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Show Panic-Stricken by a Big Rat Fashionablo Shoppers In Bravo Old Philadelphia Terrorized by a "Wriggling- Hodent Special to Tho Tribuno. PHILADEIiPHLV, Pa., April 23. It looked for a time that a riot call would have to be sent in from a fashionable Chestnut street confectionery con-fectionery because of the pandemonium caused by the appearance of a cat with a half-dead rat in her Jaws. Scores of women were making purchases pur-chases when one of them gave a scream that would arouse an Egyptian mummy. Then there was a chorus of screams and "goodness graclouses" and "Oh, rays," the result b.elng a pell mell rush for tho doors. The cat had just caught a large rat, and pursued by a dog had run Into the candy store to preserve the game and finish tho killing. Tho captive's wriggling wrig-gling and squealing was too much for tho women, and there was a disturbance disturb-ance that resembled a riot. |