The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-07-23

aruphobIa; but when ! dossn a - |
DanIno victims were killed uias Waa.
IiljeW interceded for her pet Ihsy |
locked him up In . barn % avail
Early tie nexo |
March 3. 1855. Dushka man
aged 20 break ont and In the course q
that day not less than twenty-eigho
persons wcro 6erccly bitten. besides :
dozen or two Who got on with map
bites and torn clothea AT the vory bo:
ginning % the trouble the pluck Of one
horoic AulIk would have prevented al
further mischief Il bis companio. had
not turned craven 81 tho critical mo
ment Peter Tchcrkow. IN ath-
letlc young villagcE. accompanied
by bis sister end young
neighbor. was returning from IN
all-night dance. when they saw Tie
wolf coming down the road In sort Of
sidelong trot and with IN uncanny loe|
that made them step aside 70 give the
traveller achance To leave the neighbor-
hood by the straightest route. But
Dushka had seen them. and II the
next moment made . rush aud caught
Peter by the breast. ''Save yourself.
Olga" the brave Mujik cried to biz
sister, g be grappled with the woh.
and then calling on his companion, be
clutched the brute round tho neck and
wrenched his head down till he had
pinned him Nat on the ground. AZ
that moment . common pocket-kntfo
in the hands Of . resolute man could
have ended the affair, but the coward.
" neighbor had taken to his heels-to
protect the retreat of the girl. - he
afterward explained II, and Peter
struggle with the werewolf now b.
came : duel for life and death. Toe
soon the grip Of his fingers relaxed.
and In spite Of his frantic efforts "a
maintain his vantage the wolf got hia
| Jaws free and began to use them with
terrible effect, when at last teamstel
appeared on the scene and began TO be-
labor the monster with long Ratchet.
The wolf then left his victim
and turned on the new-come'
and with two successive ripl
tore his face nearly OF. Minus hi
cheeks, lips and nostrils. the unfortu
nate man staggered out Of the way and
left the ogre at leisure to turn his at
tention TO third adversary, the Muil
Jackolcn, whom Peters sister had il
the meantime summoned from tn
farmstead. Jackolen, too. was terri
bly, mangled and had TO back GU
toward the team, trying in vain 3
cover his retreat with . club, but b.
this time neighbors with fails ant
axes came running up from All side
and succeeded at last in routing th
apparently understandable monster
But in the outskirts Of the next villag
the havoc recommended. and befor
night nineteen persons, some Of then
torn almost into pieces. were turne'
over to the district hospital q
Semstow. The village priest Of Belly an
the game-kceper Niktin Garcewitch
died on the following day from wound
rs desperate Is any treated IN the fiel
hospitals Of modern armies, for the pc
Of Biely had attained the size Of "a
largest specimens Of his tribe. Nv
more died in the course Of the neS
week, and three of Mr.. Pasteurs pa
ticnts are now dead or on the point
dying. The Russians, g . nation, 81
not much given to lynching. their on
cial provisions for retributive justie
beng rather in excess Of demands b
at the mass meeting Of the Semsto
peasants the wretch Whose oOwardil
had cost the lives q 80 many brave
: men was denounced in terms whic
induced him to consult his safety !
disappearing under cover Of the mel
night In Western Russia, where eve
the urox has been permitted TO -
vive, wolves still infest AL larger TO
ests. and their whclps are caught N
: tanned about - often a. the lawns
our Southern Alleghanies -C nciassa