Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1901 — Many Horses Have Died Near Newland. [ARTICLE]

Many Horses Have Died Near Newland.

Ira Blackman from up about Newland (formerly Comer) was in town Tuesday night, selling a horse hide. He says that makes three good horses he has lost by the same disease this season; and that his neighbors have also many of them lost horses, and that 20 or 25 in all have died by seemingly the same disease.- One of the symp toms of the disease, as described by Mr. Blackman, is that the horses get crazy, and, as he says, will eat a grind-stone if you offer it to them. He thinks the horses are poisoned by the dust from the muck lands. Dr. Kannal, who has treated a number of them, says it is an influenza, similar to grip in people, and that it prevails there owing to the swampy surroundings. It results in liver disease and also affects the kidneys.