The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-29
Jack The Curtain Ripper
Dog at Geneva, Neb., with Cur
;ous Mania-canine at H~awarden,
la. is champion Survivor" 50

Geneva. Ncb., has a Jack the Ripper =
but he is Il dog and a curtain ripper. AL.
ready the finest draperies in several of the
best homes there have been torn to shreds
by this curious canine ard now the Who'll
town has been warned to be on guarc
against his innocent look and his. iusiifuat.
ing manner.
The ripper is a rather small black anG
brown shepherd dog whose owner is as
deep a mystery as the mania of the ANNA.
is remarkable. His method is to appear at
the back door of a house which looks pros.
porous and make himself comfortable. He
curls w on the door step or in tho back
shed and acts as If he had always been n
part OF the household. When accosted the
wistrul look in his eye and the companions
able wagytug of his tail Invariably win
him a dinl..r. He stays on and Is such IL
good fellow that finally he gains admit
lance to the house. Here his manner is
most correct so long as anyona is about.
But the second he is left alone he rushes at
the lace curtains. lragS them from their
hangings, rips them to ribbons, going
rapidly and effectively from one to an
other. The draperics are past repair when
Jack the Curtain Ripper finishes With
them. He is of course bAnished and he
expects, running away contentedly as if
he had already in mind another victim.
Hawarden, Iowa. reports a dog quite as
lOtJple d. Tue SclcNh dllHldi. IL IllslkeH
the cat with It's much vaunacd nine lives
look like mummy. The story of this canine
is best told by the Hawarden Clipper Re
publican:
John buster has the unluckiest dog in
Iowa. He has been killed fifteen times
and Is still chasing chickens. AS a pup
he climbed VI OH the pool hall and fell of
breaking both front legs. For months
while his legs were in splints he sat up like
a kangaroo and was good. Then he ate
enough poison to kill four dogs and was
sick three days. When Well he climbed ny,
the ladder onto the pool hall again and fell!
or iarring his insides loose. Then Il dray
loaded with buttertubs ran over him ana
he grew cross and fretful. Everybody took
a. kick at him and pelted him with stick.
and rocks and all the big dogs in town
licked him. Clerks took to neglecting bust
ness to watch the fights and rows he
created and the merchants petitioned Johf
to get rid of him. John sent him to the
country and the first day he got kicked
over a fence by a colt he was chasing ano
they tied him up for three months. He got
loose the other day and came back te
Johns restaurant. He got tangled up If
the coffee grinder and knocked a kettle o!
hot water off the stove onto his back ant
John hired Bill Druger to shoot him. BIZ
tied him to a tree but-as he is the ofhcia3
dog misser in the ~village--the dog got tired
waiting after Bill had ported at him q
while, chewed the rope in two and came
home with Its tail broke. Then John gave
1t to Bernard Demuth to take out on the
farm. He tied it to his wagon with q shorf
rope and it jumped out and hanged itself
After hanging there five minutes it la.
down half an hour to rest and WAS ready
for the next act. The last seen Of it a.
Bernard drove away it was lying In The
bottom of the wagon eating the cork on
of Il bottle OF carbolic acid which Rernan
bought to fumigate the henhouse. VT
shall watch its career and chronicle future
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