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Attacked By A Savage Lion.

Frank C. Bostock, manager of a Zoo, is Rescued from Death by a Woman. Frank C. Bostock, manager of the Hagenbeck zoo, which is wintering at Kansas City, Mo., was terribly bitten and lacerated by Brutus, the big lion which has already maimed several men. He was saved from being killed by the energetic action […]

Hound Battles With A Wolf.

Dog Comes to the Rescue of Colorado Cow Herder in Nick of Time. A cow herder, Mike Sullivan, encountered a large gray wolf at Prospect lake, near Colorado Springs, Col., the other day while attending to his cattle. Armed only with a club, he pursued it a short distance, when it turned on him. He […]

Ursus And The Wild Bull Reenacted Here. John Maffey Of Chicago Wrestles With Raging Bovine At Stock Yards.

Chicago, Aug. 20.-Like the heroic Ursus, who wrestled with a bull in the arena, John Maffey clung to the horns of a maddened steer which had escaped from the stockyards while children and other pedestrians fled to safety. For fifteen minutes Maffey kept up his battle with the animal, and was about to fall exhausted […]

Rat Bite May Prove Fatal.

Rodent Nibbles at Bacon on Bruised Foot and Sinks Teeth in Toe. Anderson, Ind., Sept. 1.-Arther, the 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Schofield, almost bled to death as a result of having been bitten on the toe by a rat. While playing about the yard the child stubbed his toe and the mother […]

Men Treed By Wild Cattle.

Cattle Sought in Pines of Wexford Chase Their Pursuers. Cadillac, Mich., Aug. 5.-Wild cattle made so by years of roving in the pine slashings north of this city, made a rush on Bert Gardner, Albert Rupers and Charles Gipe and would have gored them to death had not they been able to shin up some […]

Attacked By Mud Hen, Loses Sight.

Chicago Boy Accidently Steps On Mud Hen and Biddy takes Exception With the Result Boy Loses Both Eyes. As the result of an attack by an infuriated bird at Fox Lake on Tuesday, Walter Hansen, 13 years old, son of Theodore Hansen of Chicago, may lose his sight. The sight of one eye is entirely […]

Lapp Wolf Hunters.

Swift Runners on Snowshoes Make Short Work of the Brutes. The Swedish Lapps live entirely with, by and upon their raindeer. A Lapp who owns a thousand deer is a very rich man; but, as taxes are assessed upon the number of deer, he is inclined to underestimate his herd. The most dangerous enemy to […]

Excited Over A Monkey’s Burial.

Bloomington, Ill., Oct. 18 Gibson City residents are much excited over a report that a monkey, which died there last week, belonging to a carnival company, had been interred in the local cemetery. The owner purchased an expensive coffin, child’s size, and is said to have buried the animal in the cemetery. An investigation has […]

Lions Raid African Town.

Twenty Wild Animals Invade Chorumo and Eat Eleven Natives. A herd of hungry lions attacked the town of Chorumo, British Central Africa, recently, and not only killed eleven natives, but put the rest of the population to flight and demolished many of their huts. Between fifteen and twenty lions made the raid at dusk. They […]

Bears.

The Tensas [Ark.] Herald says, a man named Lunsicker and party, killed in that neighborhood eleven bears in the space of seven days. One or two of them were perfect monsters, as big as buffaloes.