Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1897 — A Strange Wild Beast. [ARTICLE]

A Strange Wild Beast.

Killed In the Heart of the City. Friday’s Daily: A strange wild .beast was found in the trees of the northeast corner of the public square, and after being pursued for some time was finally shot and killed, just before it sprang upon and killed and badly wounded several of the pursuers, as well as a number of dogs, which were not there. The animal had long soft fur and a long and somewhat bushy tail. The above is mainly for the benefit of the telegraph liars of Crown Point and Valparaiso, and they will understand how to amplify it and add the blood-curdling details, before sending in to the Chicago papers. For the benefit of other people, we need simply to add, that the animal was a squirrel, in good condition of flesh and that Tom Joyner will make a meal off of it, and not for it, today. In justification of the term “'strange animal” used above, we can truly say that no one around these parts ever remembers having seen the animal before.