The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-04-08
LIONS AT LARGE.
TWO ESCAPED FROM THEIR,
CAGE AND TERRoRIzED
A TOWN.

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Bite of Bugs That Produced In>
sanity and Death-They Are
Found in Michigan Bogs
but Little Known of
Their Habits.
Pitts6eld, Mass, March 20
Two lionessss escaped last night
from their cage. One, after attack
ing and killing a horse, was shot
and killed, and the other was cap-
tured.
The escape of the lionesses scar
ed everybody in town almost inte
Mysteries. The second lioness was
SO badly frightened by the shots
fred at her and the yelling crowd
which followed that she was glad
to get back into her cage.
The Bostock animal show, which
had been exhibiting all last week,
was moving from the Academy Of
Music, and the cage containing the
two lionesses was being lowered to
the ground, distance of about 60
| feet.
The tackle broke and the cage
fell and burst open. Vic. the larg-
er ioness, was the first out of the
cage. She made one spring and
fastened her teeth in the neck of a
horse which was standing near.
Sappho, the other lioness, ran down
Main street.
The attendants of the show, ARM
ed with pistols and rifles, tried to
get Vic away from the horse with
out success. Having tasted blood
shebecame infuriated, and the keep,
ers shot her.
The keepers joined by hundred
or more citizens armed with every
thing from Old cutlasses to pitch
forks and Revolutionary war flint
locks, took up the chase of Sappho.
Some of them thought that a lio-
ness, like bees, could be made to
settle by beating tin pans. The
din, created so frightened Sappho
that she ran into tho first open
door she con1d find, which was that
of the Central automobile station.
There, in one corner, she crouched,
trembling.
One of the keepers administered
several kicks to Sappho, and she
clambered into an empty cage which
had been wheeled up.
Vic had attacked her keeper,
William H. Crawford, only a few
hours before she escaped. She had
been unruly for several days. re-
fusing to go through the regular
performance.
Mendon, Mich, April 4.-Prof.
de Vos Olinbsrg, who came here
from Wheeling, W. Va, to obtain
specimens of the. winter bug and
was bitten on the chin by one, 10
somewhat improved, but 10 still far
from being out of danger. He has
not yet become insane, as did Oscar
Newasaky, ayoung polish farmer,
who died as the result of being bit.
ten.
Newasaky's farm is in low.lying
ground few miles from here. A
winter bug bit him few days ago
and within twentv-four hours his
body swelled to frightful proper
tions. Physicians could net help
him. He became raving maniac
and remained so until death re-
lieved his suffering.
Pref. Olinberg noted entomolo-
gist, of Wheeling, w. Va, came
here at the request of educational
Museum at Washington, d. G., to
secure some specimens of the bug.
He found nest Of the insects in
bog near Newasaky's home, and
while trying to capture them was
bitten on the chin. and within an
hour was in a semi-conscious con-
dition.
Olinberg does not show the SYM
toms of insanity that appeared in
N0WdSaky cdSo3 aAu tuo puys1~
clans are hopeful of his recovery.
Scientists know very little about
the habits of the winter bug, wheth-
er it is poisonous all the time or
only during certain seasons. 1t is
doubtful whether any specimens
can be obtained now Sfor the Ma
tional Museum, for every one ia
the neighborhood is afraid to 60 in
to the bogland where the winter
bugs are,