St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-15
RAVAGES OF THE PLAGUE.
Death Disguised as Yellow Jack Still
Stalks Abroad in Florida.
CHRONOLOGY OF CoNTAGIoN
Signs Of Slight Abatement at Jack
sonville, But No Improvement in
the South.

JACKSONVILLE. Fla, Aug. 14.-There
was meeting of the executive commit
tee of the Jacksonville Auxiliary SAM
tary association at 10 o'clock this morn
ing, at which the chairmen of the vari-
Gus committees reported. The presi-
dent was requested to telegraph the
Florida representatives at Washington
to urge the immediate passage of
the bill of relief appropriating
100000, now pending, and to make
part of it available at once for the
suppression of the disease and the relief
of the destitute. At two o'clock this
afternoon Dr.. Neal Mitchell reported
that there was only one new case, that
of S. +. SimOns, fireman, who has
been removed to Sand HHills. This is a
good days report. For twenty-four
hours, ending at six o'clock to-day, the
official bulletin is as follows:
New cases, one: suspected, one; deaths,
none; under treatment, twenty-one; total
number of cases to date, twenty-eight; total
number OF deaths, four.
DR.. Kenworthy, city health officer, re-
ports the
SITUATION AS MUCH IMPROVED
during the past twenty-four hours. and
the work of fumigation and cleaning up
is progressing favorably. The infected
locality, corner of Forsyth and Ocean
streets, is strictly watched, and no new
cases of yellow fever are reported
there. One man at the Grand
Union hotel was reported as a
suspicious case. Another, a white
man. from three miles in the country,
fever, though sick. All are doing well
at Sand Hill hospital. AT night hun
dreds of pitch and tar fires are burning,
and at 9 o'clock the conclusion
theory" will again be tested by
five pieces of ordnance, sSSiSted by
the United States battery from
barracks at st. Augustine. An appeal
for money was issued to-day from the
office of the jacksonville Auxiliary
Sanitary association. On account of
the yellow fever excitement the Demo-
cratic congressional convention of the
Second district, which was to have
been held in Orlando on the 10Th
inst. has been indefinitely post
poned. From st. Augustine news is
very meager, but it is known that 1,50G
people have left there within the last
three days, and others are leaving as
fast as they can get away. The judges
of the United States court have ordered
Clerk Walter to remove to Tallahassee
the documents of the court. He will be
compelled to spend fifteen days in quar-
antine at Atlanta before being allowed
to locate in Tallahassee.
The latest news from Tampa is to the
effect that there are four suspicious
cases of sickness there, and
THREE CASES OF YELLOW FEVER
being in the house in which Waterman
died a month ago. Manatee has two
cases and Plant.C one. st. Augustine
is still wildly alarmed for some reason
or other, and 1000 persons have left there
in the last day OF two. The feeling
here tonight is better and quieter.
DR.. Euchernedia, a popular and skillful
Cuban physician of long experience in
such matters, has been given the man.
agement of the work of disinfection.
He is an energetic man and is doing
thorough work. He is authorized to
burn buildings and will not hesitate to
do what is necessary.