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Showing posts with label 1905. Show all posts

Nov 10, 1905 Urbana: Loose Bull Dogs Fight Each Other on Downtown Street

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Here is a Job For the Urbana Police
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Urbana - The wrong of letting bulldogs run upon downtown streets unless they are properly chained was again exemplified Friday morning by a repulsive fight between two great dogs of the bull variety, corner Main and Market streets.  The vicious animals both had a death grip on each other and it was a difficult task to separate them.  This was not a nice exhibition by any means on the downtown corner.

If we are not mistaken there is a city ordinance making the owner of a vicious dog responsible for allowing the animal to run unchained upon the streets, where it may attack smaller and less harmless (sic) dogs, and perhaps kill them.  Bulldogs have no business running loose in the business portion and it is the duty of the police to see that whatever law exists regarding this matter is rigidly enforced.  That bulldog fight should awaken the officers to the fact that their vigilance is needed in this line.

Jul 08, 1905 Chicago Baby is Killed by a Bulldog

Chicago -Yvonne Davis, eighteen months old, was killed yesterday by a bulldog owned by her father.  The little girl was playing with a ball, which rolled near the dog, and when she went to pick it up the dog knocked her down and fastened its teeth in her face.

Paul Korinortz, a neighbor, beat the dog with an iron bar and fired eight bullets into its body, but it still retained its grip on the child.  After the dog was dead, it was found necessary to pry its jaws apart in order to release the girl.  She died in ten minutes.


Read more:
The Evening News, San Jose, CA, July 08, 1905, p. 1

Jan 17, 1905 Jacksonville Man Severely Bitten by Bulldog

Jacksonville - Charles Robers, a prominent coal dealer of this city, was severely bitten on the hand by a bulldog Saturday night while trying to part the animal and another engaged in a desperate fight.  The injury is not considered dangerous.

Daily Illinois State Journal, Springfield, IL, January 17, 1905, p. 2