Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-10-05
NEW HORSE DISEASE.

Regarding the new horse disease called
Pink-eye, the Milwaukee Sentinel says:
The disease among horses, characteriz-
ed as "Pink-eye' has been prevalent
here the past three or four weeks, to the
great Inconvenience Of street railway
managers, brewers and contractors.
Quite number of the equines OF the
City Railway Company are in hospital,
so to speak, ,and in the stables Of the crew
ers there are numerous patients requiring
the care of the veterinaries It is quite
fortunate that this epizooty, the disease
being of the type to which the term Is
applied, is neither contagious nor fatal
in issue 1t is, according to the best au
thority on the subject, merely an epizoot-
ic, febrile disease, attended with great
prostration ofstrength and with early in
f1ammation of the nasal, laryngeal, and,
sometimes, bronchial mucous membrane,
complicated with irritabllity Of the diges-
tive mucous membrane. Occasionally
the disease duplicates the substance Of
the lungs, pluera, liver and fibrous struct-
ures Of the articulations, thecse of muscles
and tendons, and the connective tissue of
various parts of the body. The disease
is known under various names, most
commonly as distemper, epidemic catarrh,
epizOotic catarrh, ,epizootic catarrhal fever,
courbature morfondure, febrils catarrhals
dehuxio catarrhalis. 1t was first called
influenza, in Italy, in the seventeenth
century, because it was attributed to the
influence ofthe stars, and since that time
it has at times ragged so extensively that
the particular periods are matters Of his
tory.
GENTLY DOES TT-Eugene Gross, s,Swan
Street, Buffalo writes: 81 have used
Spring Blossom for dyspepsia and indiges-
ton, anG have found it to act admirably
as gentle aperient and blood purifier.
| consider it unequaled; you are at
liberty to use my name as reference
Price so cents, trial size 10 cents. Sold
by III. T. Eberle.
THE WILLIAMS BROTHERs.-S LOUIS
Sept. 29.-Two men were found hiding
in the bushes on the river bank in the
northern suburbs and taken in by the
police for the Maxwell brothers. They
answer the description in part, but there
are some points of difference. The men
when found were heavily armed with
new revolvers' and bag full of cart
ridges. In their general appearance they
look like well-to-do countrymen, aged
about % and "a They say they came
from Wisconsin and give their names as
Claude Bently and Frank Baker They
evidently desired to avoid discovery.
Chief Of Police Kennett is very reticent,
and says he thinks he can't hold his men
longer than Tomorrow. He thinks they
are not the MaXwells, but they act queer
and tell contradictory stories. They had
come to the point where found in skif'
and they are thought by some detectives
to be deserters from the United States ar
my. The st. Louis detectives returned
from their search to-day. According to
reports the Maxwells have positively been
traced to point eight miles below Cape
au Girls Opinions conflict as to whether
the men are on the river, or have taken
to the woods Everybody in Lincoln,
Gould, Pike and Calhoun Counties, ILL.,,
are looking for the brothers. but do not
seem anxions to find the murderers.