Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-08-09
: THE EVENING STAR.
Capturing q Bear.
Peck's Sun.

Peck's Sun
1t will be remembered that sad and fatal
accident occurred at Madison a few years ago,
by team being frightened at performing
Frenehman and grizzly bear. and that 1t cost
the city good deal of money to settle the costs.
other towns resolved that they would not have
any more bear performances in the streets.
Inere was no town that was loaded for bears,
after that accident, any heavier thanLa Crosse
The mayor, Joe Clark was red hot and he told
the chief OF pc ice. Hatch, never TO allow a man
with performing bear to come into the town.
Hatch didn't want anything better than a bear
fight and he said he should smile to see Cana
dian Frenchman get up a bear dance in
that town as long as he walked the streets.
When the new mayor. Smiley, took the office
he had only one order to give the police and
that was to keep an eye out for bears. There
was CONSERVATION In La Crosse on Tuesday
when boy came up to the police office and said
there was man down town with performing
bear, and Hatch spit on his hands and told Pernue
Clark to follow him. The bear was hitched to
the hind axle of a wagon, and the owner was in
saloon taking drink. Hatch said he would
go in the saloon and capture the man, and told
Pernue to bring the bear right up to the station.
Pernue didn't exactly like the way the thing
was divided up, and he suggested that maybe he
had better go in after the man and let Hatch
take the bear. IS he was an old bear hunter. but
Hatch said the man was desperate. and he
better surround him. So Hatch went in
ouu SOt TIE uIlTeSist1ng FTenCnman. ana
started of, telling Pernue to hurry up with
the bear. Pernue is a man that. if he
wanted bear had rather hire man to go after
it. but the eye of the chief was on him. and he
walked up to the bear and took hold of the chain
and said, ''Come along Mr.. Bear" The bear
Clothes about the small of the back and closed
his claws and twisted little, and there was
about pound of coat tail and pantaloons cloth
and shirt that all came off together in awad and
Inf -,
up to help Hatch hold the man. He overlook
them as they arrived at the calaboose and Hatch
asked him why he didn't bring the bear and he
said he came up to find out of the Frenchman
what the bears name was. He said he never
could take a bear if he didn't know its name. He
put on a rubber coat to cover the place where the
bear stepped on him and by this time Sam
Campbell and Dave Littlejohn, the other police
men had arrived and they all went down after
the bear. The boys made good deal of fun of
Pernue clothes. and Sam said the way to handlea
bear was to look him right in the eye and para
lyZe him. Pernue said he would let Sam para
lyZe the bear. but before he got him paralyzed
on more than one side the bear would rip all the
clothes off him. Arriving at the wagon. Hatch
said he would stand on the wagon tongue and
hold it down. and they could surround the bear.
The bear was lying in the sand asleep. and they
got all around him and were just going to
p0unce on him, when he rose up and the air
seemed full of bears. The air seemed fairly fixed.
of the trousers. and with the other he clawed
Littlejohn on the shoulder, and he ripped their
Clothes scandalOus, while Pernue got behind a
dry goods box and Hatch held on to the wagon
tongue. The bear stood up on his hind feet
with both fore paws full of blue flannel clothing
and the police held a council of war on the
wagon tongue. Finally they all got hold of the
wagon and hauled it to the lookup, the bear fol-
lowing, and then they gave the Frenchman his
liberty and three dollars il he would take his
,rpt of fnu tha laS fhnuc
of him he was going toward WinOna locked
arms with the bear, laughing. and the police
went to tailorshOp to see if it would cost much
more to mend their clothes than it would to get
a new suit. Now they get together evenings
and talk over the bear business. and Hatch asks
them why they did not chloroform the bear. and
use some judgment.
PARKER, THE TREACHERoUs GUIDE. SHOT
Parker, who committed the assault on Mrs Bull
in the AdirOndacks, was arrested on the bank of
Long Lake, Hamilton county. NY, on Saturday
afternoon. He resisted, and Constable Cali shot
him through the left breast His recovery is
doubtful.
A CLERK ABsCoNDs WITH $4,000 OF HIS
EMPLOYERS MONEY! New York dispatch says:
Saturday morning the firm of j. c. Walcott &
Co.. brokers, AZ Broad street, informed the
police that one of their clerks who had
been left to close up the business of the
day previous, had absconded with $4,000
worth of stocks and securities and $4,000
in checks. The ascending clerk is A. d.
He was left alone in the office in charge of the
books and safe. He filled out three checks on
the Continental Bank for 5000 each. and got
| one cashed at the bank. On one of the others
he got letters of credit on the banking-hOus of
Brown Brothers, London. and the other on
Drexel, Morgan & Co. The letters are nego-
| table in any part of the world where first-cass
banking houses exist. The firm has been in the
habit OF leaving three or four signed checks in
the bank so that the Office could at all times be
| ready to transmit business. The stubs were
| filled out by persons authorized to sign the
checks, but the rest of the check was left blank
to be filled by the clerk in charge. Wheelock
filled out these checks to suit his pleasure, and
after taking $40 600 in securities, the numbers
of which have been telegraphed throughout the
country. left for parts unknown. 1t is supposed
he sailed on an outgoing steamer which left on
Saturday. The police have ascertained with
certainty that WheelOck sailed for Bremen on
Saturday in a North German Lloyd steamer
Under the treaty between Germany and the
United States he cannot be eXtradited unless
the crime can be construed into forgery.
VENDORS LATEST VENTURE AT THE WEATHER.
A telegram from Montreal last night is as fol-
lows: Vennor says we may expect great change
| in the weather about the time the new comet is
in its periheiOn, when it will be also nearest the
earth. This will occur on the Goth of the
present HlOutn. UurlnS Cne Time from the 1Jtn
to the 0Oth OF the present month, instead of
being burned up, as we might expect. we shall
be nearly frozen by frost and strong cold north
eriy winds.
KILLED HIS MoTHER.-James Duffy, thirteen
year old boy, picked up gun on Saturday i'm the
| clearinghouse at BridgetOn, N j., where he
and his mother were spending the summer. and
began playing with it. Several times he pointed
it at his mother and others and she finally ordered
him to put it away. He said ''Oh mother what
are you scared Of? 1t amt loaded and just then
the gun went of. The charge went through his
mothers heart, killing her instantly.-NeU York
Herald to-day.
ENFORCING Parental COMMANDS wITHA SHOT
GUN.-The Galveston Nears's Comanche special
says: Son Tuesday night at Snipe Springs, %
miles north of here, a blacksmith named Payne
shot and killed young man named Wood, who
had called on Payne's daughter in violation of
Payne's command"
SEEKING DEATH AT NIAGARA telegram to
fhn N Ho,.uh froy 10 Fol, AM r4l,