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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7871, 23 May 1891, Page 5

A _°ia__ B_tw_s_k Beabs and an Enqinb.—Wnile crossing " Battlesaake Trestle," near Lakeland Florida, recently two i-trge bears were overtaken by a train. The bridge was too high to -jump from, and, finding escape impossible, the bears turned, stood upright, and faced the train with fore-paws up in. prise-fighting style. The engine dashed one of them off the trestle, but the other waa thrown up into the air by the cow-catcher, and in his fall clutched the brass rods in front of the locomotive. Desperate with pain, he growled savagely, and scrambled along towards the "cab," where the stoker's face was visible. The stoker had just been raking the fire, aad made a lunge at his ferocious assailant with the great redhot poker. With a terrific howl the poor beast tried to spring Upon the Btoker, but lost Jus footing and fell almost under the wheels. He lost part of a hind leg, but in spite of all his wounds he picked himself up after rolling down the embankment (by this time the train was off the trestle) and bounded of. into the woods. The blood-stained engine waa visited by appreciative crowds aa soots as it reached the next town. . Unscrupulous traders are endeavoring to subatltute cheap liquor in place <& Wotte's QOhmmmfffmm