Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1887 — WEEKLY BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERN STATES. A Pittsbugh dispatch states that a mammoth salt company, to be composed of all the large salt manufacturers in the United States, is about to be formed. A New York special of Saturday says: Asiatic cholera was brought to this port yesterday by the steamship Alesia, which comes from the cholera-infected ports of Italy. It comes in its worst, most virulent form, and death was the sure, quick result of an attack. The Alesia sailed from Naples on Sept 3. When nine days out from that port the first case, that of Luiga Marii, a steerage passenger, was discovered by the ship's doctor. He lingered along for three days in great agony and died. On the following day Paul Antonio Baldageria, another steerage passenger, died of the same plague. Both were promptly buried at sea. From that time almost every dav until the ship arrived in port a death occurred, and all received the same sea burial. There were eight deaths in all. When the Alesia arrived off quarantine Health Officer Smith boarded her and learned these facts. He also found that the ship's surgeon had diagnosed four other cases of steerage passengers sick with the same disease. The general agent of the Fabre Line, J. Ter Knile, on Broadway, was notified, and the Quarantine Commissioners, Mr. Knile, and E. S. Mellen, Secretary of the Quarantine Commission, at once proceeded to quarantine. An extended examination by Health Officer Smith resulted in the discovery of four additional cases on board which had apparently developed during the day. The ship was atonc.e ordered down to the lower bay. The sick were conveyed to the hospitals on Swinburne’s Island, and the remainder of the 561 steerage passengers were transferred to the hospital at Hoffman’s Island. The three cabin passengers on board, together with the fortyfive surviving members of the crew, were also transferred to Hoffman's Island by the Castle Garden transfer boat. Of the sick ones, three were children, and their three mothers went with their babes weeping violently.