The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1900-04-21
PINK nuICE's MAD GRAY MULE.
Taken with Hyarophsbia, He Pros
ceeds to Make Things Lively. e

iaakea With HydrophSbia, He Proc
ceeds to Make Things Lively.
Pink Ruice's gray mule went mad on
south Forsyth street this morning and
stampeded nearly the entire First ward.
Feople ran for shelter as If a mad dog
nad been on the street. He bit coun-
tryman's horse, he kicked hole in a
telegraph post. He broke the shafts
OF a, dray. climbed on 1t because he
saw a driver get off hurriedly, and
grlpped with his teeth the breech strap
on the mule hitched', to the dray. The
narnesseds mule ran away. The mad
mule fell off the vehicle, still gripping
the leather strap with the tenacity Of
a bull terrier. 49,.
When the harnessed mule observed
mat he was hauling an extra load he
stopped running. Then with mule in
stinct he kicked. His left hind foot
landed in the pit of the mad mules
stomach and made him forget his mall
ady. In gasping for breath let go his
mold on the strap. Before the dray
mule could start off again, however,
the mad mule got his breath, and aim
ing his heels at the other; handed him
seventeen stiff punches in the ribs with
his mailed fists. Spectators who saw
the work from their elevated positions
say that nothing can compare with the
swiftness of the strokes except the clap
per OF an alarm clock in action. The
sounds Of the blows made the apedes-
TRANS of the next block think a drum
corps was marching down Forsyth
street.
The only effective blow landed by the
harnessed mule, in the duel of heels was
a kick which broke the mad mules
Jaw. 1t knocked him fiat in the street,
and while he lay with his eyes closed
ne was counted out. Ropes were bound
around his legs and he was hauled into
barn near by. x
The mule hitched to the dray be-
longed to Sam Wilkins, the commission
merchant at SO South Forsyth street,
He was caught on the block below the
scene Of battle, and an examination
fshoWed that he was not seriously in
jured. -. ss#S
The countryman's horse was badly
bitten by the mule, it is said, but the
frightened owner got his injured beast
out of town before the officers could
see to the wounds. His name could not
| be ascertained. -
The mad mule was purchased by
Bulge from a shipment which arrived
IN Atlanta yesterday from Tennessee.
Inc purchaser hired negro boy to
take the mule, which appeared sound,
to his place. Of business on Peters street.
The boy was riding a horse and leading
the mule by halter,,swhen the trouble
began. When they had reached Will
kin's store the first. symptoms of the
malady came on. The mule jerked
away from the boy and ran a block
swapping at everything within his
reach. It was during this first dash
that the countryrpan's horse got in his
way and fell a victim to his frenzy.
After biting the horse and kicking
sundry spots out of the neighborina
posts, the mule came upon wilkins
dray and had the adventure related. I.
L DR.. W. p. Carnes, the veterinary sur.
geon, who ia also ap~pff Ulcer Of the
humane societ - felephoned "a
come to the barn Whefe the mad ,nnle
was held. He examined the beast and
pronounced it hydrophobia in the most
advanced stage. After a consultation
with BULGE, the owner, he shot the mule
through the head and ended his aeon.
| tes.-Atlanta Journal. -.