Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1916 — COLLIE HALTS A MAD BULL [ARTICLE]

COLLIE HALTS A MAD BULL

Effort of a Dog Saves the Lives of Two Men on Farm in Illinois. St. Louis. —Fannie, a Scotch collie, saved the life of John C. Shafer, a farmer and the dog’s owner, and John Shafer, father of the dog’s owner, on two different occasions last week, when the men were attacked by an infuriated bull, according to a story told in Marine, 111. When the father went to the barn to feed, the bull attacked him. In trying to get away he fell several times and was bruised. His granddaughter, Nellie Shafer, - arrived home from school at that time, and she sent the collie into the lot. The dog halted the bull and permitted the old man to escape. The next morning, when the son we'nt to the barn to feed, the bull attacked him. His cries attracted Mrs. Shafer, who went to the lot in her night clothes, taking the dog with her, for the second rescue.