Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-09
NUMBER 238.

this city, to the present date, amount to
S2,209 10; $500 was sent to Mississippi 800 to
New Orleans and $500 on Saturday, the 7th, to
Memphis, making a total of $1,000 sent South
during the past week for the benefit of yellow
fever sufferers.
ARcoLA, ILL.,, Sept. 8.-Services at all tho
churches in the city were suspended tonight
and a mass meeting held in Metropolitan hail.
At the close 1926 were subscribed and paid in
for the yellow fever relief fund. To be added
to this sum is $50 nplized from the perform
ance of the Amateur association on SATURDAY.
night, making total of $3.50. Acommittee of
ladies and gentlemen were appointed to solicit
money and other donations in this town and
adjoining country, and through their exertions
the sum will be largely increased Arcola will
not be outdOne in that kind of sympathy which
reaches the pocket.
dREENvILLE.
GRENv1LLE, Miss. Sept. s.-Five deaths and
twenty new cases in the last twenty-four hours.
Total deaths 49, total casas $50.
. HARTFORD.
HARTFORD, Sept. s.-Subscriptions in thi,
city for yellow fever sufferers 4,500.
AT SEA.
New YORK, Sept. 8.-The schooner Lookout.
arrived from Sagna, reports Commodor.
Tracelar, Steward George Rogers, first officer,
and Frank Peterrik, seaman, died of yellow
fever, and were buried at sea.
PHILADELPHIA.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 8.-There will be bene-
fits at all the theatres and places of amuse
ment in behalf of the yellow fever fund dur
ing the week. There is general regret that Col.
WEIGH, chairman of the relief committee
should have been misunderstood in this matter
of benefits.
WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Sept. SIN the Protestant
churches to-day, collections were taken up and
prayers offered for the yellow fever sufferers.
Next Sunday collections will take place in the
Catholic churches.
OLD WORLD NEWS
MEMPHIS Tenn, Sept. S.-Another sad day
| with you passed, and near a hundred fresh
mounds are added to our cemeteries and the
potter's field. Total number of interments re-
ported up to p. NJ. are seventy-one, with one
firm of undertakers to hear from, which will
| make the deaths this day in the neighborhood
| of 100. Only partial reports of new cases have
been made to-day. Physicians pressed
for time that the majority prefer to violate
| the ordinance requiring them to report
to neglecting the sick. Six resident physicians
| report ninety-six new cases. and it is safe to
assert near 200. Among those reported are
Rev. c. L. Slater, of the First Methodist
church, and A. M. Gateway, the volunteer tele-
! graph operator from G1LlSDufSH. herbert ..
| Laudrum, city editor of the 4Ayalaache, has had
| relapse and is again down. Gen. Charles
| Adams, j. B. Fairess, Mrs. DR.. ThweaI.
Martin Eyke. Hon. John Hoyne,
ex-mayor, and his wife, R. Dougherty, Philip
J Erber, j. II. Hill, j. j. Sullivan, of Flaherty.
| and - Sullivan, undertakes, and w. S.
| Brooks, river editor of the Appeal, whose wife
died this morning. Among the deaths are Vim.
! l.. Powell, late editor and publisher of the
Southern Catholic. Maj. j. G. Thral is dying.
! A meeting of prominent members OF the How
| ard association and citizens relief committee,
| was held this morning, at which it
was determined, as means of
| forcing many people to leave the city, more
rations would be issued in the city to persons
| not sick, but that camps would be established
at various points remote from the city, and
| that those removing thither would be supplied
Luke E. Wright, Major J. s. Prestidge G. G.
| Fisher a. D. Langstreet, ex-
Mayor Jno. j. johnson, and DR.. W. L. Rogers,
was appointed to carry out the measure Rev,
l.. s. Schuyler, of Holy Innoccnts church, Ho-
bGken to New snD,v York the has n,aee arr, of
the late Rev. c. G. Parsons, rector of Grace
(Episcopal} church. A. I. G. Cook, of the
Howard association, died tonight. This makes
four of the membership of twenty one who
have died in the past week. Four more are
sick. Miss Emma Kuder, Of Cincinnati, a vol
Capt. A. r. Lacey. Drs. l.. A. Bryan, w. a.
W. Fry and s. o. Young, of Houston, Texas,
DR.. Jas. e. McGrew. of Terre Haute, Ind, and
DIR. j. G. Orr Of Cincinnati, have arrived and
volunteered their services to the Towards
The following telegram sent by DR.. Mitchell,
| with the approval of a. d. Langstaff president
of the Howard association, explains the situa-
ton tonight:
Chairman of Relief Committee, N. Y;
The situation is terrible beyond description
5000 cases of fever. Out of forty physicians
eight have died. Those from the North sicken
open in the city. Only one hotel, the Peabody,
to feed the doctors and nurses. Want every
thing that pestilence stricken, furnishing and
impoverished people need. Only two drug
stores open. The Towards will open drug stores
MEEPHIs, Sept. S.-Rev. DR.. Dalsel, of
Shreveport, arrived here yesterday, and has
gone to work in place of the stricken clergy
men Of the Episcopal church. He desires to
say to his brethren of the church that the suf-
fering and restitution frightful, and that
he shall be glad to act as their almoner In pro-
yiding for the poor and needy.
NEW ORLEANS.
New ORLEANS, Sept. 8.-New cases 223y
deaths 81, weather cloudy and showery, fore
noon heavy rain; afternoon maximum Their
mometer $50 Samuel X. Shepherd. of W.
C. Shepherd died to-day. DIR. Broadus, of the
} Towards was taken down to-day. The wife OF
| Secretary Southmayd, of the Howard associa-
ton and five children taken down with
fever. The Towards to-day received the fol
lowing telegram, dated the 7th: Port Gibson
please send us five good colored female
nurses by rail to Vicksburg and
Grand Gulf with all dispatch
!. Let them be good ones. Great suffering, espec
tally among colored people. Seventy-nint
deaths to-day. Thanks for shipment of ice
tea and crackers. Please send five casks of ic'
!, by each packet.
: Signed) Jos. A. GAGE,
o President Howard Association.
8 NEW ORLEANS Sept. 8, $50 P. Ny. NJ.
J. A.: New of fever ffty-two, total cases TO
, day 953. The secretary of st. Vincent &c Pau
" makes second appeal and begs other confer
II ences to advise their friends to forward an,
q contributions, either in money, food or cloth
:. ing intended for distribution to the scOurge
:, stricken poor looking to the society for helI
IT direct to DIR. Emery, III. D., president.
New ORLEANS, Sept. s, fleds10 p. Nth
z Towards report 472 new cases. including sic
and destitute.
PLAGUE MINE.
n PLAGUE MINE, Parish of Iveryllle, Sept g.
h. To agent Associated Press: We are in tt
ia midst of raging pestilence. Of our phys
D. clans only one is on duty, DR.. Posdell, who r
!n ports to-day over 100 cases of fever under
e. observation, all within the limits of our sma
town. Up to date tWcnty-seyen deaths ha'
ts occurred. DR.. D. D. Schurum is down. Few
ha is on the increase. Business is suspende
i. Our financial resources are insufficient to T
be lieve many poor, and we are sadly IN wan
-. Will not the country send us help! Our pc
he pie are struggling nobly against the scoure
fend. CHAs. .. LowRIE. MAYOR.
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