Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-27
DOGS IN BAD REPUrE.
Killed In Many Suburban TOwns-Fears
of HydrOphobia.
From the Ss,O York Tribune.

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Nom the Nsso York Tribune.
'Pass the hat around" said resident
OF Mount Vernon last evening. ''and take
up collection to send Tom Dsnohue 20
Paris"
"Has he been dog-bitten?v
Eyes; got it in the leg this morning"
''Guess Newark won't stay in front
now"
The dog that bit Donohue was a mon
grel cur, weighing about 40 pounds, be-
longing TO Jacob Haas, q builder. DOno-
hue was one Of Haas carpenters. The
dog had been chained to his kennel for
more than a year. They did not shoot
him until yesterday, because he had not
bitten anybody. Yesterday Donohue went
near enough for the cur TO fasten bis long
teeth into the mans thigh. So firmly was
the dog fastened TO the man that it took
two men to release him. The wound Is q
bad one, and Donohue is much alarmed
about his prospects of hydrophObia. The
dog was killed, and bis spinal marrow
will be taken out by DIR. Brush. President
OF the Westchester County Medical Socie-
ty. Mr.. Haas is in favor Of sending Dom
ohue to Paris.
A hydr0phobia scare is on a fair way
to take hold in Long Island City. Yester-
day four applications were made to the
police to Kill unmuzzled mongrels, Last
Saturday Frank Devine, age seven living
in Dutch Kills street, was attacked by
two dogs, one a black Spite and the other
a Scotch terrier. His clothes were torn
from his back, and the calf Of his leg was
lacerated in a frightful manner. DR..
Burnet cauterized the wounds. The dogs
were owned by George Hatfield and John
German, living nearly opposite the house
eff the bitten boy. +. q. McGregory, Of
Astoria, applied to Justice Kavanagh
yesterday TO have a big black Newfound-
land 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
Sergt. Darcy an order to kill the dog
John O'Neill, a contractor in Long Island
City, called at the police station last
evening and told Sergt. Roulette that a
dog belonging to Edward Smith, horse
trainer, had bitten him in the leg. Sergt.
Roulette shot the animal.
Chales Keeble, letter carrier of Jersey
City, was bitten in the leg by Siberian
bloodhound in liquor shop yesterday.
He Immediately went to a physician and
had the wound cauterized. Subsequently
the owner of the dog took the animal to
police headquarters and reported the case
to Chief Murphy, who advised him to kill
the dog, which was done. 1t is not
thought that the animal was mad.
The body of a dog with the back broken
and shot through the head was found yes
terday In eentral-rue., Orange. The
limbs were cramped and distorted. On
Monday night the cog attacked a tramp
who defended himself with a fence rail,
but was scratched and bitten by the dog.
A police officer came to the tramp's assist
ance and broke the dogs back with blow
OF his club. The tramp refused to accom-
pany the officer to the police station, and
continued his way to Morristown. Two
dogs that showed suspicious symptoms
were shot yesterday. One OF the dogs
frothed at the mouth. and was killed by a
young man named Frank Smith.
A small brown dog ran along First ave-
nue., above Houston street. in this city
yesterday, followed by crowd OF boys
VINO shouted that 1t was mad. Froth fell
from the animals mouth as 1t turned at
intervals to snap saw agely at it's pursuers.
Two men got string around the dogs
neck and dragged it Into the Fifth street
police station, where it was killed. The
police did not learn who owned the dog.
They were told that no one had been bit
ten by it.