Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1912 — Mad Dog Trees Family of Wm. Reed Near Surrey. [ARTICLE]

Mad Dog Trees Family of Wm. Reed Near Surrey.

A big hydrophobia scare was current at the Wm. Reed farm, 4# miles northwest of here last Monday. One of Wm. Heed’s sons started out hunting with a yellowish-brown fox terrier pup and had been gone some time when the dog began to show signs of hydrophobia and to snap. The boy was badly frightened and took two or three shots at the dog but did not kill it. The dog got away and it is reported that it went home and frightened the women so greatly by its actions that they all climbed a tree; Presently the Reed boys got ever their fright and got home in time to join the folks in the tree. They took another shot at the dog, which was under the house, but it got away again. Jim Price and son, who were’ hauling straw along the <road at the time, took after the dog, which immediately attacked the boy. The boy struck it over and Mr. Price stabbed it with a pitch fork and killed U. That neighborhood had a similar scare about this time last year and some stock that died was supposed to have been bitten by infected dogs.