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Show DICK CROKER'S $5000 "PERT IS DEAD NEW YORK, March lS.-r-Rodney Stone, "the greatest bulldog h in the world," for which Richard Croker, Jr., paid the record price of 85000, is dead. Brlght's disease is given as the cause. This dog, which has been regarded for the last three years as the most perfect, specimen of his species in existence, was born in England five and a half years ago and was brought to this country In 1900. Previous to his coming he had earned the title of unbeaten champion at the Crystal Palace show in London. |