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

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| countries as choose to keep relation
with the Emperor of Morocco, liv
here together, on account of th'
want of mail communication witt
Fee, the capital. The Belgian Con
sui has a house furnished and orna
mented in the Moorish style. TIL,
walls are covered with curious arm
and with oil paintings, and the eff
feet of the whole is rich and novel
C.
TRUTH STRANGER THAN FIG
TION.
Excitement at the Cincinnati ZOOIOg
zeal Garden-An Enzaged LIOnesi
at Large In the Park.
The sensation on the northeastern
hill suburbs yesterday afternoon anG
last evening, was the news that {
captive animal of the leonine descrip
tion had broken from its cage in the
Geological Garden and was wildly
roaming at large. The story at frs
sounded so much like the old mena
gerie-advertisement dodge that il
was not believed until it was an.
nounced officially from the police
stations on the hills. The particu.
lars of the excitement are as fol
lows:
About o'clock in the afternoon.
a boy was leading donkey in front
of a cage in the Buffalo House." in
which was confined a two-year old
lioness, fine specimen, recently pur-
chased from the Great Eastern men
agerie collection at Lebanon, o. The
savage animal, In fit of rage, bound
ed against the bars, which yielded,
and let it free. 1t Immediately
bounded OH the donkey. which in
the onset was thrown to the ground.
The boy who was leading the beast
was scratched on the hand with the
claws of the lioness, but otherW ise
escaped unhurt and ran away. The
poor donkey was terribly lacerated
about the neck and hinder parts with
the claws and teeth of the lioness,
but gaining its feet turned and seiz,
ed with its teeth It's assailant and
shook it viciously. At this the lion
ess quilted the donkey and bounded
away through the park. Soon the
news of liberation spread, and
crowd gathered, but soon dispersed
when the lioness put in an appear
ance. Lieut.. Cody and two or three
policemen from Corryville District
Station happened to be in the park
at the time, and council of war was
held. They debated the question
whether they would shoot the animal
on the spot or capture it alive. They
surrounded it, but the circle was
very wide. AS the circle grew less
in diameter, the lioness in the mid
die, growing, and snarling, and leap
ing about, the officers concluded nei-
ther to shoot or capture alive. They
got out of that vicinity as quick as
they could. The panic spread and
tumultuous skedaddle from the park
was made.
Spectators state that the appear
ance of the escaped animal was most
furious. Excited with its freedom,
it would stand for a few minutes
with glaring eyes and open mouth,
lashing its sides with its tail and ut
tering wild, kissing cries, and then
spring into the air. In a short space
of time the lioness had the whole
park to itself. Later in the evening
a anumber of men and boys assembled
from the neighborhood, with pistols
and guns, and with the consent of the
Geological Garden authorities, start
ed on a genuine lion hunt, the object
being to kill the brute, as it was ap-
parent that it could not be taken
alive. About o'clock it was found
in an open space some distance from
the cage from which it escaped; with
a shot gun, heavily loaded with buck
shot, Patrick McAvoy, a carpenter,
fired two loads at the animal; one
shot missed and the other took eff
feet in the animals side, from which
it soon fell upon its side and died.
In the closing fight two men were
thrown down and hurt, though not
seriously.
Altogether, the sensation was a
huge success, though the Geological
Society has to mourn an eleven hun
dred dollar animal.
Lieut.. Cody Of Corryville Station,
gives the following version of the
affair:
He happened in the park during
the afternoon, his object being to
enjoy the landscape and the other
sweets of nature. His errand was
one of peace, and he was rather
thinking of John Robinson's domes-
tic elephant, than of a fiery, un-
tanned lion. Suddenly, there was a
rush and commotion; coat-tails stood
out, inviting a game of cards upon
them, and there appeared upon the
scene a general disposition to get
away to some other place. The 1t.
was in the act of turning his mind
to an earthquake, powder explosion,
defeat of Mayor Johnston or some
thing like that, when he saw within
thirty feet of him the cause OF all
the row. 1t stood in an open plat
Low it came there he could not tell,
lashing its sides with its caudal ap-
pendage, glaring around with fiery
eyes and kissing and growing in
terrible manner. 1t would spring
savagely against tree, as if to seek
refuge in its branches-the Lieuten-
ant forgot at this time whether or
not lions climbed trees-and failed,
and, falling to the ground, would 60
through the same snarling, kissing,
clawing, lashing performances. As
the Lieutenant stood pondering what
to do, a man came rushing past him
in desperate retreat. The man was in
uniform, with pistol in hand, and
club wildly clashing by his side.
The Lieutenant, badly enough scar
ed himself, called halt and told the
man if ever he had occasion to show
true courage, that time had arrived.
The policeman, fourishing his pistol
about his head, and letting 1t off