The Jersey City news., 1892-02-12
CONDENSED DISPATCHES
Typhus Fever Increasing in New
YOrk-Ten New Cases.

NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 1892. DIR. Edison
and his staff are giving their unremitting
attention to the typhus fever emergency.
Neither he nor his men got any time to
sleep last night.
Between midnight and noon today they
had found ten new cases of typhus fever.
making a total so far of sixty-seven, and
had sent eightv-one persons all told
to North Brother Island, the
others being mothers and children
who had been so exposed to the fever IN
ten ing the sick that it was only ques-
tion of days when they would be taken
sick, considering their enfeebled con-
dition.
BY that time. too, they had organized
an effective system of quarantine, cap
able of extension as occasion requires. A
strong hand had been laid upon the
dreaded plague. strong enough. it was
hoped, to hold it under control.
"There are nine houses on the crowded
East side known SO far to be effected"
said President Wilson today. Every
one of them is under guard. From none
a single person now in it Is allowed to go
out, or will be until all danger has
passed. Nor will anybody be allowed to
enter from without"
Policemen have been put on duty to see
that this order ts strictly enforced. The
infected houses are in Division, Monroe.
Orchard, Delaney, Madison, Norfolk
and East Twelfth streets.
There is still deep disgust in the depart
menG because one of the physicians told
off for duty last night refused to
go to his post because he was
afraid. His name is the subject
of much speculation having been with
held in order to give him chance tore
consider. His own disgust at coward
ice is probably intensified by the
announcement made today that he
was not detailed for duty at North
Brothers Island, as he supposed, but for
anothet post at which there are no con-
tagious cases.
Hotel Royals Unknown Dead Buried.
New YORK, Feb. 10, 1892 Five of the
bodies of the victims of the Hotel Royal
fire, which have not been identified, wer e
buried in Potter's field on Waru's Island.
The sixth and only other unidentified
body remaining at the Morgue is That OF
the man in coffin No. 8. This corpse Is in
such good state of preservation and so
liable to Identification that it will be Kept
for another day or two
Preparing for New York's Census.
NEW YORK, Feb 12, 1892.-The commits
sions of the ma ajority of the S87 men who
have been appointed to take the new GEN.
sus, together with the ueces sary station
cry, arrived in this city this morning.
Under the provisions of the law the
enumerators must get to work next
Tuesday, February 16 and must complete
the enumeration by February 30.
There is one enumerator for each cleo
tion district in the State. This give sS7
TO this city and Gil to Brooklyn.
Harris ON Peterson's Story.
NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 1S92.-A reporter
called at the Tombs this morning to as
certain what Harris, the condemned
wife murderer had to say in regard
TO the story from Chicago
published in this mornings papers to the
effect that a man named Carl Peterson
said that Helen Potts was in the habit of
taking morphine for her complexion.
Under the present law condemned
prisoner is not permitted to receive any
| callers save his lawyers and his family.
| The reporter therefore sent in a note re-
| laLing what Petersen had said and ask
| ing for corroboration or denial of it,
| In response Carl Harris returned the fol-
| lowing:-
81 met Mr.. Peterson and have no
| reason to doubt his veracity. He and
| Miss NJ, Helen and myself were together
several times just before Helen went to
| the Comstock school.
II never heard of morphine being used
| for complexion, Uho'l
my courage is still 'all there Thanks
| HARRIS"