Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-08-07
WASHINGTON TOPICS.

The Surgeon General of the Marine Hos
pitaI Service, having received information
that the yellow fever is spreading IA pidly in
Sonora, Mexico, has instructed Inspector of
Nogales, Arizona, to use extra vigilance
to prevent its introduction into the United
States.
Representative Vim. A. Culbertson, of
Kentucky, shot himself at his room at the
National MOTEL and is lying in a
critical condition. The only cause as
signed for the attempt at suicide is nervous
depression, resulting from little too free
use of stimulants during the hot weather.
The wounded Congressman was taken to
the Providence Hospital.
The Civil Service Commission has exam
ined about $50 candidates for $50 places as
Special Examiners for the Pension Office
and the papers are now being marked by a
special Board of Examiners. No further
examinations for this branch of the service
will be held at this time except for about
thirty persons from the Southern States
whose applications have just been received.
Gov. Cameron has convened the General
Assembly of Virginia, upon request of two
thirds of the members of each House, to
meet in Richmond August 18th.
Some time ago the Commissioners of In
! ternal Revenue issued an order providing
thatOn and after September 1st, 1884, the col
lection of tax on whisky by assessment
shall be continued. Strong efforts have
| since been made to have him resCind the
/ order, but without avail, and he has no
| Lifed the petitioners that the original order
/ will be enforced. Under this ruling the
tax will be collected on the day it proves
! due, and if paid properly will be destrained
| The issue of silver dollars for the month
ending July 29th was 5000, 4S9; correspond
ing period OF lastyear, 1926, 494.
| The American Consul, Mason Long, has
/ made a repOrttO Secretary Frelinghuysen on
! the cholera epidemic now raging in France.
] In substance it is as follows: The terrible
| lesson on former epidemics has been well
/ learned by municipal governments, and
! long before the first rumOr of trouble at
/ TOulOn, Aiarseilles was cleaned and made
ready for Summer heats. But with all the
intelligent hberality which the city
| has exercised in the construction
is an insurmountable difficulty in
which all the Mediterranean cities are alike
| C Ompelled to face. Their sewers flow into q
! t'deless and generally placid sea. The re-
! suit is that the latter grows foul and pesti-
/ lent. The same conditions are unm1ugated
/ by equally vigorous sanitary measures
| which prevail at TOulOn, and it is thought
/ that it was the dredging of a disused dock
| there during the months of April and May
which disclosed the seeds of the present
! epidemic The Marseilles Govern ment re-
lies solely upon the most rigid and search
/ ing enforcement of recognized sanitary
sasures.
me dredging of the ports has been
| stopped, and that source of miasma as lar
| as possible abated during the Summer.
Since the outbreak at TOulOn the whole
| city has been literally washed with water
/ and disinfecIants. The attack of cholera
/ b is been tar more vigorous and fatal this
! y ear than in The great epidemic OF nineteen
years ago, and all present indications point
60 a Summer of gloom and suffering for the
people of TOulOn and MarSeilles. All that
| energy and liberahty could perform and all
that sanitary science cOu d suggest has been
done, but the Pestilence is here and dehes
restraint.
The present situation may be summarized
/ as follows: The epidemic which now pre-
walls at MarseilIes and TOulOu is AsiatiC
/ cholera, imported beyond all reasonable
doubt from SOuiOH, China, by the French
transport, Arthe, to the port of TOuiOn. AT
first the disease was a ty pc medically CLASH
lied as ''beniZu," but its maignity has since
increased by its further diffusion and deVel-
Opment under the influence of continued
hot weather. In compliance with instruc-
! tons from the Department, this Consulate
has ascerUained from official sources that
no emigrants have recently left either TOu.
lon or Marseilles by sea for the United
States.
It should be added, however, that few
emigrants for American ports ever embark
here. as the steamers leaving Marseilles
usually touch at one Ormor6 Mediterranean
st Itions, before leaving their hnaI point
of departure, and the emigrants usually 90
by rail tn this port of departure to embark
f v the United States. 1t is therefore re-
spectfuIly suggested that all vessels bring
ing emigrants or Luggage to the United
/ States from Bordeaux, Havre or any other
French port not yet declared infected
/ should be subjected upon their arrival to
the most careful sanitary regul atoms. Clean
/ biIlsOf health have been refused at this cOu-
/ sulate 10 ali vessels c caring for ports IN the
/ United States since June 25th, and none
| such will be granted until Marseiiles is Of
/ ficiaIly declared free from contagion-
TEXAS FEVER.