Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-23
Poetic Placards Plentiful

classes all over. Macedonia and Ser.
via continue without abatement. The
letter is to her sister, Mile. Helene
Losanitch. who IS now in New York
in the interests Of Seryian relief.
They say it is a dirt disease" she
v rites, "and yet SO many Of the cases
are those who frequently battle and
use antiseptics, that one is forced to
believe the %contagion is in the very
air we breathe. = After every, pre-.
caution has been taken in hos
pitfalls, and stricken persons isolated,
the wounded as well as doctors and
nurses continue to fall ILL"
I Nine. MarionkOvitch' reports the
death Of Nine. Lukovitch, president Of
Of the Serbian Circle of Sisters, who
contracted .typhus while on a visit OF
inspection to the hospitals at Valyevo.
Although during her illness she knew
she was condemned to death, she did
not once complain. but died as heroic
a woman as. she had lived, says the
writer.
I'VE greatly fear" she continued,
"that during the hot weather hope
lies in the Rockefeller Commission.
which, as you know, came out to in
vestigate conditions. They have prom
ised to recommend that the Rockefel-
Ter Foundation and the American Red
Cross send us a Sanitary Commission
composed of psychologists, and of
doctors and nurses skilled in treating
tropical diseases. Please while you
are in America send us reports which
have been published in any of the
medical papers of work done in con.
nection with typhus or other tropical
diseases. 1t would be Of great use to
our doctors If these could be translat.
ed into Serbian.
do please tell me at once If they
have done anything in America by
way of inoculating against typhus. At
present there is nothing to help it but
careful nursing. It is said that over
so percent die Of heart failure, on
about the tenth doy af illness.
when each day brings news of the
deaths. not only Of those of our poorer
classes, but off, so many of those Of
our own class, l smetimes wonder who
will be left to inherit the Greater Ser.
bia which we are promised by the
Great Powers as compensation for all
We have suffered.
1--WE hear that our men as well as
the Russians who were taken prison.
ers are all dying in the detention
camps Of Austria, and that the vii.
lagos Of southern Austria are even
more severely stricken with typhus
than those here.
"But for the awful depression and
notwithstanding sorrow of this epidemic
the country would be feeling almost
normal.
"Eor once the Danube has done us
a noble service-its inundation, per-
haps more than anything else, has pre-
vented the Austrians from even at.
tempting an invasion of our land since
they were driven out about the middle
Of December. Now our army is re-
formed, reclothed, revictualed, let
them come II they want another beat
ing such as we gave them the last
time. It is a comfort to know that the
army has been put under shelter in
peasant houses or sheds constructed
especially for them"
One hundred bushels of oats valued
at approximately $50 were stolen
Monday night from William Spicer,
residing near the north end of Sixth
street, Grand Forks. The thieves
dro"e a wagon up to Spicer's barn,
filled it with the oats, and drove away
again without being detected, the
wheel tracks being found by Mr.. Spi.
Ger after he had discovered the loss
NJ tho nafs Thn nnlioo aro inuaati.