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Show EXPEDITION IS SENT AFTER WILD ANIMALS Wolves, Hyenas and Lions Estfape From Clrcua In Austria and Do Enormous Damage. VIENNA, Oct. G. The destruction of flocks and herds iu the mountains of Styria, Austria b' a pack of wolves, hyenas and lions, which escaped from a menagerie last mouth, has been so onormona that the Austrian government govern-ment has ordered the organization of an expedition to kill the wild beasts. Tho action of tho government was taken on tho petition of a number of terrified Styrian mountaineers, who ap- Sealotl personally to Emperor Francis oseph for assistance. His majesty directed di-rected the ministry of tho interior to report to him personally on the best way of exterminating the animals. The government immediately offered a reward re-ward of $7.0 'for tho head of the lioness and smaller rewards for those of her cubs and the other animals, and sent out a squad of government forester forest-er to trail theuh |