River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-09
HAVING A GREAT RUN.
New York and Other American and Eu,
ropean Cities Alarmed at the Rapid
Spread of Influenza

New York and Other American aud Eu- |
ropean Cities Alarmed at the Rapid |
Spread of Influenza.
New YORK, Jan. 6.-Dr. Paul Hof-
man, of New York, assistant superin-
tendent of schools, has been taken to a
hospital raving maniac from the eff
fects of influenza. Friday night he pa
troiled the corridors of the fat in which
he resides, firing of revolver. Later
on he went out into the street and was
arrested by an officer while recklessly
fiourishing the weapon.
NEW YORK. Jan. 6.-The record of
deaths for the last week, prepared by
the sanitary bureau of the health
board, exhibits frlghtful increase of
mortality from pneumonia, bronchitis,
phthisis, and heart diseases, as well as
from influenza More than thirty-nine
out of every 1000 people in New
York City persisted this week. max
ing grand total OF registered
deaths exceeding 1900, against 7oo
in the preceding week.
In Newark the city mail delivery is
badly delayed because so many carriers
are attaC led by influenza. Extra car
riers lave been put on. Newburg, it
is stated, has 1900 victims
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 6.--The influenza
has taken firm grip on Milwaukee.
For at least three or four days men and
women on every side and in every walk
of life have been sneezing and coughing
and showing all the premonitory signs
of la grippe.
George Runner, driver for T. Kriz &
Co., on Sunday effectually checked the
premonitory symptoms of influenza He
sent pistol ball through his head and
died half an hour later. He was 40
years of age and unmarried. His body
is at the morgue. A dispatch from Mad
ison says Governor Hoard and his entire
family are afflicted with the grip.
The Governor is kept a prisoner in his
room.
CHICAGO, Jan. 6.-Within the past two
days Russian influenza, or la grippe,
which is epidemic in Chicago, has de-
veloped into far more pronounced and
dangerous type. Twenty persons are
afflicted in one house alone on the West
side. Conservative estimates place the
number of afflicted in the city at 10000.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 6.-The influenza is
spreading very rapidly at Jefferson City,
the State capital. Secretary of State
Tanning and his wife are both very i'll.
The Governor has been i'll for two days
and several clerks at the capitol are con-
fined to their rooms. Doctors estimate
that there are at least 100 cases of grip
in this city. There have been no deaths
thus far.
Boston, Jan. 6.--The influenza and
erratic character of the weather have
wrought sad havoc the last week, as the
extraordinary death rate reported by
the Board of Health shows The deaths
for the week in Boston number 34s,
nearly 100 greater than was ever
recorded before for similar
period. The influenza has made
its effects felt in the increased
number of fatal cases of pneumonia,
bronchitis, consumption and heart dis
ease. it having served to intensity each
of these diseases. Reports from all
parts of New England-even from the
drier climate of the mountains. in Yer
mont--show that the epidemic has laid
low thousands upon thousands of VIC
Tins.
LONDON, Jan. 6-The Russian infiu-
enza has secured firm grip in London
and is raging and spreading in the prov
inces. 1t is said that in one public in
stitution in the East end of London
there are over 800 cases. and it has been
established beyond reasonable doubt
that some ten or dozen deaths in the
metropolitan district last week have
been due directly or indirectly to in
fiuenza.
In France, Germany and Austria the
epidemic, after showing signs of subsid-
ing, has revived with almost its original
vigor. According to an imaginative
newspaper writer half of Paris is sick
and the other half is running to and from
the doctors and druggists. Vienna is not
in much better condition. Berlin has had
q bad relapse, and Rome is worse than
ever. Everywhere the disease main
tains it's democratic impartiality, having
attacked, besides the unnamed tens of
thousands, the dowager Empress Au-
gusta. of Germany, the Queen of Saxouy,
the Belgian Crown Prince, Archduke
Field Marshal Albrecht THE Austrian
Moltke), Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria,
and Archduke Frederick of Aus
tria. Lord Salisbury has been con-
fined to his bedroom for twelve
days past. The Austrian Premier,
Count Taaffe, is also down with the
disease, and there Is not Cabinet in
Europe that has not furnished two or
more victims. The highest number OF
deaths caused by the epidemic IS in
Venice, where forty-three deaths are
reported in a single day The last news
from Milan is that the disease is rapidly
spreading
BERLIN, Jan. 6.-Princess Bismarck
and Princess Rottenburg are seriously
i'll with la grippe. Many deaths are re-
ported. The Dowager Empress Augusta,
who is suffering with influenza, had
bad night, being unable to sleep. Her
fever, however. has rather diminished.
The influenza is spreading in the
provinces. Business is partially sus-
pended and in many places the school
houses have been converted into hospi-
tails. Herr Patow, formerly Minister OF
Finance, has died from Inflammation of
the lungs.
Many of the friendly societies in
Vienna are suspending or curtailing
payments in consequence of the heavy
calls made upon them by victims of the