Odds & Ends

Horse on the loose

PHILADELPHIA (AP) >> A horse that got loose and blocked traffic at a Philadelphia intersection has been corralled by police using carrots.

Police believe the horse got loose from the city’s Fairmount Park stables. Officials there haven’t commented.

The horse was seen galloping through the streets of the city’s Fishtown neighborhood before being captured by police Friday morning.

Officers used carrots to attract and calm down the horse so they could put it in a trailer.

Old grave unearthed

KINGSTON, N.H. (AP) >> New Hampshire’s state archaeologist is investigating a site in Kingston where human remains and a metal plate from an 1895 gravestone were recently found.

Kingston police responded when hikers re- In this still taken from an AP video, police officers corral a loose horse using carrots on the streets of Philadelphia. ported they found a skull last weekend at a site where earth had been moved to create logging roads. Police say they uncovered other remains, including some hair with a hair clip, a lower jaw bone, ceramic denture plates, and part of a spine.

Police also found metal handles and hardware associated with old wooden caskets and a metal plate that indicated that a 28-year-old woman had died in 1895.

“We know who she is,” Kingston Police Chief Donald Briggs said Friday. “It appears she was buried on an old family homestead plot. The homestead is no longer there.”

Briggs said town records say the woman died during childbirth. Her name was not released and it wasn’t known if she had any descendants in the area.

State Archaeologist Richard Boisvert is investigating

He didn’t immediately return messages seeking comment.