Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-09-25
STRICKEN MEMPHIS.
TEN NEW CASES OF FEVER YESTERDAY
Eight Oeaths-lniunction Granted Against
Order No. 6-The Authorities Instruct
ed by the State Board Of
Health to Oisobey the Or
der of the Court.

MEMPHIS, September 2i.-At 10 A. NJ.
no new cases had been reported. Four
deaths have occurred since last evening,
Mark NJ. Organ, II. d. Bracker, l.. Ross
and Charles Warden. The weather is
cloudy and threatening.
At noon seven cases had been report
ed, A. Solomon, K. 5. Lawrence, Chas.
Becker, Alice Ratwell, James Mass, Will
liam Carter and Ida Carter. The three
last are colored. Two additional deaths
have occurred, A. Solomon and Billy
Williams. One colored, Fred. Harpman,
is diving Littleton Penn remains in a
critical condition.
MEMPHIS, September 24.-Ten new
cases, seven whites and three cOlOred,
were reported to the Board OF Health
to-day. Among those reported this
afternoon are Ii. s. Simonds, John w.
Reed and Alfred Watkins. Two more
deaths have occurred, Fred. Harpman
and Mollie Packet, the last named col
ored. Fred. Harpman was promising
Young Israelltc and a member OF the
firm of Harpman Bros, tObacconists.
Mrs. Joshua James and daughter Kate
were stricken with the fever to-day on
Dixie avenue, two miles distant from
the city. Nancy Hicks, colOred, Is also
down with the fever at Dave Rogers
house, near Buntyn Station. The dona-
tions to the Howards to-day aggregates
S376.
Injunction Granted.
Judge j. 5. Galloway, to-day, Mt one
o'clock, after the argument granted the
Injunction of ~ w. Speer, Jr., restrain
Ing the State Board OF Health officials
from preventing the bringing in OF lint
or seed cotton into Memphis, known as
order No. 3.
The following telegram was received
late this afternoon:
NASHVILLE, September "a, 1879.
To Hon. Jao. Johnson, Superintendent Of
Quarantine, Memphis:
The State Board is advised by counsel
here, Judge Archibald Wright and Col.
Ed. Baxter, that the pretended election
of ]. ). Galloway as special Judge OF the
Circuit Court there, was utterly void,
and his Injunction is also void. You
will therefore continue to enforce rule Is,
precisely as if no injunction had been
granted by Mr.. Galloway. Should pro-
ceedings be instituted to punish YOU Tor
contempt Of the injunction, notify me
by telegraph.
lSigned) j. ID. PLUNKETT,
President State Board Of Health.
Mr.. johnson has instructed all the
pickets 10 permit no one not having had
the fever TO enter the city. Parties
bringing i'm loose cotton will be stopped
NJ the picket posts and warned OF the
danger they incur by coming into Mem
phis. This, it is thought, will practl-
callv evade the effect of the injunction
issued to-day. Thermometer ranged be-
twean IS and Il degs.
WASHINGTON, September 24,-The
National Board of Health to-day re-
ceived telegram from President Plum
kett. OF the Tennessee State Board OF
Health at Nashville, announcing the
probability of an injunction being
granted against that board restraining
them from enforcing rule 9Th OF the
rules established by the board, and in
uuiring whether, in such event, the Ma
tiOnal Board would continue to give pro-
lection TO the remainder OF tennessee.
The Secretary of the board at once re-
Piled that ii the injunction is granted
against the enforcement Of rule 9th, the
Executive Committee, before taking ac-
tion to the end of abandoning work in
and around Memphis, will watch the
effect Of the change.