Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1915 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearby' Cities and Towns. —Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. Many Horses Being Shipped to Europe Some idea of the vast traffic in horses which is being carried on in the middle west as a result of the European war, may be gleaned from the fact that the value of the i animals inspected and loaded in. cars at the Calumet Park stock yards in the past two months will exceed two million dollars. More than 12,000 horses have already been loaded there. The average value per head is $165.’ Freight charges, tho cost of shipping via water and the salaries of men engaged in the purchasing, it is said, will make the cost of each horse to the English government nearly S3OO. . The next shipment from Calumet Park will be made the latter part of this week or the first of next. —Hammond News.