Chicago meat-packer Philip Armour is charged, along…

Chicago meat-packer Philip Armour is charged, along with other packers, with selling chemically treated inferior meat to the armed forces.

Nelson A. Miles, a captain in the United States Army, claims that all the major meatpacking companies of Chicago—including Armour's—are sending chemically treated meat to soldiers overseas.

An investigation follows, but found no definite verdict was reached.

Skeptics will claim that Armour simply bribed the panel while Armour will defend his innocence for the rest of his life.

Even so, the damage is done.

The evidence that is found provides fodder for the muckraking novel by Upton Sinclair entitled The Jungle, which will be published in February 1906 and become a bestseller.

Armour's reputation will never recover from the 1889–1899 scandal