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A Wisconsin Farmer Kills Seven Wolves After A Terrible Struggle.
    Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune.
    Waupaca, Wis., Aug. 12,-Report comes from the town of Dayton of a terrible encounter of a man with seven wolves. He is a farmer, and owns a large herd of sheep. He went out to drive them home the other night, and in passing a swamp he heard snarling and barking. He had taken an old musket along, thinking perhaps he might shoot a partridge or some small game, and had loaded it with No. 4 shot. Not feeling unsafe, he advanced toward the sound, and there saw two old wolves and five three-quarter-grown whelps wrangling and fighting over the dead body of a sheep. He got to within two rods of them before they heard him, when he fired into their midst. Immediately the whole seven came bounding towards him, and before he had time to climb a tree they were full upon him. He reversed the gun and used it for a club. The fight lasted an hour, and so savage and ferocious were the wolves that as one after another of their number received a death stroke from the old musket they pounced upon their fallen comrade and proceeded to devour him; at this juncture the farmer would rush in with his gun and kill another, hauling one or both of the dead bodies to the tree near which the fight took place. He did this, he afterwards said, to save their carcasses, as there is a bounty of $11 on each wolf killed in Waupaca County. After the half hour’s skirmish the seven wolves lay dead at the farmer’s feet. He was unable to carry their carcasses home, so he took out a large knife he had in his pocket, skinned the whole seven, saved their seven skulls, and to-day applied to the County Clerk for his $77 bounty, besides obtaining a fair price for their skins. During the fight he had every bit of clothing torn from his body, his hands and legs badly bitten, and the lower part of one ear snapped off.
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