Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — KILLED BRUIN WITH AN AX [ARTICLE]

KILLED BRUIN WITH AN AX

A Woodsman’s Wife Who Slew the Mother and Captured Two Cubs. A desperate battle took place a few days ago between a famished she bear and the wife of Amos Corey, a woodsman on the Upper Beaverkill, near Turnwood, N. Y., says the New York Times. For several days bear tracks had been seen in the neighborhood, and once a good-sized bear had been seen crossing the road near Corey’s cabin. The other morning Corey started with rifle and dogs to hunt down the animal, and had been gone about an hour when his wife heard a great commotion in the dooryard. Just then a little dog ran into the house yelping with terror and covered with blood. Mrs. Corey, thinking of the bear, seized a keen-bladed ax from the rack and, shutting her baby and little boy in a bedroom, ran into the yard. There she saw a huge she bear rolling and tumbling among the sawdust and chips of the woodpile, while over it hovered a swarm of honey bees. The bear had upset half a dozen hives of bees and the little creatures were having their revenge. Mrs. Corey watched the battle for awhile and then she made a stroke at bruin with the ax, inflicting a severe wound in the animal's side. With a howl the bear rushed upon her, unmindful of the bees. Rising upon its hind legs it advanced upon the woman and tried to hug her. Mrs. Corey plied the ax with energy, and after several blows struck the animal in the head, killing it instantly. She received during the battle a blow from one of the bear’s paws, which badly lacerated one of her arms. After the bear had been killed the bees swarmed about Mrs. Corey, stinging her severely. They finally rested on the bushes near by, where she succeeded in hiving them. Afterward she was surprised to find that two little cubs had come out of the brush and were smelling about their dead mother. She captured them and after feeding them with warm milk they became quite tame. She will keep the cubs and raise them.

Cremating Garbage. The consumption of garbage by cremation has been begun In quite a number of places in this country, and the one which is an object-lesson to our other cities in Massachusetts and New England is the double-fire system now in use in Lowell and in other parts of the country. The crematory is a brick structure forty feet long, ten feet wide, and twelve feet high, with a stack seventy-five feet In height. The top of the furnace is reached by a platform, and the garbage Is collected in carts and dumped down the slopes into the feed holes In the top of the furnace. After the furnace has been charged two fires are lighted. The flames pass from the first fire to the garbage piled on the grates, and the gas and smoke attending the combustion then pass to the second fire, where they are consumed. All the products of the burning of the garbage must pass through one of these fires. We have not room for detailing how this system Is managed, but the results are such that it works successfully wherever it has been tried, and its adoption in many of our large cities is apparently only a question of time. Home-Made. There should be a scale for ail such things as home-made Jellies, canned fruit, etc., as the articles produced on the farm weuld be better prepared than those put ud at some factories. The Great Eastern was the largest ship ever built —680 feet long, 83 broad, 60 deep, and 28,627 tons burthen.