Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1874 — A Plucky Woman. [ARTICLE]

A Plucky Woman.

A’Cleveland lady distinguished herself for coolness and determination while in Canada last week, and the story is well worth telling, showing, as it does, that American pluck is not at a discount even among the Kanucks. A little son of the lady was playing in a yard in a Canadian village that shall be nameless, when a large dog that was passing in company with a farmer, ran into the-yard and bit the child severely in one of its arms. The brute then ran off and followed his master away. The mother learned of the little one’s injury, and endeavored to get some one to follow the dog aud put him out of the world, but none of the men to whom she appealed would do as she desired to have them. Bound to get vengeance on the dog, she made inquiries as to where his master lived, and discovered that his home was at a distance of eleven miles. Arning herselfwith a revolver, she traveled that distance, sought an interview and demanded that the dog should be shot, but the owner refused to accede thereto. To cut the matter short, the lady walked into the yard, emptied two barrels of her revolver at the dog and walked off, leaving the animal stretched out on the turf, and impressing the farmer and his family with the promptness and quality of American pluck. Yesterday morning she reached Cleveland and had the child’s wound cared for by Dr. A. P. Dutcher. The injury is not considered dangerous. —Cleveland Leader.