Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-08-26
WOES OF A GOOD DOG
liz FETCHED FRANKIE LANNON
ASHORE By THE EAR


First Of all there figures a brindle
bun pup-a fool dog who did the best
he could He win die for it to-day.
Then there is the fool dogs master.
who loved the brindIe pup and has
wept for IT, This fond man slept last
night in the Church Street Station.
Little frankie Lannop, just 0 years
old, should be inserted right here while
the dog is fresh IN your memory
Frankie is drinking whole bucketfuls
Of water TO see il he will develope
symptoms of rabies. His left ear is in
shreds. His right hand is bitten
through Brindle dog in both cases
Mrs. Lannon is vowing vengeance on
the fool dog and the fool dogs master
when she isn't watching the bundle Of
awful possibilities which calls her
mother
It starts here The terrible pup is
owned by Jacob Meister. a chubby
powerful German tobacconist. Amaze
mcnt ran riot through the hooks and
crannles Of Mr. Meister's system last
night, and if he was amazed last night
he's astounded this morning
He lives at - Spring street and
there he has been harbOring oh, evil
day.-the brlndle pup which bit and
nearly drowned frankie LannOn.
Frankie lives at II and Washington
street with his mother. She didn't
know about his going swimming in the
pool right beside the pier a, where the
police station is, until o'clock last
night, when the entire First Ward
dropped in to tell her that the boy had
been drowned, eaten alive, ,arrested
and took OFF, in an ambulance
Meister and his dog, which had no
name when he went to the pier and
several when he left, arrived at the
pool about quarter before eight
Little Frankie had donned a bathing
suit Of the breech-clOth pattern.
Night broOded over the sea so much
nat Frankie was beginning to become
invisible TO the crowd Of urehins and
ioafers VINO sat in Mester's vicinity.
Mcister removed the dogs muzzle, and
the animal pumped into the water.
Here the plot thickened to the extent
of one brindle dog taught 10 fetch ana
carry. a dog with strong jaws and a
persistence which recks not of obsta-
cles
The crowd was delighted A shower
Of sticks flew through the air
sick EN-" yelled the crowd. Bring
'em in. That's the dog. Say pop,
where'd cit him?
Meiste smoked in peasc. Out in the
pool where the shadows lay deeper lit
tie Frankie fioated
Then a strong arm hurled a block out
beyond frankie With a Dow-wOw the
bun pup leaped after it,
He knew. dog fashion, that there was
something out there and that he was
to bring IT, He swan for ii as if his
name was Leander.
A dark object lay in his path. He
was nearer and nearer. With yelp
Of Joy he seized little Frankie.
The boy yelled, No wonder. The
dogs teeth had torn his ear. Il was
Il real yell. 1t sent Meister flying from
his seat, and brought the crowd TO the
boat in a jifly. IT was different now.
Hes killing tile boy" Hes killing
little Lamont" Gail i'm off, Pop"
xiii him" Get a boat
The crowd had been gay before. 1t
was mad now.
But the fool dog having been sent
ont to bring in something out Of the
wet, was bringing it. He didn't know
the boy was alf dead from fright and
pain lie couldn't understand why
Meisger, whom he liked, was yelling
like a lunatic. He didn't know the
crowd was waiting to kEll him. He
liked the noise and excitement and he
kept right on fetching Frankie Ian
non.
The lad was bleeding, Ike fought his
way clear Of the dog rs they neared
the tioat-it had all happened in a min
ute-but rs he pushed the beast off it
fastened on his hand and swan ahead,
dragging him along
A moment more and 1Ieister had
torn the dog from its prize. The brute
had tasted blood and was growing saw
age. As Meister put the muzzle on
again a dozen men kicked il, and there
was a general charge upon man and
de-.
IA the police station the pup was
chained near tho desk The chain was
small The crowd rushed into the sta
ton, and the bull pup, cornered now
and seeing that even Mcister, whose
dog he was, had turned against him,
broke the chain at a bound The
crowd fell over itself in retreat
Meister LED the dog back and fasten-
ed him with a small hawser
Then came al ambulance from
Chambers Street Hospital for frankie
and Frankie's mother looking for
frankie. hydrohobia and hysteria. The
sur con dr. ssed the boys wounds, call
ed them painful but not dangerous, and
said there was a cot in the hospita
about Frankies size. Mrs. Lanncn re-
fused it and the boy was sent home.
( Having asserted her rights, Frande's
mamma demanded Justice She insis-
ted that Meister should slaughter the
/ brindle pup he had reared and loved