Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Chicago dispatch: “Dr. Paaren, the Illinois State Veterinarian, has made a report on the cattle disease prevailing 1 in Effingham and Cumberland counties of this Btate. He pronounces it non-contagious, and says it is simply foot-rot, due to atmospheric or tellurio (earthy) influences. In the case of the Keating herd, In Effingham County, he says It/is entirely due to neglect.” Washington dispatch: “Commissioner Loring has received a telegram from Prof. the Veterinarian of the State Department of Agriculture, stating that, after a thorough investigation of the disease at Neosho Falls, Kan., he has concluded that it is not the genuine foot-and-mouth disease, but is due to local conditions, and that there is no danger of its spreading to other sections. The Commissioner accepts the conclusion as final.” “Jalma,” with its gorgeous scenery and brilliant oostumes, which has been running at McVtcker’s Theater, Chicago, for several weeks, continues to l>e the leading theatrical attraction in that city, the house being filled at each performance. It will bo continued for two weeks longer. Masked men compelled the jailer at Maryville, Kan., to deliver up Samuel Frayer, a double murderer, who was taken to a wagon bridge and banged. Frayer made a full oonfession. Frank L. Chamberlain, of Cleveland, has perfected a machine capable of charging I.SOO shotguns per hour. A oompany to manufacture the invention has been formed with a capital of 1*5,000.

Charles Holden, a farmer near Petersburg, DL, learned from a neighbor that O. A. Carpenter had been acquitted of the murder of Zura Burns. Within ten minutes be felled bis wife to the floor with an ax', and with a dull pocket-knife nearly severed her head from the trunk, in presence of bis stepchildren. He then took to the fields, where he sat on a fence and cut his throat in a horrible manner. His wounds were stitched together, and he was taken to jail on a mattress. An Associated Press dispatch from Neosho Falls, Kan., says: “The veterinary surgeons here investigating the cattle disease are now positive that they have discovered the source of the trouble, and all agree that it is noteplzooticaphtha,lackingmany of the important symptoms of that disease. It is not lack of care, neither Is it alkali water. It jS no contagious disease. Dr. Salmon says that as soon as he saw the cattle he thought of ergot, and they proceeded to examine the hay. This had not been done before. They found it to contain a large amount of wild which was full of ergot. The surgeons all say they never saw one-twentieth part so much ergot in a bunch of feed. Tho theory is that the ergot, by contracting the Bloodvessels and otherwise retarding tho circulation in the extremities, caused the feet to freeze. This ends the great scare. In the case of 6. A. Carpenter, the Lincoln banker, tried for the murder of Zora Burns, the jury at Petersburg, 111., returned a verdict of "not guilty.” This was expected. Carpenter was approached, after the trial, for an interview. The only statement he had to make was: “I am innocent. I was at home the Sunday night the murder was committed. I was treated fairly by the press. Some papers excoriated me, but I could not blame them. Ido not care at present to talk more about the case.”