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Indiana stock law and rail tariff notes from April 1887
The Indiana General Assembly enacts a stock law requiring road supervisors to impound horses cattle sheep goats and swine found running at large with fines of one to five dollars per offense. The piece also notes a Washington dispatch on delays and price hikes under the interstate commerce law and reports on Fanson & Son stock import duties and the deaths of Simon Ochs and Baron Von Faber.
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