Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1915 — PRIZE GUERNSEYS KILLED. [ARTICLE]

PRIZE GUERNSEYS KILLED.

Herd Worth $60,000 Slaughtered Because of Foot and Mouth Disease. Chicago, Xoy. 10.—A $60,000 herd of prize Guernsey cattle belonging to Mrs. Scott Durand, of Lake Forest, and condemned to death because of foot and mouth infection, was slaughtered yesterday afternoon under rather sensational circumstances. Sheriff Griffin, of Lake county, armed with an order from Governor Dunne, locked Mrs. Durand and her servants in the pretentious farmhouse and read the order to her. Mrs. Durand protested that the cattle were protected by an injunction obtained Saturday in a local court, but the sheriff carried out his orders. The hoof and mouth disease struck the farm last summer and it was by means of an injunction at that time that the cattle were saved from death.