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Show BABIES FED TO BEARS. Austrian Gypsies Steal Little Ones to Keep up Menagerie. Dispatches from Malaczka, near tho Austrian frontier, report tho sacrlflco of seven or more human lives to keep up a gypsy trlbo's menagerie. Tvo woodcutters, noticing that a gypsy trlbo with eight dancing bears entered tho forest whero they worked, fled for safety. Ono climbed Into tho branches of a tree and concealed himself, but the other was caught by tho gypsies, who Immediately removed tho bears' muzzles and allowed them to tear the man to pieces. When tho body was devoured the brutes wero muzzled anow nnd tho gypsies made them do a dance. In which tho bears eugaged with apparent appar-ent gusto. Then tho party took to tho road again, and tho wood cutter slid from tho treo and ran to tho neaicst village, whero ho gavo tho nlarm. A detachment of horse gen-d'nrmes happening hap-pening to be stopping nt tho Inn, took up tho pursuit and caught tho gypsies within an hour. While tho men were held, one of tho bears was shot and portions of human flesh, bono nnd hair woro found ln his Btomnch. Tho gen-d'armes gen-d'armes then killed tho other seven hears and mado tho samo horrifying discovery. Thereupon several of the gypsies wero taken back over tho routo they had traveled and It wns found thnt six children were missing ln as many Hungarian villages through which they hnd passed. Ono of tho gypsies has confessed that tho band had been in the habit of ateallni; children chil-dren to feed tho bears. |