Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1881 — A Model Bear Story From Maine. [ARTICLE]

A Model Bear Story From Maine.

J ar K e black bear was killed at Steuben a few days ago. In felling a tree it dropped across a hollow log, out of which dashed this bear to the unbounded astonishment of the woodmen. A few days after a woodman went out alone in the woods with his ax on his shoulder. The bear came Upon him and gave chase. It was a hot race, and ended In the bear getting near enough to clap his forefoot on the man’s snow-shoe. The man tripped and fell, and in falling turned with marvelous dexterity and dealt

the bear a terrible blow between his eyes, sinking the ax into his brain. Another blow finished him, and the man's life was saved. The bear was a rilendid fellow, weighing 400 x>unds. His fur was long and a jet >lack. Two cruel looking gashes on the head testified to the sharpness of the ax which the woodman had so skillfully wielded.— Bangor (Me.) Commercial. Oecnr De Lafayette, a senator of France, and the grandson of General Lafayette, is dead. He was to have represented France at the Yorktown centennial.