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Show Ml CBAZY FOR GAT m DOG FUNERAL Piftslmrg Youngsters Create Reign of Terror Among the Owners of Pets. A mania for holding funerals lias struck several gangs of hoys in the Lawrcnecvillo district in the Bub-tirl) of Pittsburg, Pa. No one's eat or canary ca-nary bird i safe, for tho lads insist on ti "fresh corpse." Tho extent of this fad whs brought, out a few evenings even-ings ago, when tho police raided a crowd of boys who were holding high jinks over a funeral in an ash heap. They had caught and killed a valuable cat solely for tho purpose of having ti real funeral- Three of tho "mourners'' "mourn-ers'' caught by the ofTiccrs told of the rivalry between several gangs of Jboys as lo who could hold the most funerals in a week. At present, pet dogs are being hid under, beds .by fearful owners. |