The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-09-02
DOMESTIC NEWS.
The Progress of Yellow Fever In
the South.
An Agent Of the Towards Coming
North to Ask Aid.
Confession of Ono of the Raber
Murderers.
Public Debt Statement for August.
The Ross-smlth Race at Bedford
Basin.
Another Chapter In the Spragus-
ConkIing Scandal.
YELLOW FEVER.


MEMPHIS, Sept. Eight new cases
seven white and one colored, were report
ed to the Board Of Health this morning
Among the number were Morgan Nc
Hugh, Mrs. Matte Dean, Jack Wright
Louis Smith, and Mary N. Beach. Fou
deaths have occurred since last night :
Ada Hurst, Luella Arnold and Jane
Mead.
A. D. Langstaff, President Of the How
ard Association, left this morning via thl
Louisville & Nashville Railroad. He vii
visit the principal cities OF the North
East and West in the interest OF the Asso
citation, and consult with those partiei
who so nobly aided in soliciting contribu
tions for the relief of the yellow fever suf
terers at Memphis last year.
Might Report.
MEMPHIS, Sept. l.-sixteen cases III all
thirteen white and three colored, were re-
ported to the Board OF Health to-day
Four additional deaths have been report.
ed-Walter B. Lucas, VIM. H. West, Mrs.
W. G. Richardson and David P. Hvuse,
The city is being thoroughly disinlected
under the auspices Of the State Board ol
Health officials.
DR.. John Gordon, the physician sent
by the Howards to Julian Bedford, at
Baileys, Tenn, returned this afternoon.
He reports him down with genuine case
Of yellow fever.
W. II. Joyce, bookkeeper at the West
ern Union Telegraph office in this city,
was stricken at noon. The Howards
placed thirty additional nurses on duty
to-day. Weather cloudy. The thermo-
meter has ranged between 68o and S0'.
New Orleans.
New ORLEANS, September 1.-General
Hoods seyen-year.old daughter Is i'm
proving. His son, aged eight, became
sick with the fever yesterday.
Alice Williams, age three years, died
Of yellow fever this morning, at rs Wash.
ington street.
Fred weicks, age "a, is reported sick
with fever at No. SOL TChoupitoulas street.
He was taken sick August 29th.
The Boardof Health requests physicians
to make immediate and careful report Of
all suspicious cases that the Board may
test as far as possible the efficiency OF such
preventive or restrictive measures
against the spread Of the fever, as may be
recommended by science or justified by
experience.
The Board also requests physicians at
tending persons dying OF yellow fever to
urge upon the friends the earliest possible
burial, and to have the casket containing
the body surrounded with charcoal to
prevent the spread Of the disease in the
streets or cemeteries. The practice of ad-
vertising funerals, inviting friends to. at
tend, is asked to be suspended. The city
Council, Sanitary association and press
were requested to urge the adoption Of
these suggestions.
At the executive session OF the Board Of
Health, DR.. Bemis, OF the National Board
and all the sanitary inspectors being pres.
ent, measures were taken for the isolation
OF cases and fumigation of infected dis
tricts.'
One Death At the New York Quarantine.
NEW YORK, Sept deputy United
States Marshal Kirby died at the quaran-
tine hospital Of yellow fever. He con-
tracted the disease while in charge of a
schooner from POrt-au.Prince.