Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1912 — FERRET ATTACKS THREE [ARTICLE]

FERRET ATTACKS THREE

Animal, Maddened by Heat, Bites Woman and Two Boys. Hammond, Ind., June 29. —A ferret, twelve inches long, crazed by the heat, attacked three people at Lowell, and their wounds are dangerous. Mrs. Charles Sherait was bitton on both hands; Charles, her son, had his nose and face lacerated; Roy Wood was bitten on the arms and hands. While the cage door was open the animal sprang at the Sherait lad and fas - ened it& teeth in his face. The others were bitten in an attempt to free the boy.

John Saidla, who has been employed at, the Leek hitch barn tor some time, received word yesterday morning from his brother at Randolph to the effect that he bad been bitten by a mad dog, and that owing to a delay in going to the hospital the patient had developed an alarming case of hydrophobia. John left yesterday for Randolph to be at his sideside.

President Sterling of the U. S, Match company arrived here with a party of friends from Chicago yes terday and went to the match factory to look over the property. It is rumored that the men came to investigate the building and the attitude of the people toward the concern ahd that 1 ' their investing money would result from the observations taken while here./