Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1898 — Bees Destroying Cattle. [ARTICLE]

Bees Destroying Cattle.

Bancroft, Mich., Aug. I.—J. McKeegan’s famous bunch of short-horned cattle, numbering 300 head, was totally lost Saturday in n singular manner. The stock was pasturing in the reservation on a high bluff overlooking th* Missouri river. The cattle were suddenly attacked by several swarms of wild bees, which occupy trees on the bluffs. In their terror and pain the whole herd jumped over the bluffs into the river and wen either dashed to pieces or drowned before assistance could reach them.