The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-29
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Last NIGHTS Dispatches.
vsLLow FEVER.


the yellow fever sufferers. 52 q
FfcKsBURe, August '2S.-A light rain
is falling tonight. One hundred and
twenty-five cases of fever and fifteen
deaths. Among the new cases are Dr.
O'Leary and acting Mayor j. T. Dale.
New ORLEANS, August %. The death
list to-day inclndes twelve children un-
dor Eve years and seven between five
and ten. f
From noon. up. to p. N. only eleven
deaths have been reported at the Office
of the Board of Health--four adults and
seven children under eight years of age.
Among the new cases reported to the
Board of Health during the past few
days are some dating back as far as Au-
gust Ia. bua ea 9a
81. Louis. August 2S.-Mayor Over
stolz to-day received letter from Rev.
Samuel S. Harris, secretary of the citi.
zens' yellow fever relief committee, at
Chicago, requesting that publicity be
given to appropriations in aid of the
fever sufferers. In compliance with this
request George III. Morgan, secretary of
the merchants exchange relief commit.
tee, makes the following report for the
Associated Press: Sent to Vicksbug,
81 600; Memphis, $3.50; New Orleans,
81. 900; Port Gibson, $500; Grenada,
$4S6; Jackson, 800; total, $5,I36. To-
tai subscriptions here to date, about
SIS, 900, almost all of which has been
|sent South.
The Merchants Exchange voted to-
day, by ballot, to donate $1,000 from the
regular revenues of the Exchange for the
fever sufferers. Only three votes We're
polled against the proposition. ga
WHEELING, Va, August 28.-The Ma
sonic fraternity of this city have con-
tributed $1,000 In aid of the yellow
fever sufferers. @
CHICAGO, Aug. 2S.-The amount of sub
scription to the yellow fever fund reported
to the general committee up to tonight is
about $4,000. The collections to day were
over $1,000. These figures do not include
several thousand dollars raised outside oil
this committee and forwarded by individ.
uals or companies. A 8A$
CINCINNATI, Aug. 28-Harris Haskil
and Blanche Ofner. who came here from
Memphis last Saturday to escape the
plague, died in this city to-day of yellow
fever. Mr.. Offner and q child of mar
named Dessauer, also from Memphis. are
under treatment for fever in the hospital
Three or four cases previously taken il
the hospital are recovering
| OMAHA, Aug. 28.-Over $1,000 was
collected to-day by the citizens committee
for the yellow fever sufferers.
DETROIT, Aug. 28.-Messrs, Parks, Da
/ Wis Il Co.. chemists of this city. announct
the discovery of new remedy for yellow
fever, which is fluid extract of the
leaves of baldo, an alpine shrub found
upon the Andes in Chill This firm havG
commenced the manufacture of the medi
cine, and have already shipped eonsidera
Bile quantities to Memphis, and offer Il
forward TO physicians of the afflicted cite
of the South, free of expense, an abundan
/ supply of the new remedy to test its eff
cheney, knowledge of the remedy wa
brought from Chill by DR.. Chas. Zaremba
| New ORLEANS. Aug. 28.-0tto Heyn
a well known member OF the Cotton Ex
clauge, died this morning of yellow fever
A dispatch from Canton, Miss. to tn
Howard Association says: Send us tw
nurses Immediately. Fever increasing.
A despatch from the lHowards of Por
Gibson to the Howard Association at Ney
Orleans says the fever is very fatal and n
abatement, Two hundred and thirty case
and thirty-fve deaths to date Ice i
wanted more than anything else. Tn
nurses are doing we'll Our expenses ar
$3.50 per day. New York. ST. Loui,
, Jackson and Columbus are aiding. Their
are but one or two convalescent persons s
far.
The above was in answer TO deE
, patch asking.if further assistance was TT
quired.
. Dispatches have been received froI
charleston asking if nurses are wanted
New Orleans. The Howards reply that the
are not required
The Times correspondent at Cantor
9 Miss. under date OF the 9th. says; "A
: rived here on Sunday night. Pretty toug
r times Not single business house
e1 open except two drug stores. Once
h population of 3 800, but now only sevent.
five whites are to be found here. II
f mayor and family are sick and the boar
!: of aldermen fed. The court house locke
up and the officers gone to some sa
i place. Nothing but hearses and coffns a
J. to be seen on the streets. Some thirty-f'
Tor forty cases of yellow fever her
Many negroes have died within the la
few days. The few whites here nc
;s are scared because not a single Ca
% of yellow fever has been doctered su
Al cessfully No person attacked has reco
? cred
:, COLUMBUS, Aug. 8.-1'he contribute,
,r for yellow fever sufferers now aRgrega
~ over $l,800. Ci
a MEMPHIS, Aug. 2S.-The condition
"A our city tonight surpasses descriptid
. For the past twenty-four hours ending
a. D. IN. sixty-two deaths have occurred,
which only four were from other caus
THAN yellow fever. Of these forty-sev
we're whites aud eleven coiored. The u
or cases numbered ll9. During the dav {
r physicians were so worn out 10 attendi
h. sick calls that tonight, for self preser'
ton, they are resting, many in the col
Itry and others in unknown parts of
city, while friends of the sick are searchi
oilli In vain for medical attendants. @#&
The following report to the Howal
from DIR. w. F. Mitchell, director Of |
medical corps of 106 physicians employ
by the association, gives some idea of
VI lconditien of things. I need ten mo
ad physiclans Immediately, I find scores
! a people sick and dying without having b
Up seen by physiciaHs. a 5.
erl The scenes Of death and distress tod
nd and tonight, are indescribable. The me
on bers of the Relief Committee have b,
as called to see sick persons, and respond
Its to the call, found in some cases corp
ng lying in beds or on the floor, without e.
by single watcher.
ad The members Of the Independant Or
'er of Wovkmen, to-day, buried Eve memb
q of the fraternity They have exhaus
,se their means and call upon their breth
IL: for substantial aid 10 caring for the 1
az and burying the dead. The Baptist
O. FN..--..esS.