The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-03
THE ESTATE" DISEASE.
Fresh Outbreak of an Old Malady-
The Best Treatment for 1t.

New York Times.
Via curious disease. the English un-
c~laimed-estate fever, is no sooner sup
pressed in one part of this country than
it breaks out in another. Within the last
five weeks at least three new centers of
infection have been disclosed. The Law
r~ence-Townley epidemic, which had pre-
vailed for a long time in Troy and certain
other cities of this State, and in Indiana,
appears to have been stamped out by heroic
doses Of a culture of the unclaimed-estate
bacillus, procured in London by the con-
viction and Imprisonment of Jacques and
Thomas, who had the disease in exception
ally malignant and dangerous form and had
been instrumental in spreading the infection
in our own LAND. But since this successful
application of the best remedies the disease
has appeared in Lockport and Detroit under
the name of Hyde estate fever, and at
last accounts the remedies forwarded from
London by ambassador Bayard had been
used without effect.
One Of the new centers of infection is
Cheyenne. Wyo., where persons bearing the
name of Wells are the chief sufferers. We
learn the particulars from the Cheyenne
Leader. The estate, which is always the
prominent feature of the victims hallucina-
tons during the course of this curious mall
aQy, III tl1S instance Is one LnaL was lett
in 1895 by Martha Gregory, spinster. The
Leader says:
"A part Of the realty which she devised
was three hundred acres of land situated in
Bloomsbury, a very choice part of London.
George Wells, of Boston, England, married
a sister of Martha Gregory. Their son
John fell heir to the three hundred acres
of land in Bloomsbury. George Wells was
the heir Of John Wells and inherited the
property. The son and heir of George
Wells was Henry, the father of Miss Hattie
Wells and Mrs. Sam Wilcox of this city
just how the heirs lost their grip on the
property we are not told, but the whole
thing, of course, got into chancery." It
is now out again, and there is every pros
pect that the heirs will come in for their
own" They are hunting up the missing
links. The property. we are told, amounts
to millions of dollars. as the real estate
is situated in the very best part of London
and has grown immensely valuable" No
estimate is given, but we should say that
three hundred acres in the very best part
of London must be worth at least $780,
600, 600.
If the friends of these afflicted persons
in Cheyenne will inquire whether three
hundred acres in the very best part of Lon
don" have recently been taken out of the
f banefs OF OF me Mar foart G Gf onsaee bstr for a tine
will inspect carefully the reports of the
State Department concerning this disease,
which is called Gregory fever will be clear
ly indicated. 1t may be shown that the
course Of treatment viii involve the prose
very effective in the case of the Lawrence
Townly epidemic. and the conviction of the
Rev. George William Burgoyne Howard
brought speedy relief to many patients suf-
feriug from a sporadic form of the ailment
in various parts of the country.
A resident of Rochester has the disease
in a mild form. for the estates which he
pursues are worth only $s.oo0.0o0 His name
Is Smith, and Rlondin bore him on his back
when he walked a wire over Genesee Falls,
t~hirty-five years ago. Smith, we are in
formed, lis the ~undoubted only surviving
next kin TO the eccentric Mortimer Hugh
Tutter, master of Tutter Castle, in Bishop
Wearmouth Parish, Sunderland, Yorkshire,
and of Rawling Hall. Durham. and owner
of the vast estates belonging thereto" Tut
ter died a bachelor. about seventy-five
years ago." but left a kinsman. or course.
the estates fell into the awful custody of
the chancegy Court" and remained there
recently ascertained that the court still
holds than. or at least he thinks he did,