AMERICAN NEWS
FIGHT ON A JUNK. Victoria (8.C.)/ April 22.— News of a sea tragedy comes "from Hqngflcon^. ! fishing 'tvmMeft port wxtk eleven person* on Marti aiid, 260 miles off Hongkong, three men, armed with revolvers, seized the vessel', murdered the master, his concubine and child "as they stojt, and tfttew J their bodies overboard. They cowed the i master's 'wife ,aaid- other- ■members of 'the: !. crew not in the plot. These men watched their opportunity a»d, when two of the ! men' were below, they overpowered the otlie* and threw him overboard. Another jumped into the sea, and a third was secured in the hold but. escaped when near shore by cutting a hole in the vessel's side and swimming ashore.. . MAD DOGS. BITE 14 MEN, wdMEN.. AND CHILDREN. New York, April 24.— Mad dogs threw terror into multitudes- "both in this . city and in the pretty little town of Montclair; N. J., to-day. Thousands* of persons on the lower .West Side were thrown- into a panic ttwiight by a big black , mongrel which dashed through the streets snapping and biting. Six policemen, and a host of volunteer pursuers chased the ■animal over a mile of territory, and he was finally shot at' the Battery after he had bitten' about fourteen men, women and children. After, a most remarkable scene in a dog hospital in the, Jersey suburb, wlien mofe than 700 persons, including '300 school cMlflTen, cnatteied atound a cage in which an Irish setter in an, advanced stage of rabies was confined, the animal finally gnawed, his' way' to liberty and. was shot' just in time to prevent his -ruriniri* along the crowded streets. The ' Montclair expert declareb that h« never saw so many mad dogs in any previous year.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10970, 9 June 1903, Page 6
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