The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-07-31
Last Nights Dispatches.
EPTDEnrIcs

DUBUQUE, July 30. The HeraId's cor
respondent at Centre Point teIegraphs
that the cholera epidemic, as the local
physicians call il, is still on the increase.
Not less than 100 cases are now reported
inIthe rural towns and immediate neigh
borhood, with fatalities occurring every
hour. Six deaths are reported at the town
of Walker, distant only few miles, from
the came disease, which is an Indication of
its epidemic or contagious character, which
Is truly alarming
NASHVILLE, Tenn, July 3O.-Dr. J. D.
Plunkett, President of the Sanitary Coun-
Gil of the Mississippi valley, to-day re-
ceived the following dispatch from the
Mayor of Centre Point, Iowa:
The report sent abroad of our having
cholera at this point is entirely false. We
have number of cases of dysentery,
proving fatal only among children of the
first and second summers.
HAVANA, July 30.-One hundred and
seventeen deaths from yellow fever for the
week ending July 26.
New ORLEANS, July 30.-Two sus-
plclous cases were reported to the Board
OF Health to- day, making a total of five
now under observation. No deaths.
John Knoop, Norwegian, is much bet
ter. His case, together with that of Fitz-
patrick, were reported to the Board of
Health as genuine yellow fever. DR.,
Choppln, who has been absent several
days, returned to-day and visited Fitz-
patrick, who is sitting up. DR.. Chopin
expresses the belief that Fitzpatrick has
not had the yellow fever. The other
patients are doing we'll II is now believed
that they will all recover.
New YORK, July 30.-A woman named
Maggie Cregan, patient at the Presby-
terlan hospital, died Tuesday, it is said,
with all symptoms of the yellow fever.
She came here on July 2 on the vessel
Wallace, which was detained at auaran-
tine for few days.
MEMPHIS, July 30.-Eight more cases
were reported to the Board of Health this
afternoon, i've of which were colored. No
deaths from yellow fever have occurred
for the past twenty-four hours ending at
3 p. M. Several cases Of fever are report-
ed outside the corporate limits of the citv.
which are not included in the official re-.
port of the Board of Health. The How
ards have five nurses on duty, distributed
among hfty-six sick people. A. s, Hat
cher and Brooks Wilson, telegraph ope-
rator, are reported dying tonight.
A daughter of Chief of Police Athey,
sick with fever at Raleigh, Tenn, is il
critical condition. About 800 people
are at Camp Marks. Weather clear anC
pleasant.
John B. Easton, eldest son of Thos s
Easton, was stricken with fever tonight
This case, together with the wife anC
two daughters, includes the entir,
family who are now Frustrated with th
disease.
Samuel A. Hatcher died to-day at
o'clock, James Hester, the last membe
of family of seven, two of whom died
was prostrated with the fever this after
noon.
| ST. Louis, July 80. A colored servan
OF Capt Lee, of the steamer Coahoma
known by the name of Henry, died las
night at 7l2 Washington street. To-da
, post mortem examination was made b
several physicians, and, while it is not OF
ticially reported that the death was eau:
J ed by yellow fever, there is little dout
that such was the case. The premise
= were thoroughly disinfected. DR.. Brown
| of Memphis, who also came up on th
: Coahoma treated the case.