Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1910 — TRAP 200 CATS IN A MARKET [ARTICLE]

TRAP 200 CATS IN A MARKET

Vicious Animals Fight Captors, But Are Put Into Baskets for Annihilation. New York. Yowling, spitting, scratching and biting, 200 cats were cornered, one by one, the other night in the old Washington market and dumped into baskets, to be disposed of by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Agents of the society, policemen* watchmen, butchers, fishmongers, green grocers and all the little world of the market Joined in a midnight hunt that, for activity and noise, outdid anything ever chronicled from Africa. For years 1116 cats » at flrst encour, aged to keep down the rats, had ruij wild and increased in garrets and sub> cellars until they became an intqlera, ble pest. The inarket is now in prs* ess of renovation-