The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-09-28
WELCOME TO JACK FROST.

WELCOME TO JACK FROST.
Its Appearance In the South-Southern-
eFs More Hopeful-Louisyille Crowded
with Refugees-The Fevers Awful Work
in Cuba.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Sept. GA light
frost fell Tuesday night on the hills around
the city which did much to allay all fears
of yellow fever in this section. The frost
is reported as general on the mountains
throughout North Alabama.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Sept 26.-Telegrams
report frost at various points in the State.
The temperature here is 81.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Sept. 26-There
| was light frost on the mountains near
here Tuesday morning. The weather is
cool and Jack Frost is daily expected to
supplant the dreaded Yellow Jack.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Sept. 26-The hope
full feeling that the worst of the epidemic
is over continues. While new cases are
developing very rapidly, the type of the
disease appears to be milder, and while
many people are very sick the death rate
continues low. The Official bulletin for
the twenty four hours ending at p m. re-
ports 143 new cases, of which eighty-fiv
are among the colored people. Only four
deaths are reported. Cases to date, g. 1874;
total deaths, 221.
At Camp Mitchell thirty-five houses are
ready for occupancy, but there will hard
| ly be accommodations for any great num-
Der of refugees in time to assist to any
considerable extent in the effort to depop-
ulate the city.
| A special from McClenny reports eight
| new cases of fever and one death-that of
| Jonathan Law. Ample supplies for the
| present were yesterday sent to McClenny
| by the Sanitary Association.
Twelve new cases are reported at Fer
| nandina and three at Ellanville There
have been at least dozen deaths at Fer
nandina during the last two weeks, but
| the facts have been suppressed by the
| officials there, and it was not until it be-
| came known that the town would be in
| spected by marine-hospital surgeon that
| the presence Of yellow fever was acknowl-
| edged. S>
DECATUR, Ala, Sept. 26-Four new cases
| of fever aud two deaths have been report
ed since noon yesterday Three other par
ties are sick and are looked on as suspi-
cious cases. The relief COMMITTEES is under
a splendid system of organization, with
| plenty of nurses, both white and
colored, and is now better pre-
pared to handle the disease than hereto
| fore. The relief committee has received
only SIS in money since Monday, and it is
feared that it will soon be necessary to
call on the general public Less than zoo
people still remain here and most Of them
| are, or soon will be, in a destitute condi-
ton, as no work of any kind is going
on. The physicians are making no
charges for their services and are working
/ hnr 11yy Nav oil off ,,rrb
some of them are from Northern States
and never saw case Of yellow fever until
| the scourge broke out here.
! There is still no chance of communica-
ton to or from Decatur, save by telegraph.
No mails leave here, and what is thrown
| off is not opened.
| JACKSON, Miss, Sept. 26-No new cases
have developed and no deaths have oc-
Cured during the last thirty-six hours.
According to the State Board of Health
census there are 1870 people within the
quarantine limits, of whom 427 are white.
Only 404 of the whole 1920 have had the
fever, leaving 1876 who are liable to
have it,
! LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. 26.-The State
| Board of Health has issued a proclama-
4 ton raising all the local guarantees in
the State, which, it says, are illegal,
never having received the sanction of the
State Board. The proclamation also says
| that the State has established an inspec-
| tion quarantine all along its southern Dor.
der, which is sufficient protection. Hick.
man. not being on the line of an inspection
| road, is exempted from the operations OF
| the order.
mated that over ZOO refugees from Jack
/ cnrxr of1,r To-
making their homes in Louisville. There
are now at the Eruptive Hospital three
| cases of yellow fever--Dr. Taylor, Mr.. B.
Grant and Mr. J. W. Thomasson, all OF
whom are from Decatur. They are getting
along very well and it is hoped and be-
lieved will pull through. Among the
latest arrivals from Decatur is N
A. Carroll, of New York He tells
a horrible story of the sufferings
of the people there. He says that they are
starving and there is no way to get food.
The negroes openly threatened to break
into houses and secure food if something
was net done for them. Until he arrived
in Louisville he had eaten nothing but
bread and molasses for two days There
is plenty of whisky in Decatur, but nobody
wants it, belief being popular that il
brings ON the fever.
| WASHINGTON, Sept. 26-The Post Office
Department has information that no trains
| are running between Memphis and New
| Orleans except accommodation trains, none
| between New Orleans and Wilson, La, nor
between Greenwood and jackson, Jackson
and Natchez, Meridian and Shreveport
Meridian and New Orleans, Cairo and Mo.
| bile, Aberdeen and Durant, Selma and
| Meridian, Chattanooga and Meridian, ex.
cept short train between Birmingham
and Tuscaloosa.
SANTIAGO, Cuba, Sept 26. = Yellow
| fever reigns supreme in this city and al
the military hospital outside. A servant
| of the Amcrical Consulate has just been
sent to the hospital with it. Of 965 men OF
theBattalon of San Quentin on duty in San
to Espiritu twenty-three have fallen vic.
TINS to yellow fever, seventeen more have
been attacked with it, and three of them
are dangerously ill. OF detachment OF
nine men on duty at Parades, all were at
| tackled and seven died. Twenty -four
| city. Out of full company of men ali
| but eight have been swept away in this
| city. ~
The island Of Nassau has declared
| forty days. quarantine against US.
| New ORLEANS, Sept. 90 1t is officially
| announced that there has not been a. case
of yellow fever in this city or State il
| three years. Dispatches from points in
Mississippi show that the panic is slowly
subsiding in most places. At Yazoo City,
however. the people are deserving the
place though no fever has appeared.
NASHVILLE Tenn, Sept 26.-An appea
to Knights of Pythias for the relief OF
suffering brethren in the South has beer
issued by William Ward, the Suprem'
Chancellor.
When Isaac Hopper, the distin-
guished old Quaker, met q boy with a
dirty face or with dirty hands, he
would stop him and inquire: '.Has