The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-09-11
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/. STILL SUFFERING.
Yellow Fever Appears in
New Places.
Frost Expected in Memphis.
The Fitz John Porter In
quiry.
Results of the Maine Election
ff 60 I.fTSE
Democrats and Greenbackers
Defeat the Republicans.
What the Austrians are
Doing.
Results of the Maine Election
Minor Foreign Points.
YELLOW FEVER SUMMARY.

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Washington: Contributions, s13, 900.
Chicago: Total contributions, s45,.
s19. -,
Senatobia, Miss: Over 20 cases OF
fever here.
Baltimore: Still collecting. Have so
far raised 1927, 900.
Nashville: Two yellow fever ref
ugees have died here. Jls8s1a!N
Port Gibson: AIS cases of fever to
date, and 85 deaths.
Toronto, Canada: Memphis gentle
men have collected 81 900. ~
New York: Yesterday 81 cases of
champagne left for the sick of Men,
phis. q aa4 u II Z g ss-ags1z
New Orleans: The Towards have
more sick than they can attend to
properly.
Chicago: At the picnic yesterday at
Chicago by the employees Of the city
and county, netted over $4,000.
l..'l. 81 80. p I'llaat asII ~ NJ 5as.
Grenada: At a mass meeting held last
night the citizens denounced the au-
thorized relief committee for deserting
the city.
&Mobile: One death from yellow fe-
yer, fugitive. The Can't-get-away
club continues sending out nurses. ply
sicians and money.
Cairo: One member of Thos. Por-
ter's family above the city died last
night. The Knights Mystic Key do
mated him $50 for burial.
Holly Springs: Fourteen deaths dur
ing the last twenty-four in town and
suburbs. Only four new cases. Wealth
er rainy, cold and gloomy.
New York: Rose Eytinge, now play
ing in Philadelphia, proposes to give
the receipts of one performance each
week as long as the sufferers need aid.
London: The mayor of Manchester
is in receipt Of an appeal from the
British consul at New Orleans. He
says he will with pleasure cooperate
with the business men if they choose
to act.
Cincinnati: Wellington Blazer, of
Gallipolis, Ohio, died last night of yel-
low fever, contracted from the steamer
Porter. There are dozen people sick
with fever in the neighborhood where
the steamer Porter is moored.
New York: There has been contrib
uted in this city for the relief of the
yellow fever sufferers, $4,000, and
the suggestion is made that the amount
be increased to half a million. One
hundred persons giving $1,000 each,
and 500 persons giving 800 each. The
popular contributions continue mean
time. Southern gentlemen are request
ed to call on the relief committe and
give any suggestions as to the means of
distribution of the funds and supplies.
st. Louis: A sudden and severe
change in the weather occurred last
night. Some six hours after very
heavy rain storm came due east from
the Rocky mountains, cold current
following. The winds average width
is 800 miles, extending from Dodge
City on the south to Yankton on the
north. The mercury fell 15o here in
eight hours. The current is not yet
exhausted. Sergeant Perry, of the sig
nal service thinks there will be frost
here tonight, provided it remains clear.
Memphis is on the same parallel as
Dodge City, and the mercury there is
likely to fall a number of degrees, but
physicians here, familiar with yellow
fever, say it will not decrease the
scourge, but on the contrary it will in
crease the mortality among those now
sick. and number new cases.