Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1920 — WILL HUNT MAN-EATING TIGER [ARTICLE]

WILL HUNT MAN-EATING TIGER

Party of Sportsmen Planning Expedition In the Foothill Country of China.

Kulllng, China.—E. S. Little, noted scholar and traveler, will head a party of sportsmen early in the spring In an expedition into the district to the southwest, where an effort Is to be made to rid the country of a number of man-eating animals, said by the natives to be tigers. Reports are that 20 Chinese, besides a large number of cattle, sheep, and other animals, have been killed and devoured In the district that the hunters -will visit. The country, which is about 1,000 feet above the plains along the upper foothills, has been in a state of terror since last summer. Inhabitants have abandoned their homes and farmers their fields, and Chinese report that at' least five different tigers have been seen. , Pastor Quits Church for Business, Detroit. —Rev. Thomas G. Sykes, pastor of the Grosse Pointe Protestant church, said to be one of the wealthiest congregations in America, resigned because his salary was “not sufficient to provide properly for his family.” Doctor Sykes, who served as a chaplain with the First dlvislow in France, plans to enter business.