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Show SHEEP KILLER BIG BEAR. Pennsylvania Farmers Put an End to the Destroyer of Their Flocks. Ono of tho blackest and bloodiest robbers ever known In Pottor county was caught near Prouty in a wolf trap, reports the Philadelphia Record. The robber had ttolen and killed 14 sheep from various farmers within three weeks, nnd as each sheep was worth seven dollars the mutton was worth almost al-most uo much as tho K robber a big black bear. Morning after morning following raids upon the flocks half eaten carcasses car-casses of sheep wero found at tho edge of floldo or niong old rocdways. The farmors at llrst thought the slaughter was tho work of a lynx, ot which thcro aro BGornl known In that section, But one morning they found might In the big-Jawed wolf trap which had been set tho night beforo with n generous piece U mutton tho biggest black bear th;t ho hod vcr seen. nd tho bear was mud rr. :d as a hornet but a bullet bul-let from n rl.'.e killed him. Tho bear 'vcighed a little better than 300 pounds. Tho formers around Prouty who lost Bheep each had bear meat for dinner tho noxt day. |