Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1895 — ANTLER’S LOCKED IN DEATH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ANTLER’S LOCKED IN DEATH.

Remarkable Specimen Brought to Chicago by a Hunter to Be Mounted. Rather in traditions of the rCd man recorded by the poet than in the annals of natural history has so picturesque a scene ever been accorded to man aS th:.t which a hunter, W. L. Brown, of Albioiil Mich., recently came upon near Bis< mdrek, N. D. In battle royal two mois archs of the glen, bleeding and driven to starvation, with ahtlers.in deadlock. we:« discovered by the astonished hunter: struggling for freedom, each frpnr th< other. The earth for a space gs two acres

was torn and trampled. On all sides there were indications of wlrat the battle had been before the two animals' locked horns, never to be separated. The hunter stood spell-bound at the sight.' Np man living has recorded witnessing' such a scene and only one or two specimens of antlers nFficadlock have UeeU found fn the forest, after years of decay. The hunter put an end to the combat and the heads were separated from the bodies. They were sebt to a Chicago taxidermist to be preserved, and piounted. As the piece stands Mr. Brown has refused S3OO for it, and had the entire bodies been sent for mounting the figure would be worth over $5,000. Consul Barker at Tangier, Morocci, reports th"4t upbeat has grown so deSr there that the last two steamers brought*; out consignments iof American flour, winch were immediately sold at a profit, He believes that under more favorable shipping conditions Morocco would be n profit able market for American breadstuffs. A conc ess > on the Chinese Government to build a' line of railroad froip tidewater to Pekin has befen obtained by 'a syndicate of American capitalists. The road wjll be about 200 miles long and will tap a valuable coal mining district. ■ ... -fl —— A. W. Stevens, the Burlington Railroad agent at Lathrop, Mo., stated before his death that Otis Jackson, a farm hand, gave him poison jn a drink of whisky. At the iuqueit the Jury held Jacksoh for the murder and he is under arrest. \ '

INTERLOCKED DEER SHOT IN NORTH DAKOTA.