111 YEARS AGO IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS

The news about the latest pogrom in Russia — sparked by rumors of ritual murder by Jews — is disturbing. But there are all sorts of story nuggets here.

• A hen in Pueblo drank some whiskey and, scarred by the experience, laid an egg with the image of a snake on it. The egg is on display in a store window and drawing big crowds.

• After being told that a zoo can’t be a zoo without monkeys, the Denver Zoo in City Park is getting a group (technically a “troop” or a “barrel”) of monkeys from Kansas City.

• Speaking of K.C., 7,000 donkeys spark panic in the stockyard district as they flee a fire that also killed 1,000 sheep.

• Way downpage, the death of composer Gustav Mahler gets two sentences and a headline half the size of that of the bicyclist who lost his nose in an auto crash.