The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-10-20
SIX PAGES.
bOG'S FATAL BITE.
Dies After Experiencing
Horrible Agony.
IN the phiiadelphia Press

Dies AFTER experiencing
Horrible Agony.
ON the Philadelphia Press
B of Jason Cox, a shoemaker,
Florence, N. j., died on Mon
boon of genuine hydrophobia
BRING three days horrible tor
e case has some features
hat are probably without pre-
Mrs. Cox was SO years of age
a large, stout woman, weigh
aps, two hundred pounds. On
5 she picked up a small terrier
nding to hand it over the fence
hbor, when the animal turned
ed its teeth in her right cheek.
Ind was painful at the time, but
lhesive plasters had been ap-
healed up and nothing more
hight of it until some one advised
bx to reopen the cut, which she
it healed a second time, and q
bt later the matter was almost
In. On last Thursday evening
Dx attended a church festival in
lage, and while eating a plate of
lam felt a numb pain shoot down
her cheek to her left shoulder.
sy following she was taken with
followed by o slight fever, which
mily considered the ordinary ma
trouble. On the afternoon of
', however, a significant symptom
Fred. The woman became thirsty
fever increased, and requested a
of water. When it was handed to
be shuddered slightly and was I'M
to swallow only a small quantity,
that with considerable difficulty.
Town, of Florence was called in
sturday morning, and when he ar
1 Mrs. Cox presented the symp-
/ of chills and fever, for which he
kcribed quinine, but finding the pa
h unable to swallow, and learning
aversion to all liquids, he at once
pected the true state OF the case,
called in DR.. Gauntt, of Burlington,
Mrs. Cox then showed
evidences of rabies in her
ror of water and sensitive apprecia-
of the slightest draught of air.
continued restless and feverish
ugh Saturday afternoon and eve
:, continually asking for water and
able to endure the sight of it when
light to her. Early on Sunday
ming the first paroxysm occurred,
III was followed four hours later by
her. Prostitution consequent upon
terrible struggles ensued, and n.y.
ermic injections of morphia were
n, which only partly quoted the
emit, and she continued to exhibit
,he terrible characteristics Of the
malady in swapping and snarling
a dog until death came to her re-
IN Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock.
ing the peculiar Accomplishments
he case was the vomiting Of large
ltities of coagulated blood and
|, the frightful distortion of the
ltenance, and the change of the
r of the skin.
he poor soul knew perfectly we'll
was the matter with her." said
Bisbing, as she shudderingly re-
d the terrible scenes; "and when |
to see her on saturday she asked
every one withdraw from her room
ear that she might do them an in
She spoke lovingly to her hus-
| and children and told them she
d not live. Then she begged, OIL
piteously, that they should not
ther her to death. At her own re-
st we took a bureau into the entry
arricade the door so that she could
escape and hurt any one. We held
door ajar then, and, looking in, saw
Cox sitting in chair near the
low. The scene that followed a
nent later was horrible beyond de-
otion. Her eye-balls became blood
and her face was twisted and dis
ed so that her mouth appeared to
rawn around on the right side. 1t
wide open and she was splitting out
It ffecks of frothy blood. Suddenly
gave a piercing shrek, and, lifting
/ hands high above her head, made
1gle bound for the open door. Had
1t been for my husband she would
ainly have burst the door open,
outstanding the heavy bureau
nst it. After that the poor woman
IN to snarl and bark just like an
~ dog. The paroxysm lasted about
en- minutes, and when we entered
room again she was lying on the
exhausted.
The barkea and growled and gnashed
teeth together in wild frenzy. Her
ggles became weaker and weaker,
few moments before 5 O'Clock
h ended the scene. !"