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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-06
The Fierce Bird Carried the Child
Fifty Yards

a child has actually been picked up
and carried by an eagle.
The child, with others, was playing
in a field on it's fathers farm, near
Jackson Ferry, on verdigris river,
eight miles northeast of Coweta.
when the eagle swooped down upon
him. catching the child's clothing
with its talons and starting OF. The
screams of the other children ap-
parently frightened the eagle. and,
finding that it could not make much
progress with the child, it dropped
him so yards from the place where
he was picked up.
The child weighs so pounds, and at
no time did the eagle succeed in get.
ting more than eight or ten feet
above the ground with him. The child
was not injured save for few
bruises and scratches when his par
ents found him. The eagle made nc
attempt to strike its talons into the
child nor beat him with its wings.
It has been known for some time
that there were two gray eagles nest
ing on the Verdigris river not fal
from Jackson's Ferry. About ter
days ago a farmer named Kirkbride
who lives near the ferry, killed one
of the eagles with q rife. The,
were very cunning. and It was impos
sible to get close enough to kin then
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-06
FREAK RODENT MEETS DEATH.
Two Headed Rat Killed White Trying
to Run into Two Holes.

Port Jc;vis, N. Y.-An unusual
curiosity and freak of nature in the
shape of two headed rat was killed
in the Victoria hotel, Sussex street.
The proprietor of the hotel, Henry
Richardson, heard the rat squeal in
the bottoE, CT the dummy waiter shaft.
He sent che of his men to kill it and
remove it. The rodent was slain
with a club. when the discovery was
made that it had two heads attached
to one body. Both heads were per-
fectly formed and the two necks hold
ing the heads joined the body at the
shoulders, which were abnormally
broad. 1t is Unfortunate that the rat
was not cep.ured alive, as it would
have proved great curiosity.
1t was at first supposed that the
rodent squeezed it's body through
hole at the bottom of the elevator and
could not get back. Examination Of
the shaft led to the discovery of two
rat holes close together, and it was
found that each head of the rat took
a separate hole to escape, its one
body, of course, preventing it
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-06
harse Head Like a Cats.

Cowansville, p. GA wild rabbit.
with head like cat and the rest of
it's body like an ordinary hare, has
been brought in here by Hugh Ford
and is an object of much curiosity.
Ford got the hybrid while running rab-
bits with hound. AS it jumped along
in the ordinary way he noted nothing
peculiar about 1t until he picked it ND.
He then saw that he had a real curl
osity. An examination of the animals
stomach showed that 1t had been eat
ing flesh, the remains of a bird being
found. Its teeth, like those Of a cat.
accounted for it's peculiar appetite.
AS the hybrid was fat and strong. It
appears to have been able to get all
the food it needed. Probably birds.
mistaking it for rabbit. failed to get
out of the way. A cat that can jump
20 feet isn't liable to go hungry, in any
event
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-06

| building q desk In an office directly
over the bank was completely upset
| and the employees panic-stricken. A
medley of bells sounded all through
/ the building as telephone bells in each
| office began to tinkle under the vibra-
| ton of the building and chimes sound
| ed on every side. The news stand in
| front of the bank was mixed up as
badly as though it had been turned
| upside down. Papers, books and mag
azines were scattered everywhere.
1t was an hour before anything like
order was restored. Some of the bank
Officials and clerks actually did not
know they were injured until friends
or strangers pointed out their wounds.
The banks telephone system was
thrown out of order by the explosion
and the attaches ran all aver the
| neighborhood, bloody and disarrayed
seeking phones over which they could
let their families know that they we're
safe.
Eugene McIlhone, secretary to the
second vice president, who was caught
almost in the center of the explosions
TduluS, ItCOFSISu CONSCIOUSNESS UclOT6
aid reached him, and then walked
about for five minutes, daZed and help
less, before he discovered that the in
dex finger of his right hand had been
blown completely off.
Crowds numbering thousands gath
cred in Fourth street, in front of the
building; in Harmony street, to the
south of it, and in Orianna street, up
on which the rear windows face.
Along both these latter streets ghast-
ly relics abounded. In Orianna street
We're fragments of glass and wood to
which particles of flesh adhered. Har.
mony street was Uttered from curb to
curb with glass and wood, with here
and there a bit of brass from the
grillwork. Some of the ultra-morbid
took away in their pockets some bits
of the debris as souvenirs.
All afternoon and evening the Bull
lit building was visited by the
crowds. At night the police We're still
in charge of the bank. The officials
were there, too, going over accounts
to see that the money and securities
were intact. Outside of the two certi-
fed checks reported missing. it was
said, unofficially, that everything had
been found.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-06
MOTHER ADOPTS HEROIC, MEAS
uREs TO SAVE TRAPPED
OFFSPRING.
FOOT IS CAUGHT In A TRAP
Hunter Sees the Operation and
Out of Compassion He Spares
Lives of the Little
Beasts.

Chambord Junction, Que-Henry
Tate. a trapper, got track of a silver
gray fox a few weeks ago and used
MS utmost skill to catch the valuable
animal. He set several traps, and
was sure that the fox sprung one OF
them. Thinking that the steel jaws
were not heavy enough to hold SO
clever a prisoner, he finally set wolf
trap near an old log and then baited 1t
with live chicken.
For three days he fed the chicken
without even getting sight of the fox
but on the fourth he heard sounds
as he neared the spots The sounds
were evidently made by two animals,
out not foxes, and he approached eau
dously. Peering through the bushes
ne saw an old bay lynx and an eight
month-old cub directly over the trap.
The young one was crying out with
pain, while the old one now and then
snarled and grunted.
Tate thought that he had both ami
mails in the trap, but he soon saw he
was mistaken, for the old lynx jumped
er"oJ q iC" lSSl, Siliueu IOE uduSeT
signs and then returned to her off
spring, which had been securely
tipped by a foreleg. She seemed to
be exceedingly busy, and the trapper,
always on the lookout for some new
phase of animal life, determined to
fathom the mystery before he shot
the animals.
Working around to a better point of
vantage, he observed that the mother
lynx was liberating the cub by cutting
off its leg with her sharp teeth. AS
she gnawed the cub Squealed, but the
parent paid little attention to his out
cries. Evidently he hadn't the nerve
70 do the job himself, so she had
taken matters into her own hands.
She worked carefully, but with deter
mination, and at the end of few
minutes the lynx was free.
trapper is not supposed to be par
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And he drew from his pocket two
photographs, dirty and torn. One was
of woman, the other a little girl. 1t
is supposed that they were pictures
of his wife and daughter The banker
would not take them in his hand and
scarcely more than glanced at them.
They could not be found later.
BY now Mr.. Rushton was sure that
the man had no legitimate business
with him, SO he excused himself on
plea of considering the security Of
fered, and went around a corner of
the corridor, waving his hand in the
direction of the cashiers office, to in
dictate that Crump should conduct the
unwelcOme visitor there.
The man was so big and strong that
he would have been a match for the
negro had it come to a physical en-
counter, and probably both Mr. Rush
ton and Crump unconsciously decided
that the best thing to do was to let
Mr.. McLear attend to him. The
Waterman had already taken the Wis
itor towards McLear's office before
President Rushton's signal.
The cashier was sitting at his desk,
which was behind a waist-high coun-
ter and separated from the main cor
ridor of the bank only by law rail-
ing. William McLear was big,
hearty, jovial chap, who could handle
any sort of a man without giving him
| offense, and could get rid of him with
out creating a scene
10
| body, handsome, likable man. Every
bank has man of that type as a val
liable business asset, a man who rep.
resented the institution at conven-
tions, banquets and social affairs, who
| by his personality secures and holds
! the business of the smaller banks in
country towns. That was McLear's
place here. He had been with the bank
nearly 20 years, had gained for It
much business, and had been pro-
noted upon his merits from one post
to another until not long ago he be-
came cashier when Vice President
Shunbacker took his present place.
Just exactly what happened then
may never be known. A business
man who was not far away saw Nc
Lear rise to meet the stranger and a
moment later heard the latter's voice,
high-pitched and angry. Only the
words five thousand dollars" could
be made out. The business man, not
interested in the talk. turned away.
Crash Heard Blocks Away.
Then came the ripping, grinding
decorating crash. The roar of 1t was
heard six blocks away. A great puff
OF smoke swept upward with the de.
bris and drifted as high as the eighth
or top story of the Bullitt building,
Every pane of glass about the bank
was shattered in a twinkling, and
every piece OF brass grin work was
bent and twisted and torn.
score of desks within a radius OF
ten yards seemed to leap straight in
the air. and then drop back and crash
upon the marble floor There appeared
to be sheet Of fame in the immedi
ate vicinity OF the explosion, for some
of the desks were blackened and
some curtains and woodwork at the
eastern end of the inclousre in which
McLear had his desk took FIRE.
Every person within the radius OF
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-06
Bomb Thrower an Iowa Man.

Robert Steele, who undoubtedly is
the bomb thrower who wrecked the
Fourth Street National bank in Phila-
delphia. left Garner, Ia, six years ago
with his wife and two children, going
to Chicago where he secured employ
ment. From there he went east and
while he did not correspond with per-
sons in Garner it was learned there
that he had located in Philadelphia.
While in Garner he ran a harvesting
machine shop in which he was not
overly successful in securing work
He was of morose, Respondent, retir-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-06
UNZOEW7zf7EO R1s27D tNI0o0aED 70
XlLE RZQtEED 70 RyH1-IHIR0HER
wiped out of existence, not trace re-
naming of either timepiece or bricks.

wiped out of existence, not trace re-
naming of either timepiece or bricks.
Bank Notes Swept Away.
From the desks of the paying teller
and receiving teller the conclusion
and consequent rush Of air swept at
least $40, 900 in bank notes. The clerks
and officials there, as well as those in
the collateral department, forgot their
injuries, heroically, and went to work
at once to rescue the money and Sc
curities. It was reported that two
certified checks-one for $4,000 and
the other for a still larger sum-were
missing. It was not known whether
they were destroyed, blown out Of the
building, or stolen in the excitement.
So terrific was the force Of the ex-
plosion that the dead cashiers watch,
a heavy, gold hunting-case timepiece.
was bent from its fat shape into the
form OF horseshoe. A fat, mashed
piece of gold found upon the floor
near where the bomb was thrown was
identified as ring he had worn.
Whole Building Shaken.
A hixh ND ~ the nth door q the
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-06
M LRWP

ing disposition, mixing little with peo-
pie generally.
He believed the world owed him a
living and In numerous letters writ
ten while he was In Garner said that
the United States owed him a liveli-
hood and that he was going to collect
1t though he was having difficulty In
doing 50. Because of this attitude he
was considered by many to be men,
tally deranged but was never looked
upon as q dangerous or desperate
man.
After giving up his machine shop he
peddled patent medicines for: a time.
Steel was 35 years old. He has q
brother, Charles Steele, living at
Klemme, Ia
Steele's widow and family live at
ITO North Ashland avenue, Chicago.
His father. now dead. was an active
Socialist
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-06
LYNX GNAWS OFF
LEG OF HER CUB.

ticular1y tender-hearted. but Tate
never raised his rifle when the old
lynx slowly moved OF with her limp
ing cub. He let them go and then APP
preached the trap. Here 1t was evil
dent that the old lynx had exhausted
every means known to her before she
decided to cut off the foot of her OF.
spring. She had torn at the chain,
bitten the tree to which it was at
gnawing the sharp teeth of the trap.
Il never knew lynx to rescue her
young in that way" said Tate, after
telling Of the incident; "but I once
knew whole family of barn owls to
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-06

sit about an imprisoned one until 1t
died. The owl had been caught in a
mink trap, and from the number Of
bones lying about l am sure that its
comrades brought it food until death
came from exposure. How long it
was a prisoner l don't know, but I
am sure it was more than two weeks,
as / passed near the spot now and
then, and remember seeing the owls
circling about. 1t was a month later
that 1 stumbled over the trap which
had been set by another hunter who
forgot it."
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-06
HAVOC BY EXPLOSION.

HAVOC BY EXPLOSION.
~. The Fourth National is the
=, wealthiest national bank in Phil,
adelphia.
President Rushton is the head
of the Philadelphia Clearing
. House association.
~ Steele, the bombthrower, is
known in Chicago as an anarchist.
When the demand for money
was refused Steele dropped the
bomb at the feet of himself and
the cashier.
Both. the cashier and the bomb
thrower were blown to pieces and
scattered over the bank.
(. The interior of the bank was
wrecked and money and blood
blown even out the windows.
The police reserves and firemen
were called to prevent looting.
Panic reigned throughout the
eight-story structure and in the
vicinity of the bank.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-06
Dead Enaineer Run. Train.

Toronto. Can.-With the engineer
dead at his post and his hand on the
throttle the Canadian Pacific railway
Hamilton express. tore through Park.
dale station the other afternoon. The
fireman. alarmed at the increased
speed, went to the engineers box and
found the man dead. He applied the
emergency brakes and the train came
to standstill. The engineer was
John Paul. 1t is supposed he Wa
struck By Q. semaphors.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-06

with a shotgun. When this eagle
was shot it was devouring a pig
which 1t had killed. Since the child
was attacked by the eagle another
one has been killed, and 1t is believed
that these two are the only ones
on the river that are large and fierce
enough to cause trouble. Each of the
two killed measured over seven feet
from tip to tip of wings
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-06
YOUNG BOY ATTACKED
BY BIG GRAY EAGLE
Carries Him so Yards, Then
Releases Him.

Coweta, 1. 1.-THE fve-year-old son
of Nero Charles, farmer living near
Coweta, was attacked by large gray
eagle few days ago, and narrowly
escaped with his life after being car
ried so yards by the fierce bird. So
far as known, this is the first time
in the history of Indian Territory that
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-06
Accounted For.

She-Mr. Dudleigh is looking more
like himself, don't you think!
Is dead.-Puck-
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-26
;1HAN W|Il|I|K|Nl|0||W'|'.
llT ' WEDNESDAY. l'| i \
5,Ss m 5a s So 81
Judge Fitzgerald Adjourned
Court \ Until Toni ['e' 4 :[}c''.l Morrow at
1890 O'clock.
sPRlso AMlLY | | IN { couaT. !; !.
|If c mission il i inacy Is sA'ot
Appointed the Trial Will
Proceed at Once.
.PRIso i ER'sz Nj l-Y: in COURT
Proceed at Once.

NEW YORK. March 25.-In anticipa-
ttionSof some action on the part of JUS
&ttce Fitzgerald regarding the appoint
t1nent of a Flunacy commission Tor II. IS.
'Thaw. I'D strict Attorney Jerome and
counsel for the defense were present
lin the escriminal branch of the Supreme
Court this morning at II o'clock.
Justice TFitzgerald had fixed that
no ur for notifying the lawyers in case
he should desire further evidence from
either sssidc or an argument OF any
sort. 5:,S9
The defendants family We're all in
court Mrs Evelyn Nesbit ThaH came
down town alone and entered the
Criminal Courts Building u1iaccompa-
MED. Mrs. William Thaw and her
! two daughters, the Countess Of Var
| mouth and Mrs G. L. Carne gle arrived
| ltogether, and Edward Thaw5 appeared
ssoon thereafter. II
There was a long wait for Justice
i Fitzgerald. who did not arrive until
1 tllis time the women members of the
i ,rhaw family had become tired out
i and had returned to their hotels. When
the Judge finally took his place on the
4 bench lie merely went through tho
4 formality of having the court sesoioI
i adjourned until Wednesday morning
i at 1880 O. clock the hour set last Fri.
4; day for the jury to makes It's re-
4 appearance In the case.
tJustice Fitzgerald made, no an
nouncement whatever to tho attor
neys.
i If Justice Fitzgerald decides to ap
4 point a commission he Will probabl,
4. first excuse the Jurors Indefinitely, in
4 alforming them that they will be dul!
desired Then, after the jury retires
n liz ,swill formally announce the ap
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-26
Premier CdntaCuZenene
Says Peasants DevaSSt- IS
ttated Estates.
100000 PEASANTS
ARE UNDER ARMS
Plundering Everything and Levy
ing Contributions Troops Fire
on Rioters and Kill Forty at
Bacess-Reserves Are
in Sympathy With
Marauders.


LONDON, March 25.-That the
Roumanian government considers the
recent riots at Moldavia and Wal
lachia to be result OF similar dis
5turbances in the adjacent provinces
of Russia and not OF an antt-Jewist.
character Is evident from comnIuni-
cation made to the Associated Press
by Premier Cantacuzenene and tele-
graphed by him from Bucharest to
London. Tho premier says:
"The grave troubles which have
broken out in Roumania do not arise
from any anti-Semitic feeling. They
are OF well-dcfined agrarian char
acter. The peasants are not onlyfdevas-
tating the houses and farms OF Jewish
farmers, but also those OF Roumanian
land proprietors. It Is undeniablc that
these sad occurrences are In part q
result OF the agitation now prevalent
In Russia, especially in Bcssarabfa,
which borders on Roumania..
THE Roumanian government Is
taking energetic measures to restore
order. and 1t hopes that by active
! military Intervention the rioting
quickly will be suppressed. Quickly
! thereafter the government will intro.
duce a series OF measures providing
for the necessary agrarian reforms. s
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-26
5GARRETT'S PARTY
MUCH SHAKEN UP
Car Of President Of seaboard De-
rallied Near SuffolkNo
s. Hur4
One Hurt
I speclal 10 INC Times. pispateh.l j

;suFFOLIS, VA, March 95.-President
w, A. Garrett, ofjthe Scaboard Air l4ine
Railway, ana members OF his party had
an almost miraculous escape this after
noon when tho presidents private car
was derailcd a short distance west Of
suffolk and finally was thrown against
an umbankment. which kept 1t from
turning entirely over. Tho train, spe-
cial was composed of engine No. CAT and
private car No, i. The train was pass 4
ing through n cut, and according to
president Gssrett, was going only about
twenty-five miles an hour. Mr.. Garrett
says q piece of mechanism dropped from
/ the engine or car and caused the aecl-
,euent.
with tho president were Mrs. Garrett.
their two daugtters, G.. r. Miller, u
stenographer: u. A Wills and two other
persons. No ono was injured. The track
was torn{up for hundred Or so yards
\ Passenger trains nrc being transferred
4 a. slsilbyato Norfolksand Western tracks
4 tho presldent's party ia9S Shere awaiting
| Ithe arrival Of n special train from Ports:
mouth. President Garrett was lust re-
4 turning from a twelve days rip over tl'
A system, aud Was jo!ned by members o
Ibis family, who had been In Camden
4 i. &. .Etfor6 eight weeks. Mrs. Garrett says
lthe pancs In his car rWeSe no Y broken. !;
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-26
YOUNG MAN CUTS
THROAT ON On TRAIN n N
Passenger Approaching Danvillc
Makes Savage Dig at Neck
With Pockct-Knife.
WOULDN'T TAX E. c L0R0F 0RM
While Doctors Were Performing
Most Painful Operation He
Never Flinched.
ltspec,al 10 The Time Dispatch. j

Especial to The Times Dispatch.l
4 DANV1LLE, VA, March a25.-Just as
Southern train No. 35,.running from
Washington to Atlanta, arrived at the
station here this afternoon a nicely
dressed white man walked out Of one
or the Pullman coaches with blood
streaming from his throat, which he
had cut just second before in the
car The man evidently is Stuart r.
Bradburn. son OF j. i. Bradburn, Of,
Bridgewater, y a.
Leaving stream OF blood behind!
him the man walked into the bag
gage room of the station, where he
was taken In charge by two 8police-
men,, w ho took from his hand nspo ocket-
knife with which he had committed
the deed and bwhi ch5he5 Id tightly In
,hiss grasp. He wa 8 carried to. the laosr
+pital, where an examination showed
a large, gaping nyo und In the neck. III he
,vindpipe was Gu t all til egsvayss through.
Despite the fact that 4 lle I was appar7
entity bleeding to DEATH, he talked
freely. abusing the policemen who took
him In custody and the doctors sum
lnoned to render him aid. He abso-
lutely refused to givefhis name. his
address or the motive for the deed.
Was in Hell.
To a reporter he said: II was In hell
| and decided to end II all.' 'rhe vic.
tim when carried to the operating
| room fought snvagely any attempt to
| give him chloroform, and finally con-
sented to an operation with the prom
eise that no anesthetic would be adj
| ministcred. In the history Of the hos
I pital the operation performed to- might
/ furnished the most wonderful 5eXhibi.
1 ton Of nerve and endurance. An i'm.
mense hole had been cut in the mans
| throat and stitch after stitch was
taken without the patient even flinch
ing. He talked to the 1,hysicians a.
unconcernedly as If they were carving
i a.hog. Tho, vital parts of the man!
! throat escaped tho knife5and there Il
show for his recovery. The onl,
4 thing on his person. which. showed tn
slightest trace to his identity was
small piece OF paper torn from
Washington newspaper on which wa
written: Stuart Il. Rradburn. Bridge
water. Va. Father, j. Il. Bradburn.
On the opposite side OF the pape
j was written: Theses r. and r. de
clincs had it fixed for him.
The names referred to above hav
been telcgraphed to, but no reply lla
been received The man boarded tn
train at charlottesville and had
ticket to Spartanburg, S. G.