Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1916 — BEAR BITES HIS WOODEN LEG [ARTICLE]

BEAR BITES HIS WOODEN LEG

Farmer Escapes When Locomotive Scares off the Beast. Sunbury, Pa. —John Davidson, a Catawissa Mountain farmer, who lives near the town of that name, says he is glad be has a wooden leg, for it saved him serious hurts in a battle with a bear. Davidson says he was riding back along the Susquehanna, at a point where the river skirts - dense mountain growths, when he saw a black bear fishing in the river. It would dive down and come up with a fish in its mouth. Angered by his approach, bruin dropped a fish and gave chase, but Davidson drew his revolver and fired. He missed and the animal came on after him and bit and clawed at his wooden leg. He fired again and then a freight train approached on a railroad near by. This together with the tooting of the locomotives whistle, frightened the beast and it dropped to ita feet and ambled off into the woods.