Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1900 — Mrs. Weese’s Baby Also Dies. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. Weese’s Baby Also Dies.

The infant child bora to ♦he unfortunate Mrs. Weese while dying in agony from a snake bite, lived only. 10 days. The babe was j large and strong enough to have lived, but the poison seemed to j have entered its system, before it was born. Along with the information of j the child’s death came also some additional particulars of the young mother’s sad fate. It seems that rattlesnakes had been seen about the place, before, and when her husband went away, she told him that her ‘‘little watoher” meaning her little lap dog would protect her from the snakes. And sure enough, the dog found the snake, j or snakes, coiled in the grass under the apple trees, and began barking at them. Mrs. Weese thought the dog was only playing and barVing at nothing, and drove him away. She then reached down after an apple and received the bites, and instead of there being two bites aB first stated, it is now declared there were three. Two on the fingers and one on the back of the hand. Mrs. Weese said she saw a coil of snakes as large as a wash-b«Lsio, and it is believed there were a number there together, and that three of them bit her, simultaneously. As before stated, rattle-snakes had been seen about the place before, and a large one has been killed right on the door-step, since. It is new believed that a den of them lives under the house and the building will soon be moved to get at and exterminate the snakes.