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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-14
The PESTILENCE IN CHINA.
II Resembles In Character the Great
Plague Of London In 1865.

Raging In Rong-Kong and Canton.
Sixty Thousand Dead In the Latter
City and Forty a Day In the Former.
Due to Filth and Rats.
From the New York Herald.
Shanghai, May 10.-The news of the
outbreak of the plague at Hong Kong has
doubtless reached the Herald ere this by
telegraph, but no such necessarily brief
communication on the subject can convey
an adequate idea of the character and ex.
tent of the visitation which is ravaging
Canton, Pakhoi and Hong Kong, and
throwing this part of the world generally
into state of terror and panic almost
without parallel.
The disease has long been raging in the
two first named places, and it has carried
of tens of thousands of victims in the last
few weeks, but so long as it was confined
to China very little was said about it in
print. The moment it reached Hong
Hong, however, which it did last week
the alarm became great and threw the
colonlsts and the government of that
island, as well as the foreign and native
residents of the coast ports, into a state
an effort seems to have been made at first
10 keep the existence of the pestilence
secret, but it spread so fast and was so
horribly fatal IN it's effects that it was
found impossible TO conceal the dread
truth for more than few days.
HONG KONG AN INFECTED PORT.
On Saturday night 12th inst.) the
French and Portuguese consuls here issued
notification, proclaiming Hong X ong an
infected port. On the Monday following,
the entire body of foreign Consuls united
In a representation calling upon the
Chinese authorities at Shanghai to inn
pose quarantine regulations upon all YES
sells coming from Hong Kong or Canton.
The French mail steamer, which left
Shanghai for Europe on the 18th inst, re-
fused to call in at Hong Kong for either
mails or passengers, and since then all
vessels are giving the port wide berth.
The plague, which is described by med
ical men as almost exactly similar in APP
pearance and symptoms to ''tbe great
plague of London, which devastated that
city in 1865, was noticed first in Canton
about the end of April, prior to which
date there had been period of prolonged
drought.
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During the discussion which followed
the presentation of these documents, the
colonial surgeon said the disease was one
entirely of poverty and filth, but there
was no necessity for getting up a scare
about il. DR.. Lowson expressed the be-
lief that the disease was more chemical
than psychological, aud that a few days
good rain, which would wash out the
filth, would also wash out the poison. In
mediately after the sanitary board meet
ing the executive council sat, and later in
the evening proclamation was issued by
Maj. Gen. Barker. the acting governor,
putting in force sections 30 TO 81 of the
ordinance for amending the laws relating
to public health.
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THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, JUNE IA, 1894.

Nothing can change their filthy habits.
and no being is strong enough TO induce
them TO observe the most rudimentary
sanitary laws. This fact should not be
lost sight Of by those who would allow
the chinese into America without res ric-
tons, and who foolishly think that they
can be made TO conform with any regula-
tons for their own or the public's safety
Since yesterday morning. | am advised
by telegraph, heavy rains have fallen in
Hong-hong, and the authorities there are
IN hopes OF the plague abating.
WHAT THE DOCTORS SAY.
On the 10th inst, at a meeting Of the
sanitary board, number OF papers in
reference 10 the peslilential disease were
submitted. The captain superintendent
of police on April 20, reported the appear
ance Of the disease in Canton. and in or
der TO ascertain what precautionary
measures should be taken, it was sub
mltted TO the colonial surgeon, DR. Ayres.
Canton and received in reply report from
DR.. Rennie, dated April Is. In this the
symptoms were described as follows:
with or without premouitory warning
IN the shape of malaise or chill there is a
sudden onset of fever, rising to
100 or over. There is much headache and
cerebral disturbance, accom- panied nv
oeuIoA. III 4Aulu bWHlNt 10 LW6Qty-IOQf
hours glandular swelling occurs in the
neck, armpits or groin, rapidly charging
TO the size of fowls egg. 1t is hard and
exceedingly tender. With or without a
decline of the fever the pa
tient sinks deeper into a
condition of coma and dies, usually
at the end of forty-eight hours or sooner
If six days are reached recovery is hope
full. The glandular swelling shows no
signs of suppuration. In some cases epis-
taxis or vomiting of blood occurs: Pc
techle appear in few, but no regular
eruption Such are. briefly the symptoms
at the beginning of the disease" The
report was communicated to the colonial
surgeon, as well as to the sanitary board,
and precautionary measures, in the way of
flushing drains, etc, were advised.
On the 10th inst. the colonial surgeon
and the acting superintendent of the civil
hospital reported that there were twenty
cases in one ward at the Tung Wah hos
pital; that there had been several deaths
from the disease; that there would be
more within the next twenty-four hours,
and advising the isolation of persons at
tackled.
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rREcAurI2Ns IL noNe-KoNe.

indeed, from q sanitary point of view,
in the more crowded parts of Hong-Kong,
where the Chinese are packed more
densely than any other human beings
could bear, the surrounding are very
little better than at Canton. And the
same may be said OF many parts of Shang-
mai At this port steps are being taken
to guard against the plague being car
ried in from Hong-KonR, but as we have
abundance Of fresh water at our docks
and have lately had exceedingly heavy
rains it is nUtlikely that the pestilence will
visit US, though there is always the dan
ger of similar visiJations wherever
large Chinese population herds together.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-01
SHERMAN NAILS A LIE.

WASHINGTON, Dec. /, 1S94.-The Post
publishes the following:-A statement
was current yesterday to the effect that
Senator Sherman had been in constant
conference with President Cleveland dur
ing the past week and had given con-
siderable assistance to the President in
the formation of financial schemes which
the latter is said to be about to in
corporate in his message. Upon this
assertion was predicated some comment
to the effect that Mr., Cleveland had
gone over the head of Secretary Car
lisle to seek financial wisdom in the Re-
publican party.
Senator Sherman said last evening that
the assertion was entirely without found
alton. 81 have not met the President"
said he, "since the last session of Con-
gress. I have not conversed with him
nor communicated with him by letter.
He has not sent for me- nor have /
been to see him. l have not seen the
Secretary of the Treasury. If l remem-
ber rightly, 1 have not met any of the
Cabinet officers since my return to the
city. 1 know they are busy and l have
not intruded myself upon them. I have
no favors to ask and | do not believe"
he added, laughingly, !" that they want
nv ADVICE
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-01
: PASTOR Sr0RRs DEAD.
Special to the Jersey city Meas.

ORANGE DEPOT, Dec. 1, 1S94-The
Rev. DR.. Henry M. Storrs, pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church Of Orange,
died at 10 O'Clock this morning. He had
been i'll with pneumonia for some days.
Henry Martyr Storrs descended from
Presbyterian ancestry. His father Chas.
B. Storrs, was President of the West
,ern Reserve College, Ohio. Henry NJ.
Storrs was born at Ravenna, Ohio, in
1877. When he was five years old his
father died, and he was taken care of
and hought up by his uncle, Richard S..
Storrs,A who lived in Braintree. Mass.
Henry eptered Amherst College and was
graduated in 1850 He graduated from
Andover theological Seminary in 1851,
and in 1852 he was ordained pastor Of
the Lawrence Street Congregational
Church, Lawrehee. Mass. In 1855 he
was called to the, Seventh Street Con-
gregational Church, Cincinnati, Ohio. In
1867 he came to the South Congregation
al Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1872 he
was elected Secretary of the American
Home Missionary Society, and in 1882 he
was called to the First Presbyterian
Church. Orange. He was married in
1854 to Catherine Hitchcock, daughter
of the Rev. DR.. Hitchcock, President of
Amherst College. A widow, two sons,
and a daughter survive him. He was
trustee of the Marietta College, Ohio,
and a member of the American Board
of Commissioners of Foreign Missions.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-01
BURNED TO DEATH. 8
lamp Explosion Causes tlle Death
ofa Mother and Rabe.

A small fire caused by the explosion
of a lamp resulted in the burning of a
woman SO seriously that she died this
noon shortly after the birth of her
child. The fire occurred in the residence
of Richard Leask at No. 2D8 Thirteenth
street, Hoboken, at eight O'Clock last
night The lamp was. upon d bracket
several feet away from where Mrs.
Leask was sitting, and when the bracket
gave way the lamp slid down into her
lap, exploding when it struck her, and
setting fire to her Clothes She called
for assistance, and her husband, who
was in an adjoining room, ran to her
aid. Before the flames could be extffl-
guished, however, she was so fright
fully burned that she lost conscious
ness. Mr. Leask was also badly burned
about the hands.
In the meantime an alarm of fire was
given, and the firemen arrived in time
TO save Mr.. Leask from also being fatal
done to the furniture.
sent for last night, and they did all in
their power to save Mrs. Leasl1's life.
but IN vain. She returned to, conscious
ness only to suffer and beg to be allow
ed to die She moaned and cried for
her babe who died only a few minutes
before Ats mother.
Mr. Ikask is heart broken, and al
though aiis hands are in a most pain
full condition, he says he does not feel
the pain, so great Is the pain in his
heart fer his poor wife.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-01
LOVED A XANKBE CROOK.
A Rich Grass widows story of De-
eeptiOn andNgobbery.
Btt Gable flo the Tinted Press

( LONDON, Dec. 1. 1s94AA lady whose
name is not given, and WHO is living
in, this city apart from heA husband,
stated in the Court of Chancery this
morning that in July last she was re-
siding in London with a man napeG
Clamp, who claimed to be resident ~
the United States. This man, she states
is now living in Berlin, where he is
known by the name of Alexander.
The plaintiff alleges that while they
were living together she handed to
Clamp e., 400 in money and number of
valuable securities, and that he soon
after left the city, taking with him
the cash and securities. Detectives were
at once engaged and succeeded in trac-
ing Clamp to Berlin, where it was found
that he had sold shareA of the Louis
vile and Nashville and the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul Railroad Com
panes, to the amount of f1N200
These stocks it is alleged are the
lady's property. Upon hea&ng the
statement, the Court ordered Me bank
in which other securities are deposited
not to part with any of them pAnding
further developments in the case.
The lady is said to be possessed, of
f40 000
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-01
TROLLEY VICTIM TRIES SUICIDE
Schxverfen who Was Hurt by a Motor
Fires . Bullet Into His Head.

Henry Schwerten, forty-one years old
proprietor of the Glendale House, on
Communipaw avenue, near the Plank
Road, at $50 o'clock last night attempted
suicide by shooting himself behind the
right ear.
The shot did not take effect as he de-
sired it should and he will probably live
A News reporter called at the Glendale
House last night shortly after the acci-
dent Drs. Bidwell and Opdyke We're at
work on the injured man. They had
extracted the ball from above the right
eye where it had lodged. The injured
man was sleeping quietly, the doctors
having given him an opiate. Mrs
schwerten refused to say anything about
the shooting. The stableman explained
that Mr. Schwerten was getting ready
to go hunting rabbits today, when the
firearm went off, but afterwards admitted
that his employer does not shoot rab-
bits with a revolver and could not salts
factorily explain how in cleaning wea-
pom he could get it in such a position
that it would infiict an injury behind
his ear
The true facts of the case are that
Schwerten tried to end his life, as pro-
badly hundred others have done within
a stones throw of his hotel. He retired
early and had not been gone long to his
room before his wife, the stableman and
his mother heard pistol shot. They
rushed to his room and found him lying
moaning upon his bed, the sheets of
which were covered with blood Beside
him was an old-fashioned four chamber
Sharpe revolver They sent for the
doctors and soon AFTERWARDS Drs. Bid
well and Opdyke arrived. They calmed
Mrs. Schwerten's fears by telling her that
had simply glanced along and had not
penetrated the skull. Schwerten was in
jured some six or eight months ago by
falling from trolley car and received
internal injuries which caused hemorr-
hages. He has had several bad attacks
since, and it is supposed that it was his
fear of another Siege which caused him
to atternnt hiS life
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-01
CARLISLE'S REPORT.

WASHINGTON, Dec. /. 1S94.-The an
nual report of Secretary Carlisle of the
Treasury Department will be sent to
Congress at noon Tuesday. 1t will be
an unusually important document, as 1t
will contain in detail whatever of imam
cial legislation will be recommended to
Congress by the Administration. The
views set forth by Secretary Carlisle
have already been read to the President
and met with his approval, so that the
President, aside from calling attention to
the financial recommendations contained
in Secretary Carlisle's report, is not ex-
pected to treat of this subject exhaus-
lively, as he has done in former mes
sages 1t is impossible to forecast Sec
retary Carlisle's recommendations, but
from the secrecy observed to prevent an
inkling of them reaching the public and
the care taken in the printing of the
proof slips, they are believed to be i'm
portant and radical.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-01
BYRNE TO SWEEP AGAIN
Street and Water Board Awards
Him the Street Cleaning
Contract.

Henry Bvrne will sweep and clean the
,,4-at. - -1ea-,e 49, pa1,a. o,,a oor-
s'ieets anu remove .he asAes anu %,
bage during the coming year again. Inc
Street and Water Board met this morn
inc and awarded tho contract To Paul
ins anu ""aiueu 'ie az ~
Breslin, he being the lowest bidder.
Breslin is Mr.. Byrne's cousin, and pre-
4, Ia r. ii rh Ma r,o,a ro
ceived and opened at a meeting held
yesterday afternoon. There were four
h;aaar
piuuers'
The contractors estimated on sweep
ing about 900 miles of streets, an in
oraasa Of aho,,+ 1oo ,,ilas oyer las+ yaar
oiea'e u apoul ul. lOo llilie' w. oEe i"se es'i
THE PRICES ASKED.
Van Keuren & Son offered to do the
suasniny fo, s9o oila renove tho
s~eepins Lol P'o iiiiie' ieiioHe one
ashes for $l20Oo, ana garbage iori $4,ooo
Henry Byrne asked $40 per mile for
swaanino tho straats 20, ooo for ramov-
pe ~ -
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-01
MISS POWERS SURPRISED.
Presented With a Baton BY St.
RridgetsS Choir.

st. Bridget's Church choir gave a sue
cessful musical and literary entertain
ment on Wednesday evening, at the
School Hall. under the direction OF
Miss Katie E. Powers, the organist, and
instructress of the choir. The audience
was composed of musical critics, and
the excellent programme was fully ap-
preciated. Miss Powers was surprised
before the curtain rose by being pres
ented with a handsome white enamelled
music stand with gold trimmings, and
upon which rested a beautiful ebony
baton. The bottom was capped with
gold, and the gold band in the centre
bore the inscription, Miss Kate E
Powers, from members of the choir
Jersey City, November %, 1894"
Among those who participated in the
programme were:-Miss Kate L. Brad
ley, soprano; Mr.. John Lynch, violinist
Mr. John Rennie, bass; Jersey City Banjo
Club; Holden's Orchestra; Mamie C.
Curry, soprano; Miss Clara Musson, con-
tralto; Mr. John OConnell, recitations
and Miss Lille Monahan.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-01
THE IDLE REFINERIEs.

NEW YORK. Dec. /. 1884. There was
no change today in the situation IN the
sugar refineries of the Eastern district
of Brooklyn The $500 employees who
were laid off on Thanksgiving Day were
still out of work, but many of them be-
lieved they would be put to work again
tomorrow night and Monday morning.
Many men applied for work today at the
refineries, but the small force employed
was not increased.
At the main or South Fourth street
office of the Havemeyer and Elder re-
finery little information was vouchsafed
today, but it was insisted that work was
going on nearly as usual 1t was ad-
mitted, however, that the surplus stock
of sugar was getting low and would have
to be replenished soon.
The Mollenhauer independently re-
fnery was in full blast last night and to-
day, and SO far as could be learned the
managers are not contemplating a shut
down.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-01
CHAOS IN PEKIN.
The American Embassy In Danger
Marines Much Needed.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1, 1S94-The
leading officials of the State and Navy
Departments decline to confirm or deny
the accuracy of the cablegram from
Minister DENLY dated Thanksgiving
Day, stating that Chaos reigns in
Pekin. The American Legation in dan
ger Need protection but this failure
to give explicit information creates no
surprise in view of the reticence invari
ably maintained in matters of such
grave and delicate nature.
There is doubt expressed in we'll in
formed quarters that the message is ac-
curately quoted above, nor that Secre-
tary Gresham has cabled Mr.. DENLY
i'll reply that protection will be afforded
him as soon as possible and advising
him if the worst comes to endeavor to
reach Tien-Tsin where he can secure
safety on board the little gunboat Mon
ocacy. 1t is learned this morning that
Minister DENLY cabled Secretary Gres-
ham week ago very much the same
information as contained in the quoted
despatch, and asked that guard be
sent to protect the Legation, which
might be riled at any moment by the
lawless royers that inhabited portions
was at once sent to Admiral Carpenter
directing him to transfer a detachment
of fifty marines of the Baltimore to the
Monocacy in order that a force might
be at Mr.. Denbys disposal
There are but ia men all told on the
Monocacy with 12 officers. and these
not be spared in any emergency. At
that moment, however, the Baltimore
left Che-Foo for Nagasak. 5000
ste mes dreeton sao from arfsf 50 opR0 tne
order could not be executed officials
are surprised that Admiral Carpenter
should find 1t necessary to go to a Japan
ese port for coal just at this juncture.
The Charleston, which has 2S0 men
and 20 officers. is at Chemulpo, out of
reach OF cable communication, and can
Petrol and Concord are needed for the
purpose of rendering asylum where they
are. atINew Chwang and Chin Kiang
respectively. The Baltimore with her
$50 men and 36 officers, is the sole vessel
that can send a guard to Pekin, and
yesterday she reached Nagasaki with her
coal bunkers practically empty, 500 miles
from Pekin.
sented, presumably the Ministers of other
foreign powers at Pekin have sent tele-
grams to their Governments in the same
tenor as Mr.. Denby's despatch for the
situation there must be as serious to
one legation as to any other Several
months ago 1t was agreed by the United
States, Great Britain. Germany and
France that the ships of either flag in
any Chinese port would succor the citi-
zens of all the others when necessity
arose.
A prominent official familiar with the
conditions at Pekin expresses the belief
that no force less than several hundred
strong could successfully make the
march of 20 miles through an open coun-
try from Tien Tsin to Pekin. He said
that Pekin was overrun with a piratical
element of thugs and thieves which was
exceedingly dangerous at all times
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-01
NOVA SCOTIA PIRATES.
Outrageous Lootiug OF a Schooner
wrecked at Poiiett's Cove

HALIFAX, N. S., Dec. i, S94-Captain
Daniel Fraser OF the schooner Hasty,
ashore at Pollett's Cove, c. B., relates
hard experience with the pirates that
infest that place. His vessel was from
Alberton, P e. l., for Gaspe, Que, with
a cargo of produce. He says
I'VE encountered the frightful storms
of the past ten days and after battling
with the elements until the vessel was
in danger of foundering and the crew
were frost-bitten and thoroughly ex-
hausted, ran her ashore at Pellett's
Cove at noon, and at once tried to save
the cargo, but as fast as it was put on
the beach it was carried away by the
inhabitants, who began TO cut and break
up the schooner to get at the cargo. !
Il was quite at the mercy of this
gang of pirates, who pillaged the ves-
sci of everything on board, even to my
clothes. When l landed | Was wet ind
cold the mercury registering II degrees
above. believe that had | beached
the vessel at night my life would have
been in danger. ] am ruined man.
The schooner and portion of her cargo
belonged to us and nothing was in
Sllred.''
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-01
WOLVES AT A WEDDING.
By Cable to the United Press.

BUDAPEST, Dec. /, 18S4.-News was
received here today of the almost total
annfhilation by wolves of a party of
wedding guests who were returning to
their homes from the village of Hidos,
where the ceremony which they had at
tended had been performed.
The route of the party lay through
a dense forest, soon after entering which
the cries of the wolves were heard.
Despite all efforts at fight the party
was soon overtaken by the animals and
thirteen of their number were dragged
down and devoured.
Few of those who succeeded in es-
Gaping were without injuries of more
or less serious nature. The survivors
made their way to the nearest village
and a relief party was at once organ
izedA which proceeded Immediately to
the sce2e of the slaughter, where they
found scattered around fragments of
flesh, bone and clothing.