New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-24
DOGS IN BAD REPUTE
KILLED IN MANY SUBURBAN TowNs-FEARs or
uYDROPUOPIA


HYDRoPHOBIA.
"Pass the hat around" said q resident Of Mount
Vernon last evening and take up collection 10 send
Tom Donohue to Paris"
HAS be been dog -bitten'"
dyes got it in the leg this morning"
Guess Newark won't stay in front now'
The dog that bit Donohue was a mongrcl cur
weighing about forty pounds, belonging to jacob
Haas, builder. Donohue was one OF Haass
carpenters The dog had been chained to his kennel
for more than year. They did not shoot HIM until
Yesterday because be had not bitten anybody
yesterday DOnohue went near enough for the cur TO
fasten his ong teeth into the mans thigh. 30 firmly
was the dog fastened to the that 1t took two men
to release him. The wound is bad one. and Donohue
is much alarmed about his prospects of hydrophobia
The dog was killed, and his spinal marrow will be
taken out by Dr. Brush president OF the Westchester
County Medical Society. Mr.. Haas is in favor Of
sending Donohue 10 Paris
hydrophobia scare is fair way to take hold in
Long Island City. Yesterday four applications were
made to the police To kill unmuzzled mongrels Last
Saturday Frank Devinc, age en-, living in Dutch
Kills-st was attacked by two dogs black Spitz
and the other Scotch terrier. His clothes were torn
from bis back and the calf OF his leg was laceraed IN
a fIghtful manner. DR.. Burnett cauteTized tne
wounds The dogs were owned by George HatheId
and John German, living nearly opposite the house OF
thc bitten boy f. c. McCiregory, of Astoria, applied
to Justice Kayanagh yesterday 10 have a big black
Newfoundland dog killed that had bitten him on the
lett hand while attempting to open the gate leading TO
the house Of George Bancroft In Astoria The Judge
gave Sergeant Darcy order to kill the dog. Jot II
ONil contractor in Long Island City, called at the
police station last evening and told Sergeant Roulette
that dog belonging to Edward Smith, horse trainer
had bitten him IN the leg Sergeant Roulette shot the
animal
Charles Koeble letter carrier Of Jersey City, was
bitten In the leg by n Siberian bloodhound In liquor
shop Yesterday. He Immediately went to a physician
aud had the wound cauterlcd. subsequently tho
owner of the dog took the animal to lOhce lie adj
Quarters and reported the to Chief Murphy, who
advised him to KIN the dog, which done. lt Is not
thou ,ht that the animal was mad.
The body of doI With the back broken and shot
through the head found Yesterday In Contra Lave
Orange Ihc limbs were cramped and distorted On
Monday nI.ht the dog attacked tramp who defended
himself with fence rail- bul scratched and bitten
by the dog. police officer came y the tramps
assistance and broke the dogs back with blow OF his
cuD Ihe tramp refused to company the officer TO
the police station and continued hi, way TO Morris
town Two dogs that showed srsricious symptom oms
were shot yc-;erday One OF the dogs ir thcd at the
mo 9TH and was killed by young man named Frank
Smith.
\ small brown dog along First-ave. above
ou-tou-.t IL this city yesterday followed by crowd
of Loys who shoutcd that il was mad troh fell from
the animals mouth "a it turned at intervals to snap
sayap,ly AT il. pursuers Two got string around
the DOGS neck and dragged it into the kiith-st police
station whore it was killed. The police did not learn
who owned the dog. Ihey were told that no person
had been bitten by IL.