Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1912 — MAD DOG SPREADS RABIES [ARTICLE]

MAD DOG SPREADS RABIES

Horses, Cattle and/Hogs Are Bitten by Rabid Animal Near Holden, Mo. Warrensburg, Mo. —A mad dog in the farming community south of Holden bit hogs, cattle, horses and mules and Infected them with rabies. Six head of cattle belonging to one farmer have since died of hydrqphobla and another reports the loss of ten hogs. A score of other farmers report the loss of horses, hogs cattle and mules. The animals show unmistakable signs of hydrophobia and have to be shot in order to protect other animals from Infection. The farmers are also exterminating all the dogs.