Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1897 — Curious Cases of [?] [ARTICLE]

Curious Cases of [?]

▲ gnat deal of work has been q 0... this year by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Nearly 6,000 cases of cruelty have been Investigated by lta agents. Although many were settled without prosecution, and many were found to have been misrepresented, 297 wen prosecuted, and In anme rams a tilts heaw nonultles wen necessary. Ons man, who drove his horse to death, was sent to Jail for six months. For overdriving two other men wen sentenced to three and four months, respectively. As usual, there were a number of convictions for beating and kicking animals, one man being so gratuitously brutal as to beat a gray squirrel Another man, while drunk, bit three inches off the! tall of a cat It cost him $5 an Inch. Two Frenchmen wen lined $6 each for exhibiting a bear. The animal was confiscated and killed, so that then will be no more cruelties practiced on that bear at any rate. A butcher was fined $lO for hanging up a steer befon slaughtering him. Two men, while drunk, attempted to kill a hog with an ax. They mangled him terribly, and wen each given tea months In the House of Correction- Two cases of docking horses’t tails cost the offend •n SIOO each.—Boston Transcript. Judge Healy’s is the place for shoes - Genes', Ladies’ and Child ren’s. Don’t forget it.