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Show TRAP 200 CATS IN A MARKET Vicious Animals Fight Captors, But Are Put Into Baskets for Annihilation. An-nihilation. New York. Yowling, spitting scratching and biting, 200 cats were cornered, one by one, the other night in the old Washington market and dumped into baskets, to be disposed of by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Agents of the society, policemen, watchmen, butchers, fishmongers green grocers and all the little world of the market joined In a midnight hunt that, for activity and noise, out did anything ever chronicled from Africa. For years the cats, at first eDcou." aged to keep down the rats, had run wild and Increased In garrets and sut-cellars sut-cellars until they became an intolera ble pest. Tbe market Is now in proo , ess of renovation. |