Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1914 — Hog Cholera Breaks Out In Two or Three Places. [ARTICLE]

Hog Cholera Breaks Out In Two or Three Places.

Hog cholera is causing trouble again in Jasper county. Ralph Lowman 'has several head with the disease and Dennis Casto has a few head that have it. Ed Ritter, north of town, has some twentythree head that have the disease. The serum treatment is usually given but this is now' impracticable, veterinarians say, as the serum frequently is a means of transmitting the foot and mouth disease. The serum factories are' usually close to the stock yards and some stock was used in making the serum which had the foot and mputh infection. Then the serum transmitted the disease and Dr. Kannal considers it unsafe to use the serum at all until the foot and mouth disease is entirely cleaned up.

The case against Dr. ,S. S. Washburn, the Lafayette doctor who Was charged with having caused the death of Hazel Dudley, of Benton county, by criminal operation, has been dismissed. The case was. tried once and the jury disagreed. (Since that time Charles Morine, the prosecuting witness, disappeared. Poor Hazel Dudley is dead, her lover has disappeared and the doctor having been given a clear bill by the courts can go about holding his head high in the air.

The several suits brought in the Laporte" circuit court by Leo M. Rubin, of Chicago, administrator of the estate of Anna M. Rubin, deceased, totaling nearly SIOO,OOO, against the Monon, the Chicago. Indianapolis & Louisville railways, have been settled. About a year ago nearly the entire Rubin family was killed in a crossing tragedy.

i The gambling laws spe to have strict enforcement in Kokomo. All dice boxes, punch hoards and slot maehin&s are placed under the ban. The Eagles’ home, Moose home and Sons of St. George hall were all Searched by the police, Who suspected violations of the liquor law, but no liquor was found.

Sixty-five additional cases of hoof and mouth diesase have developed among the blooded cattle at the national dairy show in Chicago, it was reported at the department of agriculture Tuesday. This made a total of 99 of the most valuable cattle in the country that have been stricken, jt was stated.

A. P. Melton, former city engineer of Gary, has completed plans for I Atihiti, the new “Canadian Gary”, !to be built in the Hudsoh Bay country by a Montreal syndicate for 5,000 workmen and their families. Big paper and pulp mills will be located at the model town. Many Gary Ideas have been used ‘

mummum ana electricity. Now that aluminum has become "available in any desired quantity, its use in electric installations, especially for long-distance conductors of electric power, is rapidly incrkafying. This is particularly true in the United States. It is a kind of ;i poetic justice, says the London Electrician, that aluminum should render this service, for it owes its own rapid advance in the industrial world to electric methods of production. For equal conductivity only half the weight of aluminum is required that would be required if copper were used. The price of aluminum has recently fallen .to about the same rate per ton as that, of copper. When copper only was used, the average span between poles supporting conductors was 75 feet. This has been extended since the adoption of aluminum to 112 1-2 feet. v The maximum span of an aluminum conductor is across the Niagara River —2,192 feet Experiments are under way to increase the tensile strength of aluminum conductors by alloying with a* little copper.