Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-09-16
THE CHOLERA.

A ship that arrived at San Franc isco
from Calcutta, last week, reported two
deaths on board from cholera, during the
voyage; and the vessel was fumigated and
quarantined
There were ten new cases on board the
Norm annia in n. Y. bay, Wednesday.
On Thursday eleven new cases were re-
ported on the vessels at quarantine, and
four deaths.
The vast commerce of the city of Ham
burg is blocked, the scenes at the hospitals
and charnel houses are terrible; on Monday
of last week 400 bodies were at the char
mel house awaiting burial and huge piles OF
eoffins were on hand; deso!ation and mis-
cry were everywhere.
On Friday the steamer Sc andia arrived
at Quarantine from Hamburg with the
crew badly stricken with cholera. There
were thlrty-tSo deaths on board during
the voyage.
President Harrison directed that part
of the {. S. reservation at Sandy HOOK,
n. ]. be used as a camping ground for the
quarantined passengers of the steamers
The report ola case of cholera in Pitts
burg Friday, was not corroborated BY the
local papers.
Saturday, two deaths occurred on the
Scandia. and four new cases were report
ed: the vessel was thoroughly fumigated,
and DR.. Jenkins examined each of the
9s1 immigrant passengers on board the
ship. Cholera did not appear on the Scan
dia, until three days after leaving Ham
burg, and the passengers were nearly all
Russian Jews, and they were very dirty.
The cabin passengers of the Normannia
were transferred to the Stonington
steamboat expressly prepared for them;
and they expected to be quartered on Fire
Island next day.
Three thousand bodies were buried in
the cemeteries of Hamburg last week, and
on Saturday the hospitals contained 5000
patients, though the plague appeared to be
abating.
A dispatch from London dated last Sat
urday said:
The action of the local government board
this week in authorizing the exclusion ol
immigrants not able to give an address N
the United kingdom was prompted
bv the action of the American Presi-
dent in issuing his order for twenty days
detention of all immigrant ships. 1t was
feared that in the influx of Russian jews
regarding which the people OF Great Brit,
ain are already sufficiently impatient would
be diverted altogether to Great Britain and
that the larger cities to which these people
invariable throng would be oyercrowded
with them. A we'll known statistici4n who
has made immigration a study, said to-day
that the movement Of the Russian jews
was the most dangerous immigration
known to history since the days Attlla and
that in some respects it was Infinitely
more TO be dreaded by civilized communi
ties. He said that all sorts Of deception
had been resorted to in order to get thcst
miserable refugees into England and Amer
lea without exciting the public suspicion
They were sent in patches To Glasgow, tt
| TiverpooI. Havre and other places, in or
der that the volume Of their immigration
| by way of Hamburg, which was their prln
cipal port of departure should not attrac
| too much attention. They were told Il
call themselves Australians, Prussians. o
| Germans in general way, and anything
but Russian Jews. They were instructed
70 represent themselves as desirous
working on farms i'll order to allay the ap
prehensions Of people in the cites, but no
one in ten thousand had any idea ei-re
naming on a farm, even if a preteus
should be of entering upon agriculture
If they wanted to do any farming the sta
tistician said they had ample opportuDit.
in the Argentine republic to which mum
ber had been sent; but those sent ther
had not only refused to work, but had at
tackled people appointed to take care o
them. What they really wanted, addc'
the statistician was to crowd into tn
cities and make living at peddling o
something Of the kind.
Everybody is convinced here of the cor
rectness Of Prof Koch's statement, mad
after thorough examination, that the Rus
sian emigrants brought the cholera t
Hamburg, and there is little doubt tha
they brought it also to Liverpool. Man.
of these, who have gone to America b.
way of Liverpool, are indescribably filthy
Their clothes appear to have been worl
for months. and sometimes it is difficult +
tell whether they arc black or white. Il
this condition they are received into lodg
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of the plague they have brought from Rus
sia. 1t is always necessary to whitewasl
and scrub after Russian Jews have left
lodging house, 1t was while engaged il
such occupation that a workman in Glas
cow was seized some days ago with chJl
eraic symptoms. The case did not prov
to be cholera and the man recovered. Hi
sickness was accounted for on the groun
of the lothesome condition of the apart
mepts which he had been cleaning an
which had been occupied by Russian
Jews.
The opinion is generally expressed tha
the emigration of Russian Jews must b
stopped if Western Europe and Americ
are to be saved from plague visitations. l
is pointed out that the czar has vast an
largely fertile country in Siberia and tina
if he does not want the Jews IN Russia b
ought to give them land in Siberia. A
emirrapts to Western Europe they arc
pestilence and a nuisance.
On Sunday, three more cases were re
ported on the Scandia, and two deaths
both young children.
The people of Fire Island objected to tn
Normannia landing there, attempted T.
burn the hotel on the Island, and made
necessary for the health officers to send TO
the New York police.
On Monday the inhabitants OF Fire Isl
and continued to resist the landing of pas
scngers there, and were successful first By
mob, and then by legal injunction. Tn
piteous appeals of passengers fell upol
deaf ears,
On Tuesday, Gov. Flower ordered ou
the Militia to assist in preserving the peac
and protecting the passengers who want
ed to land at Fire Island; but many of tn
residents of the Island left it, and th
Sheriff of the county wired that the troop
were not needed. The passengers of tn
| Normannia landed and were quartered a
the Surf Hotel, which had been sod to tn
State for quarantine puposes. They wer
overioyed to be on land once more.
Forty deaths from cholera were reported
in Paris Monday.
A dozen Catholic priests and fiYe hun
dred Sisters of Mercy have volunteers
their services as nurses, should choler
break ont in New York.
On Wednesday five deaths from ch oler
were reported in New York city, and tn
physicians failed to find the origin of tn
! cases
The tank steamer Heligoland, arrived il
| New York bay that day from Altoona, ol
the Elbe, having lost two men from ehol
era on the voyage.
THE Arab slave aud ivory merchants o
Central Africa, near the headwaters of tn
Congo, are reported to have murdered ev
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