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vice in the different Southern towns.
He asked that the Government quar-
antine service be put in effect at Deca-
tur to protect Montgomery.
CONGRESS TO THE RESCUE.
WASHINGTON, September GA
special meeting Of the House commit
teo on appropriations has been called
for Monday morning to consider the
Senate bill making an appropriation of
$1,000 for the relief of the sufferers
by the yellow fever in the South.
A WARNING TO REFUGEES.
New YORK, September 22.-Two
refugees from a quarantine camp in
Florida were arrested to-day by health
officers in this city and taken to North
Brothers Island. They will be kept
close prisoners by order of the board of
health. They came from an infected
city, said to be Jacksonville, and had
agreed voluntarily to undergo ten days
quarantine before continuing on their
journey North. They broke their pa
role and came through by rail. Their
ties at the quarantine camp, and Pres
ident Bayles was telegraphed to inter-
cept them. Upon their arriva! to-day
they were arrested and will be quaran-
tined on the island for the remainder
of the ten days, and longer if necessa-
ry. The health officers would not give
their names, but President Bayles,
speaking for the board, said:
"Henceforth we shall arrest and
quarantine for proper time all per-
sons violating their quarantine parole
in the South, whenever we are inform
ed of the presence of such refugees in
the city. Our sources of information
are such as to render it difficult for
them 10 escape. It is our intention to
sustain the health authorities in the
South. Close telegraphic communica-
ton has been established for this pur-
pose with the quarantine corps and To-
cal health boards in the infected dis
tricts."
THE HEROES AT THE TICKERs.
NEW YORK. September 22.-The
World of to-day, referring to the tele-
graphic force at Jacksonville, Fla,
says:
''If it were not for the work of these
heroes, who, Oh meagre pay, are fight
ing as bravely as ever q soldier fought
at the front, the country would hear
nothing of the plague-stricken city,
and hundreds of refugees could learn
nothing of the fate of friends and rela-
tives left behind. The World proposes
to raise a special fund for the brave
workers of the wires in hepest-ridden
district. This will be known as the
Telegraphers' Yellow Fever fund, and
any contributions thereto will be for
warded to the heroes to help their sick
and bury their dead The World
heads the list with subscription of
S100.n
A City of Friends Indeed.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 22.-The citi-
zens' relief committee this afternoon
to the Jacksonville relief
committee to draw on DreXel g. Co.,
treasurers of the yellow fever fund Of
this city, for $500. The amount thus
for forwarded by the Philadelphia
committee aggregates $4,000.
Montgomery and Decatur.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Sept 22.-Dr.
Jerome Cochran, State health officer,
now at Decatur, telegraphs the Mont
gomery board of health that Decatur
has nine cases of yellow fever; that
the place is nearly depopulated and
but little material is left for the fever
to work on. The people go North and
into the country none are coming
South. Decatur is the nearest point
to this city where there is any fever,
and it is two hundred miles north of
here. This city keeps most rigid quar-
antine and no trouble is apprehended
here.
Latch Strings on the Ont
side.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. 22-At a
meeting of the physicians and others
called by Mayor Jacobs it was decided
to open the gates of Louisville to yel-
low fever refugees. A train brought
in 1876 from Decatur this morning.
There is no excitement here. At the
meeting of the doctors it was the sem
timent that Louisville was in no dan
ger. When the physicians gave their
views it was almost unanimously to
the effect that the city should not be
auarantined but that it should repeat
its humane act Of 1875 in welcoming
refugees with open doors. President
Hewitt called for the report OF the
committee which was read as follows ::
The experience of years warrant the
physicians of Louisville in stating con-
fidently to her citizens, and those
visiting the city, that on account of
our geographical and climatic condi-
tions Louisville can be in no danger
from the spread of yellow fever by
contact with those from the infected
districts of the South who may seek
refuge here. The latencss of the sea-
son, and the measures of safety adopt
ed by the State board of health, iusti-
fy i'm assuring our citizens that there
is no danger whatever of the disease
gaining foothold in the city,
a Panic-Stricken Paper.
MERIDIAN, Miss, Sept. 22.- The
News has suspended owing to the
frhn priotprs