Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1888 — TORN TO PIECES BY BULL DOGS [ARTICLE]

TORN TO PIECES BY BULL DOGS

James Rife, a farmer living near Shippensburg, Pa., keeps three full-blooded English bull-dogs. On Saturday Isaac Lifter, a peddler, drove up to his house and entered the yard. As he opened the gate the three savage dogs sprang upon him and threw him to the ground. There was no one at home but Mrs. Rife, and she was afraid to go to his aid. The dogs dragged the peddler out into the road and down the road for a quarter of a mile, where they left him lying unconscious. Mrs. Rife ran to the nearest neighbors, two miles distant. When she returned with help Lifter had recovered consciousness and had dragged himself to his wagon. His eyes were torn from their sockets,the flesh was entirelystripped from the face, his throat was torn so that his windpipe and all the tendons and arteries were exposed, and the "flesh on- hislegs and body: were. gashed to the hone in twenty-eight different places. Both hands were torn off. He was carried to the farm house of Daniel Lyons, where he died soon after.