Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-07
RAVAGED BY PESTILENCE.
An Ignorant Phyaician's iilunder Sprea
Smallpox Throughout q county.

An Ignorant Phyaician's Thunder Spreads
Smallpox Throughout q county.
Mercer county. in the extreme southern
portion of West Virginia, is being ravaged
by smallpox. 1t is without railway CON-
munication, and telegraphic facilities are
lacking. Forty cases have been found III
the neighborhood of Princeton, the county
seat, and twelve deaths have already oc-
CURED. The county authorities tele-
graphed to Wheeling from the nearest
| telegraph station for vaccine virus and
nurses. Some time ago Z number of
tramps passed through tho county and
stopped with a man named Blankinship.
He was soon afterward taken sick with
| an eruptiye disease, which proved to have
| been smallpox but the physician, through
ignorance, pronounced it chickenpox. The
| physician is 4 member of the local board
| Of health, and the news, it is alleged, has
been suppressed. Blankinship died, and
| the physician also contracted the disease.
In the meantime he had called upon pa
tients, spreading tho pestilence broadcast.
Two hundred persons attended BIankin.
ships funeral, and many were stricken
down by the contagion, which is spread
ing with frightful rapidity. All the virus
in Wheeling has been sent down and the
county ordered in quarantine. The local
and state authorities are doing their ut
most to arrest the spread of the plague.
Great indignation is manifested toward
the ignorant physician, who is hourly ex-
pected to die.
Frauds and Swindles
NJ. T. Polk, ex-Trcasurer of Tennessee,
remained in Jail at Nashville, On Saturday,
lie being unable to give the required bond
of $35, O00.-Henry d. Deshon, merchant
at Leroa, Wyoming county, New York,
was swindlsd out Of 81, 300 Oh Friday by
a woman calling herself Mrs Cleveland, of
Alabama Centre. She presented letters
| of introduction to Mr.. Deshon from friends
at Oakland, his former home. and said she
| was about to buy a farm, and desired
| money to make the first payment He,
therefore, advanced 81, 300 in cash for
notes purporting to be drawn by prominent
persons in Oakland. On Saturday, the
woman having disappeared, he discovered
! that the notes were all spurious.
Cuban Tragedies.
Don Alonzo RiverO, wealthy Cuban to
bacco grower of the Vuelta Abajo, was
murdered few days ago near Pinar de-
Rio while returning from Havana with his
family. The party were crossing stream,
when two mounted men approached and
shot Den Rivero with rovolvers. The
assassins then fled.
An entire family of white persons,
except two children who secreted them
selves, were murdered lately near Pala-
clos by unknown persons with matchetes ol
cane knives. The mother was cut up in a
horrible manner.
Tho Indian Ware.
A letter received in Ell Paso, Texas, from
| General Crooks Office, confirms tho report
that he crossed the Mexican border on the
I'd inst, tho Indian trail being found
Scouting parties will be kept in the field
until tho result of Crooks compaign is
known.-There was fight on Friday de-
tween Mexican troops and Apaches at Sue
quaech Canon, 1G3 miles southeast OF
Hermosillo, resulting in the defeat of the
Apaches, with a loss of 12 killed and a
number wounded. Three soldiers were
killed and five Wounded Tho Chicutiu
Indian outbreak in British Columbia is
ended, the murderers having been captn
red by settlers and friendly Indians.