Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1881 — A Young Girl Holds a Mad Dog. [ARTICLE]

A Young Girl Holds a Mad Dog.

Elmira Advertiser. A circumstance which occurred |in Syracuse recently is worthy of more jbhan a passing mention. Mrs. Palmeter. of that city, was passing along one 6t the streets, having with her a small pet dog, which all at once showed symptoms of hydrophobia, frothing at the mouth and snapping on all sides. Mrs. Paimeter attempted to seize the animal, but he eluded her grasp and endeavored to bite her,when the brave girl who accompanied her—her daughter, only 14 years of age—caught the dog by the neck and held it fast, calling to her mother to hasten and get some man to come and kill it. The mother saw that this was the only course, and hurried away, but it was some time before she could get help. When she returned, accompanied by a gentleman who had volunteered to finish the brute, be found the brave girl, with flushed face and flashing eyes, hanging on to the mad creature, which was making desperate efforts to bite her. The dog was quickly dispatched without any injury to any on**.