Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1901 — A Great Advertisement. [ARTICLE]

A Great Advertisement.

Frank C. Bostock’s animal show is now at Indianapolis, training for the season at the Buffalo exposition, and giving exhibitions. Friday Mr. Bostock, after much advertising of the event, took Rajah, the man-eating Bengal tiger, who recently killed a young man, out into the arena to rehearse for a public performance in the evening, or is alleged to have taken him. « Whst followed is shrouded in considerable mystery, but the afternoon papers there came out with long sensational accounts of how Rajah had attacked Bostock and pretty near “chawed” him all to pieces and adding to that, how one of Bostock’s assistants gave him a terrible thump on the head with a club, which was meant, for the royal Rajah himself. The Journal now comes out and intimates very plainly that the whole thing was a fake for advertising purposes, that Bostock is hurt onfy very slightly if at all.