The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-01

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MohIlo-Iacrease In Case as EAvaSos.
A Case I'm m Indiana TSvn-DfDHsoeo
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picious
Indianapolis, Ind. September O.-The
News today received the following dis
patch from a correspondent at English.
Crawford county. Indiana: "A supposed
case OF yellow fever Is reported at
Miffiin, seven miles southwest Of here.
The patient is Edward Mckinney. He re-
turned from Jonesboro. Ark, last Friday.
was taken sick Sunday. and has not
spoken since. Numbers Of people have re-
Gently died within a mile Of Jonesoro.
McKinny, it is said. has true yellow fever
symptoms. DR.. George r. Haxelwood.
secretary of the county board Of health.
refuses to admit that 1t is yellow fever,
but DR.. N. w. King does not hesitate to
pronounce it a genuine case and refuses
TO attend it," The News has also received
a telegram from DR.. Hazelwood as fol-
lows: There is considerable excitement
at Mifflin. but in my opinion the case
there is not yellow fever" The state
board Of health has not as yet been mott
fed Of the appearance Of yellow fever at
Mifflin.
Duncan. the negro woman who has been
under guard three days, declared to be a
suspicious case by State Health Officer
Swearingen. but by every local physician
to be suffering from dengue and kidney
inflamma tion is getting better. The cot
ton exchange and board OF trade held a
meeting today and passed resolutions re-
auesting Surgeon Wyman to send an ex-
pert here at once to look at the case and
wired it to him. No body here believes
the woman has yellow fever. but every
town in Texas has quarantined against
Houston, and the situation is very serious
commercially, as the loss to trade is $1,-
0O0, 600 a day while this ostracism lasts.
Two thousand men are out OF employment
already on account of it, and the list will
grow daily. 1t is hoped here that the
government will send DR.. Guiteras or
some other man whose reputation will be
sufficient to allay the fears aroused in
the interior Of the state.
Cincinnati. September 2S.-Receivers M.
FELTON,, Of the Queen and Crescent rail-
road. has received a note from health
officer Withrow. withdrawing the yellow
fever quarantine from that road.
Edwards. Miss. September 2.-Dr.
| Dunn Of the state board Of health, gave
the Associated Press the following state
ment: The following summary Of yellow
fever is reported today: Total new cases
| for the day "a, total number Of cases to
| date 236. number of cases under treat
ment 100, number Of convalescent cases
| and discharged 119. number seriously Ill g.
DR. Watts OF browTyille reports nxs tive
Halles, Theodore Taylor and also a num-
| Der have had the fever for some time. A
child, named Taylor. died Of the fever
| kept busy. having hardly time to give tc
I tIIeir daily reports. There are several
| Edwards people desperately i'll and their
| condition causes their friends and rela.
| tives much uneasiness.
Mobile, Ala, September 29.-Yesterday'
| report OF ten new cases was Offset today
| by report OF four. The only death in
| the twenty-four hours. ending at noon
trial Gardens. reported last night. The
summary is: Total cases to date 6S
deaths 10, convalescent and recovered "a
under treatment "a. There is much desti
tuition in the families Of the poorer
classes of the infected district. The
| families in which sickness has appeared
! are practically shut of from the world
and their food supply soon gives out
| their necessities with great energy and Ii
successful In relieving much of the dis
| tress.
New Orleans, September 29.-Today ha.
| new case OF yellow fever reported, while
the deaths eQualed in number those OF
any day since the yellow fever was first
| discovered in the city. There are various
reasons given for the spread Of the dis.
| ease, but the principal ones are two, thai
| the weather turned warm again and ow
1 ing to the much wider field to cover, the
board OF health has had some difficulty IN
| getting every house as closely guarded az
| was possible when the cases here were
few In number and the trained officials
1 OF the board were stationed about the
Quarantined house. The fact that the
death rate has been small and that the
4 chances OF an epidemic have been con.
| stantly growing less have made the gen.
i eral public somewhat careless and there
has been increasing friction between the
Quarantined people and the authorities
| Imprisoned inmates Of houses have beer
going over back fences and sneakiug Out
or sfoe DOORS In order not to b. con-
fined, and the result has been that more
| germs have been scattered and rapidly d.
veloped In these warm days. In 20 otheI
season have the authorities been more
i strict In Quarantining h0OssT and
1 isolating inmates who might be around
I the sick. and the result has been tina,
] every possible effort is being made by
| certain elements Of the community to ge,
number OF cases here has caused no gen.
eral alarm. because the Increase OF
deaths has not been IN; proportion. The
death rate Is a trifie under II per cent
| to be above 10. The conclusion, therefore
is natural that there Is no increase II
the maiigancy OF the disease. The an.
thorities here still believe that for some
| ally exceed the number on the books to-
l day, but they are 7singularly one in thu
| opinion that the disease cannot affair
/ the proportions OF an epidemic. This wa.
| the record today: Deaths f. new cases q
Among the new cases reported today 1,
Ravenel Smith. a member Of a well-to ds
/ family. Five cases appeared on Jack
/ son avenue. one OF the fashionabl,
streets OF the city. Most Of the patient,
reported as Ill are Of the better class
The saddest and most sensational cas-
reported today was that Of Mrs. Jenni
Afford. who was stricken with the feye
yesterday. Edward A. Reppard, her son
/ in-Iaw. greatly terrorfzed immediatel,
packed his grip and fed north leavini
his wife to attend her mother IN
strange city. Mrs. Afford died this morn
Ing. and was buried In two hours. He
! daughter is prostrated
4aeon's Carnival
Macon. Ga, September D.-The car
nival association OF Macon today ex
l tended invitations to President NcKin