Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1913 — MAD STEER ATTACKS WOMAN [ARTICLE]

MAD STEER ATTACKS WOMAN

Red Petticoat Inflames Animal to the Point of Making Vigorous Protest. Niagara Falls, Ont. —A dove of steers, a-washerwoman, an angry husband and a drover comprised the cast of characters in as lively a one act drama as was ever witnessed in real life anywhere. The pity le that the act was not immortalized by the camera man. The drover came along the road into Falls View with the cattle. In the bunch was one obstreperous fellowthat had been acting up bad all afternoon. Whenever he came to a cross road he decided to take it whether it was right or wrong. Away over in a field was a small shack domicile, in which live an inoffensive Austro-Hungarian couple. The woman was busily engaged with her washing while the husband was sitting in the doorway smoking hie pipe, thinking of the war over on the borders of his home land. The woman also wore a red petticoat, and the fence was down between her and the cattle. The frolicsome bullock spied the red petticoat and made four leaps toward it In the middle of the fifth he lowered his head and struck the woman and tossed her lightly in the air. She came down with a dull splash in the tub of water. The angry husband was on his feet in a minute. In another he had his shotgun in hand and he gave chase after the herd of cattle and their drover. The latter took refuge behind a friendly barn some distance down the road. Then he saw a cloud of duet behind his flying herd and the angry husband giving chase with his gun. He just leaned up against the friendly old barn and said to the neighbors between his sobs: “Please excuse the steers.”