Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1892 — FOR A NATIONAL QUARANTINE. [ARTICLE]

FOR A NATIONAL QUARANTINE.

Kecohimendatlona to Be Made by Surgeon General Wyman, Surgeon General Wyman, of the Marine Hospital service, in whose hands have been placed all the measures for suppression of cholera, said that his annual rqpoit to the Secretary of ’ the would strongly recdmitfcnd that the matter of quarantines be placed under national control. He will suggest that there be established either a national quarantine or a Bureau of Health, whose duties will be specifically confined to meeting just such emergencies as have been presented by the recent cholera scare. ' The report will follow closely the recommendation of the Quarantine Committee, made up of leading physicidhs of the country, appointed last fall at the meeting of the National Medical Congress. These gentlemen have visited the various ports of entry from Maine to New Orleans, and they say the quarantine system at New Orleans is the one which should be adopted as a national measure. It provides for a thorough fumigation, and Is so effective that New Orleans has not seen yellow fever in seven years, whereas the city used to have a visit every summer prior t® the establishment of this system. Soldiers Crushed to Death. Additional advices per st'amsldp China state that a traveler arriving at Foochow reports that a gale, accompanied by a waterspout, swept down from the mountains, swamping the country in the neighborhood of Changchow. the water in some places standing tqn feet deep. The Confucian temple and the temple of the City God were bo h submerged, the walls of the latter collapsing, burying eighty soldiers. In the Nan-Hsien district the people also suffered mm h. Brieflets. The Missouri Legislature will attempt to fix by law the price of sleep-ing-car berths at $1.50. Four men were drowned by the capsizing of a Government scow in Snake River, near lewiston, Idaho The Hawaiian cabinet announces its willingness to grant the United States territory and a harbor for a coaling station. « Sunday opening of the World’s Fair was advocated bylhe General Assembly of the Knights of Labor in a resolution adopted at St. Louis. President Diaz has made the official announcement that the Mexican Government will restore the import duty qn grain Dec. 1. Southeastern railway managers will meet at Atlanta, Ga., to discuss plans for a direct line of steamers between some Southern point and Liverpool. A team drawing a carriage occupied by Mrs. Grover Cleveland and other ladies ran away at Lakeside, N. J. Mr Freeland, Mrs. Cleveland’s host, whr» was driving, finally stopped the team. • William E. Curtis, who has just returned from his mission to Spain in seach of Columbus relics, says the greater part of the relics at the Madrid Historical Exposition will be transferred to the World’s Fair. The Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst and a corps of 1,137 assistant will complete a map of New York' City, showing the position and character of eveiy house within the municipal limits, together with the names and social status of occupants. This enterprise is to be prosecuted under the auspices of the City ’ Vigilance League. ,