Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1895 — A LION AND BULL FIGHT. [ARTICLE]

A LION AND BULL FIGHT.

Both Badly Hurt, But the Bull Had the Best of It. Advices have been received from Mon-; terey, Mexico, of a furious fight in a bull ring there, Sunday afternoon, between a ' Mexican bull and an African lion. Three thousand spectators were present. Both ■ animals were badly disabled at the finish* but the bull had tho best of it. For fori ty-five minutes the lion held a grip with , his powerful jaws upon the neck, chest and face of the bull while being draegeq around the, ring and mercilessly stamped I upon by his powerful antagonist. For, I over twenty minutes tho jjon held its po-i | sition on the bull's jaws, lacerating them ! In an awful manner. The bull finally 1 succeeded in breaking this hold and tossed the lion three times in the air on his horns. The lion was, in sporting par-i lance, the first to ‘•holler” enough. Il <» was injured internally and was bareljf able to drag himself to his cage. The bull was terribly torn about the throat, nosrj and chest, but after the. lion had retired proudly ran about the ring as the victor;