Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1911 — Marshal Has Sanguinary Day; Unmuzzled Dogs His Victims. [ARTICLE]

Marshal Has Sanguinary Day; Unmuzzled Dogs His Victims.

Marshal Mustard and Night Watch Critser are after the dogs. has been a busy day. The general public seems to be co-operating with the officers In the campaign to prevent an outbreak of hydrophobia. Monday afternoon a report came to the marshal that a mad dog was having fits over north of the railroad. Before the officer could reach the scene Charley Payne had used a shot gun effectually on the canine. The dog is reported to have had three fits and the impression with those that saw him was that he had rabies. He was a stray dog in the neighborhood. This Tuesday morning another dog was reported to have had fits near the residence of Jack Gilmore, also north of the railroad. Word was telephoned down town' but the marshal was out after other dogs and did not receive the word for some time. There was considerable excitement in the neighborhood and the dog, which was it stray, took off through the fields toward the northeast. The marshal started in early this Tuesday morning to make good the order of the city board of health to kill all unmuzzled dogs found running at large and before 8 o’clock one dog had been killed. Up to 2 o’clock he had killed 9 and was hot on the trail. The secretary of the city board of health supplied him with a notice to serve on several dog owners, which informed them that all dogs known to have been bitten by the Timmons dog must be muzzled or kept locked up on their own premises and that long chains that permitted the dogs to reach people along the sidewalks did not comply with the order. These people must fasten the dogs up tight or the marshal will be authorized to kill the dogs just the same as though they were loose. All dogs are taken to the city light plant after they are killed and burned in the furnace. One of the Halstead boys was in from Newton township and reported that there was Bomewhat of a mad dog scare out in his neighborhood, occasioned by a dog that got in with a bunch of sheep and bit several of them. The dog is believed to have teen mad.