Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1881 — A Lady’s Fight with a Burglar. [ARTICLE]

A Lady’s Fight with a Burglar.

Atlant* (Q».) Port. On Sunday morning, about 2o’clock, Mh«! W flickney, of D. J. Pickqey, wfts awakeqed by the light being turned out. The young is in the habit of sleeping ft light in her room, and has beoome so accustomed to the light that when It is turned out she is instantly awakened. She had heard no noise, but supposing the light had blown out, she arose to get a match to relight it. As she passed the rlDf fit £b e ped she ran against a man wpo w* crunching there. Hfe blitaiig up and attempted to run, but laying hold of him she screamed with all her might. The fellow pulled, but she held him like a vise, and finding he could not get . away he carried her to the window and threw himself from it. She was forced to let go or be dragged out. He sprang Gi®* l ' I® IbP fenc? ? n d disappeared, while she Hm sot A revolver which is kept in her rooin, but' he w& dut of sight whep She got back so the Winfiy this time tpe test of the AW Withe shopldars and ip-ms. The drel had made his ehtty hy this means. By the light of a street lamp the young lady saw that he was a negro.

on the point of a cftlpbric needle than l» » fr»h|<>Wble se| and not be in the fashion. Cadet Whittaker, in his next trial by court njar|lal, is to be defended by Bob Ingersoll and ex-Qov. Chamberlain, of Maine.