Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-06
WHAT LA GRIPPE Is DOING.
The Disease No Respector of Persons,
But Assails All Alike.

The latest victim Of ia grippe" is DR.. Jno. R.
Paxton, pastor of theWest Presbyterian church,
on west Add street, New York. He is suferin 6
from the disease in its most virulent form, al
though he was only stricken yesterday after
noon.
Two hundred and seven deaths were reported
at the New York health department during the
twenty-four hours ended with noon yesterday.
Most of the deaths reported at the coroner's
Office yesterday were due to pneumonia.
La grippe" has broken out at Niagara Falls.
Over a hundred cases are reported, principally
among railway employees. The men on both
the Michigan Central and Grand Trunk roads
have to work double time.
Reports from thirty or forty physicians OF
Poughkeepsie show that they are attending to
nearly 1000 cases of ia grippe" Fatal re-
suits are not noticeable.
Hatfield house, the abode OF the marquis Of
Salisbury, is hospital. While his lordship is
slowly recovering his secretaries have all been
taken down with the complaint and several
members of the household are ill.
Over half the students at the Johns Hopkins
university ane nearly sneezing their heads oil.
The U.S.S. Enterprise has arrived at Ply
mouth, England. The majority of the officers
and crew have influenza Six OF the crew have
been sent to the naval hospital.
JOS Scattergood prominent minister of
the Society of Friends. died at West Chester.
Pa, yesterday. He was taken i'll on Monday
last week with influenza which rapidly devel-
oped into pneumonia.
Owing to the prostration from influenza of
several members OF the choir of the Church of
the Sacred Heart at Trenton. Nj, 1t was i'm
possible to celebrate high mass yesterday. The
ceremony has not been omitted in wears before.
Rev. Thaddeus Hogan, the pastor of the church.
said that the epidemic had become SO wide
spread in the city that it seemed wise to offer
public prayers for its abatement
So many of the employees OF Wilson'S wooden
mill at Trenton, NJ, were laid up with ia
grippe" last week that twenty-four looms were
idle.
Andreas Perthes who died at Gotha of the
influenza Saturday, was descen dant of Justus
Perthes. the founder of the celebrated publish
ing house at Gotha, famous for the issue OF the
annual Almanach de Gotha and scientific and
geographical works, among which may be
mentioned the Geographische Mttheilungen,
formerly edited by DR.. Petermann.
Prof Wilhelm Conrad Hermann Mueller. the
German philologist, who died Saturday at
Goettlngen from la grippe. was born in 1872
and had occupied a chair at Goettngen since
lo4l. His principal works are "De Corey
raeorum Republica" {lS35). which was crowned
by the university; Researches on the Nibelung
Mythology" The Songs OF the Nibelungs,"
Traditions of Lower Saxony" and Middle
High-German Dictionary"
Rev. Mr. Perry. the eminent astronomer who
died Saturday at Dublin. was born i'll 1888. He
was appointed in 1860 director of the meteoro-
logical and astronomical observatory of Stony
hurst college. He was chosen as the head of
the government expedition sent to Cadiz in
1870 to observe the total eclipse of the sun.
In 1874 he was sent to Kergueiin Island to OBJ
serve the transit of Venus. He WAS fellow of
the royal society, to whose Proceedings" he
contributed largely.
Theodore Juckel, New York book can
vasser. another victim of ia grippe" ended
his sufferings by shooting himself on Saturday
afternoon.
John Smith. q Lancaster, Pa. confectiorer,
has been removed to the state insane asylum at
Harrisburg. He went insane with the grippe
and his illusion was that he had a cure for 1t.
The number of persons in Chicago suffering
from influenza III various degrees is estimated
at 10000 The police force has fully 100 officers
on the sick list. The agents OF the board of
education report thousands of school children
down with the disease.
At Brockvilee, Ontario, the works of the
Smart manufacturing company. the Mann man.
ufacturlng company and the Co5sitt company
have been compelled to shut down, owing to a
large number Of their employees being i'll with
ia grippe"