Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-08-01
PLAGUE SPREADS;
TOWNS IN Panic
NEW ORLEANS DEAD NOW NUM-
Der AZ AND SUFFERERS
TOTAL 227.
THREATENED CITIES
BAR ALL COMMERCE
Governor vardaman Of Mississippi
Places Military in Charge Of the
: Quarantine Gulfport Takes Meas
ures Against Yellow Fever.

Places Military in Charge Of the
. Quarantine Gulfport Takes Meas
ures Against Yellow Fever.
New Orleans, July 81. The official
reports of the city board of health of 81
new cases and three deaths, making a
total of 227 cases and Al deaths to date.
indicates very slight spread of the yell
low fever here, and continues to show
all cases traceable to the original infec-
ton. Eighteen of the new cases are
Italians, one an American, one French
man and one German. ALI but five are
below Canal street and most of them in
the French market section. One of those
above Canal street is the engineer Of
the steamship Oregon, case import
ed from Central America, three others
are Italians who came out of the lower
district and the fifth is young law
yer whose infection is doubtless trace
able to the fact that his daily duties car
ried him to the civil district court. The
court is located next to the historic Ca
bildo, within stones throw of the
French market. Two of the three re-
ported deaths are of Italians There Is
still no report of new cases from an out.
lying infection.
Panic in Small Towns.
A dispatch Saturday from Drs. Was
din and Donald, who are in charge Of
the case at Lumberton, states that no
new cases have appeared and they feel
confident of their ability to stamp out
the infection without further spread.
The order requiring all persons to ex-
htbit health certificates before entering
Mississippi went into effect Saturday,
The most disquieting news in the yellow
fever situation Saturday is the evidence
that panic is increasing in the small
er towns of Louisiana and Mississippi
and that disposition is growing to re-
vive the disastrous commercial quaran-
tines of 1897, when some of the country
towns even refused to receive ice or
hardware from New Orleans. Columbia.
La, bars all kinds Of merchandise ex-
cept hardware. Utica, Miss, will not re-
ceiye freight of any kind; Osyka, Miss.
will take no fruit or vegetables; Jack
son, La, wants no household articles
from New Orleans. Several towns in
Tennessee and others along the Missis-
sippi Valley road In Mississippi refuse
to allow express matter of any kind to
be put off; Port Gibson will not take
bread nor anything wrapped in burlap
that may be shipped from this city.
Some Of the Texas towns are asking that
tho i1c zbo 5f,,v {<,l
Town Takes Measures.
Gulfport, Miss. July 81. ~ A docto,
here stated he had case Of vel.
low fever. The health authorities in
terviewed him, with the result that he
acknowledged he had told an untruth,
The authorities thareupon made him
sign statement to that effect An ordi.
nance was passed to the effect that any
person making a statement about yellow
fever in Gulfport that was proven to be
untrue would be fined from $50 to 800
The citizens Of Gulfport have offered
money to protect the coast.
States Quarantine Strict.
jackson, Miss, July 81. Although
) Gov. Vardaman has placed Adtt. Gen
Fridge In charge Of the quarantine
against Louisiana, he has not called Out
the state militia. Gen. Fridge has been
given several officers and privates OF the
national guard to aid him in enforcing
his orders. The general himself is in
charge of the quarantine along the gull
coast and this embraces the train sery
Ice. The other officers and men have
been detailed for duty at other points
where refugees may seek to enter Mis-
sissipi. Thpse men, while members Of
the national guard, are acting in the ca
pacity OF quarantine guards and not al
militiamen.
Fever May Spread North.
New York, July 31.-Possibility OF
yellow fever scourge spreading te
cities OF the north was forced upon
the health officials at this port Satur
day when nearly a score of suspects
were removed from two steamers from
southern ports. Two of these. critical
ly i'll, have been isolated in the pest
house on Swinburne island. which had
been especially prepared for possible
yellow fever cases. That the malad,
from which they are suffering is vel
low feEer, however, las not been de
termined. and at least "a hours mus
elapse before the real nature Of the
disease will be positively kpowa, The
other suspects, all of whom are at the
detention hospital at Hoffman's island
are held merely that their condition
may be closely observed by the physi
clans attached to the health depart
ment. None of them is seriously i'll
but each had symptoms of fever il
some form when examined on th.
steamers.
se1-s1,,an q Ss-ic;1e.
Wi,,.eaharra, Pa. July 81. H. n
Crawford, a travelling salesman of Phii
adelrI:a. was fcurd dsa.. in HIS room
nj hotel here Friaav With the ga
turned on. The coroner says it is cas-
OF sMicide
Fifty Injured.
Fort Smith, Ark, July 31-Fift
people we're injured In wreck on tn
Little Rock & Fort Sn,iib railway a
Ozark. A. F. Cant. Memphis travel
ing man, is believed TO be fatally In
5ured. !.
Tragedy in St. Louis.
st. Louis, July %. - Frank w. Caro-
formerly railroad conductor living a
Como. Col, shot and killed woma
named Beulah Craft, and fired tire