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A Pretty Tight Place.

  How John Gunn Escaped From a Pack of Wolves. Ottawa [Can.] Free Press.      Being a culler in the employ of Mc Laren and Co., on the Gatineau River, I set out on the morning of the 29th of February, in company with the Indians, to ascertain if any trespasses had been committed on […]

General News, Wolves.

       A. H. Smith, of Coleman County, Tex., is a mighty Nimrod in his particular line, which is wolves. He kills the animals by seasoning the dead cattle on the praies with strychnine,-a condiment of which the wolf is remarkably fond. He thus makes a nine-strike every time; at least we judge so from […]

The Northwest, Wolves.

  Minnesota      A Norwegian, 70 years old, at White Bear Lake, had a fight with a big wolf, the most extraordinary fight on record. The varmint tackled him, and he fought, first with a club, then with a pitchfork, and finally he got a rope round the neck of the beast and therewith drew […]

The Northwest, Wolves.

  Iowa      The other evening [says the Adair County Register], Scott Ewing was riding up Wolf Hollow, when a wolf sprang toward him. Scott faced about and made tracks for home as fast as his pony could carry him, hotly pursued by the wolf for some distance. Finding that the wolf could make better […]

The Northwest, Wolves.

  Missouri      Holt McClarney, an old backwoodsman, of Steelville, recently killed eight wolves on Sunday morning before church, and received $40 bounty for their scalps.

Nurtured By She-Wolf.

  Incident of Romans Repeated by Wild Animal Near St. Paul.      From Ewing, thirty miles from here, says the St. Paul Pioneer Press, comes a story so strange and startling that it has attracted much attention, and steps have been taken to either prove or disaprove it, for it is true a new fact […]

Wolves

       William Reinschmidt, a farmer residing near Pingree Grove, tells this thrilling tale: Driven to desperation by hunger and the biting cold, a pack of wolves pursued him on a recent night as he was driving from his home to that of a neighbor. The beasts followed him almost to the door of his […]

Hunting at Gen. Harney’s Head Quarters-Peril of an Officer.

  [Correspondence of the St. Louis Democrat.]      Wolves were seen frequently during the day, and just as we came on the camping ground, a large one was started. Gen. Harney’s gray-hound caught sight of him, pursued him, over-took him-and never touched a hair. Whether he was afraid of the wolf, or mearly friendly to […]

A Wolf Chase On The Ice.

  [From the St. Joseph Traveler.]      While James Graham, our wide awake Sheriff, was out with a party skating on the river, a few days since, he observed, as he was gliding swiftly along the smooth ice in advance of his companions, a large wolf crossing the river just a few rods ahead of […]

Western Matters,Wolves.

       Attacked By Wolves.,-The Boyer Valley [Crawford County] Record says the mail carrier between that place and Dacatur was lately attacked at night by a hundred or more hungry wolves. He put whip to his horse and reached a tree just as the wolves came up around him. Leaping from his horse to the […]