The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-19
FORrY-NIUB NBV CASKS


rHr>e D>ashs From the Dissaso-A False
Alarm Frightoas the People q Aoeegems
err, Ala,-All the Alleged Gases as Gal
weston Di~seAargsd-A Nsgrs Lynched Tor
Ru,~ipgt the QuaxantinA-RspoTts From
Other Iafeotod cities.
New Orleans, October l5.-Fever cases
rolled up rapidly today. BY O'Clock
thsra had been seventeen reported; by )
o'cl,ck there were ~thirty-six. and by s
there were %forty-nine and three deaths.
so that early in the evening the prospects
were excellent that his day would show
the hig water mark. The large number
of cases. however. did not represent a
corresponding increase in foci. From a
single house ON Bourbon street. four
cases were reported in a bunch by DR..
Fomento. and in his official statement
to the board. the doctor wrote that, some
what remarkable to say the cases were
taken almost simultaneously.
The cases as usual are confined to no
particular locality. An excellent feature
Of the situation. however. Is that recov-
cries and discharges OF patients are nu-
merous. This Is the fortieth day OF the
fever, and this afternoon the total num-
Der of recoveries exceeded the total num-
Der OF cases now under treatment. show
ing the success which local physicians
are meeting with in treating the cases.
The weather bureau reported q storm
reaching New Orleans. 1t has not ar
rived here yet, though the weather Is q
trfle cooler this evening. but 1t Is still
warm enough to rapidly develop cases.
The weather bureau says that up to the
present. October weather Is about on an
average. Frost cannot reasonably be ex-
pected inside OF a month.
Jacksonville, Miss. October 1a.-Dr.
Birchett reports from Edwards. n
whl.e and seven colored cases but no
deaths.
no deaths. and the sick generally doing
The report from Clinton 10 that there
is but one case under treatment. There
is no report from Nitta Yuma.
The board of health was advised from
Utica that there were six suspicious
cases at Cayuga, and has sent DR.. Dunn
from Edwards to investigate.
of yellow fever and no deaths were re-
ported today. There were eight recoev-
cries. The record is: Total cases to date
1872. deaths q, recoveries SO. remaining
New Orleans. October 15.-Douglas
Boulte. a negro leader, was lynched at
a small settlement on Bayou Barataria,
about fifteen miles from his city today.
His onense was running the quarantine
gauntlet.
Galveston, Texas, October b.-The last
Of the yellow fever cases passed on by
DR.. Guiteras was discharged today. OF
the four cases reported as suspicious,
two are discharged, one is convalescent
and the fourth is doing well. Physicians
report the dengue epidemic dying out.
Several towns near Galveston and Hous-
ton have raised their quarantine.
Montgomery, Ala, October flowing
to rumors of a suspicious case of yellow
fever in Montgomery several of the sNr-
rounding towns have quarantined against
her. The Advertiser interviewed every
doctor in the city today. Each one de-
clared, he not only did not have a case
of yellow fever among his patients, but
that there was not even a suspicious case
in Montgomery. The board Of health met
and confirmed their report, as announced
by the Associated Press this morning,
that there is no yellow fever here. Some
malarial fever is in the town, but not
as much as is usual at this season of the
year. Every one of these cases lave
yielded to the treatment, and in three or
four days have recovered. There was
quite an uneasy feeling in the town today
and several hundred people left, but
there is no panic.