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Show HORSE HIDES IN BEDROOM. Detroit Equine Mounts .Stairs, But Crashes Through Weak Floor. Detroit, Mich. .lames Weir, chief iilerk or the rrelght department of tho Detroit United railway, Is authority for an amazing story of n horse. Weir's veracity Is unchallenged. Tho other day a freight driver for tho company missed a horse. After searching the neighborhood for 24 hours he gave the animal up ns lost. Hut In the afternoon ho heard a queor noise upstairs, nnd, going to nn unused un-used bedroom, found the missing equine. No one enn toll how tho horse got upstairs. The steps are not overstrong and must have been strained when tho horso went up. A hole was knocked In the celling and a block and table rigged, tho plan being to get the horso up to tho roof and lower him. Hut the rigging broko and the floor, being no stronger thnn the stairs, let tho horso down 'iito the parlor. The animal wns badly Injured, but Its ownor has hopes of saving Its life. |