St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-04
RaVAGEs OF THE GRIP.
The Disease Passing Itself Around
Promiscuously.

AHc DiSedSc RAISING ktSel1 AFOunU
Promiscuously.
NEW York, Jan. 3.-To-day is
balmy summer day, with bright SIM
shine, such as was never seen in New
York city before at this time of the year.
The deaths to-day numbered 220, against
125 yesterday, and 165 on Wednesday.
This is something unprecedented at
this time of the year. Pneumonia,
bronchitis and consumption show an i'll
crease over the standard per day at this
season. The number of policemen re-
ported to be sick this morning was 337,
showing a steady increase. The in
crease in the number of deaths is at
trbuted to the grip and the diseases
which follow that malady.
LONDON. Jan. 3.-The influenza is
spreading among the London police
force. 1t prevails especially among
those officers who are doing duty in the
eastern part of the metropolis. The
Marquis of Salisbury attributes the DE-
currGnce of influenza at the foreign
office to dispatches received from Rus
streets around the Russian embassy,
and the doctors there have thought that
it came. from the embassy.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. SIN re-
Spouse to an inquiry from the state
board of health. Health Officer AShmun,
of this city, reports that there are 5000
cases of Ia grippe in Cleveland. Police
men, firemen, street railToaderS and
nearly all classes are attacked by it,
There have yet been no fatal cases here,
owing no doubt 10 the very mild weather
that has prevailed since the disease first
made its appearance.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Jan. ga dis
patch from Manhattan, Kan, reports
100 cases of influenza there, mostly of
mild type. At Oiathe, Kan, a canvass
among the physicians to day revealed
the existence of seventy-ive Gases of the
disease.
NICE, Jan. 4.-The doctors of the
Riviera are overworked attending pa
tients with the influenza. Persons con-
valescent with pulmonary maladies are
ready victims of the epidemic.
NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-Louls Nathal, the
well-knoWn author and dramatlSt, died
last evening at the French hospital
from the grip.
MUNICH, Jan. 3.-The influenza pre-
walls to such an extent in this city that
it has been found necessary to close the
schools.
BERLIN, Jan. 3.-The influenza is
mund. and the coal output is III conSe-
quence much reduced.
WALTHAM, Mass, Jan. 3.-Maria Pull
ford, school girl aged fourteen years,
was found dead in bed at the home of
her uncle. Isaac PulfOrd, this morning.
The doctor prOnounces it a case OF la
grippe. She had complained of head
ache and of not feeling we'll for several
days. but had attended school, and was
not supposed to be seriously ill.
PTTTSBURG, Jan. 3.-Andrew Carne-
gle arrived i'll this city last night. To-
day he is suffering from severe attack
of influenza, and is not able TO attend to
business, and will probably be confined
to his room for several days.
LONDON, Jan. 3.--AmOng the arrivals
upon the Umbria yesterday was Her.
bert Smith. the well known Philadelphia
children in Switzerland Thursday. Mr..
Smith was taken with the grippe, which
RAPIDLY developed to congestion of the
lungs, and he died at the Victoria hotel
to-day before his wife could reach him.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 3.-The influenza
seems to be making considerable prog
reSs in Baltimore. Out oil total of
600 policemen IS are on the sick list
with la grippe. The physicians geDer-
ally report busy time, many of their
patients suffering from influenza.
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 3.-Hon. Horace
Rublee. lex minister to Switzerland, is
quite i'll with influenza. Seven actors
of the ArOnSon Opera company are also
laid up.
HARRIsBURG, Pa, Jan. 3.-The ply
sicians here estimate that there are
1900 cases of influenza in this city.