The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-08-24
THE DREAD BLACK VOMIT.
Dsv+lo In the Case of DR.. Branh am, at
Brunswick, Ga.

SAVANNAH, Ga, Aug. 16.-A special
dispatch to the morning News from
brunswick, Ga, says: Surgeon John
Branham, the yellow fever patient. had
two attacks of blacks vomit today. He
is, however, resting easy. Black vomlt
is not necessarily a fatal symptom.
-\cting Assistant Surgeon Dun
woody, who has been attending the
patient, and the patients cousin, who
Is also DR.. Branham, will be sent to
the United States quarantine station at
DlackDear Island. off the coast of
Georgia. TO pass the period OF incubt-
ti0h. An lmmure doctor and nurse will
lake charge of DR.. Branham, aud an az
tive disinfectiOn Of his house and
premises Will be made.
Ihe Federal authorities have taken
entire charge Of quarantine ana
sanitary arrangements in the
town. The board of health AMI
surgeons Of the Marine Hos
pltal Service will hold daily sessions at
noon and give out concise statements
OF the situation. a Gordon of police
guard the territory around the house
IN winch the patient lies.
| A FEVER SHIP At PHILADELPHIA
| illlLAnELPIIIA, Pa, Aug 1.-THE
schooner Betty NJ. Lister, from Charles
| ton, :. g., was detained at the local
quarantine station last evening, with
| three cases Of suspected yellow fever
on board. The sick seamen were taken
| TO the hospital at the laHarretto, where
one OF them was found to be suffering
| from w Al developed case of the dread
WSeaSe, while the others are suspects.
ana snow symptoms Of the early stages
OF the fever. The schooner sailed from
Charleston, =. g., Il week ago. ON
the second day out one of the crew of
elSht men became Ill with fever. He
passed through the various Stages and
was reported this moning to be con.
Valescent. The man was foreigner
and unable to tell DR.. Boenning where
ne htu been prior to shipping from
IharleSton. Ihe doctor said the disease
has not developed far enough in the
other men toenabie him TO say positiv g.
ly that 1t Is yellow fever. The fumipa-
| llon OF the vessel Is being performed
today. She is loaded with lumber.
| which makes the work Of disinfection
easy. DIR. Boenning has caused the
other men in the crew to be taken
ashore, and they will be detained un-
III the period for the development of
the fever shall have passed. IT, takes
at least ten days for the disease to
develop. low the vessel passed the
government quarantine is not stated
put III Is claimed that the presence of
the disease on board should have been
discovered there.
) SIZE DIDN'T SAIL FROM cIIAHLESroN.
CHARLESTON, 5. g., Aug. lG.-Dr.
llorlDeck, city health officer, said to-
night in regard to the reported cases of
yeil0W ieVer on board Il schooner at
Philadelphia, that no shirs of any de.
scrlptlon Whatever had left this port
win any sickness on board; that there
uao not been here, or at any point in
| thls State, any case of yellow fever. or
any case OF the slightest suspicion of
yellow fever, in the year 1893 and that
| IL would nave been impossible for anv
VeSSel 10 nave sailed from here with
sickness aboard. The list of vrsesIs
sailing form Charlesto on since August
ISL does not contain the name of the
Betty Nj. Lister There is evidently a
mistake IN the name of the port from
which the vessel sailed.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
ilIILADELPHIA, August 16.-The
schooner Carry Hall Lister, not the
BETTY NJ. Lister, rs previously re.
ported, Is detained at State quarantine.
Her crew were reported to be suffer- |
ing from yellow fever, but it is now he.
lleVedithat it is malarial or swamp fever |
common among sailors trading from
southern ports at this season of the
year. The Lister brought a cargo of |
lumber from GeOrgtOWn, 5. c., port
from which no yellow fever Gases have
been reported. The schooner will be |
held at quarantine several days for
observation.
YELLOW JACK AT PORT TORTUGAs.
NEW YORK, Aug. l6.-The Worlds
keY west, Eta, special says: Capr. j
W. Jones, of the British bark Antilla
died at Port Tor!ugas quarantine sta.
tion OF yellow fever on August II, The
two mates have had the yellow fever, |
and, aud the crew are negroes. no
further cases are expected. The news
has Just reached here by the schooner
Foam of the Sea.
no NEW CASES At PENSACOLA,
iENSACOLA, Fla, Aug. To- The last
bulletin posted at the board of health
Once, at Il p. m, stated that no new |
cases OF fever Or suspicious sickness
had been reported up to that hour.
| The Man aud Brother.
| WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-No member
| OF the new House has attracted more |
attention than George Washington |
| MURRAY, the black Representative of the