Washington states that the war department has just ordered the purchase of 1,800 mules in addition to the 1,000 ordered last week. The mules are to be used as pack animals for carrying supplies over roads in Cuba where the army wagons cannot be drawn. All the mules purchased […]

The Commissary And The Mule.

The two lines were facing one another, with only a short distance separating them. A farmer rode into the Confederate camp on a mule. Most of the soldiers had been farmers and were good judges of horseflesh, so that in conversation with the old farmer the merits and demerits of the mule came up naturally […]

Old Barney, The Mine Mule.

Thirty-five Years Underground-Brought to the Surface, He Seeks Death. Coalbrook [Pa.] Letter to New York Sun: Three years ago a mule known as “Old Barney,” having spent thirty-five successive years in drawing coal cars in the tunnels of Old Hickory Colliery, was taken out of the mine by his owner and turned out to do […]

Six-Mule Army Teams.

They Are One of the Interesting Sights These Days in Tampa-Mule Recruits from Cuba. There are about 3,000 mules with the army in Tampa. Most of these are divided among the different regiments, where they are assigned to ambulances, to baggage wagons and to carry packs. About 500 remain with the quartermaster, who keeps them […]

Mule Match Of Motor Car In Struggle.

Dallas, Tex., Sept. 5.-A mule hitched to a delivery wagon and driven by W. A. Sellars caused a panic at the Southern station by smashing Captain W. H. Wilkerson’s big automobile. The mule appeared not to like the odor of the machine, and having been driven up close to it, he set upon the automobile […]