The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-09-03
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Yellow Fever Reports from Memphis
and Other Points.
The Quarantine Difficulty at HousY
ton, Texas.
Southern Winds on a High Near
New Orleans.
Destruction Of Boats, Property and
Sugar Plantations.
Houses Unroofsd, Churches Blown
Down and Crops Demolished.
Secretary Sherman sangulne Of
Fosters Election.
YELLOW FEVER.

MEMPHIS, September 1.-Two new casei
were reported to the Board OF Health thii
morning, Otto Sartoriss and Daniel Fow
kles. Four deaths have occurred since
last night, Geo. W. Matthews, Pat Nc
Lane, Thomas McMahan and Eugene
Williams.
The fever has evidently gained he .lway
at Buntyn Station, six miles east vi this
city on the Memphis and Charleston rail
road. Eight cases are reported in tlut i'm
mediate neighborhood. j. G. Hauck and
wife, living in the same vicinity, were
stricken yesterday. Rain has been falling
since midnight.
Night Report.
MEMPHIS, September 2.-Twenty eight
cases in all, thirteen white and fifteen
colored, were reported to the Bon d oi
Health to-day. Among those reported
this afternoon were Gus. Yahrling, Mrs.
Ellen Gallaher and her daughter Nellie,
T. Merideth, David Davis and Lizzie Van
Kuuze. No additional deaths have occur.
red since noon. The National Boa';l OF
Health have approved Of the place sub.
mitted by Hon. johnson, Superintendent
of the quarantine for the establishment OF
quarantine picket enCircling the entire
city and suburbs. Fifty mounted men
will be assigned to patrol duty at once to
enforce this new quarantine law.
The following telegram was sent to-day
from Grenada, Miss, to DR.. ]. IS. Billings,
vice president Of the National Board OF
Health, Washington, D. c.:
"Drs. Gage, Smith and Saunders had a
case presenting suspicious symptoms, and
they took proper precautions. We all now
concur in the opinion that 1t is not yellow
fever.
[Signed,l DR.. R. W. MITCHELL"
Soliciting Aid For Sufferers
LOUISVILLE, September IA. S. Lang
staff, Presidentof the Howard Association
OF Memphis, arrived here to-day, to confer
with the committee who solicited sub.
scriptions last year for the yellow fever
sufferers, in regard to obtaining any bal
ance that might be in their hands aud to
solicit their assistance in the same CApaci-
ty as last year, in case the Association is
compelled to make q call. He obtained
$60l 81 from ex.Mayor Chas. D. Jacobs,
being with the $1,000 previously remitted
by him to the Memphis Howard Associa-
tion, the entire balance left in his hands
from the collections Of last year. All the
parties here have assured him OF their
willingness to aid the destitute sick OF
Memphis II any appeal is made by the
Howard Association. President Lang
staff proceeds to Cincinnati tomorrow,
then St. Louis, Chicago and East.
Quarantine Breakers Released.
HousroN, TEX, September 2.-Yester-
day Judge Jones gave the quarantine
breakers hearing on writs OF habeas cor
pw, and discharged the prisoners, the
Judge holding that the Board Of Health
had no power to declare quarantine. Under
the city charter this power is vested in
the Board Of Aldermen alone. The next
proceeding will be to arrest the Mayor,
Health officers and members OF the HOus.
ton Board Of Health on charge OF con.
spiracy to obstruCt and obstructing the q,
S. mail.
Panic ut Grenada.
LOUISVILLE, September "a private
telegram from reliable source at Grena.
da, Miss, says: There Is great excitement
over the local case Of yellow fever.
Three Cases At Quebec.
QUEBEC, September 2.-Three OF the
crew Of the bark Laura Doane, who are in
the quarantine at Crosse Isle, are down