Misplaced Animals

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Folder 35. Out of Place Animals – General

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or the
als tumediate coromander of the John Adan. which Mr. Clark regards as vastly better than
Bantee and topstitution. June 2 on that year, he that at the Stone Pite, which is now approach-
Sook the John Adams to sea with the least posible
The delay in pursuit of the privateer Tacony, knowa to
din
ing exhaustlou.
At this quarry stone, is
burned, not dangerous
W. S. DEWEY.
clothing lost. Go home first train.
All papers and principal inquiry was set on foot which
discovery that her son by af
arrived home safely and that his injuries were bis nanje was William Fres
Subsequent dispatches report that Mr. Dewey was living in St. Louis. It was
daya
Mr. William P. Lamb, who also lives in
was thirty years old, was ma
practicing medicine. The publ
wrote to the young doctor to e
imedel s getting orders to active service on the per cent, and this may become the soures of
bebe crnileg upon our cons, and in December said, can be taken out at a saving of 30 to 40 pot serious and he would be out again in a few
Brookly as execative officer. This enabled tim to Hartford's future supply, Considering tais s
quest engagents, and, stevesadvely, to com yesterday, in answer to a direct inquiry, at telegraphed as follows:-
spart elpate in the battle of Slobile Bay, and in sub only contingent, not assured, Mr. Clark wid Rochester and is an adjuster for the Phoenix, York, and Tuesday afternoo
and the captured confederate ironclad Tennessee, he should consider that the gift was worth t
the St discries of the Messippi squadron, the Soul-
note in the blockade of Galveston, and the ironclad
Lafagette
loss than 605,000.
BUFFALO, N. Y., March 18.
Phoenix Insurance company-Hotel Richmond
Escaped in night hirt and
WILLIAM I, LAMB.
He has owned the place for thirty-five years burned this morning.
Captalo Lail wa Master of Arts of Princeton, a and it has long been known as "the David socks Lost everything else,
day Companies: of the Military Order of the Loyal Le Clark farm." He has raised it to a Ligh state
him $49,261.45 in cash and al
bonds, stocks and jewelry, be
the proceeds of the estate of
15,
Burglars entered the house
ford glon, a Fellow of the American and honorary mem- of cultivation and it ought to prove a vast addi Pratt & Baldwin, and now a traveling salaman
eave ber of the British Association for the Advancement tion to the usefulness and the comforta of both for Jordan, Matsh & Co. of Boston, was at the Monday evening, and carried
Mr. B. G. Baldwin, formerly of the firm of Lord, on Washington square,
of Science, & corresponding member of the Ameri of these excellent charities, which thus become hotel but had a room on a lower floor and tele-solid sliver trays, a plain trav
sophie society of Washington, of the Navy Mutual gift. And through them all Hartford owes
esa Geographical society, ember of the New Engi so deeply indebted to Mr. Clark for his noble graphs that he got out unharmed and saved
aland Historical Genealogical society, of the Philo
of Ald. Americab Legion of Honor, and other bene
who fell societies of his total service of 35 years and
10 monta caly 2 years and 6 months were unen-
ployed, and be leaves to the errvice a most worthy
him its gratitude
A FERY CURIOUS BEAST.
the
bem-
an unsullied record. He was twien married. Two
Noe
grown children, a son and a daughter, by his first
pay wife, nee Elizabeth Ferguson Buston, survive him;
also a son and daughter of the second, who la a sis-
ter of the late Commodore Edward Terry, U. N
example and to his family the pressions heirloom of Hartford Sportsmen See the Ranger of Tal
The
the
druggist, grocer or confectioner for B H. Doulless
pro- & Sons Capsicum Cough Drops: 100. per qr. Ib.
If troubled with cough, cold or sore throat, ask
ber
cou-
ant
due
art-
and
rib-
A GREAT MISTAKE
part of his baggage.
Mr. J. H. Van Beuren, a general agent of the
Connecticut Fire Insurance company, was also
at the hotel and telegraphs he was only slightly
burned, but saved nothing. Mr. Van Beuren's
home is at Dunkirk, N. Y
Pain from indigestion, dyspepsia, and too hearty
eating is rellevet at once by taking one of Carter's
Little Liver Pills immediately after dinner, Don't
forget this.
Choking
a coffee pot, tea pot, and stopb
of sugar tongs. All of these
solid sterling silver, and valued
was also stolen a gold music b
in it; a silver box, gold Line
pyglass, and other bric à brac,
fear or haste the burglars did
hallway into the dining room,
sueir of solid gold and silver, pr
glass cases, would have been
Among this was a silver dinner
value diflicult to estimate, as it
pattern and belonged to Mr.
mother. The booty was pass
to a small iron balcony
Catarrh steps, but is only a few fiet als
with all the horrible sensations of an assassin
clutching your throat and pressing the life-breath
from your tightened chest? Have you notic. d
the languor and debility that succeed the effort to
clear your throat and head of this catarrhal muat
fer? What a depressing influence It exerts upon
the mind, clouding the memory and filling the head
with pains and strange noises! How difficult it is
to rid the nasal passages, throat and lungs of this
poisonous mucus all can testify who are afflicted
with catarrh. How dilleult to protect the system
against its further progress towards the lungs, liver
and kidneys, all physicians will adinit. It is a ter
rible disease, and cries out for relief and cure.
cott Mountain and Return Puzzled.
In Tum COURANT several days ago appeared
a short account of the killing of what was
Mrs. Lutt is a daughter of the late Bret, Brig. Gen-thought to be merely a wild bog that had run
eral Henry S. Burton, colonel 5th U. S. Artillery. at large on Talcott Mountain for some time.
His remains were interred with every military On Saturday Mr. P. W. Denslow and a party
and honor at the beautiful arrancas National Cemetery of fox bunters of this city, who were upon the
on Monday last. All the army and navy officers of mountain, heard that the strange animal was still
the station, a battalion of artillery and inarines, the on exhibition in the barn of the man who killed it.
the captain and four officers of the Italian corvette The party visited the place, expecting to find noth
lgbt
Flavio Giola, and a great concourse of the employés ing but an ordinary hog that had had to
pre attended the funeral
of the navy yard and citizens, both white and black, pick up a living on the mountain for several years.
They came away considerably puzzled as to what
they had seen. On Sunday a reporter found Mr.
only obtained a fall de cription of the unknown
Denslow at his home on the Windsor road and not
beast, but say a bunch of hair which Mr. Denslow
had pulled from its back. The alleged hog has little
about is that loolis porcine except the head, which
might pass for that of a specimen from the old
pineries of Florida in the "cracker" days. The body
is not shaped like that of bog and is covered with a
sort of fur close to the skin, and has also long hair
like that obtained by Mr. Densiow. This hair is about
five and one-half inches long and is straight to about
half an inch from the end, where it turns brown and
curly. Similar hair covers the whole body, but is
shorter on the under part and on the legs. The legs remedies utterly fail, of SANFORD'S RADICAL CIRE.
The remarkable curative powers, when all other
are much like those of a goat, and the hoofs corre are attested to by thousands who gratefully recom
spond to the legs, the surface being nearly straight mend it to fellow sufferers. No statement is made
and making well towards a right angle with the bot-regarding it that cannot be subs antiated by the
tom of the hoof. The tail has none of the charac most respectable and reliable references.
Each packet contains one bottle or the RADICAL
teristics of a genuine pig-tail, being straight and CORE, one box of CATARRHAL SOLVENT, and an IM
The body is about four feet long.
covered with quite long hair like that on the body. PROVED INHALER, with treatise and direct ons, and
This description is froia the inspection of the Hart-5 sold by all druggists for $1.00.
ford party of fox hunters and may be relied upon.
As to the habits of the animal there are a multitude
of stories. It has been seen at various times for
three years on the mountain, but few people ever
got a fair look at it as it would dart off at the least
alarm. It was light of foot for so large an animal
and farmers in the neighborhood relate that after a
thaw in winter it appeared by its tracks to have
made a practice of coursing ike a rabbit. Follow
ing its tracks they have found places where it had
made long jumps that would have been impossible
to any hog except "the specter piz." ef unpleasant
memory. Furthermore the animal after one of
these jumps would strike the ground with its tour
feet in a bunch, like a gout. If it did half of what
is credited to it the dead animal had as little respect
for the traditions of seine as its avoidance of them
showed it had for men
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Has heretofore been made in the treatment
of rheumatism, neuralgia, and nervous or
sick beadache. This is pridened by the
failure on the part of thousands of sufferers
to flad relief, even though they have ex.
hausted the skill of various physicians and
tried numerous so-called remedies. To such
Athlophoros is offered as a safe, sure and
quick cure. Its saccess has been phenome
nal, and yet it is not surprising because it
will do all that is claimed for it. The Athlo-
phorcs Co. will gially refer any who desire
to make an investigation to reliable parties
who have been cured by it.
69 Ruggles St., Providence, RL
There is no use of talking or complaining
of having rheumatism, just buy bo tle or
two of Athlophoros and you won't know
what rheumatism is after you take them. I
was down with that disease 14 weeks, had the
doctor attending, me I was helpless and suf-
fered much pain; well, I was so low it was
necessary to have two men to assist and
move me in bed I then, en the advice of a
friend who had tried it, commenced using
Athlophoros, two hours after taking it, why
I could more my limbs around, the improve-
rent was so marked and quick we all had a
good langh, so you may know there was a
change, Well I kept on taking the medicine
till I used nearly three bottles; yes, sir, that
stuff is the best thing in the country for the
eure of rheumatism. I like it and could keep
on taking it until the cows come home."
WM. N. DROWN.
Three doses of Athlophoros relieved me
from a very acute attack of inflammatory
rheumatism in nine hours. I consider it an
invaluable remedy of roenmatism affections,
lophoros.
and esteem it a pleasure to recommend Ath-
HENRY L. HALL
Editor "Journal," Willimantic, Conn.
Every draggist should keep Athlophoros
sad Athlophoros Pills, but where they can
About the only thing sure in the premises seems
to be that the Hanger of Talcott Mountain is dead
and hanging by the heels in a barn. Anyone who
wants to see in can do so by going out Albany
avenue nearly to the mountain and at a spot oppo
site the road to the tower turning sorth and going
about a mile. It ought to be worth somebody's while
to buy the skin and have it stuffed. The tauger
died in a heroic charge on the enemy from the
cover of a clump of Lushes and met death at the
hands of a stalwart negro.
EXTRA LIABILITY TO MALARIAL INFECTION.
P'ersons whose blood is thin, digestion weak and
liver singgish, are extra-llable to the attacks of
inalarial disease. The most triding exposure may
under such conditions, infect a system which, if
healthy, would resist the miasmatic taint. The only
way to secure immunity from malaria in localities
where it is prevalent, is to tone and regula's the
system by improving weakened algestion, enriching
Potter Drag and Chemical Co., Boston.
HOW MY SIDE ACHES.
From the bench and the counter, from
the loon and sewing machine goes u
the cry of pain and weakness. Aching
Sides and Back. Kidney and Uterin
Pains. Strains and Weakness, Coughs.
Chest Pains, and every Pain and Ache pt
daily toil relieved in one uninute by the Cuti
curn Anti-Pain Plaster. New, elegant and in
fallible. At druggists, 25c.: Eve for $1.00; or, of
Potter Drug and Chemical Co., Boston.
Cuts a
mbl
4d(M&W)&2w11
abo
surrounding the grounds. He
daaily discovered that more b
than could be carried away, and
silver dishes and a silver water
be discovered at 60 the nex
Thomas Dyer, the butler.
Some additional information
Ansel Bourne,-the Rhode Islan
woke up the other day in Norris
a two months' dream" in whic
very sanely running a toy stor
by the New York Evening S
years, "it says, "he has been su
of a peculiar kind, which rend
porarily insensible, and on 801
bas remained in an unconscious
ours.
He has had one or two s
paralysis of the brain, and at ti
would flud himself in different p
with no knowledige as to how hi
these fits or insane moments
any length of time, and the pe
any fear of his being lost. Abo
ago Mr. Bourne created a sensat
ing a pamphlet in which he reco
rieuce similar to that of Saul
aid an angel had appeared to b
im to turn from the error of
ad been extremely erratic up to
reeded the voice and became a
Gospel."
There is no one article in the h
that gives so large a return for the w
orous strengthening plaster, such a
Weed and Beiladonna Backache Hin
CASTORIA
for Infants and Children.
Cantoriais so well adapted to ill
I recommend it as mm
dor to an
Castoria cures Colle, Conal!

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Connecticut Courant
Hartfond
P4-3
24 March 1887

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FROM: RON ROSENBLATT
6/1/96
NYPD
Gabe Kirchheimer
WITH CARE: An NYPD officer, armed with a tranquilizer gun, eases toward a wild doe
yesterday that had found its way into Fort Tyron Park. It was taken to a wildlife refuge.
921 31 NEW YORK POST, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1996

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1: RON ROSENE
From:
6/1/96
OSENBLATT
Gabe Kirchheimer
WITH CARE: An NYPD officer, armed with a tranquilizer gun, eases toward a wild doe
yesterday that had found its way into Fort Tyron Park. It was taken to a wildlife refuge.
Wayward Bambi out of the woods
By ROCCO
PARASCANDOLA
A wayward doe found
wandering in upper
Manhattan's
Fort
Tryon Park was tran-
quilized steps away
from a subway en-
trance yesterday.
West 190th Street and
Fort Washington Ave-
nue. Residents watched
in amazement as cops
took aim and tranquil-
ized Bambi.
"The idea was to do it
the safest possible
way," said Emergency
Services Officer Ed Da-
lessandro. "Otherwise,
we would have been
said
Elliot,
Faith
spokeswoman for the
city's Center for Animal
Care and Control. "It's
got a happy ending."
Parks Commissioner
Henry Stern said he's
temporarily renamed
the plaza "Deer Park.'
Authorities suspect
Bambi made her way to
the big city from West-
for chasing her through chester, using Amtrak
Cops shadowed the
2-year-old whitetail
dubbed Bambi
more than eight hours
until she slipped into
an enclosed area.
About 9 a.m., the deer
squeezed into Margaret
Corbin
Plaza,
fenced-in
a
area near
the street.'
a
The doe was taken to
Green Chimneys,
wildlife refuge in Put-
nam County, where she
was in good condition.
"Call her Bambi,
tracks that connect
Riverdale to upper
Manhattan.
It wasn't clear how
long the deer had been
in the park. But by 3
a.m. yesterday, the agi-
tated animal had been
spotted by passers-by.
Police raced to the
scene, where they kept
an eye on the doe for
hours, until experts de-
termined what sort of
tranquilizer to use.
"She's a beautiful ani-
mal," Dalessandro said.
"Very healthy.
Had the deer kept a
lower profile, she could
have survived in the
park, officials said.
"They're extremely
adaptable animals,"
said Pat Thomas, as-
sistant curator of mam-
mals for The Bronx
Zoo.

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Togus Pond fish
By DOUG VANDERWEIDE
Staff Writer
AUGUSTA - It isn't a trout horribly
mutated by acid rain. It isn't a prehistoric
critter, in the Loch Ness mode, risen from the
dark depths of Togus Pond.
But the hideous-looking fish pulled from
Togus Pond certainly isn't anything that
belongs there, according to a state biologist: it's
a sea robin, a creature more at home on the
bottom of the Atlantic Ocean than tiny
Togus.
Department of Marine Resources biologist
Lewis Flagg confirmed on Tuesday that the
18-inch, 22-3 pound fish with a huge head and
humanlike skin is a sea robin, a fish native to
the Gulf of Maine.
The sea robin originally believed caught by
two young boys - was hooked by 17-year-old
Randy Sidelinger of Chelsea, who was fishing
with his 18-year-old brother Greg early Friday
evening.
"My brother saw it, then we put a worm
77
there and it took it, and we reeled it in,'
Randy said. "It wasn't even a fight."
"It was really ugly," he said.
a sea robin
They couldn't figure out what they had
caught, so they took the fish to nearby
Abbott's Market. A store clerk called in a local
fisherman, who later contacted Game Warden
Lloyd Perkins.
Perkins showed the fish to Flagg, who
identified it as a sea robin, a groundfish
commonly found in 250-500 feet of sea water.
Reddish-brown through gray in color, they use
their fins for walking on the bottom and are
scaleless. They are voracious eaters, and bury
themselves in bottom sand when threatened.
Although edible, the fish's unsightly
appearance makes them a poor food fish, and
those dragged up by trawlers are often sold as
lobster bait.
Flagg believes the fish may have been put in
Togus Pond a while back, and, because of cold
water, has been able to survive.
"I was told that it could (live in fresh water)
for a period of days, to maybe possibly several
weeks, depending on water temperatures,"
Flagg said. "In cold water their metabolism is
slower, so they might live longer."
The fish also could live in the shallow water
of lower Togus Pond because sea robins enter
shallow sea water at different times of the year,
Flagg said.
There have been reports that a second sea
robin was taken from the pond, according to
Perkins, but that rumor has not been
confirmed.
Randy Sidelinger said he knows some people
are claiming the incident is a hoax, but he's not
trying to pull a scam. He insists he hasn't fished
at the ocean before.
"All I know is, it was ugly," he said.
In any event, people need not worry about
Togus Pond becoming infested with ugly
seaborne fish, Flagg said. Their eggs are not
likely to gestate in fresh water, nor is the
geology of Togus at all similar to the sea
bottom.
"I'm not worried about getting a big run
emerging from the pond," Flagg said.
Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Maine May 4, 1994
page 9 cal 1,2,3

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Daily News, NY.
Thursday 7 Aug 1986
A mammoth problem taken in tow
MARATHON, Fla.-Marine Patrol officers have towed to sea the
decomposed body of an elephant found in a canal near this Florida Keys
town. How the elephant got there is a mystery. "We had no missing
elephant reports," said Capt. Mike Long.
The 12-foot carcass was spotted Saturday. Because of the health
hazard, a patrol boat put a noose around the elephant and towed it far out
to sea, where it eventually will sink.
Patrol officials said the animal might have died on a ship and been
thrown overboard.
The Associated Press

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16 Feb 1984, 25 Thursday
U.S. skunks
in W. Germany
WIESBADEN, West
Germany (AP) - For-
esters in the industrial
town of Gross-Gerau
have discovered a varie-
ty of ugly American
roaming in their woods:
skunks.
Officials said they
don't know how many of
the critters are loose or
how they found their
way to Hesse.
"This species is not
wanted in central
Europe because it can
disturb considerably the
living conditions of our
native animals," Karl
Schneider, the Hessian
agricultural minister,
said in a statement.
West Germany has no
skunks of its own.
Kenneler Jounal
Augusta, Maine

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Bridgeport Past, Connectin
Lounging lizard lassoed
BROOKTONDALE, N.Y- The 4-foot-long lizard snapped his
teeth and wagged his tongue at residents of this town, creating what
looked like an outtake from a "B" horror film.
"Apparently, this thing was not very happy and was trying to
bite everything in sight," Tompkins County sheriff's Deputy David
Sunday.
Bush said after the 5-pound, non-poisonous reptile was captured
Several Brooktondale residents spotted the lizard Saturday and
tried to catch it, but the animal quickly shredded the paper bag it
was stuffed into, said Gordon Gabaree, of the New York State De-
partment of Environmental Conservation. The lizard escaped and
apparently spent Saturday night in the woods.
"This is the kind of lizard they use in Hollywood movies with the
long waving tail, the claws to dig into the skin and the fork-shaped
tongue," said Kraig Adler, a Cornell University biology professor.
The lizard's now in Adler's custody while he looks for the owner.
If no one claims the lizard, Adler said, it will probably be donated to
the Burnet Park Zoo in Syracuse.
2.0 Sept 1988 page 2al / Trday.

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Wet minh t
MARINES
FRUSTRATED
BY LARGE RODENT
CAMP PENDLETON,
Calif.
(UPI) The U.S. Marines are
frustrated. They've been getting|
the slip for three weeks from an|
elusive, 100-pound rat-like capy-1
bara roaming the hills above
this Marine base.
The Marines say they are de-
veloping new strategy to catch
the animal, who has been nib-
bling on crops in the area.
For three weeks the Marines
have been watching net-covered
cages equipped with trapdoors
and baited with apples, carrots
and corn in an effort to capture
the South American rodent.
Br. d., post fest, Con

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Rare Beast Struck
By Pickup Truck
THURMONT, Md. (AP)
Robert Troxell thought he
killed a cow when his pickup
truck struck a large animal
that leaped onto U.S. 15.
Later, state police identified
the dead animal as a South
South
American tapir. Officers said
the rare beast had escaped a
week earlier from its owner in
Natural Bridge, Va.
Wed
31976
MARINES FRUSTRATED
BY LARGE RODENT
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.
(UPI) The U.S. Marines are
frustrated. They've been getting
the slip for three weeks from an
elusive, 100-pound rat-like capy-
bara roaming the hills above
this Marine base.
The Marines say they are de-
veloping new strategy to catch
the animal, who has been nib-
bling on crops in the area.
For three weeks the Marines |
have been watching net-covered
cages equipped with trapdoors
and baited with apples, carrots
and corn in an effort to capture
the South American rodent.
Br. dy post fest, Con

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Across the USA
News from every state
Alabama: Montgomery - Some
rivers and swamps in Alabama are too
polluted for people to safely eat fish from
their waters. A survey of 34 water bodies
found that 17 of them contain potential-
ly dangerous levels of mercury, PCBs and
DDT. State toxicologist Neil Sass said
most of the waters, while still polluted,
are safe for swimming and are getting
cleaner.
Alaska: Anchorage - Walter Toolie,
74, spent two days in a snow cave before
being rescued. He got caught in a bliz-
zard and his snowmachine ran out of gas
as he was returning to the village of Sa-
voonga on St. Lawrence Island from a
whaling camp. He was a little dehydrat-
ed, but otherwise in good health, rescu-
ers said. Two rescue workers, who disap-
peared during the two-day search, were
found. One suffered frostbite.
Arizona: Phoenix - A bill to protect
people from unknowingly purchasing
vehicles that have been stripped of parts
is headed to the Senate. The House has
already passed the bill, which would re-
strict the ability of insurance companies
that recover stolen cars to obtain clean
titles instead of salvaged vehicle titles
before selling them at auction. Gov. Hull
hasn't stated his position on the bill.
Arkansas: Jonesboro - Despite
some protests, organizers say rapper Lu-
dacris' concert April 26 will go on as
planned at the Arkansas State Univer-
sity's convocation center. The center is
school property, but the concert is spon-
sored by a private promoter. The Ameri-
can Family Association asked promoters
to cancel the show after reviewing the
rapper's song lyrics.
California: San Luis Obispo - The
Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant is
storing spent fuel safely and has taken
precautions against terrorist attacks,
federal officials said. A Nuclear Regula-
tory Commission official said at a public
hearing that the plant isn't a soft target
for a terrorist attack. The coastal plant is
between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Colorado: Pueblo - Rats, not cigars,
are being handed out to celebrate the
latest birth at the Pueblo Zoo. The rats
are for golden eagles Keesha and Kiya,
the proud parents of two eaglets born
March 28 after seven years of failed
breeding attempts. Zoo officials, who
had given up hope of succeeding in the
breeding plan, said they were elated by
the birth.
school. School officials refused to com-
ment on the vote.
D.C.: Metro's budget committee voted
to recommend buying 250 more com-
pressed natural gas buses. Transit offi-
cials see it as a big step toward cutting air
pollution in the Washington area, even
though a CNG bus costs about $40,000
more than a new clean diesel bus. Metro
also has to come up with additional
funds to renovate a maintenance facility
for the new buses.
Florida: Marathon - The Seven Mile
Bridge in the Florida Keys closes from 7
to 9 a.m. Saturday for the annual foot
race involving 1,500 runners. The bridge
is the longest of 43 on the Overseas High-
way, the only surface route from Miami
to Key West. The first race in 1982 cele-
brated completion of the span.
Georgia: Atlanta.
Jim Watson will
go on trial June 3 for killing his wife, offi-
cials said. Watson, 38, was jailed Jan. 15
when he was charged with murdering
Beverley Watson, who disappeared from
her home five years ago. Her bones were
found on a south Fulton County farm in
March 1999.
Hawaii: Honolulu - Mayor Jeremy
Harris says that a 5% cut in his proposed
[AD] $1.2 billion budget could result in layoffs
and jeopardize public safety. Ann Ko-
bayashi, chairman of the City Council
Budget Committee, recommended
across-the-board budget cuts but said
she wants the cuts limited to 1% involv-
ing public safety.
Idaho: Island Park - The U.S. Forest
Service doesn't want a wildfire to race
into local subdivisions. So the Caribou-
Targhee National Forest is developing a
plan to build firebreaks up to 500 feet
wide between public and private prop-
erty in eastern Idaho's Island Park area,
Publie comments are being accepted on
the plan through April 29.
Illinois: Simpson - Shawnee Nation-
al Forest officials are trying to figure out
what to do with at least a half-dozen
emus spotted in the forest. Officials have
no idea how the large, flightless birds got
in the forest, and they say their numbers
are increasing. Forest officials say the
state is responsible for them. State con-
servation officials deny that.
Indiana: South Bend - A dozen
members of the Indiana Ghost Trackers,
armed with cameras and night scopes,
will be in town Saturday to visit the Uni-
versity of Notre Dame's Washington Hall.
That's where the ghost of football player
George Gipp is believed to reside. Gipp,
an All-American who died in 1920, was
made famous by Knute Rockne's "Win
One for the Gipper" speech.
Connecticut: Storrs -The first
farm animal in the USA cloned from
nonreproductive cells has given birth to Iowa: Council Bluffs - Former Iowa
a healthy calf. Amy, a 3-year-old Holstein State University President Martin
cow, delivered a 103-pound bull calf ear- Jischke's name will remain on a new
lier this week at the University of Con--building despite faculty requests to
necticut. Amy's birth in 1999 broke new
ground when researchers cloned her
from cells taken from the ear of a 14-
year-old Holstein.
Delaware: Dover - A state review
panel voted unanimously to recom-
mend that the charter of the George-
town Charter School be revoked. The 8-
month-old school closed three weeks
ago, facing a budget shortfall and allega-
tions of financial mismanagement. The
closing left about 600 students without a
change it. The Faculty Senate said that
university rules prohibit a building from
being named after a university employee
until the person has been gone for five
years. Jischke left in 2000 to become
president of Purdue University.
Kansas: Leavenworth - A judge ap-
proved a settlement between Camp
Gaea and the county, allowing the 168-
acre spiritual retreat to remain open.
Camp operators sued after the county
refused last summer to renew their per-
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BRIEFS
5 lions killed
in Arkansas town
QUITMAN, Ark. Lisa
Vaughan says her log cabin in
the woods was so peaceful that
sometimes the only sound that
could be heard was the trees
swaying in the wind.
Now she's listening for lions.
In the past week, four 600- to
800-pound African lions believed to
have some connection to a nearby
exotic animal farm have been
killed near this central Arkansas
town. And residents say the terror
may not be over, because no one
knows for sure whether more lions
are on the loose.
"I had a terrible headache
and my blood pressure has been
up. It's been a long ordeal,"
said Vaughan, whose husband,
Johnny, killed two of the lions
with his .30-06 rifle.
"Everybody is scared around
here," added neighbor Arvil
Skinner. "People have to sit out
with a high-powered rifle just to
let their kids play in the yard.
"That's just how serious it is.
It might be all right and it might
not. They might still be out
there. We just don't know."
lawsuit that seeks to force them
to pay for health monitoring and
kick-the-habit help for a least a
half-million Louisiana smokers.
Opening statements had
been set Tuesday, but the start
was postponed Monday until Oct.
2 because of plumbing problems
in the courthouse. Further de-
lays are possible because the to-
bacco industry is asking the
Louisiana Supreme Court to
postpone the trial.
It took more than a year to
seat a jury while lawyers ap-
pealed decisions by the judge,
and the high court disqualified
several potential jurors. Jury se-
lection was completed Friday.
Attorneys have given no esti-
mate of the cost of health moni-
toring for healthy smokers and
stop-smoking
those want to quit.
programs
for
The defendants include R.J.
Reynolds, Philip Morris and
Brown & Williamson.
Cary Grant stamp
will be issued
WASHINGTON
Debonair
leading man Cary Grant will be
honored with a postage stamp
next month.
The Postal Service said on
Monday the 37-cent commemo-
rative stamp will be issued Oct.
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Home, where the elephants
roam
African animal transplant proposed for Plains
By Joseph B. Verrengia
The Associated Press
DENVER - Lions stalking
deer in the stubble of a Ne-
braska corn field. Elephants
Colo-
trumpeting across
rado's high plains. Cheetahs
slouching through the West
Texas scrub.
Prominent ecologists are
floating an audacious plan to
transplant African wildlife to
the Great Plains of North
America.
Their proposal is being
greeted with gasps and
groans from other scientists
and conservationists who re-
call previous efforts to relo-
cate foreign species halfway
around the world, often with
disastrous results.
The authors contend it
could help save Africa's
poster species from extinc-
tion, where protection is
spotty and habitat is vanish-
ing. They also believe the re-
located animals could restore
biodiversity on this continent
to a condition closer to what
nature was like before hu-
mans overran the landscape.
They suggest starting with
zoo animals. The perimeters
of newly created reserves
would be fenced.
"We aren't backing a truck
up to some dump site in the
dark and turning lose a
said
bunch of elephants,"
Cornell University ecologist
Harry Greene, one of the
plan's authors.
While most modern Afri-
can species never lived on
the American prairie, the sci-
entists believe that today's
animals could duplicate the
natural roles played by their
departed, even larger cousins
mastodons, camels and sa-
ber-toothed cats
that
roamed for more than 1 mil-
lion years alongside antelope
and bison.
Relocating large animals
to ecological parks and re-
serves over the next century
would begin to restore the
balance, they said.
The scientists' plan ap-
pears in today's issue of the
journal Nature.
A similar park is being es-
tablished in Siberia. Scien-
tists are importing bison
from Canada to replace the
native variety that vanished
about 500 years ago.
Some ecologists said it is
important to try such a bold
plan. Otherwise, they said
hundreds more species are
likely to go extinct in coming
decades and entire ecosys-
tems like grasslands will fun-
damentally change.
The plan is triggering
thunderclaps of criticism,
with discouraging words like
"stupid" and "defeatist" rain-
ing down in torrents.
Scientists point to Aus-
tralia, which was overrun by
rabbits and poisonous cane
5A
toads after species reloca-
tions.
"It is not restoration to in-
troduce animals that were
never here," University of
Washington anthropologist
Donald Grayson said. "Why
introduce Old World camels
and lions when there are
North American species that
could benefit from the same
kind of effort?"
Given the continuing po-
the
litical struggle over
reintroduction of wolves in
the rural West, others won-
der how African lions would
be at home on the range.
"How many calves or
lambs would it take to feed a
family of lions for a month?"
said Steve Pilcher, executive
vice president of the Mon-
tana Stockgrowers Associa-
tion.
The renewed presence of
many large mammals might
turn back the ecological
clock in a variety of subtle
ways.
For example, elephants eat
woody plants that have over-
taken grasslands. Could they
act as Rototillers to restore
the prairie?
Lions would be a harder
sell, even if they would thin
elk herds.
"Lions eat people," said
co-author Josh Donlan of
Cornell. "There has to be a
pretty serious attitude shift
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NATION/WORLD
Osama wants cohort's body
CAIRO, Egypt (AP)- Osama bin Laden
called on President Bush in an audiotape
released Friday to release the body of Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi and said Jordan should
allow the slain terrorist to be buried in his
homeland.
In the 19-minute message, bin Laden
paid tribute to al-Zarqawi and said the for-
mer al-Qaida in Iraq leader had been under
orders to kill Iraqis who supported U.S.
forces in the country. He also vowed more
attacks against the United States in the
Middle East and Africa.
"We will continue to fight you and your
allies everywhere, in Iraq, Afghanistan, So-
malia and Sudan to run down your re-
sources and kill your men until you return
defeated to your nation," he said, address-
ing Bush. His voice sounded breathy and
fatigued at times.
FDA OKs generic Zoloft
WASHINGTON (AP)- The first generic
versions of Zoloft, the top-selling brand-
name antidepressant in the United States,
received federal approval Friday.
Israel's Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
Ltd. said it will make generic versions of
the drug, also known as sertraline, in 25-,
50- and 100-milligram tablets. Roxane Labo-
ratories Inc., based in Columbus, Ohio, will
make a liquid concentrate version of the
drug, the Food and Drug Administration
said.
Pfizer Inc.'s patent on Zoloft expires to-
day. The New York-based company is au-
thorizing its own generic version of the
drug to undercut its generic competitors.
There's a monkey in my yard
SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP)- Andrew
Padilla first saw the monkey in the back-
yard of his Palo Alto home, hanging out by
a fence. He thought it must be a squirrel.
It turned out to be a marmoset-and
one that was a long, long way from its na-
tive home in the rain forests of South and
Central America.
"I wanted to adopt him," Padilla said.
"He was so cute and friendly."
Padilla said he fed the stray monkey ba-
nanas and crackers before calling the
Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA to re-
port him.
"We thought, 'Sure. What have you been
drinking?' But when our officer arrived,
there he was," said Scott Delucchi,
Spokesman for the animal care agency.

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