Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-29
7O-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
The Cholera.

Aslahc cholera or not. 1t is now de-
clared that the sickness on the steamer
Laura was due to acute diarrhoea and
not to cholera. The residents of
Gravesend were thrown into state of
excitement to-day by the arrival there
OF two steamers, one Of which, the
Portia, was from Hamburg, while the
other was bound for Hamburg. The
Portia was subjected to rigid exami-
nation and not trace ofcholera was
found among the emigrants. a Lon
don firm has received an order from
the authorities of Hamburg for $4,000
gallons Of disinfecting fluid and % tons
of disinfecting powder
SOUTHAMPTON, Aug 29-Complaints
are being made here that the authori-
ties arc not taking adequate precau-
tons to guard against cholera. Fish
ing vessels arriving from infected ports
enter here without any inspection of
them OF their crew being made.
BERLIN, Aug. 29.-Dr. Harris Ora
ham, an American physician who has
had wide experience with the cholera
i'll Syria, is organizing the American
medical students here into a body to
act as assistants and nurses in The
event Of cholera becoming epidemic in
this city.
BREMEN, Aug. 29.-Thirteen cholera
patients have been admitted to the hos
pital here. Five of the cases were GER
titled to as Asiatic cholera. One of the
patients died,
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 29.-In this
city yesterday $50 new cases were re-
ported while the deaths numbered %.
AMSTERDAM, Aug. ga stoker be-
longing to the steamer Urania, from
Hamburg, has died from cholera in this
city.
CHICAGO, Aug. 29.-"Notwithstand-
ing the statements to the contrary l
fear we shall have cholera epidemic
in this country" said DR.. ]. Hibbott
sit is nonscnsical to talk of perfect
quarantine protection. Such thing
is not likely to be obtained. The germ
travels by sea and land. II may come
to us through the mails and through
the thousand and one other ways,
Food and drink are the two things
to which every individual should at
tend. Let every one avoid above all
things fruit and vegetables about which
there is a suspicion of faint. The
street vendor should be Stunned and
canned fruits are not safe"
NEW YORK, Aug. 29.-Anton Potzel,
the Austrian who arrived in this city
from Hamburg, and who was taken to
Bellevue hospital yesterday suffering
from what at first was thought to be
Asiatic cholera has, after consulta-
ton, been declared to be only suffering
from severe attack of cholera NOR
bus.
NEW YORK, Aug. 29.-This is like
ly to be busy and anxious week for
the health officials who stand guard
over the entrance to New York. An
extensive feet Of foreign vessels from
all parts of Europe, many Of them di-
rect from the cholera infected districts,
are scheduled to arrive here and with
the spread of the disease abroad the
chances of its being imported here are
considered alarmingly great and ever
increasing. The same scrupulous vigi-
lance that has marked the work Of the
health officers at quarantine ever since
the first news Of the appearance of the
disease in the ports of Europe reached
here will continue to be maintained and
if such q thing be possible even greater
precautions will be taken. Three sus-
pected vessels were subjected to rigor-
Gus examination at quarantine this
morning. They were the steamer Ari-
IONA from Liverpool, the steamship
America, a German vessel from Ham
burg, and the steamer Picqua from
Mediterranean ports.
The result of the examination of the
America is not known, but it is under
stood that in his examination DR.. Jen-
kins, the health officer, discovered some
thing that aroused his suspicion. AT
II O'Clock the America was still riding
at anchor off the health station, and
the prospects were that she would re-
main there all day. The fact that DR..
Jenkins did not clear the America after
her thorough examination gave rise to
the suspicion that cholera had at last
attempted to enter this port, and had
chosen that vessel to travel on.
A man named Samuel Drew wss
taken sick with cholera morbus in this
city to-day. He was removed to a hos
pital,
The Borden Trial,
FALL RIVER, Mass. Aug. 29.-Court
was called TO order in the mysterious