Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-14
Antics of a Mad Wolf.
The Hydrophobic Creature's Work in
 Missouri.

The HydrOphobic Creaturs's Work n Missouri.
 Wolves, like dogs, get the hydrophobia, and, when mad, they create great consternation among the Indians and hunters of the west ern plains, by rushing beadlopg directly into camp and attacking every living creature they meet Their bite under such circum- stances is fatal. Hydrophobia is sure to fol- low, as it does from the bite of skunk. A Reeds Springs Mo. correspondent of the St. Louis be-DenocrGt gives an account of mad wolfs ravages there. Reeds SEriags is a locality in Stone county, in southwestern Missouri, adjoining the Arkansas line.) The letter says
 On the evening of the 2Oth ult., while Mir. Carroll was walking home along the highway about three miles below this place, on Bear Creek, he encountered a huge gray wolf. The animal rushed at him furiously and was with difficulty frightened off. In front of the dwelling of Charles Lewis, few hundred yards further up the creek, the beast at tackled and killed large hog. At Sam Gid cons place,a mile further on, the wolf slaugh- tered a hound and then continued up the pulp lie road and by Reno Springs and through the woods, next being heard of at William Browns residence on the Springfield pike, two miles north of Reno. Here the fero- cious brute entered the yard and attacked the house dog. Supposing that strange dog was doing the fighting, MT. Brown emerged from the house to drive the intruder away, when it rushed at him, and discovering his mistake in time, Brown retired inside his domicile, making the door fast after him. The wolf, after snapping vlciously at the shutters half dozen times, made for the sheep lot, killed one of it's occupants, and then moved 400 yards further up the road to Steve B1gen's, where it attacked his hounds, injuring one dog severely that it soon died. Mrs. Bilgen ran out of the house to drive away what she, like Brown, thought to be strange dog. The wolf promptly at tackled the woman, who, aided by brave mastin, barely succeeded in reaching place of safety. Retreating from Steve's, the wild animal passed on to Ike Bilgen's, mile and half up the road, where it attacked and lac erated COW. Then it went into the kitchen, and, after upsetting everything capsizable with which 1t came in contact, deserted that place and proceeded to the house of another member of the Bilgen family (MartiD) about q mile from Ike's. There the wolf, after kill ling four geese, was attacked by dogs on the premises, and while desperate fight in progress, MT. Bilgen succeeded in emptying the contents of double-barreled shotgun into the brute's vitals. The animal was the largest of its species seen. Its frame was very much emaciated, and, as it did not attempt to feed on either the dogs, sheep or geese that 1t killed, it is supposed to have been suffering from hydrophobia. Luckily no human being was bitten by the mad ami maj, and all the dogs and stock known to have suffered have since been kept in close confinement and under careful treatment. Where the wolf came from remains mys- tery, as no wolf of the gray species has been seen in this country for several years.
 Hanging at Newgate.
 From St. James G&zetse.l
 December 13-This morning to Newgate to see two poor wretches hanged; and now at evening in no delight with myself at having I erable than awful. From the moment when I passed from the gray cold street within the gray cold walls, all through from first to last, it was rather as If a company Ofdogs had come together to hang another dog in close back yard. Something more there was in the read ing of the burial service in the ears of the indicators yet alive; and something more in the tolling of St. Sepulchre's bell but, as for the rest, no sign or token was there of the terrors or the majesty of the law nor of the dignity of human life, nor of the dread responsibility of extinguishing it. kitten cast to drown in pitcher is dispatched with as much ceremony almost. Here is a narrow court enclosed in high stone wall, and barrier across it fencing the door through which the criminals are brought, and thereby a bright structure of wood not unlike loose- box-not unlike cabman's shelter-but the sides of it only waist high This shed is the place of execution; the murderer is taken within it and hanged from beam under the shed roof; he and his executioners and the witnesses of his death standing all upon level, and all in the little space between the pitiless walls While waited in the outer room, dreadful 1t was to see little knot of workmen scufae by, beforehand, with spades and pickaxes, and one with bag on his back with lime in it these to prepare the grave. More terrible that, to me, than all that fol lowed. Hurriedly, in shambling, furtive, silent way, the two that were to die were brought into court; not very terrified, it seemed-glad, perhaps, that there so soon was to be an end; one of them of sinister look, the other and the greater villain boyish and marked with the eriminality of born fool. When all was prepared, "Good bye," they said: sGood-bye'' between them and their executioner; and then in an instant they disappeared; for beneath the shed is a pit. No more. Much I wish had gone to see the Baroness BuIdett-Coutts' show of pretty flowers and her flower brigade of girls instead.
 The operations of the Hartford clearing