Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1888 — BITTEN BY A MAD WOLF. [ARTICLE]

BITTEN BY A MAD WOLF.

A Kentucky Man Sails for Faris, to be Treated by Fasteur. [New York special.] Henry J. Blake, of Paris, Ky., sailed for Paris on Thursday, where he is going to be treated by Pasteur by inoculation for the germs of hydrophobia which he believes are likely to be in his system. The disease, if it lurks in his blood, was caused by a bite of a wolf. Several weeks ago Mr. Blake went on a hunting trip to Montana with a party of Kentucky friends. He became separated froni his companions and was attacked by a wolf. He had a desperate battle with the sharp-fanged brute, and was severely bitten. Mr. Blake at once returned to the East, and he deemed it prudent to put himself under Pasteur’s treatment. The wound in his head is a terrible one, and, though it was bandaged, yet a deep gash made by the wolt’s fangs, extending from the upper side of the jawbone to the left eye, was visible. The eye was destroyed, the wound had not healed, but was spreading, and is only kept habitually in check by the constant use of caustics. The unfortunate man is accompanied on his journey by two friends, one of whom had a son who died from the dread malady.