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Show - BIO BEAR KILLED BY ENGINE. On the night of December 6, as the Atlantic At-lantic Coast Line through freight, en - toute to Jacksonville, arrived within ten miles of Ocala. the engineer noticed a big ; black object walk on the track and then . . . jump off. When the train came within a few feet of the spot, the object again , jumped on the track. The engineer could . , ' not account for the object and did not i . ', stop to investigate. J. The next morning the northbound pas-Jr- senger train picked up a 400-pound black ,"" bear. This bear was turned over to the ' engineer of the freight train, ,who had the I skin cured and is keeping It. The citizens of St. Petersburg, where the engineer resides, re-sides, feasted on bear meat the next day, . From the Jacksonville Trades-Union. |