The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-10-02
YELLOw.FEvER NEWS.

AT q mceClnS IN N6SnV1ll0 on the
| 10th OF the Tennessee Board of Health, it was
decided to adhere to the rule prohibiting the
Introduction of cotton into Memphis until
the epidemic should decline, and thus avoid
the otherwise necessarily increased facilities
of communication with the country, and be-
cause of the danger, more or less remote, of
transporting yellow-fever poison in cotton
ginned and baled in an infected atmosphere.
THERE were twenty-three new cases
twelve colored) and nine deaths in Mem
phis on the 10th. Several cases had recently
developed outside the city limits, thus indi-
eating the gradual spreading of the disease in
the surrounding country.
THREE new cases were reported at
COncordia on the 18th 1.-TWO colored).
The quarantine at Vicksburg against
New Orleans was removed on the 18th.
Wooden goods packed in New Orleans would
still be excluded.
THERE were only ten new cases (six
Whitley and six deaths reported to the Mem
phis Board of Health ON the 18th. A notice
was about to be issued to absentees, WARM
ing them of the risk they would ruin at pres
ent by returning to the city, as the fever was
dying out only for want of new material.
THERE was intense excitement at
Lebanon, N. H., on the 10Th, over a case of
yellow fever there, the victim being man
named Arthur H. Gray, who had just re-
turned from sea voyage.
THERE were four new cases and one
death reported at Concofdia, Miss, on the
10Th.
THERE were seven new cases and
two deaths reported in Memphis on the 10th,
and eight new cases and one death on the
2lst. The total number of cases reported
during the week was eighty; total to date,
1,216; total deathe during the week, thirty
one; total to date, 346 A warning to alb
sentees was issued by the Board of Health,
stating that, though the number of new cases
of yellow fever was small, it would not be
safe for those who had not had the disease to
return yet. The comparatively small number
of new cases and deaths was thought to be
due to the fact that there were SO few UNI
acclimated persons in the city.
THE boiler of the steam tug Charles
w. Parker exploded in the lake off Lincoln
Park, Chicago, on the morning Of the 22d.
Robert Leary (Captain), William Burton
(steward), John Callaghan (engineer) and
John P. Rogers (freman) were blown into
the lake and killed. The only other
person on board the boat at the time of
the accident was Henry Mcclure deck
HANDY, who was blown a dis ance of half a
block and was picked up by another tug in a
terribly mangled condition, but it was
thought he might possibly survive the in
juries.
SIXTEEN new cases and six deaths
were reported in Memphis Oh the I'D At a
meeting of merchants and citizens held at the
Cotton Exchange a series of resolutions was
adopted protesting against the strict quaran-
tine regulations of the National and State
Boards Of Health, causing an almost entire
suspension of business, and especially urging
the State Board to repeal order Num-
Der 6 forbidding seed cotton being
brought to the city for sale and to be
ginned, and declaring that past experience
had Enthusiastically shown that no contagion
had ever been carried through the medium of
seed cotton to any portion of the world, not
even to operatives who had worked up the
cotton, though thousands of bales had been
ginned in Memphis and other cities during
the prevalence of ycllow-fever epidemics in
past years. Dr.. j. D. Plunkett, of the
State Board of Health, was hung in
clligy on the night of the 2lst,
but this action is said to have
been generally condemned. A notice was
served on the State and local officials, on the
22i, by the Sheriff, and signed by N. W..
Spccrs, Jr, of an intention to apply for an in
junction to restrain them from any further ill.,
reference with the entry of cotton into the
City of Memphis.