SAVED FROM A BEAR.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2460, 4 February 1893, Page 1

SAVED FROM A BEAR.

GRiSTi Haven (Mich.), Nov. 16. Au unusually thrilling story of a hairbreadth escape on the part ot aa Indiana hunter is reported hero. Bears have become quite numerous in tne forests in the vicinity of Sullivan, a small lumber town on the Muskegon, on the Grand Rapids and Indiana Byroad, south east of Muskegon, so. much so that hunters have been attracted m thera this fall from all sections of the country. A party of Indiana hunters went in there laatweek, built camps, and settled down for a mouth's hunt. On Saturday last one of the party succeeded in starting a bear and two cubs from the 3 ungle, and after an hour or so overtook them on the edge of a clearing in which a small woodman's shanty was located. He carried a double-barrelled gun, and with it shot the two cubs dead in their trades. The old bear instead of running on, as would naturally be expected pitched upon him in ft desperate spirit of roYeag 6 for the loss of her two cub* «o attempted to defend hiwseif with a small Indian hatchet;, I»>H she knocked it out of his Wi'i, «losod in upon him, and m a , m.nnent more would have squeezed out his life had not a well-aimed bullet fro?a a rifle in the hands of the woodman's wife who happened to wifeesa the afire y, ploughed through bruin's brain The rifle used by the woman was one that her husband kept loaded in the shanty. She had never shot the gun before in her life and was prostrated several hours irom the shock to the nervous system, caused by the excitement, The womau was handsomely rewarded for her brave act.