NEWS AND ITEMS. 
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Stock Commissioners at its meeting on Sept. 3 discussed the 
advisability of quarantining the county of Lake and part of 
Cook against anthrax. In the end it was decided not to order 
a formal quarantine, but to use the strongest efforts to stamp 
out the disease, which is alleged to have caused the death of 
over 100 head of stock and one man. Another man is said to 
be very ill with this disease, and in both cases the infection took 
place during the skinning of dead cattle. 
McKillip Opening.— The opening of the classes on Oct. 
2 finds the collegiate staff of the McKillip Veterinary College 
replete in all its branches. Additions to the faculty have been 
made and any vacancies filled by gentlemen of national reputation, 
botffas teachers and practitioners. The following names are too 
well known to require any comment or further introduction : 
F ; S. Schoenleber, M. D., M. S. A., D. V. S. (Dean;, anatomy ; 
W. S. Harpole, M. D., pathology ; T. B. Newby, V. S., materia 
medica and therapeutics; J. J. Millar, V. S. (Secretary), bovine 
medicine, obstetrics and contagious diseases. 
A Troublous Year for Horses. —This seems to have been 
rather an unlucky year for horses in the United States. First 
of all, in the spring came news of outbreaks of glanders in the 
western part of the corn-belt, but those seemed to pass without 
material damage. Kentucky and Tennessee in part complained 
in early summer of diseases that carried off quite a number of 
horses, and then came the great scourge of influenza in New 
York. The authorities are not agreed as to the number of 
horses that died in Gotham this summer, but it is well known 
that the percentage was larger than during the visitation of any 
other epizootic disease. From New York this low form of in¬ 
fluenza moved to Chicago and, though not so fatal there in its 
effects, carried off a great number of horses, especially of those 
not thoroughly inured to life in the city and work on the stones. 
Next came the news that u maladie du coit ” was so prevalent 
in parts of Nebrasda that both State and Nation had to take a 
hand in the effort to suppress it, and finally this last week comes 
the report that glanders has been introduced by range horses 
into Southern Wisconsin to an extent that necessitates the 
prompt action of the State authorities. In the last named in¬ 
stance State Veterinarian K. D. Roberts has caused a most vig¬ 
orous quarantine to be instituted and a number of diseased 
horses have been shot by his order. The prolonged drouth, ac¬ 
cording to some authorities, is the basic cause of all this trouble. 
—( Breeder's Gazette , Sept. 21 s ) 
