Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1904 — Fierce Timber Wolf. [ARTICLE]

Fierce Timber Wolf.

Had Done Thousands of Dollars of Damage. x Dead, though looking as fir-rce as the most hv-ly beast, is ibe huge American timber wolf, that Charles W. Bussell killed near McCoysburg, Jasper county, last month, and which reached the state museum, Thursday. The wolf hail bren a terror to Hanging Grove township, Jasper county, for years. It is estimated that it bad killed thousands of dollars worth of poultry, pigs and lambs, before Bussell put out its voracious career. Bussell says the wolf was a great runner It outran every dog in Jasper county except two. These two it turned upon and whipped so furiously that the dog oould scarcely drag their tails homeward. As a specimen, Geologist BMchley considers the wolf one of the best animal exhibits in the museum. The above, bead lines and all, is from Thursday’slndianapolis Sun; and is in regard to the big wolf Charley Bussell sent to the state geologist some month or two ago, as fully related in this paper at the time. It was a big, bad, bold wolf in life, and seems from The Sun’s account to be still bigger and “badder” in death.