Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1911 — DEAD HOGS IN RIVER. [ARTICLE]

DEAD HOGS IN RIVER.

Health Authorities Looking for the Party Responsible for the Offense. Health Officer Dr. E. N. Loy \as notified Saturday that some dead hogs lay in the river west of town, and on investigation he found three dead porkers., lying in the riffle west of the Stott Grant farm.' They are suposed to have been victims of the cholero scourge, and Dr. Loy says enough cholera germs have gone down the river to kill all the hogs between Rensselaer and Momence. Conrad Kellner, just east of town, and S. W. Williams, on the Stott Grant farm west of town, are the only persons we have so far heard of who 'have lost hogs from cholera, but they allege that they buried all of theirs that died. The offense for polluting a stream of water is quite severe, and the health officer made arrangements to have the dead animals removed and buried, and an investigation will be made to place the responsibility for their presence in the river and punjsh the guilty ones.