Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-22
news DY IelegFdpn
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
I'm THE FEVER'S GRASP.
Southern Cities Adopt A
Shotgun Quarantine.
ALL BUSINESS FRUSTRATED.
Farmers Visit Gen. Harrison
And He Tells
WHAT ENGLAND WANTS.
China Officially Refuses
The Treaty.
TIE SOURCE OF THE SOUTH.

over q Hundred New Cases and Four
teen Gases at Jacksonville - Panic
SILL Prevails at Jackson, Mississippi
strict Quarantine Enforced by the
Shotgun, Adopted In Various Places
Refugees FIockIng SOrth-Business
Par@lYZed.
JACKSONVILLE, Sept. 21.-The off eial re
port of Dr. Neal Mitchell, president of the
board of health, to-day shows lis new cases
of yellow fever and fourteen deaths, as fol-
lows: Mrs. Susan Zeiwher, Susie Lamen, W.
Palmer, J. W. Foster, Mr.. Reagan, N. Jen-
kius, Miss Lulu Smith, John f. Dealey, Miss
Jones, Mrs. John Doyle, Mrs. Francis j. Gould
and John Strachan. A large majority of the
new eases are among colored people in the
suburbs There are comparatively few deaths
among the negroes. Total cases to date ,582,
total deaths 1876. There was nothing partic-
ularly new in the situation to-day.
A special from Gainesville reports one new
case there, q member of the guard who went
from Fernandina. 1t is impossible as yet to
get definite information from Fernandina, but
Advices are expected from there in day or
two.
JACKSON EVACUATED.
JACKSON, Miss, Sept. 21.-The excitement
of yesterday continues and is greatly increased
by three new cases this morning. They are
David Pippee, Charles Daley and Frank
KaVanagh, all workmen on the new railroad
depot. No deaths have yet occurred. It is
generally conceded that all the cases origi-
mated here and were caused by excavations
and disturbing filthy sewers on the depot
grounds during the past two months. Three
fourths of the white population have fed.
The stores are nearly all closed and there is
but little food in the city for the ''can't-get-
Always" No trans stop here. A special will
be furnished tonight for such as wish to go
north.
ANOTHER STRICKEN CITY.
SELMA, Ala, Sept. 21.--A despatch from
Decatur this morning to the Times Mail from
DR.. jerome Cochrane, State health officer,
says: 81 know of four cases of fever and I
believe there others. The local doctors have
at last agreed that we have yellow fever"
The excitement is intense: Selma is quaran-
tined against Decatur, Jacksonville, Fla,
Jackson, Miss, and all infected places. The
city council met this evening and adopted a
still more stringent quarantine. The health
of Selma is remarkably good and the people
are hopeful and business is brisk.
AsHoTGUN QUARANTINE.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Sept. 21.-The excitement
which prevailed here to-day over the intelli-
gence of the outbreak of the fever at Jackson,
Miss, has claimed in a measure since the city
authorities this afternoon resolved to stop
passenger travel on the railroads east of the
Mississippi river. Agents of all the roads
mentioned will be notified not to sell tickets
for Memphis, as no train will be allowed to
come nearer the city than ten miles and a
Gordon of armed pickets will guard the roads
leading into Memphis and no one will be al
lowed to enter.
Shotgun quarantine prevails along the
line of the Illinois Central all the way from
New Orleans to Fulton KY, and trains are
not allowed to stop between Cairo, ILL.,, and
Canton, Miss. A regular panic seems to
have seized the people, especially in the
smaller interior towns, where non-inter
course Is the watchword and armed men
guard the roads leading into those places.
The lateness af the season and near approach
Of cool weather is favorable for the safety of
those places not now infected and q feeling
of security will prevail provided there is no
further spread of the fever from Jackson
vile.
ANOTHER STAMPEDE.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Sept. 21.-A Herald
special from DR.. jerome Cehran, State health
ofacer who is now at Decatur, Ia, says of the
yellow fever: To-day there are three or four
new cases. Two old cases will die. Two
thirds of the white people have left and 9TH
srs are leaving by all possible ways. Not
enough left for big epidemic Only q small
section of the city infected.
QUARANTINE EVERYWHERE.
CHATTANOOGA, Sept. 21.-Chattanooga has
1uStlGuh6O LuOsb 6I1l0ScnG q uArhutAu6 ASh4ust
all infected points. No one is permitted to
enter the city on any of the nine railroads
without giving satisfactory account of him
self. Quarantine officers board every train.
The city council has adopted ordinances in
hioting fine of $500 on any person entering
the city from any infected district. A large
reward Is offered for the apprehension and
conviction of such an offender rnd for the
conviction of anyone harboring such a ref
ugee.
BUSINESS PRACTICALLY STOPPED.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. 20.-Ths train
from Decatur which arrived this morning
brought to Kentucky between 200 and 800
yellow fever refugees from Decatur. A large
number left the train at the smaller towns
and have scattered. One of the refugees was
found at the 81 and N" Office and said:
"Ws had to run the gauntlet through several
places in the South, and had to conceal our
identity In order to escape being thrown into
quarantine. When we left Decatur there
had been four cases of fever reported and I
don't know how many have occurred since
then. A terrible state of affairs exists
throughout southern Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana and Florida. Business is practi-
| cally dead, visitors shun the towns and the
latter are almost deserted,'