Child Dies After Being attacked by Angry Flock.
    Racine,Wis., March 18.-Frank Chumieck, ten years old, of Wind Point, was attacked by a flock of geese and knocked to the ground.
    His father, who heard his frantic screams, drove the geese off and carried the boy into the house, where he died five minutes later in convulsions.
By International News Service.
    Cleveland, O., Dec. 19.-Loss estimated at $150,000 was caused by fire which destroyed a building occupied by five commission houses. Thirty-six hundred fowls were burned.
Miss Agnes Schshinnskey painfully injured in battle with chanticleer.
    Miss Agnes Schshinnskey, employed in George’s Cafe, this morning had a terrific battle with a rooster which pounced upon her when she removed from a chicken coop a hen. The chanticleer hurled its eight pounds of fury at Miss Schshinnskey, striking her in the face, which was badly lacerated. The rooster scratched the young woman with its talons and pecked a piece out of the end of her nose with its beak.
    Miss Schshinnskey was wringing the chicken’s neck when the rooster gallantly came to the rescue of the favorite of his flock. Miss Schshinnskey was unable to work today.
    Roosters have different tactics when fighting and often display considerable brainwork. Recently, in a Cuban rooster fight, where a little rooster was pitted against a big fellow, the little bird looked at his antagonist and started to run around and around, with the big rooster after him. Then, when the big bird was out of breath, the little one turned on him and whipped him in short order.
    Two women in Staunton, Ind., got into a fight about an egg that a hen of one of the women laid in the barn of the other. Then their sons engaged in the melee, and before it ended one of the women had her back broken by a stroke from a club, and will die.
    The Boston Journal Says;-We can vouch for the truth of the following; A friend who keeps poultry, had two hens which insisted upon sitting upon one nest. The result was not altogether favorable, although, after a while, the bipeds managed to divide the eggs. Only one chicken was hatched from the whole nest full. Both hens undertook the duties of mother to this chicken, and were quite motherly for about a week, when both took it into their heads to go to roost at night, utterly regardless of the loud “peep! peep!” of the chicken, which could not follow them. The little fellow managed to fly upon the top of a barrel, where, curious enough, the old cock-the head of the family-took compassion upon him, and roosting upon the barrel sheltered him under his wing. This he now does nightly, the hens taking care of the chick in the day time.
Peculiar American Fighting Cock Mystifies the Spaniards.
    Back in the ’40s a little story went the rounds of the newspapers. It was the story of the American eagle and the Spanish cock. An American ship visited one of the ports of Spain, and while lying at anchor in the harbor the officers went ashore to see the sights. Among the places they took in was a cock pit, a popular resort, to see the sport. The game cock of the Don is a diminutive bird, but a fighter.
    One of the Americans expressed contempt for the bird and boasted that he had aboard his ship a “Yankee rooster” that could whip any bird ashore. The Dons accepted the challenge and a match was arranged. On the ship the sailors had an American eagle, which they proceeded to starve and trim up his feathers so as to resemble a Shanghai cock, a strange bird to the Spanish, and on the appointed evening carried him ashore for the battle.
    The Dons eyed him suspiciously, but he was dumpted into the pit, where he stood, hungry and ugly, taking in the surroundings. The Spanish cock, a champion fighter, was brought in and likewise pitched into the pit. Strutting and crowing, he sparred for an opening at his silent and watchful Yankee enemy, and finally let drive at him with his “slashers,” knife spurs, and drew first blood. Aroused, with one wild scream the eagle lit on him, tore off his head, and to the horror of the Spaniards, began to eat him. They lost their money, their honor was trailed in the dust, and to this day they do not understand the peculiar nature of the American fighting cock.
    A recent morning a Missouri farmer placed three crates of chickens and five bushels of potatoes in his trailer, hitched the trailer to his automile and started for town. He was almost there when he discovered he had no trailer. He found he had parted company with it a quarter of a mile from home, and when he got back to it the crates were empty and the potatoes frozen.
    He presumed, of course, the chickens had been stolen, and was greatly surprised when he went to the henhouse early the next day after breakfast to find every one of the chickens there. Not one was missing. They had all returned home, but how they got out of the crates probably will always remain a mystery.
    One day a flock of sparrows were noticed flying excitedly around a house, and going near I saw that a young sparrow had fallen from a nest under the tiles and was too young to fly back.
    Suddenly a bantam cock stepped forward. He evidently understood the state of affairs, for he picked the little mite up very tenderly in his beak, mounted an empty cart that happened to be conveniently near, flew from it on to the tiles and, stretching his neck out over the edge replaced the sparrow in its nest.
    In doing so, however, he overbalanced himself and tumbled to the ground. But after pluming his feathers for a minute he strutted about the yard none the worse for his adventure and evidently very proud of his exploit.
Infuriated Fowl Tears Three-Year-Old Child’s Face With Spurs.
    Willie Dobson, 3 years old, was seriously hurt in Kearney, N. J., in an encounter with a rooster. The bird made savage attacks on the child and drove its spurs into his face. The attack took place in front of young Dobson’s home. The child was under a wagon which was left standing on the street when the rooster approached and attemped to get under it. The boy, who has long been afraid of the bird, saw him coming and was attempting to get away when the rooster attacked him.