Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-31
CHOLERA'S SHINY TRAIL.
Westward the Dread Epi-
demic Takes Its Way.
Appearance of the Disease in
Austro-Hungary.
Pressburg and Breslau in the Newly
Infected Region.
Utmost Precautions Taken to Keep 1t
Out of Germany-The Standard
Oil Company Profiting by
the Plague.
By the Associated Press

BY tne Associated Press.
BERLIN, July 30.-[Copyright, 1892,
by the New York Associated Press. II
Cholera today made it's appearance in
two localities in Galicia, and, worse
still. nine cases were reported only
twenty-five miles from Pressburg, Hun
gary, which is populous center. The
outbreak in Austrian Galicia is limited
to frontier villages. The Austrian gov
ernment has giveE orders to prevent the
spread of the disease, as its outbreak
there would involve the spread of the
epidemic through Central Europe. The
news from Galicia does not excite alarm
here, but the Pressburg advices have
given the authorities a shock, The
proximity of Vienna and the likelihood
that the disease may spread along the
Danube make the news serious
Berlin physicians apprehend an early
outbreak in Silesia and Southern Ger
many. The utmost precautions are be-
ing taken.
While making inquiries in official
quarters this evening regarding the
cholera in Austria, representative of
the Associated Press learned that tele-
grams were received from BreslaH an
nouncing an outbreak there. The ply
sicians cannot yet definitely pronounce
whether the disease from which the pa
tients are suffering is cholerine or
Asiatic cholera, but they suspect the
latter.
NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS.
The Reichsanzeiger today prints q
lengthy article ON the precautions which
should be taken to prevent the introduc-
ton and spread of cholera, and this fact
leads many to believe that the authoff-
ties consider an epidemic OF the disease
imminent. DR.. Virchow will shortly
60 to Russia in order to study the epi-
demic. 1N
In conversation with an Associated
Press representative DIR. Virchow said
cholera appeared localized in Russia at
present, but may appear here at any
time. Concerning America, he said:
''Tell your people they must remove all
dust and dirt, and exercise the utmost
cleanliness, and that they viii be all
DR.. Hirsch, another noted authority.
said; II have thoroughly studied the
condition OF America, and there is little
danger of an outbreak OF the disease
there, provided thorough cleanliness is
maintained and sanitary precautions
adopted. One danger to America is the
Canadian frontier. The greatest danger
is in the importation OF rags. The
American authorities should strictly
prohibit the importation of rags from
any district where cholera might be sus-
pected of existing"
THE DISEASE IN RUSSIA.
ST.. PETERSBURG, July 30.-Cholera has
decreased in the towns in Russia in
which it first made it's appearance, but
in those places more recently affected by
the disease, it is increasing rapidly. 1t
has also broken out in several districts
which were hitherto free from its raw
ages. In Baghestan, Wednesday, there
were 372 new cases and 184 deaths, and
in Terek 1888 new CAGES and 205 deaths.
THE STANDARD OIL MONOPOLY.
BERLIN, July 30.-The Standard Oil
company of the United States now has
a complete monopoly of the oil trade of
Germany, the Russian competitors bav-
ing been shut out by the cholera epi-
demic at Batoum.