Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-01-02
GETTING WORSE.
The Influenza Assumes a Serious
Form in Paris.
Many Hundreds Have Died and Thousands
Are Ill - Several Portions of the
United states Afflicted with
the Disease,
IRIS IN THE AIR.

IT'S IN THE AIR.
BERLIN. Dec. 27.-The epidemic is de-
ereasing here. 1t is spreading at
Bremen and the managers of the gas
works have notified consumers that the
supply will be short for time in conse-
quence of the sickness of many en-
ployes- At Darmstadt it is severe, and
at Vienna there are many cases among
children, followed by measles. The
Christmas festivities were made duh, as
few families celebrated the day Re-
ports from the Austrian provinces are
that the malady prevails among tho
horses
HURON, S. d., Dec. %. In the Russian
diphthtria epidemic only three deaths
have occurred since Sunday, and by con-
fning the sick within the stricken dis
trict 1t is believed that the disease will
not spread. Leola is the name of the
town near which the disease is raging.
DENVER, Col, Dec. 27.-The Russian
influenza has at last reached the Rocky
Mountains. Three-fourths Of Ae citizens
Of Denver are suffering from the plague.
Reports come from Cheyenne to the eff
feet that that city IS similarly afflicted
PARIS, Dec 2S-The influenza is
spreading and physicians are becoming
alarmed. The number of deaths n the
city from all causes Christmas bay was
31S For several years the regular av-
erage mas been 200 for that day Fully
one-t nird OF the pop' ace is Frustrated
with the disease The editor OF the
Moniteur Universal and three soldiers
died in Versailles hospital Friday.
VIENNA, Dec. 2S.-The hospitals in
this city are crowded with patien is
suffering from influenza, accompanied
by Inflammation of the lungs, pleurisy
and peritonitis There are over 100
cases of influenza in Prague.
LISBON, Dec. 2s.-The number of cases
of influenza in this city and Oporto are
increasing.
Two thousand people have the in
fiuenza, including the Queen and Senior
Comes the Foreign Minister. Baron
Kremers the Orientalist, died Friday
from the effects of influenza.
CHICAGO, Dec. 2s.-Dr. Montgomery,
of the health office, says that several
cases of supposed influenza have come
under his notice, but he wasn't prepared
to state that they were the genuine
type of Russian influenza, although
che symptoms were similar to those of
the imported article.
OMAHA, Neb., Dee. IS grippe, or
Russian influenza, is prevailing here in
epidemic form. 1t is estimated that
fully two-thirds of the people are suffer-
IN, . ~,
mild form, only about half those at
tackled being confined to their beds if
medical treatment is promptly given.
There have been no deaths. Physicians
look upon it as a developed stage Of
epizootic and successfully treat it from
that diagnosis.
BALTIMORE. Md, Dec. 2s.-About
thirty post-office clerks and letter-car-
riers are suffering from influenza and
are unable to work. Numerous other
local cases of ia grippe" are also re-
ported.
Boston, Dec. 2S-Boston is overrun
with ia grippe" OF actual cases de-
handing medical care it is no exaggera-
ton to say there are %, 900 in and around
Boston. Many of the city officials are
nursing the malady at home. At the
house Of correction in Cambridge 1873 of
the $50 prisoners were laid off from
regular work. Lawrence, Lowell Haver-
hill, Woburn, Lynn, Brockton and other
nearby cities report the spread of the
epidemic there. In Salem several hum
dred people are suffering. Maiden claims
1000 cases.
New YORK, Dec. 2s.-La grippe, or
something akin to it, is ravaging
Brooklyn and doing it quite thoroughly.
City officials, police fremen and citi-
zens, rich and poor, are numbered
among its victims. 1t has attacked
the employees in the big dry goods
stores, AND in many of the big estab-
lishments large percentage of the cler-
ica1 force are sneezing, shivering, burn
ing and aching. The symptoms of the
malady in Brooklyn, as described by
many of the sufferers, are in some cases
fever, in others chills, some have head
ache, pains in the chest and lungs, and a
general feeling of lassitude and debility.
The attack varies in severity and con-
tanues from one TO ten days. Fully as
many perfectly SOuHu anu rODuSb people
succumb to it as of those whose general
~ enfeebled condition might be thought
to predisp0se them to any ailment that
had reached an epidemic stage.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S.-"La grippe
has not become epidemic in Washington
yet, but enough cases of influenza have
appeared to make the physicians
think it is here in a mild form. Fri
day the veteran Captain Bassett, Door
keeper of the Senate, was taken with
spasms of violent sneezing and
Vent to his home and to bed with
what the doctors said was a clear case
of influenza. Several other employees
around the Senate have similar attacks,
and it is believed that before many days
goodly portion of the population will
be sneezing. The mild weather which
prevails in Washington does not cause
forebodings of pneumonia.
ROCHESTER,, n. Y, Dec. 2s.-One hun
dred and ten pupils OF the Rochester
public schools are in the clutches of 'la
grippe"
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