Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1913 — LITERATURE IS FOOD FOR CAT [ARTICLE]

LITERATURE IS FOOD FOR CAT

Chicago Feline Destroys Magazines and Papers, and Defies Guns, Dogs and Poison. Chicago.—A cat —a ghostly, incomprehensible animal that thrives on poison, dogs, bullets and walks In and out of traps unscathed —has furnished Chicago with mystery, which borders on the uncanny. Each night during the last five months a malicious and predatory feline appears at a stationery store, sometimes alone, sometimes in company with fellow cats. Then follows the digesting of anfagazines and stationery. Hundreds of dollars worth of stationery and magazines have been ruined by the weird animal. Hundreds of attempts to trap, poison or shoot it have been futile. Traps have been set—-large traps, traps which might snare a bear and traps delicate enough to capture a rat. They have been found In the morning overturned and sprung but without a cat