The Herald of Wales. — 1888-10-06 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE YELLOW-FEVER EPIDEMIC.  behind  Maly  The people of Alabama, terribly stricken by the ravages of yellow fever, prayed for frost. Lo, their prayer has been answered. Frosts, says the Philadelphian correspondent of the TifIGOI, are recorded in various parts of Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama, and the yellow fever scare in the south is to some extent subsiding' Railway travelling is being resumed, and at least one route has been opened to New Orleans. A cablegram from Jacksonville, dated the 26th lost, reports 'that 103 fresh cases of yellow fever and eight deaths have occurred during the last twenty-four hours.  We are informed that the price of the beet brands of beat selected copper has advanced to £B2 10s. per ton. The TiM4l Buakim correspondent telegraphs: —lt is reported from Massowah that Khalifs Abdullah, of Khartoum, is dead. The Standard's Parts correspondent rep,rt that a dynamite outrage has been perpetrated against a Paris registry office, which had gots into bed odour during the recent strikes. Much carnage was done, but no one was killed. The Sporting Life Boston correspondent says: It has just transpired that the Unknown," whom the New York Illustrated News wish to back against Jack Kilrain for the championship of the world and the Folios Gazette diamond belt, Is Joe Lannon' the heavy weight of this city. An inquest has been held at Sheffield on the bodies of Robert Snowden, a potato dealer, and his wife, the former of whom was found dead in bed and the latter in the cellar, where she had banged herself. An incoherent note, in the man's handwriting, was found in the house, in which he said his wife had tried to poison him. A poet mortem examination showed that his death was due to heart decease. Verdicts of "Death from natural causes" acid "Suicide" were returned by the jury. Intelligence received at New York from Ecuador states that two Nevin' eartlqueke shocks have occur. ad •.at Guayaquil, 41114 that a panic exists among the inhabitants. The Midland Scotch express which left Glasgow at 0.15. on Friday night met with a serious accident a few miles from Dumfries. A Pullman sleeping car and three other carriages left the rails and crashed along for a consider• able distance, greatly damaging the permanen. way. The train was brought toe standetill on the river IN ith. The uninjured carriages were attached to another train, and the passengers finally reached London at eleven this (Saturday) morning, four hours late. No passengers were injured. Signor hued, the Italia'', began hie fast of 30 days on the 22nd September, at the building of the Barcelona Exhibition. His last meal ii Saturday consisted of lobster, beefsteak, bread, and wine. He will touch no food mita October 22nd. During the night before oommencing to fast he drank slowly some of his -" liqueur, " handing the remainder to the medical men for r.nalysis. He was placed is a compartment composed of two rooms containing sibed, tablr, washstand, and all the instruments nee, sear, e.r experiments. He is watched by men a. pointed by the committee of doctors. Ti,,y publish the folownig obeervations on his eot dition when beginning thiP, his fifth pub!: Ifist:—"Weigut, thi kilos (15 tlh.) ; pulse, t. 5; I temperature, H " Visitors to the Barcelon.. Exhibition are admitted to ow flood on meant of 40 oectiess.