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Show A MONKEY CHASE. The World' Fair City Still Has Its Exciting Excit-ing Adventures. A huge monkey belonging to Ernst Bros., the brewers, at 67 Larabee street, escaped yesterday afternoon and gave active employment to several policemen and a crowd of boys before it was captured. cap-tured. As soon as it was discovered that the monkey had escaped a number of the employees of the brewers attempted to capture it A number of school children chil-dren joined in the chase. "When the monkey was hard pressed, it climbed a tree and reached the roof of a house. A ladder was procured, and one of the men followed it, but the monkey swung off into a tree and into the window of j another house, frightening the occu-! occu-! pants, who immediately gave the animal full possession of the premises. The j crowd 6oon increased to several hundred I people, and several policemen took a ; hand. They found themselves less use-! use-! ful than the schoolboys and finally gave ; it np in disgust The chase was kept np through alleys and streets and from yard , to yard for nearly a mile, when a son of j Italy, with the aid of his banana stand, ' succeeded in coaxing the monkey into I captivity. Chicago Tribune. |
