Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-09-24
THE SCARE AT MEMPHIS.

Relieving the Quaranslne blockade
Mt1iesa Companies 20 ON Duty
m1ttee OF the cotton and merchants exchanges
and the city authorities v as held to-day At noon.
Inc stringent quarantine regulations which have
the adoption Of the following:
That Be issued upon the Of the
r Or ct 70
out of the city who live in the city or its vicinity
ana VINO wiz not 60 to any infected district That
people desiring n 70 s0 orOy produce Cd
carry out supplies in wagons or other vehicles
Any persons who are at present at quarantine sta
permits issued by the taxing district authorities,
wnen satisfactory evidence Is shown that they
nave not been In any infected districts.
Inc i0ca! military companies reported for duty
To-Day, and later win De assigned TO duty az pick
cts On the dirt roads.
Sncsi Se aSysor ye
from the cotton and merchants exchanges, In con-
necton with the city and board OF health authOri-
that the city OF Memphis is remarkably healthy,
and that we have had no yellow fever in Our
vicinity since 1879"
TIE JAcKs0NvnLE SITUATION uNcHANGED.
JAcKsoNvILLK, Fla, Sept 2A-This morning was
cool and cloudy and rain has begun 70 fall, max.
Ing damp, disagreeable weather. The situation is
practically unchanged. Reports up to noon show
are colored people. Five deaths are reported for
T T,S,, past eighteen hours: Antonio Chingi, an
1taiiani Cnaa H0llna, CHILD; EDDY Cummings,
LIZZIE FOX, and JAS Thomas.
IN general situation indicates little prospect OF
Improvement. Business u cut on by local Quaran-
Tine throughout the state. More than hall the
stores are now closed, ana Others are doing but
little business. Only one regular train arrives and
departs each day on the various railroads. except
those running 70 the beach. The railroad business
Is very small The boat lines on the river from
TINS point have all stopped.
THERE Is NO FEvBR THERE.
ST 81. LOUIS sept FL z. Clark, mayor OF Kosci-
Attala County. inform the Associated Press that
while kosciusko is isolated BY the rigid quaran-
Tine regulations OF adjoining towns, there Is no
yellow fever in either city or county, and Quaran-
Tine regulations are purely preventive.
Three Young Men Drowned.
ST; JOHN, NEB., Sept 24-Joseph Barberie son
OF Hon. j. c. Barberie, George Edward, son OF
Louis Edward, and Lawrence McHugh, an orphan
lad, were drowned on Dalhousie saturday night
by the upsetung OF their boat. Their bodies were
Thought TO be q Maryland Murderer.
LANCASTER Pa, Sept A-On1cers have arrested
near , Columbia negro supposed 70 be Henry Boyd,
VINO murdered Lew Cox, also colored, In Hartford
County, Md, on September !. The Maryland au-
thorities have been notified.
For Working Their Employees Overtime.
PHILADELPHIA STREET RAILWAY OFFICIALS BEING
PROSECUTED UNDER A STATE LAW.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 24.-Counsel for the of1cials
OF the Peoples Street Railway line and OF the
Magistrate EisenDrown to-day and entered 800
bail for each OF the defendants to answer at court
the charge OF working drivers and conductors
more than twelve hours day In violation OF an
street car assembly OF the Knights OF Labor. The
Railway offcials treat the matter lightly, and
claim that the men have been paid extra for all
overwork.