Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-05-26
A QUEER RAID.
The Police Make Descent Upon q Cat Hos
pitdl.


The Police Make q Descent Upon q Cat Hos
pstal.
An old, tumble down building on Hook
ley street, between Belgrade and Orange.
in the Eighteenth ward, was the scene of
a remarkable raid on Saturday afternoon.
participated in by three policemen and
an equal number Of professional dog
catchers. The descent was made on COM
plant of the board of health, represent
ing that the place had become crying
nuisance by reason of the horde of cats
and dogs infesting it. The only human
occupants of the domicile are two miser-
able hags said to be sisters, and known
throughout all that section Of. the city as
"Mommy Doggy" and "Mommy CattY"
names which they have borne
for years, on account of crazy prOpen-
sity for harboring and multiplying snarl-
ing ours and ross-eyed felines. Little
dried-up, witch-like specimens of hu-
mainly, repulsive in cOuntenance and
dress, they lave tramped the streets in the
northeast quarter of the city for years,
making poor mouth to unsophisticated
and charitable souls, and living on the
stray tips that drop IN response to their
tales of woe, and troops of children, with
vivid recollectiOns of witch and hobgob-
lin tales, followed at safe distance,
shouting at the tops of their voices the
feline and canine sobriquets of the lone
sisters. Anon the latter turn and shy mis-
sile, snaiched up from the street, into the
midst of the exasperating juveniles, caus-
ing an instant scampering, only to be sue
ceeded IN a moment by closing up OF
the ranks and the renewal Of the taunt-
ing cries.
In the immediate vicinity of their DOM
icile the two weird sisters are notorious
for the unearthly performances of their
happy family. Under the natural law OF
canine and feline increase, and the foster
ing hand of this semi-human pair, it has
assumed the proportions of small ZOO
logical garden. The caterwau]ing and
moon baylng which fill in the hours of
the night have made jewellers near by
frantic to the verge of insanity.
Meat and fish and half-devoured
bones lying about the yard
have caused the neighborhood to reek
with the odors of charnel house. The
only wonder is that the weird sisters and
their menagerie have been SO long toler-
ated.
Rushing into this kennel, or cat hos
pital, or whatever it may be called, Sat-
urday afternoon, officers and dog catch
ers made terrific onslaught upon the
inhabitants. The human occupants
were absent, but cats and dogs were
seized by heads, ears, tails, legs, or any
part of their anatomy that made a con-
venient handle, and mercilessly thrust
into deep black bags. No quarter was
given, no respect was shown
for age or sex Many of
the dogs escaped, but every luck
less feline was secured. Fifty-seven cats
and four dogs, by actual count, were
borne out of The door as trophies of the
fray, dumped into the wagon, and trun-
died off to the pound, to be dealt with
after the manner of other kidnapped
dogs and cats, as laid down in the city
statutes. Hockey street is purified for
the time, but the lone sisters, in tower
ing rage at the despoiling of their home,
VOW that they will get more cats and
more dogs, and turn the neighborhood
into bowling wilderness as aforetime.-
Philadelphia Press.