Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1888 — HYDROPHOBIA EPIDE MIC. [ARTICLE]

HYDROPHOBIA EPIDE MIC.

Thousands of Dollars’ Worth of Cattle Killed by a Mad Dog. [Parkersburg (W. Va) telegram.] In Jackson County, W. Va., an epidemic of hydrophobia among cattle of all kinds has broken out. and the farmers have lost thousands of dollars’ worth of fine stock. A dog owned by a man named Huffman went mad, and before he was killed attacked a number of other dogs, cattle, sheep, swine, and poultry on several farms. These animals nearly all went mad and have since died. There is scarcely a farm in the upper part of ths county upon which some animal has not been bitten. The dog when it reached home attacked its master, who felled it to the ground aud chained it till it died. More than fifty dogs have been killed and numbers are yet about the country. Deaths among the cattle are increasing. Cattle that have died from hydrophobia are lying in the fields, and personsan afraid to eat any meat from that section.