Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1895 — MORTON’S HORSE-MEAT ORDER. [ARTICLE]

MORTON’S HORSE-MEAT ORDER.

Foreign PurcUasers to Be Protected by Having the Product Labeled. Secretary MfiMon's latest meat inspection order, promulgated to go iftto effect Jan. 1, is intended to prevent the exportation of horse meat as “canned beef,” “salted beef,” or under any of the other various titles which it is alleged have been applied to this product to deceive the foreign purchaser. Tile has asserted that he has uo authority under the law to prohibit the sale of horse meat, because it was recognized as an edible, but he hqtffcnken a new means for reach* ing the perpetrators of the fraud by his latest order amending the regulations so that the inspector’s stamp Rimll show that the product is not only free from disease germs, but also the species and origin of the animal from which it is taken. The sudden death of J. C. Wilson, receiver of the Santa Fe Head, at New York, which mystified even his most intimate friends, was caused hy ossification of the arteries. -