The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-23

of the revision of the Dreyfus case, OPP
posing its reference to the court of
cessation, on the ground that the army
has, in the council of appeal, its own
court of cessation.
M. Bourgeois is regarded as the prob
able successor of M. Brisson and lively
times are promised on the reassembling
Of the chamber Of deputies on Tuesday
next
The French socialists are organizing
a vast demonstration to take place on
the Place de la Concorde, and the anti
Dreyfus league has also summoned It's
adherents to meet there with the
rallying cry of give Parmee!" A col
lision between the two factions is an
ticipated in view of which the project
of police is taking measures on a gigan-
tic scale to preserve order. In addition
the military authorities are preparing
for trouble, and the garrison of Paris
will be confined to the barracks.
The outbreak of bubonic plague at
Vienna, due to the experiments in Prof
Nothnagles archaeological establish
ment in the cultivation of the plague
bacillus, has spread terror at the Aus
trian capital. Five cases, in addition to
that of the late Herr Barisch, the as
sistant in the establishment, who con-
waiting the bacillus, have now occurred.
They are two nurses in the laboratory
another of the assistants. Herr Ba-
risch's wife and DR.. Mueller, the ply
stefan who attended Herr Barisch. The
last sacraments of the Roman Catholic
Church were administered to the latter
and to one of the nurses by priest,
through a window of the plague cells.
DIR. Mueller was considered an au-
ffrro 4 t1A r,1r, J,.,t
Bombay for the purpose of studying it
on the spot and he survived all the
dangers there. The disease at Vienna
has assumed pneumonia form.
There are no boils: but
each case is accompanied by high
fever and blood splitting. Extraordi-
nary precautions have now been taken
to prevent an epidemic. The plague
patients lie in an isolated building, at
tended by Dr. Pooch, a volunteer
physician, and by Sisters Of Charity
They are surrounded by a rope, across
which nobody is allowed to pass. DIR.
Pooch writes the prescriptions and fas-
tens them to the window pane. The
doctors outside read them and have
them made up. Then the prescriptions
are placed on the window ledge, from
whence they are removed by those in
side Food is conveyed to the patients
and their attendants by Sisters of
Charity in a similar manner, and the
nurses furnish accounts by telephone
of all changes in the patients condi-
ton. Every person who has come in
contact with Herr Barisch, principally
the hospital attendants has been iso-
lated Some of them resisted and 9TH
ers tried to escape, but were captured
and all were locked up. 1t is feared,
however, that the precautions were
taken too late. Herr Barisch was i'll
for three days before he saw a doctor,
during which time he lived with his
wife and visited wine shops. The wife,
who has now developed suspicious
symptoms, visited friends. rode in pub
lie omnibuses and came in contact with
dozens of persons at her husband S
funeral
The excitement in medical circles is
tremendous. The well-known chemist,
Prof. Hofrotz Luding, has made d
pathetic speech, during which he ex-
pressed the hope that the doctors of
Vienna will prove themselves equal to
all emergencies. This reveals the fact
that it is the opinion of medical men
at the Austria capital that the plague
is likely to spread in that city. An
other significant indication of this APP
prehension is found in the fact that a
temporary hospital, consisting of sew
ed during the past night behind the
infection hospital. One hundred men
worked by torchlight there in order
to complete it as quickly as possible.
A painful feature of the Viennese
situation is the unscrupulous attitude
of the anti-Semetic newspapers, which
are accusing the Jewish doctors of
bringing the plague to Vienna. 1t is
feared that this appeal to the worst