The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-08-11

AND OTHER PLACES.
Three Hundred and Pour People Have
Had It Up To Tuesday In New Or.
leans Alone, Of Which Number
Sixty.Two Persons Have
Died of the Disease.

Yellow fever made It's appearance
In the oity Of New Orleans last Thurs-
day, and since that time up to Tues
day there has been three hundred and
four cases. OF this number sixty-two
cases have been fatal. The authori.
ties are doing all they can to stop
the disease, but up to Tuesday they
had not been very successful. There
wore twenty. one new cases on that
day and FIVE deaths.
q larantines everywhere are being
drawn tighter. A number of towns
IN Mississippi and Louisiana are cut.
ting themselves Off from the world and
the shotgun quaran1ines are being
rapidly extended. Guards and in.
spectOrs ore being multiplied and tray
81 Is being made increasingly dif1lcult.
Even gasoline is apparently barred
from Vicksburg. Many people have
left New Orleans for the interior.
While the feeling Is constantly
growing more hopeful, there Is appar-
emily no abatement Of the excitement
and there Ia 3 panicky feeling in the
country districts Of Louisiana and Mis-
sissippi. Local business houses are
beginning to feel the Ieffects of the
scare. They are receiving letters from
travelling men telling Of the cancella-
tion OF orders in Mississippi and else.
where because Of the reluctance Of the
country people to patronizs stores
which receive goods from infected
districts.
Much distress Is beginning to appear
among the Italian population growing
out of the practical expulsion of the
iruit business from Louisiana ON ao-
count Of the quarantines, and relief
work Is one OF the tasks which the
Italian societies and citizens commit
ices will now have to address them
selves to. A meeting Of representa-
tive Italians has been held and per-
nanent organization formed.
A special to the Age Herald from
Meridian, Miss, says: Five Italians
we're shot down by the guards OF the
ietentiOn station near Lu Il bsrton
Monday morning, two being killed and 8
ahree seriously wounded, {, DR.. Donald,
tate health officer at Hattiesburg,
gave out the first intim alton of the oc.
curence over the long distance tele-
phcne shortly before noon and later
he details were obtained from other
sources.
A case of yellow fever was developed
few days ago among Italian refu.
| gees from New Orleans in the suburbs
4 the town and the house in which
he patient lay Ill was isolated. The
late health authorities took care of
he case while 1tinoa. :" r ~nes.,a in CON.
act with tho sick mar ar ~ '-eat t$ained
inder' guard at camp pl>. for
ne purpose. Five of these, early
Monday morning, made an attemp&to
scape. The guarGs repeatedly calfsd
upon them to halt, but no attention.
vas paid to the order.
The pursuing guards fired volley
Vt the fugitives, all of them falling
n their tracks From the best OBJ
tainable information two of the Ital-
'ans were Instantly killed by the vol
ley and the other three more or less
'erlously wounded. Lumberton la o.
| own on the New ORLEANS and Eastern
railroad, about 80 miles northeast OF
New Orleans and contains the only
case Of yellow fever thus far developed
| in Mississippi