Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-10-07
DISEASED CATTLE.

/ The Work OF the Illinois Hoard of riv
stock Commissioners-United States In
| spectors StiIl watching Developments
Suspected Herds observation-disclosures o.
Texas Fever
| CHICAGO. Oct. 1.-The State Board o.
| Live Stock Commissioners has practically
completed it's Iabors, and Prof. Salmon,
| Chief OF the Bureau of Animal Industry,
| left last night. The members OF the
| board, however, will remain here and
/ watch the progress of the disease, and
| the inspectors will be kept on duty 10 de-
| feet new cases. The board is awaiting
| some action on the part of the State
authorities. Prof Salmon thinks
there are about 2,400 cattle quar-
| antined, and not 5000, as stat
| ed If the disease spreads to
| healthy cattle thew will, of course, be
| isolated, as the diseased ones now are.
| A strict watch is being kept at the stock
wards for signs of the disease, but no evil
dences of it have been discovered.
| few cases of Texas fever have been
noted, but no pleuro pneumonia. The
disease reported in the dispatches from
Virginia, as existing among cattle OF that
section, is probably Texas fever. Prof.
Salmon investigated the disease some
which is as serious as pleuro-pneumonia,
although it disappears in cold weather.
Five of the six government inspectors
who, under DIR. Salmon's direction, will
cooperate with the State Board In ex-
terminating pleuro-pneumonia, are In the
city. They are Drs. Herr, of New York;
Trumbower, of Baltimore; Rowland, OF
Jersey City, and Drs. Rose and Murray.
Dr. Hawk, of New York, is on his way
boru - now understood that the
quarantined animals in infected places
will not be Immediately slaughtered.
The government inspectors will
probably make careful ex-
animation Of every animal in each
quarantined place and separate all the
healthy ones from those that show signs
OF the disease. 1t Is believed that under
this arrangement the quarantine can be
kept up several weeks, if necessary, and
the healthy animals will be no more ex-
posed than they have been already.
Veterinarians of other States express
themselves as satisfied with the arrange
ments that are being made to suppress
the disease. Though the State Is embar-
raised by Il lack OF funds. they think the
Live Stock Board is acting wisely, and,
with the aid furnished by the govern
ment, will make every effort to extermi-
nate the plague. The experts secured by
best in the profession
Two cows were examined at the
Phoenix llery sheds. One was killed
and the other d led. They were declared
to be well-marxed cases of contagious
pleuro- pneumonia. Among those who
were present at the post-mortem exami-
nations were Drs. Herr, Rowland, Hop
kins, Salmon, Atkinson and Baker.
They agreed that both were gen.
uine cases. A bull which died at
Shuieldl's distillery was found to
have had Texas fever. Two herds OF
cattle on the Elston road were quaran-
tined yesterday. One, belonging to ID.
Beckham, numbered seventy-five head,
and the other, belonging to G. B. Burk-
lev, contained twenty-seven head. Both
owners had cattle in the Phoenix distlllery
and ran with the present herds
in June, when they were sold. No
indications OF pleuro- pneumonia were
found in these herds, but as the animals
had been exposed they were isolated as
a precaution. Drs. John f. Ryan and
Joseph Hughes, assistant State veteri-
narians, appointed by the Live Stock
Commission, arrived at the stock ards
yesterday and inspected 400 head of cat
tie to be shipped to outside points.
Twenty-Five Bulls Die from Pleuro-Pneu-
monia.
KANKAKER, ILL.,, Oct. 1.-Twenty-f1ve
out of one hundred bulls have died from
what is supposed to be pleuro-pneu-
monia, near ST. Mary, Kankakee County,
on the Triplet ranch, recently purchased
by Miller 6 Pogne. The bulls were
shipped to the ranch recently from Rice's
distillcry, Chicago, some say because they
were not doing well, and others that they
were sent to be reduced 10 steers. The
symptoms are the same as described in
Chicago. The ranch is on the State line
and joining the largest stock farm of In.
diana, neighboring with the large ranches
of Cooley and Gregory, of Chicago;
Lemucl Milk, Of Kankakee, and j. w.
Gaff, of Cincinnati. More definite de.
tails are not now obtainable, as the
ranch is sixteen miles from the nearest
telegraph or telephone station.
The Disease at Decatur.
DECATUR, H., Oct. Three weeks
ago A. c. Traughber, a leading farmer
and stock breeder of Mount Zion town
ship this county, sold lot of cattle in
Chicago, and while there bought forty
head of heavy feeders for his farm. He
got them at the Union Stock yards. fresh
from Iowa. The cattle were brought
here. and oue-h half of them are now at
fected with Texas fever. Six have died
and twenty are in dangerous condition.
1t is known that the Iowa cattle were free
from the disease when they arrived In
Chicago, and Traughber, who is an old
caltleman, believes that his lot were ex-
posed to diseased cattle in the Chicago
yards.
The Ninth Victim of the Haymarket Riot.
CHICAGO, Sept. 30.-Police Officer
Bennett, who dropped dead at his post,
Tuesday night, when pulling the patrol
box ut the corner of Center avenue and
Adams street, is evidently the ninth vic.
tim of the Haymarket massacre. Before
the night OF the riot he was as healthy as
any man in the station, hut when the
bomb exploded he was knocked down,
and some one dealt him tremendous
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