The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1870-08-11
The Mad E3tone--PartiCulAn Of its
uae IN Joliet. Illinois.

The Mad g3tone-particulan Of its
ne IN Joliet, Illinois.
On Sunday, June 20, Geo. II. Jacobs
and wife, Of HolLerman's Grove, Ken
dali county, In this State. were bitten
by mad dog. They owned the dog.
chained him and he died OIL the follow
ing Tuesday; hence there could be no
mistake about his being rabid, and they
then realized their terrible position.
Having heard Of some person at or
near Morris that had long before been
bitten and was cured by the application
ofa mad stone" Mr. Jacobs at once
started to nnd him, for the purpose Of
ascertaining the location Of the stone,
70.
:, He found that it was owned anil kept
81 J. p. Evans in Lincoln, Logan
county Illinois. He at once took the
the train for Lincoln, arriving there on
the Thursday morning after he was Bit
ten, and the stone was tried. He then
tried to telegraph from Lincoln to bis
wife, at Morris. to come to him. The
agent informed him that Morris was OH
IN opposition line, and that they would
not receive messages that were to be
sent over that line. The nature and
object Of the dispatch were explained
and pay for the Transmission rendered,
yet the agent said he would not send it,
and there was no use OF his talking any
more about it.
Mr.. Jacobs had no other alternative
left him but to 60 home after his wife,
which he did, after making arrange
ments Will, Mr.. Evans to meet him in
Joliet with the stone. On Monday Mr..
Jacobs came, and on Tuesday evening
last item days after the bite,) Mr.. Evans
came and made five applications. The
stone is small-being about one inch
aud half long, nearly one inch thick,
and perhaps one inch wide at the place
Of its greatest width, ard seemingly as
porous "a honeycomb. When removed
from the wound it emits an odor SIM
ilsr 70 that OF a dead snake, only more
rank and nausious.
On the first and second applications
Of about twenty minutes each, Mrs.
Jacob says she did not feel any sensa
ton other than she would have felt had
any other hard substance been placed
on her hand, but the third application
Of the stone drew so hard that it was
actually painful to bear, and when
taken off left the impression Of the
pores of the stone on her fingers.
When the stone il taken from the
wound ii Is placed In water for the same I
length of time that it remains on the :
bite.
Mr.. Evans said that the atone was
brought from Wales bv his great grand
father to Virginia, and by his grand
father to Kentucky, and his father
brought it to this State forty years ag
At his fathers death, twenty one
years ago, it came into his possession
and since then he has applied it to over
ono thousand different cases, and always
with perfect success, except in one
instance, that Of John Bennington, of
Minouk, in Woodford county, eleven
years ago. He was frightfully mangled
from his elbows to the ends of his |
fingers, and no application was made
until he had the disease. Then, by |
reason Of their being SO many wounds, !
and 1t being SO long three weeks after !.
he was bitten, the poison seemed to
as fast as the stone could
draw it out. The man would apply it
with good effect TO any Of the wounds,
but as soon as it was removed TO be
he would take fit, and so he
when the stone was
on and vaving mad when ofT-until he .
diei.
Nr. Evans can not tell bow the pro
partie. q. the stone were discovered, nor
how long they have beet. known and in
u.e. It has been in lis own and hi.
ancestors family for about two hundred
year. .yfIisf m SiGgrjE.