Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-15

1T Is HARD TO GET AWAY FROM.
The Grips Daily Budget of Victims
! From All Over the World.
The Pennsylvania railroad company has been
compelled to refuse freight at Pittsburg for the
sesboard during the past few days on account
OF grip. The fact Of the matter is the freight
crews Of the Pennsylvania railroad on the
eastern division have been paralyzed during
the past two weeks to such an extent that it has
been impossible to get enough men to handle
the freight with any degree of promptness. On
one division, where 200 conductors, freight and
passenger, are regularly employed, 1856 were
off duty at one time with the grip. New men
were put on some Of the trains, but in a ma
jority of the cases it was impossible to get new
men, and when they were secured they proved
| to be more easy victims to the grip than the
| old men. Freight began to collect on the
eastern divisions to such an extent that few
| days ago an order was issued to send no more
freight for seaboard points until further no
| tice. There was blockade of freight at Al
| toOna Monday, due to the fact that the train
master was unable to get out full crews and
only about half Of the usual amount Of freight
could be handled.
Mrs. Dewitt Talmadge has the grip in
| Vienna.
adam Amberg, Chicago ex-asseseor, took .
Turkish bath to cure the grip and died in con-
sequence.
The Nesos reports 1000 school children Of
| cations thereof.
| The grip has struck the officers Of the court
OF appeals at Annapolis. Tl.e clerk, Spencer
| c. Jones Of Rockville. is sick at home. James
?. Blays, deputy clerk, is ill with it in Prince
Georges and Schaaf Stockett, the reporter OF
the court, has it also. r. v. Clayton Is the only
clerk left well and he has his hands full with
the work OF the Office and a sick family be-
| sides.
| The Indian school, four miles north of Arkan.
| sas City, Is closed on account of grip. The
Indians In Indian territory are great sufferers,
many being stricken with pneumonia.
Mrs. Henrietta Byrd, one Of the most es-
teemed and Oldest inhabitants Of Salisbury,
Md, and one Of the richest, died Of the grip
yesterday.
Grip has closed the schools Of Columbia, Pa.
The proportion of absentees had reached about
| three-fourths, and several teachers were among
the number. The rolling mills have had great
| difficulty in procuring enough men to run.
The West Bethlehem, Pa, high school ia
| closed on account Of the absence of Principal
Bender and Instructor Stocker, who are sick
| with influenza.
Forbes Dawson, prominent young actor at
the Strand theater, London, in Our Flat"
died OF the grip yesterday. Several clergymen
have also died within couple of days.
The princess of Wales has the grip.
Among the 500 victims Of the grip in Hun
tingdon, Pa is Joseph II. Miller, speaker of
| the Illinois house Of representatives. Speaker
| Miller, who is a member of the legislative COM
mittee appointed to inspect the eastern prisons
and reiormatories, was Frustrated here with
| the disease last week during the committees
visit to the state industrial reformatory. located
here. He is lying at the reformatory and his
condition is precarious.
| NV. Guiles. proprietor Of hotel at Day Gen.
ter, Saratoga county, MY, died Saturday from
| the grip. Mrs. Bristol OF Schuylersyills also
died from the same cause.
| Andrew Sullivan, elected assemblyman from
Rochester, NY, district, died from grip yes
| terday.
At the county aims house at Dover, NH,
John Andegee, cOlored, and Geo. H. Mute died
Of grip. Thirteen other inmates are very sick.
Aba, aged twenty-five years. daughter of J.
| w. Iibbetts, proprietor of the Glindor house,
at East Rochester. NH. died today OF the dis
ease.
Justice NJ. R. NJ Wallace Of Chicago who was
a, general during the war and with Grant at
Shiloh, is dying.
Sir John Thompson. the Canadian minister
OF justice, is suffering from severe attack Of
| influenza.
the registrars return Of deaths in the met
! ropotan district of London for the week gives
2,'47. This is $40 above the average. OF these
deaths 81 are classified az due directly to inAu-
enza, but ,069 are reported as due to diseases
\
cess of the average OF deaths from such diseases.
| The registrars returns for Ireland show that
the epidemic there is decreasing.
The influenza Is spreading ct Gibraltar, but
is OF a very mild type.
King Carlos OF Spain is recovering from his
| attack Of influenza.
H. H. Fuller. son of the late Bishop Fuller,
died at Hamilton, Ont, from grip.
Senator Blackburn's Nightmare.
From the New York Sun.
Joe Blackburn has just been reelected to the
United States Senate. When he was out in
kentucky visiting the legislators he arrived one
evening at a small village with only one hotel.
Ii was railroad town and most Of the rooms
in the hotel were occupied by railroad men.
There was only one vacant apartment and that
| was to be occupied by an engineer who, might
come at any time. Blackburn was tired and
sleepy and said he would occupy the room and
| take the chances.
Some time in the night the Senator was
awakened by the tfrusting of bright lantern
into his face. Somebody seized him by the
shoulders and gave him tremendous shake
and a coarse, grutf voice exclaimed:
Get up, Lankey, you've got to go out on
NO: y. Skinnys already gone on No. 7 and the
order is for you to follow. Shorty's goin' to
make the power for You and Sandy Jim is goin
to do the hgurin' i'll the back end"
As such language was strange 10 the Senator
he concluded it must be a nightmare, turned
over and was dropping of to sleep again, when
he was shaken two or three times, dragged out
Of bed and dropped on the floor.
"No you DON'T" exclaimed the intruder
.'that won't wash, Lanky. I'm not going to
lose my job for You. If leave you here You'll
go back to bed, thinking you'll only snooze a
minnie and, of course, you'll get left Then they'll
fire me for not calling you. No, there amt no
use to kick. Put on your clothes and come on
l hear old No. 9 growing now. Hurry up!"
"What in - do you suppose l know or
care about No. 81" exclaimed the Senator.
"What are We givin' me?" answered the in
truder. ''Pve had EN- tell me that before
when they were sleepy and didn't want to 90"
Then the night watchman for it was he, and
he had taken the senator for the engineer
whom he was to awake, thrust the lantern into
Mr.. Blackburns face. He recognized his mis-
take and knew the Senator and was for o mo-
ment aghast He quickly recovered himself
and said:
"Ihe only apology have to offer Is this
; As he spoke he pulled out q small pocket
flask and handed 1t to the Senator. The latter
took draught, smiled affably, said the apol-
ogy wassuticient and went back to slumber.
Millionaire John b. Shoenberger's win vas
fled for probate IN New York. 1t leaves nearly
o million dollars to found . memorial hospital
to his wife in Pittsburg. There are other
! charitable aud numerous private bequests.
; freight train on the Reading railroad ran
into the rear end of another freight train ct
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