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Show Pender shut off steam.' As the train came in contact with the bear his hind legs opened, and ho full forward on the cowcatcher, clawing 'avagely at the hard wood. He seemed stunned or bewildered be-wildered at the strange occurrence, and did not manifest any inclination to get off. Ho rode into town on the cowcatcher, cow-catcher, ami was shot and killed. Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Another Hear Caught hy Cowcatcher. As the Louisville and Nashville passenger pas-senger accommodation was passing through Wade's cut, a deepvmd narrow passage through the rocks, about eight miles east of Milan, Tenn., Engineer George I'endor was surprised to see a big brown bear come into the cut at the west end, about ten rods away. The bear stopped directly iu the middle of the track, facing tho engine. Tho locomotive loco-motive bearing down upon him seemed to paralyze the bear, and he was perfectly perfect-ly motionless until the engine was within with-in thirty feet of him, when ho arose on his hauncbes preparatory to a spring. The train was runniug at the rate of twenty miles an hour through the cut, and seeing that he might wreck the j train by a collision with bruin Engineer i |