Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-13
TIE Yellow Fever.

Thirty-seven new cases OF yellow fever ard
two deaths from that disease were reported
to the board OF health on Monday. Total
cases to date, 2A5; total deaths. SO.
Tn new cases reported are numerous.
but ii IL now certain that seyeFal
physicians are making reports to the
board Of health, asserting that the post
ing of yellow flags at patients gates and
pubiishing the fact thar they have yellow
fever has an injurious effect in frightening
them. These physicians tell patients that
they only have u little bilious attack, but
treat them Tor yellow lever. They say the
disease frighteiiS more to death than il kills.
II ID now believed that the total number Of
cases of fever not reported il large.
BY invitation of Gov. John d. Gordon OF
Augusta, Georgia, n conference was held in
Augusta between Surgeon General Hamilton
and himself. The object of the conference
was to consider the situntion in Jacksonville
and the expediency of allowing the people OF
Jacksonville to go to other places and under
what restrictions. Surgeon General Hamilton
received a list Of resolutions from Atlanta
which were adopted at a meeting in that
city. The resolutions fully endorse the
conrse of Surgeon General Hamilton, and adj
nit that the wholesale removal Of infected
persons to populous cities would be hazard.
Gus in the extreme.
The Mississippi state board Of health has
amended the quarantine regulations so as to
require a person entering the state 10 possess
a certificate from a health officer, or to give
satisfactory proof that he or she has not
heen exposed to the yellow fever.
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Martin yoss. aged go years, ono of the
most prominent farmers Of Winona county,
MINI was killed while on his way from
Winona TO his hon in New Hartford. His
team ron away. throwing him out. and his
skull was crushed, being dehd xhen found.
lie leaves a family well providcG for.
Vim. J. Mccoy registered at the Madison
House Mt Middleton. N. Y. from San Francis
co. He took lau3anum with suicidal intent,
but took too mncli. Next morning be shot
himself with a Colts revolver. The ball en-
tered his left breast and the surgeons think
it just missed his heart. Letters found 10 his
raom show the act TO have been prem1litate
He will probably die.
John Haggerty went to see his son, Will
lam, n confoctioncr on Broom street, New
York. The people in the house say that in
going up stairs he stumbled over a dead
body in the upper hallway. At any rate he
fell Town stairs, and there was a dead body
in the hallway above. II was that of VIM.
HaggeFty, who had shot himself because on
coming bone Mt $50 O'Clock and knocking
at The door of bis room he got no answer
from his Italian wife and could not get into
the room. The father lay unconscious from
AtAn htNh eAsb NV autAFuibtiffN AuiE WIS EfHf-
moned TO take the son TO the hospital
found the son dead and carried away the
father instead. IL was Paid by the police
that William Haggcrty had no occasion to
be Jealous or suspicious of bis Italian wife.
She was asleep in bed when the husband
knocked On tie door and did not wake up
all at once but bearing the pistol shot she
did get up and went out and found her
husband 6rad.
At Oxfofsi North Carolina there was a triple
execution which caused a great sensation.
On the LIST of last June the body Of Squire
Grizzom sn old colored man, was found in
his house witt, his head cut OF. Henry Tan
her and Jpln Tanner. eolored, were arrested.
charged f1th the crime, and lodged in OK
ford Jail Another negro named Alonzc
Smith ives stso in jail charged with burglary
and arsofi- tarly one morning masked men
both white and eolored, came in from the
country, otfepowered the sheriff and tool
the keys frH a drawer in his Office. They
opeVsd the doors and entered the steel cells
very quietly, ard quickly, and easily, and
~overpowerei the jaiier. The lynehers took
the two Tsniters and Smith with them &c
the woods ssts By and hspged them,