The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1888-09-14
Tic Yellow Fever.

Thirty-scvcn new eases of yellow fever and
two deaths from hat disease were rr,n,rtul
to TIN. board Of health On Momlay. Total
eases to date, 2ia; total ,lrnths :ni
hut it. liz now certain that several
physicians are milking reports to the
hoarl of health, asserting that the post
ing of yellow tiags at PATIENTS gates n,rl
publishing the f;irt that they have yellow
fever has an injurious effect in frightening
them. These physirians tell patients that
they only have II little bilious attack, hut
treat them for yellow fever. They s;,y the
disease trightrus more tn death than il Kills
1t is now believed that the total number of
eases OF fever not repurte,l is large
By invitation of Gov. John u. Gordon Of
Augusta. (;c"igia, n conferences was held in
Augusta between Surgeon General Hamilton
aud himself. The object of the conference
was to consider the situation in Jack s,nville
and the expedcncy of allowing the people Of
Jacksonville to go to other places aud under
whit restrictions. Surgeon General Hamilton
received Il list Of resolutions from Atlanta
which We're adopted at meeting in that
city. The resolutions fully endorse the
course Of Surgeon General Iiainil, on, and ad-
| init that the wholesale removal of Infected
persons to pOl,ulOus cities would be hazard.
Ous in the extreme.
The Mississippi state hoard OF health has
amended the quarantine regulations 80 nv to
require II person entering the state to possess
certificate from n health officer, or to give
satisfactory proof that he or she has not
been exposed to the yellow fever.
Martin voss. aged 60 years. one of the
most prominent turner's of Winona county,
MINI, was killed while on his way from
Wlnonn to his home in New Hartford His
team ran away. throwing. him out. and his
skull was crushed, bcing dead when found.
lie leaves family well provided for.
VIM. J. Mccoy Registered at the Madison
House at Middleton. n. Y. from San Francis
co. lie took laudanum with snici,!ni intent.
but took too much. Next morning he shot
himself with q Colts revolver Tho ball en-
tered his left breast and the surgeons think
1t just missed his heart. Letters found in hi,
runm show the net to have been prcmctitntc'
lie will probably die.
John llaggrrty went to s,e his son, Will.
lam. II cnntistiOnrr on Broom street, New
York. The people in the house sny that in
going up stairs he stumbled over IL dead
!ndy in the upper halfway. at any rate he
fell down stairs, and there was u dead body
in the hallway lbove. IL WAS that Of VIM.
iiaggrrty, who had shot himself bernusc on
coming home at 9}0 O'clock and Knocking
ut the door Of his ronm he got no answer
from hs Italian wife md could not get into
he room. The fat her lay unconscious from
his fall aud the ambulance that was sum
",
found the son dead aud carried away the
fatller imst@"l: 1t was said by the police
that William linggrrty had no occnsion to
hr jealous or suspicious Of his Italian wife.
She was asleep in Hnl when the husband
km"rke'i ON the door and did not wake up
az at once, but herring the pistol shot she
did get mp and went out and found her
husband dead.
At Oxford North Carolina there was n triple
execution which caused n great scu.,t;nu
On the LIST Of last June the body of 'S,,irc
Grizzom, an old colored man, w;ls found in
his house with his head cut OF. Henry Tan.
her and John Turner. colored, were nrirstc,i
charged with the crime, md lodged in Ok
lord Jail. Another negro named Alnnzc
Smith was also in jail charged with burglary
mud arson. Early one morning masked men.
both white and colored, came in from the
country, overpowered the sheriff and took
the keys from u drawer in his Office They
openod tho doors and entered the steel cells
very quietly. and quickly. and easily, and
overpowerd the jailer. The lynchcrs took
the two Tanners and Smith with them to
tue woods near BY and hanged thcm.