Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1915 — Pet Hog Might Have Killed Little Girl at Virgie. [ARTICLE]

Pet Hog Might Have Killed Little Girl at Virgie.

Charles Holle, of Kniman, has a large hog that has been somewhat of a pet. and the children have been in the habit of playing with it. One day recently Mr. HolTe’s 6-yeais-old daughter wiais in the pasture where the pig is kept and Mrs. Earl Osborne, who was going past, noticed the child playing with the animal. She had passed by and happened to look around and saw that the pig had thd child down, and ishe hurried back and by the time she reached there the child was screaming for helpMrs. Osborne caught the child up and carried her away. The hog had chewed her clothing and caused the blond to come from a slight injury to one limb. But for the -prompt rescue by Mrs. Osborne it is probable the child would have been killed.