Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1890-08-28

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SEd caei Mex orGlaasy dogs. bas ack
doss. aogs that Wsrs Ga rs verge =
cs1sn lwsnty-slx earc&sSsS lave o~va
removed .Eom beneath TIE IA hcoses -
ready. Inel1ting GoSs q al asgness'
from the beautsfd and iatenigent ses-
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his fzre~sh - earth IN tk- presenoe Ct
scores q as dead and better kina.
Whence come these d0gss Why DO
they 20 there q de IA such large n1in-
bers. and why 90 they select tins par
ticular sPots These are the questions =
interest 70 ths number OF visitors who
come ID sec them. The strange part ~
TIE story Is that dogs have been Teco3-
mixed that came y the place from soHle
tSr dlstsnt part II the city, oStensio4y
for the purpose Of dying. as thsy were
seen 70 stagger through ths yard, dis
appear and bo seen no mors until their
Inoldering remains were palled our
from under the house.
Prom time 10 time complaints have
been made AZ the health once Of the
stencil arising from the place, and Al
pens. the dead dog man. has been nofs-
ned and requested 10 remove them. On
oae occasion be removed twelve IN ono
batch. Newfoundland, shepherd dogs,
bulldogs. ours aud even one or two
fancy strains Of dogs were discovered TO
have come to tins strangely selected spot
20 torega t5er with their hn After this
Alpers refused 70 proceed further in the
matter, declaring that he did not have
10 remove the dogs dying upon private
premises, and 50 the accumulation has
gone on until the condition is intolerable.
A search was instituted by Dr. Furlong.
of the health Office, and 1t was discovered
that once more the place was filed with
dogs newly dead.
The search resulted in the announce
ment that the number of dogs that had
died under those walls could not be as
certained until the floors were taken Up.
A feature that seems almost supernat-
rlral is the intelligence that character
ICES the dogs death. Every new animal
ss he comes 10 the place 10 die crawls
back as far as he can get beneath the
house and gets close against the last dog
that died, as IL to make room for the
next that comes; a fact that Super
visor Barry pronounced the most touch
ingly pathetic unselfshneSs he had ever
known.
The scores Of dogs that have died have
come without noise, as testified by the
lady Of the house, and died without
noise. They come almost at the moment
Of death, crawl beneath the house and
join the majority without whimper.
What the mysterious attraction is is
something beyond human knowledge
and may never be fathomed. No one
seems TO dare TO advance a theory on
the eerie subject, and yet every one was
willing to admit that there really seemed
to be an understanding or death compact
between the dogs, but how, when or
where made, if at az, seemed to be sim
ply a controversion Of all Of natures
known hws.-San Francisco Examiner