The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-03
GOT THE COON EVERY TIME.
n One Instance the Dog Died After
hrowing His Prey INTO the Fire.


hrowing His Prey INTO the Fire.
rrom the Ne,1 York Sun.
SCRANTON, Oct. 2O-While Edgar A.
Moss and his son Thomas were burning
some log heaps on piece of new land in
Dallas township the other day. their shep-
herd dog Alp routed lively coon out Of a
pile Of brush, raced it around the lot, and
drove 1t to the edge of the woods near
by, where it climbed to the top of
beech tree. Thomas welt up and shook
the coon out, and when It struck the ground
Alp dashed at 1t, but failed TO get a
toothhold, and the coon made a break for
the clearing, with the dog in hot pursuit
! The coon led the dog on Lively chase all
around tne fallow, lodged between the
burning piles of logs, aud darted into
brush heap. Alp hustled it out, aud 1t gave
him another race among the stumps, aud
then bounded toward the woodland again.
The dog collared the coon before il reached
the woods, and it turned and fought like a
tiger for its life for about minute, when it
broke away aud legged it for the timber.
The dog had got the worst of the
rough AMI tumble Lussle In the bushes, and
he was so angry and determined that he
bounced upon the coon again. caught 1t by
the neck and dragged it more than fifty feet
toward pile of burning logs, the coon set
ting its teeth in its neck and jaws several
times on the way. Thomas was going to
kill the coon with club when he saw how
badly 1t had bitten the dog, but Mr.. Moss
told him to let Alp finish his game.
When the dog had dragged the coon close
TO the heap he let loose of its neck grabbed
1t by the back, and flung it into the pile 1t
rushed out with squeal of pain and with
it's hair all ablaze, and the angry dog caught
1t and threw it back on the hot Goals again.
The ooonb hair was all burned off when it
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to death and dragged it to the house. Eight
days afterward the plucky dog died from
the wounds the coon's teeth bad made IN his
jaws and neck
On moonlight night last week Enoch
Travis of Wolf Run, in Forks township,
was awakened by his mongrel dog Major,
who put his paws on the bedclothes and
whined. Mr. Travis asked him what he
wanted, and he walked to the back door
and wagged his tail to be let out He had
never acted In that way before, and Mr..
Travis, wondering why the dog desired to
be let out, looked through the back window
to see il he could find out what had aroused
him. DE saw coon nosing around bee
hive, so he opened the door softly and Major
dashed out. The coon ran up the slanting
trunk OF an apple tree like a flash before
the dog reached him. Major followed the
coon up. They had clinch on the limb,
and the next instant they tumbled into a
hogshead half full of rain water that stood
under the tres, Mr.. Travis ran to the hogs
head fearing that the dog would drown.
The coon was climbing up the side, Major
had him by the tail and Mr.. Travis didn't
interfere. In moment the coon dragged
Major to the top of the hogshead and tried
i'll vain to get his tail loose Both fell to
the ground; the coon gave battle to the
dog, and in less than two minutes Major
shook him to death.
Farmer Arthur P. Hitch of Forest Lake
township carried sleeping coon to his
barn in shock of corn few DAYS ago.
The load stood in the barn until the next
day. and Mr.. Hitch didn't know that a coon
was in one of the shocks till he pulled the
shock from the hay rigging, when the coon
rolled to the floor and began to blink, as
though 1t had been walked up too sooa Mike,
Mr.. Hitch's 1S-pound tomcat, was watchs
ing for mice TO come out Of the corn shocks
when the sleepy coon rolled out. The tom
cat spied the coon, and 10 a second his
up, his bristIes were e erected
and he made leap of ten feet, alighted on
the coon's back. and began to make
| the fur fly with his hind claws. The coon
became wide awake at once. He dashed
out of the barn as though he had taken a
sudden notion to run to the woods, and he
raced across the meadow with Mike on his
| back. Mr.. Hitch chased them with a pitch
fork, and before he caught up Mike fell off
| of the coon's back. and the coon climbed up
a butternut tree. The spunky tomcat
skipped up the tree and cuffed the coon till
| 1t dropped 10 the ground, and Mr.. Hitch
killed it with the fork. Mike backed down
and when he saw that the coon was dead he
trotted back to the barn and resumed mis-
hunt for mice.