Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-17

Three New Cases In Mem phis Yesterday
New Orleans Again Declared q Healthy
and Safe City-Contributfons to the How
ards.
MEMPHIs-MoRNING.
MEMPHIS, 2 P. NJ, Sept. 16.-Six cases, two
white and four colored, have been reported to
the board of health. The undertakers report
six interments since last night: Robert Job,
George E. Ware, Maria o. Donnel, wife of ex-
Chief of Police Thos. w. O'Donnel, Ross Rodg-
ers, colored, Dan +. Sullivan and Richard
Sharp. The two last were mentioned in these
dispatches last evening.
OUTSIDE THE CITY.
Drs. Eas and MINI, inspecting officers of the
State and national boards of health, left early
this morning to investigate the sickness that
exists eighteen miles southwest of the city.
At Horn Lake island one death occurred Mon
day and several others are sick in the neighbour
hood with suspicious cases of fever.
RELIEF FUNDS.
J. w. Madden, secretary of the Peabody sub
sistence association of New Orleans, Louisiana.
telegraphs the Towards to draw on them for
$475, the balance remaining in the treasury
from last year. w. T. HUI gerford, treasurer
of the hardware board Of trade Pittsburgh,
also authorizes the Towards to draw on him for
800. Weather clear and pleasant. Thermom-
eter at daylight sixty.
SPREADING.
MEMPHIS, Sept. 16.-Twenty three cases in
all-eleven white, twelve colored--were report.
ed to the board of health to-day. Among the
number, Fred, Lizzie and Ed. Holkmar, John
Hourchan, John Clark, w. 8. White, the last
named a telegraph operator in the Western IN
ion Office. Three additional deaths are report
Sharp is brother of Richard Sharp, whose
death occurred last night. Both had taken
refuge at house six miles east of the city, on
the Poplar street boulevard. Several died in
the same house last year, and four have been
buried fl ON there this season.
Drs. Ess and VIM, who went to Horn Lake
island to-day to investigate the cases of sick
They report John Kreutzer's death, which
occurred last Sunday, az being from yell
low fever, notwithstanding DR.. o. Reilly. the
physician of the neighborhood, pronounced bis
illness bilious intermittent fever. His infec-
ton was traced to this city.
Amer Krankle is down with yellow at the
same place. Two other cases have also de-
veloped outside the city, one eight miles south
On the Mississippi & Tennessee railroad, the
other eleven miles on the Padusah railway
This indicates a gradual spreading in the coun-
try adjacent to Memphis. OF the nine deaths
reported to-day four died beyond the corpora
ton line, varying in distances from four to siz
miles.
Donations to the Towards to-day aggregated
| 81, 49.07-$1 900 being from j. w. Preston
chairman of the citizens committee of Chi
| cago.
The thermometer has ranged between &C
| and 70.
NEW ORLEANS VIRTUALLY FREE.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 16.-Dr. G. w. Austin
| acting president of the State board of health
| G. B. White, sanitary director of the auxiliar,
sanitary association. and s. NJ. Barnes, mem
| Der of the national board of health, publish
| statement, recounting the healthful and excel
lent sanitary condition of the city. and assert
ing that no person living or remaining in New
Orleans has been attacked with yellow feve
since September Sd. and that no cases exist il
New Orleans at present, except one from Nor
gan city, now under treatment at Truro in
Urinary. They also declare, that as far as ha
man knowledge can reach New Orleans is q
safe place to visit and sojourn rs any city il
| the United States.