The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-17
LORD HOUGHTON TO BE THE
VICEROY OF IRELAND.
Enthusiastic Reception to the New
Premier on His Journey.
A CHOLERA HOSPITAL CRUSHED
BY A FRIGHTFUL STORM.

Speculations About the Ministerial Future
Dying of Cholera in Russia at the
Rate of Seven Thousand Day-Other
News and Notions from Over the Sea.
LONDON, August 16.-A large crowd
waited for hours today to receive Mr.
Gladstone in Carleton Gardens where he
is staying until he takes up his official
residence in Downing street.
When he drove UP from Waterloo sta
tion he was given an ovation, the crowd
cheering him to the echo.
It is officially stated that Lord Rose
berry has accepted the portfolio of for
eign affairs. The news has caused great
satisfaction in financial circles.
The New English Cabinet.
LONDON, August 16.-The following is
an official list of Mr.. Gladstone's cabi-
net: Earl Roseberry will be for
eign secretary; Baron Herschell, lord
chancellor; Sir VIM. Vernon Harcourt,
chancellor of exchequer; Herbert Fl.
berley, secretary of state for India; Mar
quis of Ripon, secretary of state for the
colonies; Right Hon. Fl. Campbell-Ban-
herman, secretary Of state for war; Earl
Spencer, first lord of the admiralty;
John Morley, chief secretary of Ireland;
Right Hon. Sir George Otto Trevelyan,
secretary of state for Scotland; Right
Hon. A. J. Mundella, president of the
| board of trade; Right Hon. III. FL. Fow
ler, president of the local government
board; Arnold Morley, postmaster gen
eral; Arthur Herbert Dyke Acland,
president of the council of education;
Lord Houghton is viceroy for Ireland;
Mr.. Gladstone is prime minister and
first lord of the treasury.
Tempest Heightens the Horror Of Cholera.
ST. PETERSBURG, August 16.-The
horrors of frightful storm have been
added to the misery and suffering caused
by the cholera at Mil Novgorod. The
storm was one of the severest that has
ever visited that region. 1t came down
with fury that many buildings were un-
able to resist.
The cholera hospital was full Of pa
tients, many of them in a dying condi-
ton. AS they heard the roar of the hur-
rlcane some of them actually died OF
fright.
storm was soon followed by the storm
itself, which crushed in large part of
the cholera hospital like an egg-shell,
hurling the beds and wooden walls into
mass of ruin.
From the debris came the shrieks and
groans of the victims, number of whom
died while the work of rescue was going
on.
Other buildings were also crushed and
the tents of the traders who had re-
manned notwithstanding the cholera
were scattered with their contents in all
directions.
The wicked people of Novgorod have
had all the courage driven out of them
by this latest visitation, and the super
stitious declare that the Almighty had
determined to destroy the city on account
of the peoples wickedness.
Those who could fly have deserted the
city, while those remaining can be seen
in crowds at shrines and in the churches,
praying for the mercy of Heaven.
The cholera epidemic appears now to
be assuming less malignant character
throughout the affected region.
A telegram from Mil Novgorod re-
ceived by the Novosti states that the
number of patients there is decreasing
rather than growing, while the conval-
escents are more numerous.
Prof. Anroy, who was sent to report
upon the outbreak, declares that the
cholera has generally appeared in a mild
form and is each day becoming less
malignant
The municipality of ST. Petersburg
continues very active in its endeavors to
stop the spread of the epidemic. Preju-
dice against the doctors, which prevails
among the masses of the people, is SO
deep-rooted as to have called
forth a formal and categorical denial
from the authorities of the absurd rum
ors of cholera patients in the hospitals
being
Buried Alive.
In consequence of the ch olera epidem-
ic the minister of education has issued
an order that instruction shall not be re-
sumed and no examination shall be held
in any of the educational establishments
until September l. and that the lectures
to medical students shall not be contin-
ued until November l. This is to set
students free to serve in the cholera dis
trict.
1t is believed that the alleged burying
alive of the cholera patients can be trac-
ed to the fact mentioned by the Frenna
physician that the corpses of those who
have perished by cholera are for some
time after death subject to convulsive
movements of some muscles. These
phenomena appear about three hours af-
ter death, and last longer than three
hours.
A professor relates that on one occa-
sion he had left patient for dead, when
three hours later he was told that the
dead man had revived. He found that
the muscles Of the under arm were Civ