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Show DEFIED THREE KENTSTO GET OSTRICHES "i Pennsylvania Man Reaches Boston With 53 of the Big Birds. ' BOSTON, Aug. ts Edicts of th govaramsnts ef England. Fraaee aad Germany failed to terrify William Hiles ostrieh f arrssr of Bloomsbnrg, P during dur-ing his lsteet trip into Africa. Ths three sovsrnmsnts reeeatlr issued flats thst bo ostriches shall be taksa out of Africa, but Mr. Hiles is ia Boston todsy to-dsy with fifty three of the birds, brought to America ea the steamer Kansas. Kan-sas. Biles left ths United States a year ago. Striking directly for the Interior of Africa he soon had dfty-fonr birds, gathsrsd for him by tribes msa of tbs desert. , His plans went well, aad the birds were secretly put ea board the Kansas at Jibuti. I Owing to ths fact that It was n recti rec-ti eally impossibls to obtain mors of th bis! birds, la view of ths increased prs-esutioBS prs-esutioBS thst will be takes against thsir export from Africa, as values the specimens st 110,000 sack. Only sns ostrich os-trich died oa the way across the Atlas-tic. |