Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1917 — DOG IS WISER THAN THE FOX [ARTICLE]

DOG IS WISER THAN THE FOX

.tangs From ’ restle While Train Passes —Hi Killed. Princeton, W. Va.—Several persons witnessed a remarkable display of canine intelligence when a foxhound belonging to James McPherson saved himself from death under a train on the railroad. bridge at Black Lick, four miles west of here. The bridge is 207 feet high. The dog was pursuing a fox across the bridge when Ij upon the chase. Witnesses thought the dog had been killed, and the owner walked out on the bridge to see what had become ot his pet. To his surprise be ' >und the dog nets the center ot tin bridge hanging by his teet between*. the ties and unharmed. -The for was killed.