St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03
STORIES ABOUT ANIMALS.
A Budget of Curious Incidents
Cleaned From Various Sources

A Budget of Curious Incidents
Cleaned From Various Sources.
While driving through the Stony
creek ravine last Saturday III. NJ. Hanor,
who lives in the Elk creek valley, four
miles from here, had a remarkable eX-
perience, says writer in the New York
Sun, who lives at SINNERS Creek, in
this state. Mr.. Hanor had a SIN
gle horse attached to buggy with
a canopy top, and he was alone. The
horse was on slow walk, when sud-
denly it SHE'D to the right and Mr..
HanOr saw quick movement omong
the bushes to his left. What the flash
like movement was he didn't know, he
said, because his whole attention was
directed to the skittish horse at the in
slant, aud when he refined the horse
back into the road he saw a long
bodied animal creeping through the
copSe toward the carriage. Before he
had time to make up his mind what
kind of beast it was the animal crouched
and then Sprang at the buggy.
1t landed in the roadway opposite a
point between the wheels, having SEEM
ingly checked its leap on account of the
canopy, the fringe of which fluttered.
The horse snorted and plunged ahead,
and the strange animal crept along and
made several moves as If it meant to
spring into the carriage. 1t constantly
eyed the tiuttering top, and seemed to
be afraid to make the spring, sDarling a
little as it kept alongside of the wagon.
Seeing that the beast was bent on fol-
lowing him, Mr.. Hanor picked up his
whip and dealt it two cuts with the
lash, thinking that it would then clear
out.
When the lash cut it on the head the
second time the animal gave vent to
three ear-piercing screams, and Mr..
Hanor then realized that he was dealing
with panther. He had the horse well
under control, with the lines in his left
hand, and, as the panther followed and
kept screaming, he lashed it again, and
it darted to the rear of the buggy and
leaped to the right side. where Mr..
Hanor lashed it half a dozen times.
Again it acted as if it would spring upon
him if the top wasn't there, ana fearing
that 1t would do SO before long, Mr.. Ha-
nor threw down his whip, pulled off his
right mi,ten unbuttOned his Overcoat,
pulled out his siX-Shooter and fired four
times at the panther. Each bullet took
effect, and the beast rolled into the
ditch and died.
1t was female panther, nearly seven
feet in length.
One day this fall the young son of a
man who lives on Tunkhannock creek
went mile from home to gather beech
nuts. A large, jet-black Newfoundland
dog accompanied the lad, and while the
boy was busy picking nuts from under
tree he sawthe dog prick up his ears,
wag his tail and trot off as though he
had spied another dog and was going TO
meet him. This surprised the boy, but
he didn't call the dog back. He
watched him, though, and he
quickly saw that the dog was
trotting toward a much larger ami
NAL and one just as black as the dog.
When the dog had got within few
yards of the other black creature he
suddenly put his tail between his legs,
whirled right about and ran past the
boy as though he was half scared to
death. The moment the dog did this,
the other animal, which the boy then
saw was huge black bear, turned tail
just as suddenly and waddled off in the
opposite direction as fast as he could
go. Each had been very much fright
ened by the other. and the boy saw
nothing more of the dog until he
reached home.