Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1911 — White Stockings Rile Cat [ARTICLE]

White Stockings Rile Cat

Big Black Pussy Mistakes Young Girl's Footwear for Felino Enemy—She Tells Btory.

New York.—The color white has been as a red flag to the big black cat of Frank Bits, ever since a large white cat came to live next door to the Bits butcher shop at No. 922 Columbus avenue. But not all of the customers of the butcher shop knew this. Among them was eleven-year-old Catherine Owens of No. 106 West Ninety-ninth street. "I didn't know anything about the cats,” said the girl, "and 1 went to the butcher store for mamma wearing a pair of white stockings. "I noticed that a big, White cat went Into the shop with me. After a little time I came out I was standing on the sidewalk when the white cat ran out Then the black cat ran out. too, and the moment he saw my whits stockings he Jumped at me. "He tried to put both his feet on one of my stockings. One of his feet —I mean paws—sort of slipped and Then he put his five Ungers right

into my leg. The clawp went in and left marks. 1 was so frightened I fell down and began to scream. A lot of ladies in carriages—you-know, those high-up ladles—began ts shout: 'Kill the catj kill the cat* "They didn’t kill the cat, and I went to our doctor’s. While waiting there n policeman came and took me to theGeneral Memorial hospital In One Hundred and Sixth street The lady there said I ought to go to the Pasteur Institute, but she's have a doctflr look at ms. He washed the cuts dnd then the policeman took me home. The policeman told me that thorn* ladles in the carriage had heed around to the station house and complained because he didn't kill the cat."

Catherine’s father took her to the Pasteur Institute for treatment The cat was still in the butcher shop.. Its owner maintained that It was perfectly normal, but the board of health has been notified ot the exrarrened by the poll*