The farmers' union., 1894-02-15
NO MORE BAD MEAT
CHICAGO AUTHORITIES WARN
THE PACKERS.
Revocation Of License with No Chance OF
Renewal the Penalty of Selling Dis
eased Fiesh-Americsn Minister At Con-
stantlnople Takes Action.

Told I N q Few Words.
The Chicago authorities are aafter"
certain stocky ards packers who slaughter
diseased cattle and place tho meat on sale.
1t has como to the attention OF the city
health department that the present method
Of inspection Is faulty in the extreme Per-
suasion and threats have alike failed to
provide sufficient protection to the pub
lie IL the LATTER OF preparing
meat for the market. As last
resort the city has taken up big
cudgel that will bring about the desired
result or stop the slaughter OF cattle. Ihe
license OF every violater OF the law will
be revoked by order OF the Mayor, and
there will be no discrimination. For
years the city has had to fight this
evil 1t comes up reg gularly for discussion
Previously tho matter has been publicly
agitated. This year it has been considered
quietly. About month ago Governor
Altgeld and Health Commissioner Reynolds
visited the stockyards to Investigate for
themselves They found that lumpy jaw
cattle were being killed and the meat sold
TO retailers by certain unscrupulous stock
yards butchers. About this time the live
stock exchange took up the subject ana
appointed committee to report on 1t. The
investigation proved that the city and
State officials were right In their COM
plants
The Paris Temps has this dispatch from
COnstantinoplo: "Alexander W. Terrell.
United States Minister. has demanded the
Immediate liberation OF two Armenians
who are American citizens and are Inn
prisOned in Isknnderun. Northern Syria.
He has threatened. In the event OF re-
fusal. to send an irOnclad to 1s&anderun
ecriOus riots have occurred in the Angora
district and 200 cavalry have started
from Constantinople for Csgat The popu-
lace of Amasia, on the Yeshit- Irmak,
broke into the jail recently and freed sew
eral Armenian prisoners. Sivas and Cat-
sarca have also been disturbed. Seditious
placards have been posted In both cities.
and the authorities have arrested many
persons. including seventeen Mussulmans,
who plotted to massacre the Christians
-Advices have reached London from Rio
Janeiro that a plot had been discovered to
assassinate President Peixoto. Many per-
sons were arrested on Il charge Of being
concerned in the nspiracy and several of
them have been snot. The insurgents
In Rio Grande do Sui are re-
ported to be approaching Porto Al
leerc. the capital Of that state. II
IL declared that the decision OF i'res-
dent Peixo.o to issue Il decree calling for
Pres idential election. as we'll as for an cleo
tion for members of Congress. was only
reached after the President had been badly
frightened by the discovery Of the plot
to murder him. Influential people. includ-
ing several officers. are said to have been
among the conspirators. The police ar
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have followed closely upon their arrest. ard
1t is said the prisoners were put to death.
The bodies OF the conspirators were has.
tiy placed in the graves by the soldiers
composing the firing party. the earth WAS
shoveled upon them. and the soldiers were
cautioned not to say Il word about the af-
fair under the threat Of being shot if they
did. The circumstances we're thus Kept
from the ear OF the general public. A
number of implica ted persons, besides
those who were killed. were sentenced tC
long terms Of imprisonment, and those
who had property were notified that 1t had
been ontisca:ed for the use Of the Govern-
ment.
"A dispatch received in Paris from the
Governor Of Sene-al states that L French
flying column ia reported to have been
surprised by the Tauregas. near Timhuc-
too. and defeated. No further details are
given.
Temporarily cra2ed by the grip. Miss
Emma Moulton. OF Findlay. Ohio. jumped
out OF the front window OF her home,
climbed q fence. ran three blocks and clam
bered int the cab of an Ohio Central yard
engine which was for the moment deserted
by its crew. She pulled the lever and
started out OF tho yards toward Toledo.
She either lacked the courage or the knowl-
edge to run at high speed. and was soon
Overtaken by another engine and brought
home.
The schooner Bangor has arrived in
San Francisco. Cal. fifteen days from Hon
Olulu The captain Of the Bangor re-
ports everything quiet at Honolulu. and
says that it Is generally understood there
that Minister Willis Is awaiting further in
s,ructions from President Cleveland.
The two inspectors OF the New York
state Board OF Health sent to Rochester
have already found four herds OF cattle in
the vicinity infected with tuberculosis
Several cattle were slau ghtered. he state
pays the owners for the cattle de-
etroyed. One herd affected is that Of Gill
bert Westfall. whose ,hirty-eigh cows
supply the city hospital with milk 1t is
reported that twenty OF the number have
been found to be diseased, some Of them
having tuberculosis in its worst stages
Thus far the diseased cattle are all Jer-
seyS. but the inspectors ext ect TO find it in
the native stock as well
y. II. Helmer. Vice President Of tae
dcfunct Merchants Bank OF Lockport. y.
y. was indicted for perjury i'll the affairs
OF the broken bank. He was arrested and
admitted to bail The cashier OF the
bank, ]. +. Arnold. is now in Jail, and
will b, tried for perjury and embezzlement.
His shortage exceeds Si0o. 900.
Obituary: At Bloomington. H.. Archi-
tect Henry A. Miner. aged tifty-eish;
At Rome. Italy. Il NJ. Ballantype. author
At Peru. led, Professor Charles Housh
At Great Falls. Mont, W. II. Lands, aged
forty three.
AT kisheneve. the capital OF Eessara-
bia. Col Gregorief has been sentenced C
death by a military tribunal Col Greg
orieff was convicted on the charge Of beiuy
an Austrian spy.
There has been u recfudescence of