Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1915 — Outbreak of Cattle Disease Discovered In Eastern State. [ARTICLE]

Outbreak of Cattle Disease Discovered In Eastern State.

Washington, Oct. 13.—An outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Worcester county, Massachusetts, the first discovered in many months east of Indiana, and the only known infection at present outside of Illinois, was reported today to the department of agriculture. The department placed the county under closed quarantine effective tomorrow . The same order makes another township in EhiPage county, Illinois, closed area.