Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1888 — Besieged by Bears. [ARTICLE]

Besieged by Bears.

A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette reports that civilization is apparently a failure in the district of Olonez, in Russia, where the bears have obtained complete mastery oi er the peasants. After conscientiously eating all the horses, cattle; sheep, dogs, and poultry in the neighborhood, the bears arranged themselves into besieging parties, and quietly settled down to watch every village for miles around. Not a peasant dares to leave his hut; starvation is threatened over a vast tract of country, and, according to latest advices, the unfortunate moujiks were eagerly looking out for a relief expedition from the nearest garrison.