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Show IS CHASED BY BEAR AND CUB Man Has Lively Experience by Strange Visitants in Woods Near Somerville; Farmers Miss Stock. DECATUR, Ala., Sept. 27. An old black bear and a young cub have been seen by several people in the woods near Somerville, this county, within the past few days. The other day the old bear chased a man some distance, but finally they came to a leaning tree, on which was perched the cub. The cub came down from the tree and joined the mother bear, and the old bear then gave up her chase after the man. For some time farmers in that section of the country have been missing calves, pigs and lambs, and it is now believed that this bear has been making way with them. " There is some wild, rough country near Somerville, and some years ago there were a good many bears to be found there, but it was supposed that all of them had long since been killed out. This is the first bear that has been seen there in many years. |