The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-06-24
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Death From IIydropsobia.
4 very sad cause Of death from
hydrophobia occurred IN Brooklyn
yesterday. Francis Bdiler. q vel
known deg trainer andsfsneier hashad
for many years a place Of businese
in Peck slip in Chs citg, and Prospect
and Bremen streets in Brookfyn.
about Six weeks aga 4 geaeieman
brought n dog whiebNas sick 10 bis
Office at Peck slip It~Mas q small
Spitz dog, and the owner stated that
he desired 10 have it receive the best
of care, for which he would pay lib
orally. Mr.. Butler then determined
to take the animal to his Brooklyn
Office, but before he started proceed
led to administer a,dose of medicine.
THE dog was held by a boy. and med
ieine was forced into his month but
while Mr., Butler, with his hand in
the dogs mouth, was eGdeavoring
to make It shallow, the animal bit
the thumb of his right hand so badly
that the marks Of six sharp teeth
could be plainly seen. On the ferry
boat to Brooklyn the dog escaped
from a basket in which he was con-
fined and bit a man in the leg. The
animal was soon shot by a police
man.
The wound soon healed, and Mr..
Butler had almost forgotten about it,
until last Monday morning, when in
his effort to swallow q cup of tea at
his breakfast table he was seized
with a violent paroxism and conyul-
sive tremor, and to issnrprise diseoY-
cred that his muscles wouldnot con-
vey the drink to his mouth. In some
ala rm he turned to his wife and said:
"Why how strange that isl | can't
get that tea to my lips. What can
it meant" She thought Of the bite of
the dog immediately, and like a fash
it came to her that her husband had
hydrophobia, but she endeavored at
the time to concealher fears from him
and told him he was nervous and
neededrest. I'll tryhnother cup, then,
he answered; but in attempting to
drink he vas as ain conyulsed. He
then tried to eat an egg and some
bread, but could not do so, and q few
hours afterwards he recognized
symptoms of hydrophobia, and real
lied his condition. He then begged
his friends to keep away from him
and run up and do wn starts with o
stick in his hands endeavoring to
strike and bite every person who ap-
preached him. He tore the clothing
from his body and clutehing to his
breast shrieked, There arc mad
dogs here Drs. Loretz and Dreamer
were. called in and were obliged to tie
him down and finally succeeded in
injecting morphine into his arm
This relieved his paroxysms. He lost
the power 0 fspeech, then barked like
dog, while streams of foam poured
from his meath, and late on Tuesday
he died. He is sixty-four
old and leaves a wife and nine
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MIR. Butler was a native Of England
and his education was Of a superior
He was an accomplished
linguist, and has been connected with
several educational institutions as a
professor of languages. His knowl-
edge Of French aad German is attes-
ted by q volume Of which ne was the
author. Some years ago he went in
to the business Of training, buying
and selling dogs, and his ability in
controlling and tanning them was
deemed by many really marvellous.
Many q time he has led away with
out injury a quarrelsame and fero-
cious dog which attacted every other
person who approached it. lie wrote
a popular book entitled "Dog Train
aHo had no fear of ~hydropho-
bia. aad often expressed the opinion
was merely o nervous affec-
ton. and that the bite efa dog would
not produce the diseaS eJnnle5s fear
s~upervened and oeeasionsd it.
All kinds of rare and expensive
dogs were TO be found at his estab-
lishment. When p. T. Barnum held
his dog show in the old musium at
Broadway and Ann street, Butler'sI
contributions were acknowledged to be
by far the finest and the most varied.
He prided himself on the purity of
the breed of dogs raised and trained
by him. Any breed could be obtain
ed of him, from a diminutiye black
and-tan or King Charles spaniel to an
English bulldog or Siberian blood
Butler did not go to dog
He felt a pardonable pride
the raising of pure blooded dogs,
and was respected by a large circle
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