Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-08-27

stations along the gulf and Dr. Orvan
those on the Pacific slope. The commits
sion will meet at Toronto Wednesday 3xt
and begin its work.
&The committee received a telegr IN
the Illinois Board of Health asking 1t
memorialize the President, praying that he
issue a proclamation prohibiting immigra-
ton into the Unite ates pending the
prevalence of chole iurope.
The resolution Wa. referred to tn COM
mission of inspection with INSTRUCT 10
report thereon when it has tinisi its
work Before adjourni the COM g
issued an address to the boards of hes
throughout the country calling attention
to the importance of placing the cities nd
towns throughout the country in good San
itary condition.
ST. PETERsBURG, August 26.-The recent
rioting at the Hughes Steel works and COL
lieries near Mariapol originated in the an
ger caused among the lower classes by the
precautions taken against cholera. Police
men were taking woman 10 hospital
and a detachment of Cossacks was dis
patched to protect the police. The MOB re-
sisted the Cossacks with stones, cudgels
ana iron rails. The Cossacks at
tackled the people with swords and
fierce fighting ensued, two hundred
rioters and twenty soldiers being disabled.
The crowd then sacked the hospital
pharmacy. The rioting was resumed next
morning, when a mob Of 10000 terrorized
the village, killing several Jews. They
burned village Inhabited by people en-
ployed in the Hughes works, not house
being spared. They then invaded the fac
tories, destroying everything. The dam
age amounts to several million rOubles.
Order was not restored until the third
day, when two regiments and battery OF
artillery arrived on the scene. Further
troubles are feared.
HAMBURG, August 26-The police have
issued orders forOdding the inhabitants OF
this city to drink water from the E!oe
unless il has been previously boiled. The
bathing places along the river have been
closed. The police will make hoIse TO
house inspection TO ensure their being
clean, and to enforce sanitary measures
wherever they are required. a special
corps has been organized to disinfect
houses infected with cholera.
The official statistics show that on Wed
nesday there were lSS new cases OF the dis
ease reported, while the deaths numbered
32 Up to noon Thursday there were 30
new cases and Al deaths.
There were eight deaths from the dis
ease at Altoona yesterday. Most of the
deaths have occurred among tho laborersi
employed about the DOCKS, boatmen, etc.
ST. PETERSBURG, August 26.-The
cholera returns of yesterday show an
other upward jump in the number OF
new cases reported. On Wednesday
:, 5,679 new cases were reported. YeSter-
day there were 6,322 new cases. The
death figures also show en increase.
Yesterday there were 2,977 deaths re-
ported against 9, 2,743 for Wednesday. In
St. Petersburg there were reported yes
terday 1O3 new cases and 24 deaths.
BERLIN. August 26.-This afternoon a
woman became suddenly i'll in an omnibus
and was taken to the Central railway sta
ton and thence to the MOabite hospital,
where she waj pronounced to be suffering
from Asiastic cholera.
The municipal sanitary commission sum-
moned to consider the situation has decided
that the Moabite hospital shall be reserved
for cholera cases. AL trade in secondhand
clothing has been ordered to be stopped.
BERLIN, August 26-The officials here
deny that the Asiatic cholera is in this city.
They say the merchants wife whom 1t was
supposed yesterday died Of cholera, was
victim of cholerine. Several suspicious
cases were removed to the hospital to-day.
The physicians state that they found that
the patients were only suffering with di-
arrhoea accompanied by vomiting.
LIVERPOOL, August 26.-The Liverpool
steamship companies have instructed their
agents on the continent TO cease booking
emigrants from cholera infected districts.
All the boarding houses here are subjected
daily 10 rigorous inspection TO see that
they are kept clean and all the sanitary
regulations complied with.
BERLIN, August 2G.-Orders have
been issued to stop the railway traffic
with Russia at every point along the
frontier of East Prussia with the eXcep-
tion Of two places.
HAvRE, August 26-The official figures
show that on Wednesday there were eight
cen new cases of cholera aud nine deaths
from the disease here. Yesterday there
were forty-eight new cases and twenty-one
deaths.
BREMEN. August 26.-The North Ger
man LLOYD Steamship Company has an
nounced that its vessels will carry no steer
age passengers who are from Russia dur
ing the cholera epidemic.
BERLIN, August &c. "A most welcome
thunder storm has passed over the city,
The air has been cleared and the
weather is much cooler.
ANTWERP, August 26.-The Cholera
seems to be at a stand still here. No new
cases have been reported since yester-
day morning.
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