The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-18
CHICAGo's BIG SCHEME.


Proposed Sanitary station Near the City for
the Inspection of Immigrants.
Special the Indianapolis Journal
CHICAGO. Sept. 17.-Chioago is to have .
more perfect system for the inspection OF
immigrants than is now In vogue in any
city in the world. New York not excepted.
The plan originated with Gen. Joseph II.
Terrence. If it 10 carried ont as it is now
outlined. and there Is little doubt that 10
will be, large ssnitary station .comprised
OF an immigrants hotel. baggage ware
house and tumigating place. four
tagious and infections diseases. and
surrounded by twenty acres or
ground, will be established inst outside the
limits of Chicago. General Terrence has
thy mon have practically guaranteed the
$4,000 necessary for equippinR the station.
Running the Quarantine Blockade.
DETROIT. Sept. 17.-Immigrants have be-
gun blockade running. To pass Detroit
without proper certificate is impossible.
and they are now warming into the United
States by means Of small boats at outlying
towns, and nothing short of an absolute
river patrol day and night will stop them.
Eleven immigrants crossed the river at
Wyau0OJte w eQDeSuay night uuOcr cOfeE
of darkness. in two small row-boats. and
took the train for the West. The customs
otfi ci ais learned of the stolen march after
the birds had flown. and reported the case
to the Wyandotte health officers The inn
migrants were of the better claes. Since
then night patrolmen have been instructed
to devote most of their watch To the river
bank. At Marine Clty batch OF immi-
grants got across recently. lhey mad no
quarantine certificates. and were taken be-
fore the Mayor. The Mayor is physicianr
and he examiDed them and then allowed
them 70 cross the river.
Will Immigration he stoppedY
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.-Seoretary John
w. Foster left here tonight for Loon Lake
to confer with the President In regard to
the letter of Mayor Grant requesting the
President to take some steps to restrict inn
migration during the cholera epidemic.
Notwithstanding the opinion Of Attorney.
general Miller declaring the Presidents
power 70 take further steps TO stop i'm
migration from infected ports. and the
promise of tho steamship companies To
cooperate with the government and to
carry no more steeraRe passengers, the
Treasury Department - now considering
whether Americans abroad should be ex-
empted from the restrictions ~ TO steerago
passage. decision will be msde. ft 10 ex-
pccted. some time next week. but there Is
little doubt that the American tourists will
not be prevented from coming home either
in steersge or any way they may choose.
Is This cholera or . "Fske."
LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept ia special 70
the Courier Journal srom Riverton. Cal.
says: Reports received late this evening
from Garner, farming community. twenty
miles back, state thss lux is raging there
to such On extent that the entire COM
munity Is alarmed. Twelve deaths oc-
Cured during tbs past two days and others
are hourly expected. Physicians seem un-
able to cope with the disease. as the
patients get no relief from the treatment
horrible pains In the bow els and subse-
ouent purging and vomiting. which con.
Time until death, which usually occurs Ira
from three TO i've days. In some eases the
screams of the pstients. forced by their
agony. can be heard . half mile.
Canadians Fumigat Mall Matter.
OTTAWA. Ont, Sept. 1.-THE following
instructions were to-day forwarded BY tel
earaph by the Customs Department to all
customs officials on the frontier between
the United State and the provinces Of On
tario and Quebec:
Be on tho lookout and report at the Depart
ment Of Agriculture any suspioons imports
efficiently as quarantine officers, according 10
the instructions which Will be sent You by the
Department of Agriculture sccofding 20 law
All mail-matter arriving here to-day
from the United States was fum;gated.
The same rule has been enforced &C all the
exchange otiices in Canada
Suspicious Case at Cleveland
CLEvELAND. Sept .17.-Ehas Levin. .
Jewish peddler. returned from visit 70
Germany last Wednesday. and joined bis
family at No. 2l6 Woodland avcnueL Last
night . ueighbor called to see him and wss