| Show A flusky HORSE FURNISHES A LITTLE excitement ON LOWER TWENTY FIFTH STREET SATURDAY EVENING the delivery horse belonging to mr barnes who runs a second band store at twenty fifth street became exceedingly cee frisky saturday evening about and in a vain effort to make a yard record completely demolished its owners delivery wagon mr barnes had tethered the borse by means of a weight opposite the door of the ogden house and had gone into the dining room to supper just as his j roast chicken and trimmings were being brought in and he was giving way I 1 to pleasing anticipation of their enjoyment joy ment a clatter of hoofs and excited cries attracted his attention glancing out of the window he saw his horse disappearing down the street at breakneck speed the wagon touching only the high places and telegraph and electric light poles along the center of the street the horse stopped voluntarily at the railing bounding the green plats in front of the union depot and sat down to wait for its owner to appear no damage attached to the horse or to the bystanders by standers who kept frantically out of the way and watched the race against time but the iwason was a total and sorrowful looking not even of any value amid the flotsam and jetsam of a second hand store mr barnes has been peculiarly unfortunate with his delivery horses during the past two weeks he owned a nicer animal than his present deceiving possession until about ton days ago when a colored barber came and borrowed it to haul some stuff down to the river in about two hours the colored man returned with the statement that he had encountered some bad luck he thought the horse needed a drink and drove it into the river for that purpose the animal got entangled in his harness and was drowned the colored man assured mr barnes that as soon ae he was rich he would repay the loss but mr barnes could not wait and so invested in the borso that shamefully abused his confidence saturday evening i |
