Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-01-11

Sunday Tribune Of October 20. 1907.
II speaks for itself:
RULING OF MICHIGAN JUDGE
BLOW TO ARMOUR COMPANY.
Petition to Have Injunction Against
Sale Of Sausage Dissolved Refused.
Another Plea Falls.
Niles. Mich, Oct. 10.-fSpeciai.l-
Judge Coolidge to-day refused to grant
the petition made by Armour 4 Co. to
have the Injunction fOrbkliing the com.
paiy from selling sausage In Michigan
dissolved. The injunction was oh.
taincd by State Food Commissioner
Bird on the grounds that the sausages
were adulteratcd In violence Of the
pure food laws.
Judge Coolidge also refused 10 sus.
tain the temporary injunction obtained
by Armour 4 Co. forbidding Bird from
posting certain bulletins showing that
III" sausages contained certain adulter.
arts.
The following dispatch published IN
the Chicago Record.lIcrald, Oct. 81.
1907. explains itself:
Lincoln. Neb., Oct. 3O.-William
iiuNfablc, representing Swift 4 Co.. nnl
Claude byron, representing Armour n
Co., were to-day bound over to the dis.
trlct court on tho charge OF violating
the pure food law by selling unbranded
meats. The Cudnhy company agreed to
abide by the decision In the cases Of the
other two concerns.
Chicago Health Department annual
report. 1907, page o.: " a
number Of samples of butter. cheese,
liquid eggs. sausage ana potted or can.
ned meats ana other canned foods have
been found to be preserved with borlc
acid during the past year,
During the annual convention of the
American Meat Packers Association,
which opened In Chicago Oct. Z, 1907,
the committee appointed to ask the gov.
eminent to return to the packers meats
rejected and condemned by govern.
ment inspectors, made the following
report: "No provision has been made
for the return Of meats to inspected es.
Establishments after they have been re-.
jectcd, but your committee expects,
when this Is fully considered by the de.
partment, relief will be granted"
In other words, meats condemned
because Of cancer, tuberculosis, Iumpy.
jaw and the like will be returned to
the packers!
What will the packers do with this
condemned meat?
ship 1t abroad, or sell It to the peo-
Pile of Chicago?
People are beginning TO APPRECIATE
the enormlty of the withdrawal of Chi.
cago city inspectors from the big pack
ing houses.
Does boric acid cause appendicitis?
In the course of an article re-publlshed
from New York paper. In the Chicago
Daily News of November 3, 1906, we
find the following:
III the meantime physicians, as well
ms the public Mt large. continue to won
der whether either one of the authori.
ties just mentioned may find it possible
to correct some of the abuses that are
most frequent, says the New York
Post The troublesome problem of the
use Of borlc acid ms food preserya-
tive, for instance, has lust been
brought 10 the attention OF the medical
world once more by the appearance in
Il recent number Of the Lancet I.on.
dom of AN article in which such an
authority rs DR.. Reginald Harrison,
past vice president and IIunterian pro-
fessor Of pathology and surgery at the
Royal College Of Surgeons Of England,
repeats his declaration that the in
crcas" Of appendicitis and related dis
eases is directly traceable to the en-.