Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-04

NEW TREATMENT FOR THE DISEASE.

HDCEI.LANEOUS NEWS.
NEW TREATMENT FOR THE DISEASE.
At Charity Hospital Aug, 2Sth DR..
Chopin tried an interesting experiment
which, if successful. will revolutionize
the treatr ent of yellow fever, and be
Justly re xarded as one of the most inn
portant medical discoveries of the
age. The patient was in moribund
condition, having been sick with
yellow fever "a hours without
attention, his only medicine being Seid-
litz powders. The temperature of his
BODY indicated 1O5; his pulse beat 100
a minute, and he presented the appear
ance of one who would die in very
few minutes. The patient was stripped
naked and placed upon one of DR.. ked
ble's fever cots, which has a network
cover and an India-rubber receptacle
beneath, and sprinkled with ice water
from sprinkling can for two hours
and quarter.
At the expiration of that time the
temperature OF the body was re-
duced to fifty-eight degrees and
the pulse to ninety. When the
sprinkling ceased the temperature of
the body returned to its normal heat
in health, the fever disappeared, and
the patient fell into gentle sleep.
Should he recover, it is predicted the
disease will be mastered. After sprink-
ling, the patient was covered with n
sheet.
Att D. m. the patients temperature
was reported the same rs in the morn
ing, and his recovery was confidently
expected.
| RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
A Detroit special of August
2Sth says: A serious acct
dent to an excursion train on the Grand
Rapids and Indiana railway occurred
near lockwood, Mich, about noon to-
day, by which thirty-fve persons were
injured, several seriously, and three ia
tally. Two of the coaches jumped the
track and went down an embankment.
The train was filled with excursionists
from Manistee and Ludington, bound
for Grand Rapids. The wounded were
taken to Grand Rapids for medical at
tention. The cause of the accident is
SuppOscu w NC ~ DIOkCH TdlI.
NATIONAL INSURANCE CONVENTION.
The national convention Of state in
surance superintendent, commission
ers, and other officials in charge of the
insurance departments, commenced its
session ut Providence, r. l., Aug 9th,
with the Hon. Oliver Pillsbury, of New
Hampshire, in the chair. The follow
ing were elected officers for the ensuing
year President, Oliver Pillsbury, New
Hampshire; vlce-president, A. X.
Magill, Minnesota; secretary, Oren Il.
WEIGH, Kansas; executive committee,
David II. Rowe, Michigan; b. Leslie,
Kentucky; John w. Stedman, Connec-
ticut; w. S. Kelfe, Missouri; Joel M.
Spencer, Rhode Island. S. II. Rowe,
of Michigan, was appointed chairman
of the committee on rate of mortality
and interest, and o. o. Welch, of Kan
sas, chairman ofthe committe on legis-
lation. The ac!uary Of the charter oak
promised 4 per cent. of the reserve on
the LIST of January. Mr.. WEIGH
of Kansas, presented and sub
ported in speech resolutions declaring
the failure of life-insurance companies
not caused by greater loss by death than
anticipated, but by bad management
and profligacy, and recommending
placing in the vaults an amount Of as
sets sufficient to pay all losses and claims,
and in addition al amount OF reserve
charged on all outstanding policies in
force. A resolution was adopted de-
ploring the evils growing out of receiv-
} ership.
THE MOONSHINE WAR.
A Nashville Tenn, dispatch of Aug.
Goth says Collector WoOdcock to-day
received the following dispatch from
Commissioner Raum:
The desperate spirit manifested by
J illicit distillers in your district is such
that wish you to organize parties Of
sufficient strength to deter resistance
and, with the aid of the marshall's force
, of deputies, seize every illicit distillery
, and arrest every Illicit distiller in your
, district. If necessary, employ forty
/ men for three days and longer If nee
essary.
Another squad of men was sent to
Davis tonight, making fifty men to-
gether ordered to his relief. There is
no authentic information as to the final
result Of the fight, no occurrences since
Friday having been received.
A Lebanon special to the american
says the latest from the seat Of war in
Overton county is that it has been set
tied by a compromise. Letters re-
ceived here tonight from revenue
, Officials and citizens Of Cookevi(le
state that Morgan and his men con-
tinued the siege of the revenue officials
until Sunday afternoon, having them