Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-19
Stricken by the Plague.
THE LUMBER OF CASES REAcE
OVER A THOUSAND,
WITH 105 DEATHS TO DATE
M Mayor of Jacksonville Opens an OF,
fico at Cleveland, o., for Receiving
~ contributions-The evening Me-
tropolis Forced to Suspend.

JACKSONVILLE, Sept. 1s. Thirteen
new cases and two deaths are reported
to-day. The Jacksonville Evening Me-
tropolis was obliged to discontinue,
every person connected with the paper
being on the sick list.
A special to thaN5sTiimag Union says:
Six cases of yellow fever have appeared
at Gainesville among members of the
Gainesville guards, that recently went to
help suppress the 'longshoremen riot at
Fernandina. A Fernandina special says
that place is absolutely healthy.
The news from McClenny is favorable.
The immediate wants of the community
nave been relieved, and physicians,
nurses, provisions and money have been
sent there. The weather continues an
favorable.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 1S.-The Texas
quarantine against New Orleans wac
raised after the Louisiana authorities had
~telegraphed a positive and vigorous pro-
test and declaration that no yellow fever
existed in New Orleans. The telegram
of the Louisiana state board of health
was as follows:
1--WE give positive assurance that there
Is no yellow fever in New Orleans. There
has not even been q suspicious case this
summer. Should a case occur, you will
be Immediately notified, in ACCORDANCE
with the pledge entered into between
the boards of health of the Gulf states. y
The p~residentof the Produce Exchange
telegraphed to the governor of Texas:
1.-THE members OF the Exchange solemnly
protest against the outrage and injustice
perpetrated upon our city. Such action
is unwarranted, from the fact that not
even a suspicious case of yellow fever
has been here this season. Our people
believe you will undo the wrong in
f1cted not only upon our commercial
community, but or our citizens gener.
ally"
The Merchants and Manufacturers as
ISOLATION met and adopted a resolution
protesting against the quarantine. Also
to formulate some plan to prevent a
repetition of the action taken by Health
Officer Rutherford of Texas.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept. 18.-The sit
nation in the south arising from the yell
lowsfever epidemic in Florida, will be
fully discussed here, and among other
things an attempt made to lesson the
hardship of needless quarantine In GER
tain localities. Tennessee, Kentucky,
Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina
and Illinois will be represented in the
conference by leading yellow fever ex-
ports.
The Nashville Mill company has re-
ceiyed q telegram from Brooks, Living
stone s. Co. of Gainesville. Fla, counter
manding an order for -four, and giving
as a reason that yellow fever had broken
out there.
A special from Waunatchie, Tenn,
nine miles from Chattanooga, says that
a refugee from Decatur, Ala, put off
here by Chattanooga quarantine officers
last week, died of black vomit Saturday
night at Wildwood, three miles from
here. A special from Chattanooga de.
MES that the Case was yellow fever, and
says deceased was a victim of malaria.
ST. Louis, Sept. 1e. - The city
healtk authorities, as a precautionary
measure, placed in nm isolated ward of the
city hospital a family of euligrants from
Pensacola, Fla. consisting of Joel Davis,
wife and two small children, and Mrs,
Emily McLaug HIN. Mrs. Mclaughlin
is sick with q fever, and her jaundiced
appearance is not inviting, although the
city physicians say 1t is not yellow fever
bnt to prevent any mistakes the family
were sent to the hospital and their effects
thoroughly fumigated.