The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-07-31
DOMESTIC NEWS. /.
Indications Of the Worst Being Over
at Memphis.
Few Left for the Fever to Feed On.
The Situation at New Orleans Not
: Alarming, 4,
Murders atCairo, Ill.,, and Frankfort,
Kentucky.
How the Wrong Medicine Acted on
Two Kentucky Youths.
The Two Congressional Investigat-
Ing Committees.
At Cincinnati and Chicago Still Peg
ging Away.
Increased Number of Cholera Cases
In Iowa.
The Two Congressional Investlgat
Ing Committees.
At Cincinnati and Chicago Still Peg
ging Away.
Increased Number of Cholera Cases
In Iowa.
YELLOW FEVER.

Twelve New Cases Reported at Memphis
NO Deaths in the Past TWenty.four
Hours-A Lively Patient at Ihe New
York Quarantine IIOapItaI-A Self
Sacrificing steward.
MEMruls, July 3O.-Four new cases
were reported to the Board Of Health this
morning, Rose Hendricks, Jno. Creeden,
Q. II. Smith and Maggie Townes. No
deaths had been reported up to noon.
W. W. Corcoran, banker at Washington,
DC, has sent check for $1,000 to be
used for the removal Of the poor and desti-
tute from the city. OF the sick, Brooks
Wilson, S. A. Hatcher, Miles orven and
Michael Athey are reported in acritical
condition. The weather has settled.
No Deaths In Last TWenty.four Hours.
Eight more cases were reported to the
Board OF Health this afternoon, Eve OF
whom were colored. No deaths from yell
low fever have occurred for the past
twenty-four hours ending at Or. NJ. Sew
eral cases OF fever were reported outside
the corporate limits Of the city, which are
not included in the official report to the
Board Of Health. The Howards have
forty.llye nurses on duty, distributed
among flity-six sick people. S. A. Hatcher
and Brooks Wilson, telegraph operators,
were reported dying tonight. A daughter
Of Chief OF Police Athey is sick with the
fever at Raleigh, Tenn, and is in q critical
condition. There is about 200 people at
Camp Marks. Weather clear and pleasant.
Samuel A. Hatcher died tonight at s
o'clock. Jas. Hester, the last member of
a family OF seven, two OF whom died, was
prostrated with the fever this evening.
John B. Easton, eldest son OF DIR. Thos.
3. Easton, was stricken with fever to-
night, This case, together with his wife
and two daughters, includes the entire
family who arc now prostrated with the
disease.
The Situation Rt New York.
New York, July SO.-stewart Wells, of
the steamer Niagara, plying between this
port and Havana, died in the latter port
yesterday Of yellow fever. All the Mem.
phis refugees sent to the quarantine last
week were discharged.
Prof. Chandler, Of the Health Board
says that the scarlet fever caused more
deaths in New York State last year than
yellow fever did in the South, and yet it
failed to excite public apprehension, or to
make people ordinarily careful to prevent
infection.
A. E. Ruth, barber, Of the steamer
Saratoga, while in delirium at the quar-.
antine sprang up in bed, and seizing the
long slde-whiskers of Williams, the hos
pital steward and nurse, tore out great
handfuls by the roots. Williams was re-
Gently left fortune Of SO, 900 in England,
but he refuses to abandon the work OF
nursing yellow fever patients in the quar-.
antine hospital which he has taken upon
himself.
A woman named Maggie Cregan, pa
tient at the Presbyterian Hospital, died
Tuesday night it is said, with all symp-
toms Of yellow fever. She reached here
on the I'd Of July on the vessel Wallace,
which was detained at quarantine for
few days.
Only Suspicious Cases.
NEw ORLEANS, July 3O.-Two suspicious
cases were reported to the Board OF Health
to-day, making total OF five under OBJ
servation. No deaths.
John kroop, the Norwegian, is much
better better. His case, together with that
Of Fitzpatrick, were reported to the Board
OF Health as genuine yellow fever. DR..
Chopin, who has been absent several
days, returned to-day and visited Fitzpat-
rick, who is sitting UP. DR.. Chopin ex-
presses his belief that Fitzpatrick has not
had the yellow fever. The other patients
are doing well, and 1t is believed they will
all recover.
One Death Mt ST. Louis.
ST. Louis, July 3O.-A colored servant
Of Captain Lee, OF the steamer Coahama,
known by the name OF Henry, died last
night ut 7l2 Washington street. To-day
posl-mortem was made by several physi.
clans, and while it is not officially reported
that death was caused by yellow fever,
there is little doubt that such was the case.
The premises have been thoroughly disin-
fected. DR., Brown, OF Memphis, who also
came up on the Coahama, treated the case.
Havana
HAVANA, July S0.-one hundred and
seventeen deaths from yellow fever for
the week ending July 20.