Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-10
Most Prominent Figure on
CAPITOL Hill for Awhile.
SUSPECTED OF BEING RABID
Chased by Apprehensive Citizens
Until It Lay Down and Died.
QUESTION FOR THE EXPERTS
Scientists of the Bureau of Animal
Industry Will Decide Whether
Little Fox Terrier Was Mad.

Whether or not the yellow and white
fox terrier which created so big a scare
In and around the Congressional Library
yesterday afternoon was mad will not be
known until the bureau of animal Indus
try gets through with the various things
they have to do with brains ard chem
icals in the search for rabies. but that
little dog certainly did have things upset
for a few minutes
He had the crowd scared, and just as
scared a. the crowd, according to the men
who finally. lifted the dead dog into the
pound wagon, were the policemen of
Capitol Hill.
The fox terrier had his day-it did not
come in the morning of his young life,
either, for he probably never was SO
prominent in all his short life as he was
when fifty or sixty of the jewellers on
Capitol Hill were hooting after him up
alleys and over vacant lots. Perhaps he
was mad. AT any rate. he gave them
chase as long as his breath held out, and
when that failed him he crawled under
meath a discarded grocery box and died
there Yet even in death he seemed to
have Capitol Hill at bay. No one dared
go near the box.
In the Congressional Library.
Some one saw him first running around
In an odd fashion in the Congressional
Library. Watchmen shooed him away and
turned one to another with the remark
that perhaps he's mad" He had the
look of mad dog. anyway, and that
was enough to scare folks. He ran out
of the building, and looked just as odd
outside as he did inside. People began
chasing children into yards. Heads popped
from open windows to "see the fun
Mothers stopped dressing children for the
afternoon and all hands crowded and
pushed into places of vantage in door
ways or windows. Big sisters slapped
little brothers who wanted to climb on
the chairs and get look. Little sisters
were slapped by brothers because the
sisters wanted to see, too.
The fox terrier was getting his crown
of fame at last. Men who have told what
they would do if they should ever see
burglar in their house went back into
the shop to get gun and forgot to re-
turn to the scene. Perhaps they couldn't,
for the doors were locked.
Denounced as Mad.
bold man SHE'D stone at the dog
and awaited the result of the experiment.
The dog turned around sharply. as all
dogs do when stoned.
window. Not a diagnosis that might be
called expert, but it had it's result
Every one who was hoping and wish
ing for the excitement of seeing real
mad dog felt it in their bones after
that that the dog was actually mad, and
would be foaming at the mouth before
long
They stoned him again. Seeing that
there were forty or fifty men there
about, the dog being alone, by HIM
self, without allies. they started to
chase the dog. He was willing to run,
too He led them all quite chase.
Some one called for policeman, but
the bluecoat who came merely looked
wise and said that it was a case for
the poundmaster. Meantime the fox ter
rier was wondering whether his lungs
were going to split or not.
He saw the discarded box, and crawied
under il.
And no one dared go near that box.
They stood away of. like subjects shud-
dering at the bier of a dead tyrant.
Finally the pound wagon came. Two
men-laborers from the pound-were
shown the box. They lifted it up-and
fifty Capitol Hill men saw them put the
fox terriers body into the wagon.
1t may be that he was mad. Anyhow,
1t made talk for Capitol HILL