Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1887 — He Was Mad at the Cow. [ARTICLE]

He Was Mad at the Cow.

I continue to hear after-claps, as it were, of the Itoslindale accident. In one case a young girl who had lately obtained a situation in a Boston shop was prevented from taking the illfated train by her mother’s delay in getting her lunch ready. When she had gone a short distance toward the station she saw the cars moving off, and she came back in tears, fearing that by losing the train she would lose her place. In the very next house lives a man who is the fortunate owner, as it happened, of a vicious cow. On the morning of the accident he reached the station just too late for the doomed train, having been delayes by the cow’s bad conduct while in process of milking. He was so enraged that he took the trouble to go back to his house and beat the dumb animal, a pieceof wrong-headed cruelty for which. I trust, he has shed tears of repentance. One hesitates to believe that such escapes are mere matters of chance, and that even a man who would beat his cow “after the 4 event” was saved by accident.— Boston Post.