Browsing Goat Takes a Sleeping Man's Whiskers Pittsburg, July 12 -- Patrick Feeney, a laborer employed on the new trolley road to Carnegie, was so drunk last Saturday night that he slept out on the hillside above Limerick. There are about as many goats as ragged children in the neighborhood. One of the residents of Limerick is Mary Burke, who keeps a candy store and a goat about the size of a young horse. Mrs. Burke's goat, while browsing on the hillside, came across Feeney sleeping in the bushes where he had fallen. Feeney had long red whiskers, which he persisted in wearing, despite the entreaties of his friends. The goat saw the whiskers, and, evidently thinking they were a new kind of grass, made a grab for them. It bit off several handfuls before Feeney awoke. He was so enraged that he threw a stone at the goat, breaking one of its legs. Mrs. Burke went to the Thirteenth street police station to swear out a warrant for Feeney's arrest. Inspector Kelly told her the Humane society office was the proper place to enter the complaint. After she had departed Feeney appeared at the station and asked if he had been sued. He wanted to enter a cross suit against Mrs. Burke for the larceny of part of his whiskers by the goat. The remaining part had to be shaved off, and the sudden disappearance of Feeney's long whiskers is causing considerable talk between the west end and Carnegie. |
| From "The Fort Wayne News," 12 July 1895, page 1 Copyright 1998-2002, MyFamily.com Inc. and its subsidiaries.), and cite the "Ancestry Daily News" http://www.ancestry.com/rd/dailynews.htm, June 22, 2002 |
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