Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1896 — TO SAVE HIS DOG A Pennsylvania Boy Gives Up His Own Life. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TO SAVE HIS DOG A Pennsylvania Boy Gives Up His Own Life.

While trying to stive his pet dcs? at Sharpsvitle, 7Par, the other day Willie Davis, 12 years old, was killed by a train oh the Nypano Rnilnrtid. He was walking on the tracks when his dog ran out

on the railroad bridge. Fearing that the' dog would be killed, as a train was approaching, the boy started to run to his rescue. His foot caught between two planks and he could not move. The train struck him and he died from hjs injuries.

TRIED TO SAVE HIS PET AND DIED.