Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1914 — Rat, Victor Over Cat, Is Killed by a Woman [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Rat, Victor Over Cat, Is Killed by a Woman

CHICAGO. —A fight with a rat lasting for almost twenty minutes was the experience of Mrs. Della Pace of 2137 West Madison street the other morning. According to Mrs. Race’s story, the battle was a fierce one.

The combat took place after the nt had gotten the best of a fight with a tomcat, which Mrs. Pace had borrowed from a neighbor. The cat was so badly bitten that It had to be killed. Mrs. Pace first saw the rat when It ran across her bare feet, just after she had gotten out of bed. She says that the rat pursned her when she ran to the door, which she reached just in time to prevent it from biting her.

She then borrowed the cat from a neighbor. "Tom” gave a pleased yowl on seeing the rat, and leaped at it The rat allowed the cat to chase it for about ten minutes, and then turned around and chased the cat with fully as much enthusiasm. ~ Finally Mrs. Pace heard sounds like the crying of a baby. Opening the door she saw the cat lying half dead on, the floor, with the rat biting it. She went to the cat's rescue with a broom. , “Every time I’d hit it with the broom,” said Mrs. Pace, “it would dash at me and try to nip my feet. But I’d jump in the air and the rat would go flying under me. “Finally, after about twenty minutes of batting and jumping, I tired the nt out. I then killed it with the bnflom handle.” The fight, it is said, cost Mrs. Pace forty-nine swats with the broom, fiftysix jumps and |1.46 for the tomcat.