Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1877 — A Cow With Hydrophobia. [ARTICLE]

A Cow With Hydrophobia.

A cow belonging to Mr. Thomas Denham, ice. cream, manufacturer, of 290 Fulton street, stabled at 114 Lawrence stre-Pl, last Saturday morning developed symptoms of hydrophobia. The cow, which Mr. Denham kept for the use of his fkmily, occupied a stall beside his horse. When one of the employes called at tire stable in the forenoon he tiotlced’the cow frothiug at\the mouth and biting at the stall. The animal was let loose in the yard, where it acted much in the same manner as when 'confined. At about 1 o’clock, however, it jumped through a window about four feet from the ground, smashing the glass into pieces. It rushed by the horses snapping at the sides of the stables, but it made no attempt to bite the animals. The workmen fastened the cow in the stall until the arrival of veterinary surgeon Waters, who gave it as his opinion that the poor beast was attacked with hydrophobia in a malignant form. John Payne, sp-cial officer of the late Brooklyn Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, was sent for, but before his arrival the co.v was put to death. The only way in which Mr. Payne, after investigation, cart account for the presence of hydro.bW‘ Ul communicated to iVbO dog. This theory seems plausible, as i,he stable is fretjueptlj left Open Without ttv person being there.— £-«jl e . ' t' 1 I •