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Show Fought Bears with Axes. Two woodchoppors, armed with axes, had a bs'V.e with a huge black bear and four partially grown cubs on Mt. Pico, says n Hutland (Vt.) correspondent of tho Now York TImcB. They killed two cubs, but tho mother und other cubs got away. Luthor Weeks' and his son Clinton felled n largo trco and it crashed down Into a clump of bushes. Angry growls followed, and tho four bears, who had boon hlbornatlng under tho bushes, made for tho mon. Tho men fought nnd won. Tho cubs that wore killed weighed 100 pounds each. Tho men dcolnro tho old bear was fully eight feot long and would weigh about COO pounds. i |