Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — Saved, by a Dog. [ARTICLE]

Saved, by a Dog.

'XmffrNhwfbufimglfi dog Bayed a boy’*, life at Baltimore recently. The boy Is Howard Connanbaugh. 8 years old, and the dog, formerly a tramp, Is now cared for by Edward Lynch. Tho boy and the dog were romping on tho dock In the morning, when the boy accidentally fell overboard. There are twenty feet of water In the dock. The big Newfoundland saw the boy fall, and just as he came to the surface sprang into tho dock and swam to the fast-sinking boy. The boy clutched the woolly hair on the dog’s neck, which kept him afloat, and then the dog started to swim with Ills burden to the other side of the do£k. A man rushed to the rest:uo and, when the dog reached the place, jumped Into a rowboat and managed to pull both the dog and the boy out of the water. The dog became a hero In’ the eyes of the people who had been attracted to the scene and he was given a first-class dinner for his heroism.