Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-01-05
LITTLE ROCK.
The Mayor Alarmed Over the Con-
vict Distemper.
he THREATENS DECISIVE MEASURES.
efforts to Prevent the Conviots working
on tho streets Tho matte al Govern-
meat Preparing to Interfere to Pre-
serve Public Health.

LITTLE Rock, Ark. Jan. A-There
are no new cases at the penitentiary,
the two new cases OF Saturday being
about the same. A dozen Of the other
cases were discharged from the hospital
yesterday. DIR. J. J. Robertson returned
from st. Louis this morning ut o'clock
with DIR. Curtman's report A telegram
from Gov. Eagle 20 DIR. Robertson, adj
dressed to St Louis. which he did not
get, us IL arrived after his departure,
stated that the board Of prison commits
,ioncrs were out of funds, but that the
governor would, in his message to tho
legislature, which meets on the 9th
inst, recommend an appropriation for
meteorological examination. The ex-
haustivcuess of DIR. Curtman's report
and his decision that there was no
arsenic in the visccra Is received here
on all hands as conclusive. The mayor
issued an order to the lessees Of the
penitentiary this morning stating that
he would arrest al convicts found
working In the streets Of the city until
the fear OF all epidemic has passed.
rhc secretary of the board Of health,
DR.. Dickinson, held a consultation with
Drs. French and Dcbrcll, and the former
made a statement in writing TO the
mayor, in which he gave II as their joint
opinion that there was no fear OF con-
tagion from the cholera patients at the
oenitentiary. Upon receiving this the
mayor withheld his order for the arrest
| II convicts.
Lessee Manager Appcrson turned out
l
ity, and says he will continue to do so;
that they have right to work convicts
in the city limits, and the city authori-
ties have no right to arrest convict
under guard. The mayor insists that
he will march at the head Of his entire
force and arrest all convicts and take
them back to the prison walls II he
thinks 1t necessary to the protection of
the city. The board of health met to-
day TO consider the mayors order.
The last two victims of the disease at
| the penitentiary, who died Sunday, re-
| NAMED in the prison dcudhouse till last
,vcniug, on account OF the arrest last
saturday Of the state officials for bury
ng the convicts In the city limits in the
prison grounds. burial permits were
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