Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1885 — The New Medical Bill. [ARTICLE]

The New Medical Bill.

The new medical law does not go into effect until the law's, are distributed, which probably will be in July. It is intended to regulate the practice of medicine in this State. We give an abstract of its provisions. Section 1 makes it unlawful for any person to practice medicine, surgery or obstetrics ( midwives exempted) without first obtaining a license. SectionJ2 prescribes that any person desiring to practice must first file with the county clerk an affidavit stating that such applicant is a regular graduate in some reputable medical college, and shall exhibit such diploma; or in the absence thereof, the affidavit must state that said applicant has practiced continuously for ten years immediately preceding the taking effect of the act; or, again, that such applicant has practiced continuously for three years, and prior thereto had attended one full course of lectures in some reputable medical college, such application to. be recorded and a license to be issued Upon payment of $1.50. Section 3 provides a penalty for the clerk who shall issue a license to a person lacking the above qualifications, and imposes a fine ranging from $lO to S2OO upon any practitioner violating the provisions of the act. Section 5 provides that a physician cannot recover for medical services if he fails to be licensed, and the con-

c luding section gives the form of license to be issued by the clerk. Al. J. Kitt, of the Goodland Herald, dropped into Logansport during the week. AL is a tip-top good fellow and will no doubt be postmaster of his town before long. —Logansport Chronicle. Kentland Gazetto: A Kentland constable now knows what not to do when he attempts to arrest a railroad conductor. Thursday evening last, a Kentland constable had a warrant for the arrest of a certain freight conductor charged with obstructing a street crossing with his train. He served the warrant, and the conductor then invited him into his caboose, and when aboard the engineer opened wide the throttle, and all were soon over the state line in Illinois. The constable came back without the prisoner. At Idaville, White county, Ind., Rudolph Kepfer, aged about 70 or or 75 years, on Monday last committed suicide, shooting himself with a pistol.

A small brass rivet which had been driven into the body of Jas. H. Denton, of Farmland, by a bullet which struck his cartridge box during the war, has been removed from under his armpit after a lodgment of more than twenty years. Denton was a member of the Nineteenth Indiana Infantry. The Jolly Cowboys.—A gang consisting, of six cowboys boarded the Albert Lea train at Minneapolis the other day for Chicago.— Things moved along smoothly until the conductor put his head thro’ the door and yelled: “Joliet!” “Jolly yet?/ howled back one of the cowboys. “Waal, I shud say we wuz; es yer don’t believe it, jest look er that!” And a ball from the cowboy’s revolver knocked the ticket punch out of the conductor’s hand. —Peoria Transcript. At a New York fire on Sunday Officer Coogan valiantly dashed up stairs, and seeing a little goldenhaired form in one of the rooms, quickly wrapped about it, and said soothingly: “Don’t be scared, dear; I’ll take care of you.” Then he made his way back to the street, and heard little Emily Pebau exclaim joyfully: “O that good policeman has saved my big wax doll!” Coogan took a look at the goldenhaired form, resigned it to its owner, and hasten’d to the station house to file an application for a night off. Tuning-forks and grindstones are now made of glass. Rails and sleepers are manufactured from the same transparent material.The new process is a simple one, and produces hard-glass castings at a cost of $1 32 a hundredweight. If iron does not reform its oxy dizing habit it may be replaced by this temperate and attractive rival. A young negro of Pittsboro, N. C., recently drew a likeness of Grover Cleveland and sent it to the President. The young artist has just received a picture of the white house, with an autograph signature of the distinguished democrat attached as an acknowledgment.