Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-03-04
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Chicago, March 3.-Changes in the
weather this winter are SO frequent and
sudden that the varied phases presented
the past two days have probably sur
prised nobody, although they have been
extremely unpleasant: Yesterday was
warm and the streets were slippery and
muddy, till about six o'clock last night
when great cold wind began bowling
tiercely and hail storms and sleet began
beating down. AS the night advanced,
the air grew freezing and the pavements
were soon covered with n coating of ice,
making travel Exceedingly uncertain and
dangerous. Late this morning sleet and
hail gave place to a heavy driving snow
storm which at tho present writing con-
tinues unabated and which has almost
hopelessly blockaded traffic in the city
and delayed all incoming trains from Z
to 10 hours. Two trains on the Illinois
Central are showed in between here and
Kensington, and the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul railway have been
obliged to abandon all trains between
this city and Milwaukee till the snow
ceases. Trains on the Chicago, Balti-
more & Quincy, in addition to the snow
are delayed by the burning Of their sta.
tion at Galesburg, Illinois. which oc-
Cured this morning involving q loss
Of some $1,000.
Chicago, March 3.-Some very start
ling discoveries have been made in re-
gard to boarding house and saloon
kept by Henry Pickhart, at 21O5 Arthur
avenue, and where some twenty-five peo.
pie lived. On January 28th DR.. Ellis
.. Moore was called upon to attend a
sick child of Pickart's. The child had
small pox and the doctor treated it for
that disease, as the prescriptions, which
are now in the hands of the health Of
ficers, show. The case was not, however,
reported to the health Office, and on Feb.
ruary 9th another child was stricken
down with the disease. A third child
took the infection four days later, and on
February 18th the wife succumbed to the
same disease. DIR. Moore was called in
to treat the whole family, and in no in
stance was there any report Of the conta.
geon made to proper officers. The man
Pickart did not want it known because it
would frighten away his customers and
deprive him Of the means of paying the
doctors bill. Recently one of the board
ers was taken sick and he called in his
own doctor, who Immediately discovered
that his patient had the small pox and
so they were reported to the board of
health. The children of the house ad
joining were also infected with the dis
ease and are in precarious condition
DR.. Moore being questioned as to why
he did not report the cases rs they came
under his notice gave as an excuse
that lie did not know the nature OF th,
disease and thought his patients wer.
suff, iinglron .hickenpo1. 1t is probabl,
the arrest of the parties implicated il
the case will occur soon. It is hopet
J that the contagion has not spread an,
further, but it is not improbable tina
some of the men who have been drink
. ing over the counter at Pickart's will fec
! unwell in n few days, and. in fact, the pc
4 sition of the other boarders at the hous
: will not be at oil cnviable. DR.. Moor
: publishes q card in which he states tbs