Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1915 — Tippecanoe County Farmer Failed to Bury Cholera Hogs. [ARTICLE]

Tippecanoe County Farmer Failed to Bury Cholera Hogs.

A Tippecanoe county farmer named Joseph Wise is charged with failure to bury hogs that had died of cholera. Instead he threw a little straw over them and left them to rot. They were near a stream and the decomposed matter would be carried into the stream by a rain. Leonard E. Northrup, of Indianapolis, deputy state veterinarian, went to Lafayette and filed an affidavit, in a justice’s court charging Wise with violating a state law. Northrup visited the Wise farm and secured the information. He then filed the affidavit. The penalty is a fine of from $25 to SIOO, to Which may be added a jail sentence. Bury your dead hogs.