Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1891 — The Bull Killed the Bear. [ARTICLE]

The Bull Killed the Bear.

Altnough two men were at work cutting underbrush within a few rods of the spot, a bear invaded a field on William Barker’s farm on Bull Hill, near Galeton. Pa., his intention plainly being to capture one of the sheep ■ that were pasturing in the field. Barker, who was one of the men cutting brush, saw the bear, and hurried the other man to the house to get Barker’s gun. Barker himself started on a run for the pasture for the purpose of protecting his sheep from the bear, but neither the gun nor the presence of Barker was necessary. Besides the sheep some cows and a two-year-old Jersey bull were pasturing in the field. The bull no sooner saw the bear edging and slouching along toward the sheep than he charged upon him and caught him with his horns square in the side. The bear did not have time to defend himself, the bull’s rush was so quick and sudden, and he was lifted clear off the ground, and thrown several feet, falling heavily to the ground. The bear quickly regained his feet, and not relishing the reception he had met with in the pasture started to run away. But the bull followed him like a tornado, and struck the bear again at full headway, tumbling bruin heels over head. The bear made up his mind to fight, and got on his feet before the bull charged on him again. He received the bull this time standing on his hind feet. Both of the bull’s horns penetrated the bear's breast their full length, and at the same instant the bear sank a claw in each of the bull’s shoulders. The bear ripped the flesh from the bull in long, deep strips on each side, but the bull’s horns were in the bear’s vitals, and bruin fell to the ground and died almost instantly. All ■ this occurred while Barker was running to the scene, and before the hired man had reached the house after the gun. The injuries the bull received were not serious. The bear was a very large one, and is believed to have been one that has been stealing sheep and pigs in the vicinity for several weeks.—New York Sun.