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Show Chased by a Mud Mare. Breeds, a little station on the Toledo, Peoria and Western railway, was thrown into great excitement when John Ryno came dashing into town on a buckbOard declaring that he had been chased for five miles by a crazy mare. His own horse was covered with foam and showed the effects of a hard Orive. Ryno said his attention was attracted by the running of a horse behind him, and he saw that a white mare was following fol-lowing his buck-board about 100 yards away. The animal kept up a peculiar squealing, as if in sharp pain or deep anger. Bhe came up rapidly, and when within fifty feet Ryno, to his horror, saw that the brute was suffering from rabies, as a stream of green saliva ran from the mare's jaws. The eyes and nostrils were distended, and the hideous squeals became more pronounced. Ryno lashed his horse. His own animal ani-mal had begun to tremble, and whinnying whinny-ing with fear broke away at her highest speed; but the mad mare gained and was soon biting and snapping at the buck-board buck-board whoels, at Ryno and at his horse. Ryno beat the brute in the face with his whip stock, but to no effect. He says the awful race lasted fully five miles. A passenger train on the Toledo, Peoria and Western came along about then, and the mare, with a hideous squeal, leaped a low hedge and ran after the train. Reno watched the race until the horse and train were lost by a curve. It is now belioved thut the mare chased the train soruo distance, but fell in a fit and was subsequently killed by section sec-tion men. St. Louis Republic. |