Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-08-20
THE CHOLERA IN SPAIN.

Returns on last Sunday from the cholera
infected districts of Spain show the total
number of new cases on Saturday to have
been 4,7O6, and the total number of deaths
from the disease 1,75S. The plague has
made its appearance at Barcelona, where
twenty-three cases and sixteen deaths are
reported.
The cholera reports for Sunday show that
there were fifteen new cases and twelve
deaths in the city of Madrid and sixty-five
new cases and deaths in the province. The
slight panic which broke out few days
ago has subsidized. The epidemic shows no
further sign of an increase. Wherever the
disease prevails the most stringent precau-
tions are taken to prevent its spread. Some
of the most crowded houses have been emp
tied and their tenants temporarily lodged a
few miles outside of the city. The public
buildings are disinfected daily. The cpl
demic is still ravaging Granada, but is de-
creasng in other Southern provinces.
At Marseilles there were % deaths on
Saturday and q deaths on Sunday. Sever
al deaths from the same cause are reported
in the suburbs of the city and letter from
Saigon reports that six hundred French
soldiers have died of cholera in Formosa
and Pescadores, that the hospitals are over
flowing with sufferers, and that the epidem-
ic is increasing.
The places in Spain in which the princi-
pal increase of cholera occurred on Sunday,
as compared with Friday last, are Terragora
and Valladolid. In the former place, there
were on Sunday, II new cases and 30 deaths,
and in the latter 81 new cases and 10 deaths.
Official returns show that in Granada the
disease has reached its height and remains
stationary. In Albacete on Sunday there
were % new cases and % deaths. In Cas-
tillion de la Plana 90 new cases and II
deaths. In Cuenca, 154 new cases and II
deaths. In Teruel, 46 new cases and 80
deaths. In Valencia, 80 new cases and 49
deaths, and in Madrid, 20new cases and two
deaths. All of these returns show decrease
in numbers of both new cases and deaths.
., The total number of deaths in the infected
districts since the outbreak of the epidem-
ic is 81, 1000, and it is estimated that 10000
persons have fled from their homes to es-
cape the scourge.
THE GALLows.-James Horace Jones
was hanged at Troy, n. Y, Jail last Thurs
day for the murder of his wife, July 3rd,
1854. He died in the Catholic faith.
Henry Freese, colored, was hanged at
Catlettsburg, Ky :, on Friday for the muir
der of Chester Honaker, in May last.
Fully 5000 people witnessed the execution.
Freese assembled the scaffold with firmness,
and bada all farewell
Cristino Aldava and Caledomes Chevar-
ria, two Mexican murderers, were hanged
at Laredo, Texas, at 5 O'Clock last Friday
evening, in the presence of several thous-
and spectators, many Of whom were Mex
leans from across the river. Aldava con.
fessed from the scaffold. Chevarria stood
smoking cigar while Aldaya was reading,
then he harrangued for 40 minutes endeav-
oring to establish his innocence. Both
men adjusted the nooses about their necks
and We're stolidly Indifferent to their end:
Just as the black cap was being adjusted
Aldava recognized an acquaintance and
asked him to take charge of his body to
which request many MeXicans responded:
Both men fell at the same moment and
their necks were broken. The bodies were
cut down in ten minutes.