Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-30

MUCH DOUBT ABOUT ITS BEING
YELLOW JACK.
ROUSTOgIAES WANT 1T EXAMINED.
Their city BEING Qunrantined by
other Texas Towns, and Trade suf-
ferine in Conseauence-susp iciOus
Case Reported in Indiana.

IlOl0 IDN, lI-A.t otIltIiibNA 100
Duncan, the negro woman who has been
under guard three days. her case being
declared to be suspicious one by State
Heaith-Omcer Swearingen, and by every
local physician TO be suffering from dem
que and kidney Inflammation, is getting
better.
The Cotton Exchange and Board OF
Trade held a meeting to-day and passed
resolutions requesting surgeon-General
Wyrnan TO send an expert here at once
10 look at the case, and wired the resolu-
tlons TO him.
Nobody here believes the woman has
yellow-fever. but every town in Texas
has quarantncd against Houston, and
the situation is very serious commercial
ly. as the loss TO trade is a million dol
lars a day while this ostracism lasts.
rwo thousand men are out Of employ
ment already on account Of it, and the
list viii grow daily.
1t Is hoped here that the government
viii send Or. Gulteras. or some other man
whose reputation will be sufficient to allay
the fears aroused in the interior Of the
state.
SUSPICIOUS CASE IN INDIANA.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, September o.
The News to-day received the following
dispatch from a correspondent at Eng
lish. Crawford county, Ind:
"a supposed case of yellow-fever Is
reported at Mifiiin, seven miles south
west Of here The patient is Edward
Mckinney, He returned from Jones'
boro'. Ark last Friday. was taken sick
Sunday. and has not spoken since. Num-
beTs Of people have recently died within
Of JOnesboro'.
Mckinney. it Is said, has the true ye!-
lOw-fcycr symptoms. DR.. George X.
Hazciw0Od. secretary Of the County
Health Board, refuses TO admit that 1t
is ycll0w-feyer. but Or. y. w. King does
not hesitate to pronounce it a genuine
case. ANA refuses TO attend 1t
The News has also received a telegram
from Dr. Hazlewo0d as follows;
There Is considerable excitement AZ
MniIn but in my opinion the case Is not
yeuow-feycr"
The State Board Of Health has not, as
yet. been notified of the appearance of
yelow-foyer at Mifiin.
QUARANTINE DISCONTINUED.
/,
celver NJ. FELTON,, of the queen and Cres-
cent railroad, to-day received the follow
ing note from Health-Officer Withrow'
Withdrawing the yellow-feyer quarantine
from that road:
"Tbe Health Department has withdrawn
tho ouarantine inspection OF the Queen
and Crescent system, and / take pleasure
in thanking YOU for the kindness ana
consideration shown to inspectors by the
emnlovees of your road, as well as for
tbe courtesy extended by you to this de-
partmcnt."
NEW CASES IN EDWARDS, q.
EDWARDS. MISS. September 9.-Dr.
Dunn. Of the State Board Of Health, this
evening gave the Associated Press the
following statement:
The following cases on yellow-fever are
reported to-day:
Whites-Paul Boxtell. Irving Wimber-
lev. Mertie Ruch. MeTtle Rattlihe. J. I.
slocum, /. Slocum. Jr., DR.. McCallum,
Mrs. J. B. Young, Vessa Long, Edward
Hewes. c. Havenkott, Alvin Tatum. Law
renee Hewes, and Mrs. Tilie Young.
Colored-Annie Lunn, Ellen Lunn, Man
dy Fox. Emma Head. Henry Harper,
George Prosser, Winnie Wilson, Frank
President. Caroline Clifford, and Il. Her
rington.
Total for the day. q. Total number of
cases 10 date, 236. Number of cases under
treatment. 109; number convalescent and
discharged, 49,
DIR. Watts. Of Brownville, reports two
new cases at that place. those Of Miss
Mira Halles and Theo. Taylor; also,
number of others who have had the fever
for some time.
A child named Taylor died of the fever
to-day The Edwards doctors are kept
busy. having hardly time to give 10 their
daily reports. There are several Edwards
people desperately III, and their condition
causes their friends and relatives much
uneasiness.
-FOUR NEW CASES IN MOBILE.
MOBILE, ALA, September 29.-Yester-
days report of ten new cases was Off
set to-day by a report Of four. The only
death In the twenty-fOur hours ending
at noon was that of Brother SymphO-
rian, at the Industrial Gardens reported
last night. The new cases are: ---- Nc
Pheiman. Elmira, near Charles street;
Mary Otis, corner Palmetto and
Chatham streets; = S. s. King. ZOO Sa-
vannah street. William II. Ray Marie,
near New Jersey street.
Total cases to date. 6S; deaths, 10; con-
valescent and recovered, "a; under
treatment. q.
There is much destitution in the fami-
lies OF the poorer class in the infected
district. The families i'm which sickness
has appeared are practically shut of
from the world, and their food supply
soon gives out The t-Get-Away
Club is ministering to their necessities
with great energy, and is successful in
relieving much of the distress.
SCRANTON REPORT.
Nine new cases of yellow-fever and one
death that of Mrs. n. o. Franklin were
reported at Scranton, Miss. to-day.
THE FEVER SPREADS.
NEW ORLEANS, September 29-To-day
has been recoTd-breaker I'm the number
OF new cases OF yellow-fever reported.
while the deaths equalled IN number those
of any day since the ye.lOwfeVer was
first discovered in the city.
There are various reasons given for the
spread Of the disease. but the principal
ones are two-that the weather turned
warm again and owing 10 the wider field
TO cover the Board of Health has had
some tiflculty in getting every infected
house closely guarded as when the
cases were few in number and when the
trained officers of the board were sta
toned about the quarantined houses.
The fact that the death-rate has been
small and the chances Of the epidemic's
growing less. have made the general pub
lie careless, and friction has been felt be-
tween the quarantined people and the
authorities, people scaling back fences
and sneaking out of side-doors i'm order
not to be confined, and the result is that
more germs have been scattered and
rapidlv deVeloDed I'm these warm daVs
The increased number of cases here has
caused no general alarm because the in
crease OF deaths has not been in proper