Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-19
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


AhATE Providence tR. ~ special to the Kew
York Sun says; Last Monday a little son OF
James MOlyncauX, Of this city, WINS taken
down with symptoms Of hydrophobia. on
Tuesday the disease was clearly defined. The
child is nine years old, aud had been bitten, MS
nearly as his parents could learn, some three
weeks before oy cur on the street. All OF
the more violent symptoms OF hydrophobia set
in. His commissions produced the choking
noise that's sometimes likened 70 the swapping
OF dog, and there was the attendant foaminr
at the mouth. While his father and mother
were tending him he bit them both, and it
being impossible TO care for him at home ho
was sent TO the Rhode Island Hospital
Last evening Mrs Molyneaux, the mother
without the slightest premonition excepting
feeling Of lassitude, was suddenly convulsed
She was sitting at the time with some friends
at her residence on Ship street. The spasms
became more violent; frOthing at the mouth
and other symptoms that had heon noticed in
the boy were observed. II was impossible for
the friends TO control her. They say she
snapped at them whenever they approached,
and that this action oaused them to remember
that she had been bitten by the little boy
Harry. Mr.. MolyneauT was away, and the
police were therefore notified. An ofHoer
cautiously entered the room and approached
the bed on which Mrs. MOlyneaux was lying.
She seemed to have gone there in a moment
OF temporary relief, but tho moment she saw
the officer she sprang at him. The ofioor
for a few minutes had a terrible strug-
gle. He could have mastered the
woman easily, but he feared that in the
struggle that would be necessary she
might bite him. He seized the bedclotbes and
wound thom in a great bunch around his arms,
and thus protected himself. He also shouted
for help, and shortly three officers arrived.
Mrs. Molyneaux's house being but a short dis.
tance from the station. The officer then, using
the bedclothes to protect himself, forced Mrs.
MolyneauN as gently as possible back to the
bed, and threw the blankets quickly over hor
face. In a second the other officers, with the
police surgeon, who had arrived with an am
bulnnco, had secured Mrs. Molyneaux, and she
was taken to the hospital. Sergeant Runkin,
Of the police says ne never saw q more terri.
BILE sight than was this woman's condition
when they were binding her He describes
her utterances as almost perfect limitations Of
the growing Of dog, and says she would set
her teeth and snap as dogs do. Tho most pain
full part Of It all was that Mrs Molyneaux
seemed fully conscious, and her mental suf-
ferings were greater than the physical.
Mr. Molynoaux, the husband, who was also
bitten by his son, was at his place Of busi-
ness, being employed in some capacity at
night in the steam-mills. He did not know
this morning of his wife's condition, and the
officers Of the mill were anxious to keep the
fact from him.
Some years ago, when there was what might
almost be termed an epidemic of hydropho-
bia in the Connecticut Valley, man in the
last paroXysms bit his attendant The physi-
clans watched the attendant for some months,
intending to make a careful study of the
disease but the attendant was never the
worse for the bite