Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-09-01
CHOLERA ALARM.
Serious Ravages Of the Plague IN
Hamburg.
Prof Koch Cheers Up Berlin - Another
Death in observation-disclosures of an Out
break at Havana, Cuba-Sanf-
tary Precautions.

fresh cases of cholera on Saturday was
469, the number of deaths 1877. Ineom-
plete returns for the day show that
there are at fewest 500 fresh cases
The number of deaths has not yet been
ascertained. The mortality from cholera
has raised the number of funerals daily
from an average of thirty-fve to one of
$50. The city is not yet panic-stricEen,
but the presence OF the plague is every
where.
The streets yesterday We're deserted
for the first time since the disease be-
gan its ravages. The usual Sunday ex-
cursions were abandoned. NoeXcursion
trains were run and the steamers which
usually take out parties lay idle at the
docks.
Prof. Koch declares that. there is no
reason for the exaggerated alarm that
prevails in Berlin as the sanitary con-
dition of the city is incomparably bet
ter than that of Hamburg. Great sur
prise is expressed at the action of the
Hamburg authorities in giving the
cholera figures up to Thursday as SIS
cases and 194 deaths, whereas the
Reichsanzeiger gives the figures up to
Friday as 1,023 eases and SIS deaths. It
is reported that the Sylvia, bound from
Hamburg to New York, has landed at
Cuxhaven two of her crew suffering
from cholera.
GRAVE FEARS IN ENGLAND.
LONDON, Aug. 29.-Dr. Thorne. chief
of the sanitary division of the local gov
eminent board, says he has grave doubts
of the ability of the board to keep the
cholera out of London. He says the
great source of danger is in the east end.
It is impossible to watch and locate i'm
migrants who gravitate toward the east
end.
The steamer Corona arrived at Middle
borough from Hamburg and as there
was no sickness aboard the crew was
allowed to disembarla, but subsequently
one of the seamen was seized with chol-
era and the Corona was then placed in
quarantine. The town-follS are alarmed
over the appearance of the disease. The
stricken seamen died Last night.
THE SITUATION IN RUSSIA.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 29.-Twenty-
eight cases of cholera have occurred in
a charitable asylum here, the outbreak
being due to bad food. Cholera con-
tinues to spread in several towns in
central Russia and Lublin, though the
mortality is not alarming. The official
returns show that throughout Russia
on Thursday there were reported 5,757
new cases of cholera and 2,769 deaths
In st. Petersburg yesterday seventy
five new cases and thirty-seven deaths
were reported.
THE sCOURGE IN PARIS.
PARIS, Aug. ga number of new
cases of cholerine have been reported in
this city. Three deaths from the dis
ease occurred yesterday. Three persons
died of cholerine in Lemans to-day. A
lady called at the Marie at Montmartre
to register the death of her child from
cholera. The persons in the Office drew
away in terror when suddenly the lady
fell to the floor writhing with pain.
She was at once removed to the cholera
barracks, where her husband had been
taken on the previous day. Her nus
band died.
PROBATION AT NEW YORK.
New YORK, Aug. 29.-Mayor Grant,
President Wilson, OF the New York
board of health; Police Commissioner
Martin Quarantine Commissioner Allen
and DR.. G. I. Roberts, chief inspector of
contagious diseases, paid private visit
to Health Officer Jenkins this afternoon
on the steamer City of New York.
After holding conference the party
visited the quarantine islands on tour
of inspection.
THE CARS PHYSICIAN DEAD.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 29.-Dr. Ober-
muller, body physician of the car, died
yesterday at the age of 55. 1t is said
that he died of Asiatic cholera.
NEW CASES AT HAvRE.
HAvRE, Aug. 9.-Seventy-one new
cases of cholera and twenty-five deaths
from the disease were reported in this
city yesterday.
THIS SIDE OF THE ATLANTIC.
CITY OF MEXICO, Aug. 29.-It is
rumored in Vera Cruz that there is
cholera in Havana.