Show a n A JL aiole settlement devastated by a mad dog bog Mr Bunnell of scranton pa a few days mys hince since returned home from susquehanna county and relates to the editor of the republican the follow following ing story hesayo he says cattle and sheep are dying from the disease and it is feared neared that some persons who have been doctoring doctorin the tile animals not knowing wll wil what t was the tile matter with them will fail fall victims to the terrible disease the people al aie ale are e very much exercised and are arc R living in perfect dread since they it have haxe found d out the facts and causes of the disease d among the brute bruto creation they do not know but one half eie ele the fie dogs doga in the tiie to township have beell beeri bitten and liable to go mad any ilio moment ment the facts are as follows D during ur ing tile tiie holidays after the tiie family s 6 ot mr richard dayis day is had retired for fon the night they heard a noise about the barn john davis da vis got up took his gun went out and saw a dog he fired llred but missed the animal the dog made for him and ilg beat a hasty retreat the dog was not seen at the tile residence of f thomas ilu itu allu runnells ll nells neils who had a large lierd ilerd of cattle cattie the next place that lie put in an appearance was oil on the farm of N T ned ed williams ams about a mile from front Runnel runnells Vs where ho he was found dead the tile next nest mornin morning in a blied where there was a numb number er of cattle and hog hoga Tuesday On last two cows of mr 11 r were taken sick and frothed and alid foamed at the mo mouth uth it hassu that probably they had llad lost abt their cud or had eaten something that got fast in their throat throats mr ift davis andlar and andl mr fr tobias both rolled up their sleeves and ran their bare baro arms down tho throats of orth tild edias to see if they could detect nas nAy anything thing mr Tobi tobias ashad had a large arge cut on his land hand which was bleeding when lie put his hand lito into t the in mouths of the tile animal animals while this state of affairs was ox ex from green ville I 1 Luzerne county happened in lit tho tile nel nei neighborhood and being informed of the disease among tho the erttle cattle said baid a friend of his a short distance from greenville had thirteen sheep die from the bite ofa of a mad dog and it proved to bo be the one that had been seen at the places lades n named a mei mel above two cows moll belonging toil aig tb lb M runnell died on oil fridlyand FrIda friday yand and ho lie had to sho shoot a large bull oil on saturday euit eust nii ali it was maken taken with a litand nit fit and showed evidence viciousness mr williams also lost one cow from the same cause it is not known how many c cattle attle have been bitten ks a large numbers were running out on the diffin different ent farms since the tho fact had been established li that the tile cows were bitten by a mad dog the tho gentle gentie gentlemen nien who wilo had been doctoring the cattle are very alar alarmed ined especially p eci eel alir mr art tobias who had xie zie the cut on his liand hand I 1 I 1 |