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Fight For Life With Rats.

Victim of Thugs Thrown into River-Battles Rodents Three Hours.      New York, Aug. 13.-Robbed of $400 and his watch by a gang of thugs, John Maughan, an elderly and well-to-do resident of Harlem, was beaten and thrown bodily into the North river by his assailants.      He clung for three hours to the cross-beams under […]

Woman Eaten By Wolves.

Leaves Michigan Home on Skis-Parts of Her Clothing Are Found.      Hancock, Mich., March 16.-Mrs. Selma Makkinen, wife of a Finnish farmer living near Alston, is believed to have been killed and eaten by wolves.      Shortly before dark she set out on skis for a neighboring farm. She failed to return amd searchers found […]

Avalanche Kills Horses.

Team Buried Under Heavy Fall of Ice and Snow in Chicago.      Chicago, Feb. 17.-Two horses were killed when 500 pounds of ice and snow slid from the roof of a six-story building at 440 Jefferson street.      The team was owned by J. Torenta. He left the horses attached to his wagon at the […]

Birds Killed in Migration.

     According to advices from the Caucasus millions of singing birds which every winter used to find a warm retreat on the southern slopes of the forest clad mountains of the Caucasus have suddenly been surprised by the intense cold and severe snowstorms while they were on their way from the north.      The slides […]

Angry Chicago Crowd beats Two Men Who Stabbed a Horse.

Sticks His Knife Into a Horse James Keating, of Chicago, tried to carve his initials on a horse’s hip with a knife and when the police arrived he and his companion, Michael Hinckey, were in the hands of a mob of 500 men and boys who were trying to stamp the pair to death with […]

Alligator

Lumberton, N. C. June 18. Extraordinary and Shocking occurence.      On Friday afternoon, the 7th inst. Mrs. Ratley was riding across the Gum Swamp, [about 1 miles from this place] where the water is but little more than knee deep, the boat on which she rode was attacked by an Alligator, and in the struggle, […]

From The Pennsylvania Settler. [Hunting]

On Friday the 4th instant, about 700 men of the neighboring townships, formed a hunting party. The signal for proceeding was given on Frenchtown Mountain, which was answered by all the horns of the hunters, comprising a circuit of 40 miles, in the space of 15 minutes. The hunters then progressed towards a centre in […]

Terrible Conflict With A Panther.

     Mr. John K. Markill, of Norfolk, St. Lawrence county, N. Y. returned home late, having been detained by a storm, and going out some time after to care for his team, was just in the act of opening his stable door when he was seized from behind by a panther, which attempted to grapple […]

Gun Fails, So Western Man Bulldogs Big Buck.

By International News Service Arvada, Wyo., Nov. 3-Becoming provoked at an unmanageable gun, N. P. Brown, member of the Sherdan City Fire Department, is credited with “bull-dogging” a buck deer in real Western style. Brown cornered the animal in a draw along Powder River, where he was hunting, and succeeded in grasping the antlers of […]

Many Sheep Killed.

     Six thousand head of sheep slaughtered of an approximate value of $20,000, without a single indictment from the grand jury, is the record of the past season in central Oregon. At different times in the past the cattle interests have been accused of having an organization which has been responsible for these depredations.