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Show I BOY SAVES MATES AND DIES OF RABIES Chicago. Mar 17. Fred Plepper of i Strassburg. III., died of rabies in a j local hospital todav He was the victim vic-tim of a practical Joke that mlghl have cost the lives of twenty of his schoolmates, but for his cool action. (Two of Plepper'B boy schoolmates brought a stray while poodle into the schoolroom as a joke Piepper noticed no-ticed that the dog was foaming at the mouth, and snatching back a little lit-tle girl who was about to pet the ani-iiiial. ani-iiiial. he picked It up and put it out-side out-side He was slightly bitten but his j parents did not consider the wound serious until four pigs and a horse bitten by the dog died of rabies. Then thej took the lad to a specialist hero i hut the disease had advanced too far to save his life. Arrangements hae been made for everyone In Strassburg Strass-burg to attend his funeral. oo |