Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1917 — CURIOSITY CAN KILL A DOG [ARTICLE]

CURIOSITY CAN KILL A DOG

Shepherd Dies While Volunteer Surgeons Try to Extract Porcupine Quills. Wlnsted, Conn. —A shepherd, dog owned by Earl Van InWegen returned iome with his month, nose, breast and filled with porcupine quills. ChlorofornA was administered to the dog while men begnn to extract the. quills, some of which had pierced the shepherd’s tongue. The work had progressed fairly well when it was noticed that the dog was dead, too much of_Jhe drug having been administered.