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Kills Big Groundhog.

Edward Carpenter Stays Specimen Weighing 45 pounds. Penfield, Ill., Nov. 5.-Groundhogs, which are a great curiosity in central Illinois, but more numerous in northern Illinois, are almost unknown in Champaign county. A specimen killed by Edward Carpenter in the timber near Penfield, weighed forty-five pounds and attracted much attention. it was the first reported in […]

Cost The Leopard His Life.

Baboons Had revenge for the Seizure of One of Their Number, Though Many Were Sacrificed. The leopard likes the meat of certain monkeys, but the indulgence of his taste sometimes costs him dear. A remarkable battle between a leopard and a company of baboons, seen by a traveler in Africa, is described in Das Buch […]

Lizard in Girl’s Stomach.

Crawls into Her Throat After Meat When She is Masticating it. A case that is exciting much interest among medical men in Dubuque, Ia., is that of a deaf and dumb girl named Clara Kunts, who is the unfortunate possessed of a live lizard in her stomach. The girl can feel it running up and […]

Three Thousand Squirrels In A Drove.

A novel sight of squirrels migrating was witnessed near Cumberland, Md. A drove which an eye witness estimated to contain at least 3,000 swam across the Potomac river. About 300 of them were killed by men and boys were they got into the woods.

Steers Break Up Funeral.

Cincinnati Mourners Get Into a Cattle Stampede. While the funeral procession which was taking the remains of John Mulvihill to the grave was passing Sycamore and Church streets, Cincinnati, O., the other morning a drove of steers passed. Several animals got into a fierce fight and ran into the carriages. One carriage contained Policeman John […]

Fights A Lioness.

Tamer from Europe Has a Desperate Battle at Winsted, Conn. Mozart, a lion tamer just from Europe, was nearly killed the other night at the Nickel Plate circus at Winsted, Conn., by Mad Lizzie, the lioness that has killed eight men. He had entered the cage just as a furious storm broke, and the deafening […]

Battle With Snakes.

Party of Campers in the Alleghenies Kill Forty-Seven Rattlers. Miss Bella Hope, the “rattlesnake belle of the Alleghenies,” with three young women companions and two young men, went berrying in the mountains near Belefonte, Pa., Monday. At noon while eating luncheon they witnessed a desperate fight a few hundred feet distant between a wild cat […]

Famous Steer Dead.

Wichita, Kan., June 22.-The famous steer Jumbo, which had attained the enormous weight of 5,000 pounds and was still growing, was killed Monday. Jumbo was four years old, and measured eight feet tall and twelve feet long. He had massive horns, 13 inches in circumference’ and six feet across, with perfect curves. Mr. Payne decided […]

Cat Kills A Turtle.

Puss Meets With a New Kind of Creature and Has a Hard Time of It. Farmer Egerton has a large cat named Scrapper which has long been the terror of all the dogs and cats in the neighborhood. One day lately he met his match in a large turtle. Discovering the queer creature taking a […]

Killed Its Keeper.

Big Elephant Wintering at Argentine Kan., Crushes Frank Fisher to Death. Kansas City, Mo., April 10.-“Rajah,” a mammoth elephant owned by Lemen Bros’. Circus company, which has been wintering in Argentine, Kan., near here, on Sunday killed its keeper, Frank Fisher. Fisher had returned to the tent intoxicated and tried to make the different animals […]