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Show Maine's Three-Foot i Bear. Vanceboro's big threo-footed boar, which has survived so many battles, Is dead, killd by "Jed" Johnson and "Hob" Crool.er, according to tho Kennebec Ken-nebec Journal. They set a dead fall and tho bear was caught napping. Bruin was ono of tho largest over ; seen In that vicinity and was very old. Ono foot was missing, having evidently ben taken off In a trap, but so well healed thai old hunters say that tho accident must have happened hap-pened eara ago. Tho b"r had been seen in ma- places v.-' iiln a flrty-mllo flrty-mllo radius, iBquash ' , In Tops-field; Tops-field; Lambert Lake nnd the Orient Horseback being his famous stamping grounds. He had been Ored at scores of times, but always escaped. Half a dozen bears of bullets wore, found in his hide, and ono ear had a clean nolo through it. |