Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-04-09
FURTER PARTICULARS.

| FROM the Clnclnnatl Gazette, March 26.
The donkey-hero is about three
feet and half high, and his ears are
about as long as his body. As he
stood in his stall yesterday, he ex
hIbited countenance pensive and
sad, but withall intelligent. He did
not seem to realize that he was the
admired of all beholders, but ate his
oats in blissful ignorance of that
fact. He is severely wounded, hav-
ing been bitten completely through
the ham, and his sides dreadfuIly
lacerated by the terrible claws of the
liOness. But with proper care, which
he is receiving, he. will get fit for
service again.
When the lioness first rent assun-
der the bars of her cage, and fast
ened her teeth and claws in the back
of her unconscious enemy, the don
key didn't roll; he deliberately turn
ed his head around and caught the
lioness by the back with his teeth,
and shook her as dog would a rat,
only not quite so rapidly. 1t must
not be supposed from this fact that
the lioness was a small one. She was
full-grown and weighed at least 25O
pounds. The donkey held on until
hold broke, and then the lioness
made tracks in one direction, while
the donkey fled in the other. The
attempt to capture the donkey by
the attendants drove HIM into the
vicinity of the lioness again. She
crouched down and made spring,
but the donkey was too many for
her, and planted two good kicks on
her skull, rolling her over down an
embankment. They had two or three
other skirmishes before the donkey
was captured and led to his stable,
in all of which the donkey was vic
torious.
1t was very exciting sport-the
attempt to catch the ioness alive
and many ludicrous scenes were en-
acted, the chief of which were fran
tic endeavors to get in some other
direction from that taken by the IL
oness. The first attempt to seduce
her majesty back to her cage was
made by Mr.. F. w. Rutz, the keep
er of the animals. He advanced very
cautiously, with a big club in his
hands, and commanded her in a stern
voice to lie down.
Now, Mr.. Rutz had taught her to
lie down at his command, while she
was in her cage; but,rejoicing in her
newly found freedom, she disdained
his authority. Mr. Rutz had got to
within perhaps twenty feet of her
majesty when she slightly raised her
back, and displayed a corner of her
little tooth about II inches long.
This Mr.. Rutz construed into an In
vitation to retire, and he according
ly skedaddled faster than a man us
ually leaves a menagerie. A num-
Der of attempts and failures similar
to the above were made, and as a
last resort, word was sent to the city
and the services of four or five men
who had formerly travelled with the
menagerie to which the lioness had
belonged before coming into posses
sion of the Geological society were
secured, and with them came three
policemen from Corryville station
house.
By this time the news had been
noised abroad, and a large crowd
of men and boys surrounded the
grounds. In order to see the fun
from safe standpoint, number of |
boys climbed into the trees and look |
ed eagerly on, bowling like young
savages the while. The circus men
and the police formed circle round
the liOness, at a very respectful dis
tance, however, armed with pistols
and bludgeons, and, by gradually
closing in on her majesty, thought to |
drive her into her cage. The circle |
closed several times very gradually; |
but it had way of enlarging re-
markably fast at any little unfavOra-
bic symptom. One of these unfavor-
able symptoms was her jumping up
about twelve feet into q locust-tTee.
Boys have always been taught in
story books that lions couldn't climb |
trees; but probably the authOr of the
story books didn't reckon on lioness-
es. The boys had an occular demon
stratiOn of the fallacy of the authors !
theory, and slid down from their
perches as though they were Special
ly creased for the transit. Her ma
jesty did not remain long in the To-
cust-tree until she fell out. This en-
ragged her, and she began tearing
around at such rate that the guard,
police, circus men, boys and other
spectators, inoentinently fed.
After she had become partly quI-
ct, the circumventing party return
ed, this time reinforced by several
men with shot-guns. One policeman
brayelv advanced to within $50 yards |
and, drawing n small-sized Smith & |
Wesson seven-Shooter, deliveredha |
brcadside of one barrel, and then re-
treated to his Notifications to watch
the effect of his artillery. For all he |
knew, it might have struck the lion
ess in a vital spot, for she didn't
move. Somewhat embolden by her
sudden cessation of offensive warfare,
the attacking party made another
advance, and commenced throwing
clubs and stones and other missiles,
some of which struck her majesty,
and she retreated to the top of high |
grade, and sat down at a place over
looking the rustic octagon building, |
which is the first of the permanent
improvements seen on entering the |
gateway, and is called the buffalo |
house.
We come now TO the serious part
of the lion-hunt, which came very
near terminating fatally to one of
the employees, John Nordheim, the
night-watchman, and Mr.. Haupt,
foreman of one of the laboring gangs.
As it was, the two men Were severe
ly lacerated by the teeth and claws
of the infuriated beast.
Recognizing the necessity of hav-
ing so precious beast either caPtur-
ed or killed before night set ln' : ohn h
Kearney, the Superintendent ol ,ue