Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1894 — STOCK YARD SCANDAL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STOCK YARD SCANDAL.

Lumpy-Jawed Cattle Slaughtered and Sold for Food in Chicago. Chicago is eating diseased beef. It is. not a pleasant statement to make or pleasant thing for Chicagoans to contemplate but it is the truth, at least so say the Chicago papers. Briefly t >ld, there is not a shadow of a question but that from 100 to 150 diseased animals are spirited out of the yards each week without any inspection whatever by the officials appointed for that purpose; are either bought by the packets or slaughtered by them upon commission and put upon the public market. With the exception possible of one or two of the larger packing establishments, the papers allege that all of the packers and minor slaughtering houses are more or less engaged in the nefarious trade. With possibly one or two exceptions every commission firm doing busine-s at the Union Stock Yardi is selling diseased

cattle to the speculators who make that their only badness. The Union Stock Yards Company folds its hands and closes its eyes, permitting the business to go on without interruption. 1 Lumpy jaw or actinomycosis is a vegetable parasitic disease, due to the introduction into the animal of the iayfur gus through an abrasicn or wound of the mouth, tongue, or cheeks, or gains entrance along a shedding tooth or a diseased tooth. After the living plant thus gains an entrance it multiplies and grows somewhat similar to plants outside of the animal economy. jAs the filaments grow the tissues in which the implantation occurred I give way to them—the result of mechanical pressure—pus forming, and other septic bacter a will bo found in connection with the ray-fungus; tumors and abscesses form of varying size, and finally rupture, discharge their contents, and a slowly healing sore remain-. In many cases the bones <f ono jaw—either' upper or lower—become honeycombed with this disease, . constituting what was formerly corisid--1 ercd as bone cancer, or oste ;-sarcoma.

A TYPICAL CASE OF LUMPY JAW.