The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-09-23
SCIENCE AND COOL WEATHER
CHECK THE PLAGUE,
MORE IMMIGRANTS ARE COMING
Five Thousand More Due in a Few Days
The NOrmannla Passengers to BE Re-
leased To- Day - Three Alleged
Cholera Deaths on the wy
Oming 4 ttrlbuted to Poison
Given by Mother.

New YORK, Sept. Is The morning
pened bright and frosty, just the
kind of weather to prevent any spread
of cholera, and the few cases which
have appeared here and which were
concealed by the board of health have
in no way alarmed the authorities or
the citizens.
The neighborhood of every case re-
ported as suspicious, the house in
which the disease has made itself
known and all the inmates have been
subjected to systematic observation,
inspection and unremitting care. A
few weeks more and frost will put an
end to the slightest danger of even
sporadic cases.
The board of health this morning
issued the following bulletin;
New York, Sept is, 10 a. m.-During
the past forty-eight hours there were no
new or suspected cases reported to this
department. The suspected eases of
Charlotte Beck of 1iG4 Second avenue and
Peter Callahan of 3lS East Forty-seveut h
street are under investigation.
BY order Of the board of health.
CHARLES G. WILSON, President,
EMMoNs CLARK, Secretary,
Immigrant passengers on the steamer
FriCsland, which arrived here on Au-
gust 20, seem to have brought the dis.
ease to little Minnie LevingSr, who
died September il. They are Maced
back to Antwerp, which they reached
from other cities in Europe not then
infected with cholera When they
reached quarantine there was reported
illness on board, and after few hours
detention and so-called fumigation
they were permitted To proceed.
From the steamship pier they scat
tered over the city and the country.
Four young women went to No. All
East Forty-cight street, where little
Minnie lived. There is reason to be-
liove the infection was in their cloth.
ing, that they carried it about with
them, though escaping its danger
themselves, and that from their cloth
ing the child got the disease
The police authorities believe that
the disease was brought into the city
by butchers taking meat to the quar-
antined steamers. The outbreak is
identical with that of 1868, when the
scourge suddenly appeared in four
widely separated cases after it had been
successfully quarantined the previous
fall. McAvoy, the first victim this sea-
son, had been working about the
steamship wharves.
1t has been authoritatively stated
that nine steamships bearing 3, 600 inn
migrants are bound for this country.
Agents Brown and Schwab of the
Cunard and North German Lloyd lines,
respectively, in a statement published
to-day, say the steerage passengers
now on their way to America were
booked before the date OF the presi-
dents proclamation aud that they
could not be turned back without vio-
lating contract.
DR.. Jenkins announced to-day that
the cabin passengers of the Norman
MIA had requested to be taken to New
York by sea instead of by special train
as they wished to avoid the discom-
forts Of changing from Babylon to
Long Island city. lie said that he
would therefore cause a steamer to be
ut Fire island tomorrow morning to
convey the passengers to the steam,
ship company's dock at Hobokcn,