Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-09
THE MALADY WE ALL HAVE.
1t Assumes Alarming Proportions In
New York City.

Inc returns 70 the bureau OF vital STATISTICS
show that two hundred and fifty deaths oc-
CURED in New York for the twenty-four hours
ending at noon yesterday. The like of this has
never been known in the history of the depart
ment since the time of cholera. The record
today is fifteen in excess of that Of yesterday.
During the four days of this week eight hun
dred and thirty-nine people have died in the
city of New York. The morgue is crowded to
its utmost capacity. The reports from Bellevue
hospital to the central Office today showed that
ninety bodies, the greatest number in the his
tory Of that institution, were there awaiting re-
moval.
Official returns show that not less than five
hundred thousand persons in Vienna and
suburbs, amounting to AZ per cent of the popu-
latlon, have suffered from influenza.
The Princess Bismarck has recovered from
the influenza. Dr. Doelinger and the Bava-
rian ministers, Lutz and Feilitch, are getting
better.
Lieut.. Charles E. Schroeder of the Reading
artlllerists died yesterday at Reading. Pa. He
had been suffering for some time with pulmon-
airy troubles. On Saturday last he had
we're attack of the grip. This led to pneu-
| monia.
One of the most violent cases thus far re-
ported is that of Samuel w. Whitman, fire.
man on the Reading railroad. He was taken
with the disease on Tuesday while on duty and
became delirious. imagining that there were
distractions upon the track and wrecks to be
avoided. He was brought home and has since
been very violent. He constantly imagines
that he sees danger signals and it is with diff
Guilty that he Is prevented from jumping out Of
the windows.
The influenza epidemic. assisted by the wet
weather OF the last week, Is steadily increasing
at Johnstown, Pa. At present there are about
serious.
Today Smouse Brothers large saw mill at
Bradford, Pa. was compelled to close down, as
all OF the employees are down with the grip.
Hugh j. Peddler, a well-known resident of
CarDondalc, Pa, died yesterday of bronchitis
brought on by the Russian disease. Peter Ne
Cormlck died few days ago of the same all
ment.
Thomas V. Chaplain. aged fifty-four years, of
Huntingdon, Pa, died yesterday afternoon OF
the grip after an illness of two days.
Mrs. Mary Jefferson, wife of John Jefferson
superintendent of the Philadelphia and Reading
coal and iron company, of Shamokin, Pa, died
yesterday from the grip
&. b. McHenry, associate Judge of Columbia
county, Pa, died at his home at Saltwater yes
terday of Influenza.
Hines furniture factory at Williamsport
Pa, smut down yesterday because SO many
OF their employees were sick with the grip. The
foreman OF the Williamsport furniture COM
pany says that their factory will close if they
have no increase of help, as most of their men
are down with the grip.
James Oliver died yesterday at Wilmington
Del, of influenza. being the first fatal case of
grip reported III Wilmington 1t is estimated
that at least One-fourth of the inhabitants of
the city either have or have had the Russian
epidemic i'll mild form
Stephen Bicknell, an old resident of North
weymouth, Mass, ana Orrin +. Hart, promi-
nent citizen and selectman of Athol, died from
the grip yesterday.
Samuel W. Legg of London, England, died
tuesday night at the Keystone house, Dixon,
ILL.,. OF the grip.
Emil Ruger, who for more than thirty years
had been identified with the ship brokerage
business OF New York. died late on Tuesday
evening at the German hospital of pneumonia
lhere was significant increase N the NOR
tally IL Brook YIN last week, the deaths num-
berlng Al, which was Ill more than the pre-
vIous week and l27 more than the correspond
ing week in 1889
Charles W. Peasants, the senior member of
the law firm OF Peasants Banta, died yester-
day morning at ITO Montague street, Brooklyn,
In his ifty-second year.
Victor Guilmette, treasurer of the Standard
theater of New York, died late Tuesday night
OF pneumonia developed from an attack of the
grip.
Wilhelm Sedlmayer, one of the tenors of the
German opera company, died i'll New York yes
terday afternoon at o'clock He appeared
once only this season, at the first production of
The Barber of Bagdad." He caught cold di-
rectly afterward, and the cold developed into
the grip.
The influenza has not abated in Troy and
vicinity. William kirwin and John II. Fogan,
well-known young residents of Lansingburg.
dleu last evening from pneumonia owing in
each case to an attack of the grip.
-Four deaths from pneumonia have been re-
ported at the office OF the registrar of vital sta
tistics in Rochester during yesterday and the
day before, and in each case the physician was
OF the opinion that the illness had resulted
from the Russian influenza.
w. A. Anderson, an Amherst college student
class of '9l, died at Saco, Me-, yesterday. He
went there with the college glee club on New
Years day, and was taken with the grip. He
was twenty one years OF age and belonged in
Worcester.
Congressman Frank Lawler, who has been
sick in bed with the influenza for a week at
Chicago, was able to be out yesterday for the
first time. Dispatches from many points in
Illinois, Iowa and Indiana report influenza
raging.
There are seventeen cases of the grip at the
navy yard i'll Portsmouth, NH. Among those
afflicted are Commander Skerritt and Construc.
tor Hoover. The malady is spreading in the
city.
Miss Bertha Hayley, aged twenty. we'll
known young lady of Bridgeport. Conn. died
yesterday of the grip after a weeks illness
W. X. Coleman, wealthy widower of Den
yer, and Miss Jennie l.. Dick, daughter of a
well-to-do widow, were to have been married
today at Louisville, but the grip interfered
Coleman had arrived and all preparations were
proceeding when a telegram from New York,
where his son is i'll school, announced that the
grip had broken out in the school and young
Coleman was critically ill. Coleman wished the
nuptlals solemnized at once, that his wife
might go east with him. Mrs. Dick objected
and the marriage was postponed. Coleman
left Immediately for New York. He will return
to marry when his son is convalescent
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