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Tag Archives: Unusual

Wholesale Slaughter (Dogs)

Something more than one hundred dogs have been killed by the city authorities within the last thirty-six hours.-Galena Jeffersonian.

Birds

Three of the Chinca Islands, on the coast of Peru, on which guano (crap) is deposited by birds, are said to contain two hundred and fifty millions of tons of the manure, worth one thousand two hundred and fifty million pound sterling, or upwards of seven thousand millions of dollars.

To Stop a Runaway Horse.

The terrible accident which happened a short time since in Boston, from the running away of a horse, frightened by the approach of a locomotive, has set inquiry to work to find out the best mode of preventing such a catastrophe in similar cases. A correspondent of Boston Transcript, who has observed the mode adopted […]

Bears and Wolves

The incursions of bears and wolves into settled parts of Norway and Sweden, are described as having been frightful during the winter just passed. The bears come fearlessly into the villages and the smaller peasant settlements in Norway, break into the cattle enclosures, kill the oxen and cows and feast themselves whole nights through; while […]

Damage Done By Wolves

Vernon Baily, of the forest reserve bureau at Washington, who has been making an investigation of the ravages of wolves on the ranches of the southwest, reports that in a certain part of New Mexico he learned that a moderate estimate of the stock killed by four wolves of which he got trace was a […]

Swallowed Snake

Last week when a horse belonging to E. DeMeyer of North Chicago became seriously ill and began to cough and choke it was not known what was the matter with it and as fears for death were entertained a veterinary was called. The veterinary at once said that the animal had eaten something in the […]

Fight As Horse Runs Away

Express Wagon Driver and Street Car Conductor Battle in Wagon. Chicago, May 12.-Fighting back and forth in an express wagon, which a runaway horse was dragging toward the open drawbridge, two men were saved from death through the heroic efforts of a city fireman. The rescued men were Joseph Chouse, owner of the express wagon, […]

Treed By A Mad Bull

F. W. Dubbs, Farmer, is Found Dead in Tree of Fright. Colt Kicks Another to Death and Horse Bites a Woman-Cow Knocks Woman Down-Rescued. Pittsburg, Pa., June 8.-Perils of farm life are reported in dispatches from rural communities in this and neighboring states. F. W. Dubbs, a farmer near Lisbon, O., had a battle with […]

Upholds Cruelty to Beast.

William Hess, a wealthy citizen of Evansville, Ind. was in police court on the charge of cruelty to animals. His neighbor has a calf and the other night Hess could not sleep for the calf’s bawling, so he tied the mouth up with a rope. The judge released Hess, saying he believed he would have […]

Rat’s Death Puts Town in Gloom.

A rat three inches long paralyzed the electric lighting system of Stamford, Conn., and put the town in darkness for twenty-four hours. Climbing a guy wire fifty feet long, the rat reached a conduit carrying 10,000 volts of electricity. It placed its front feet on the charged wire and instantly diverted the current through its […]