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wn keeper, but without serious result. The same night, he got loose and defied all efforts to control him. The people of the place turned out and fired ten or fifteen balls into him without any perceptible effect. The next day, an old elephant driver, named Potter, who happened to be in New Orleans, came over, took him in hand, and reduced him to submission. The same elephant, Columbus, killed a keeper, named Kelly, in the old menagerie building, Walnut street, Philadelphia, in the fall of 1947. Kelly had the elephant in charge some six or seven weeks, but had never fairly conquered him. After killing Kelly, he made a charge upon Mr. Waring, who was at that time manager of the menageric. Mr. Waring ran up among the seats, and, Columbus following, broke through the floor, which gave Mr. Waring an opportunity to escape. There was an intense excitement created in the city when it was known that the infuriated brute was loose in the building, and a cannon was brought before the door,