People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1893 — Quarantine in Texas. [ARTICLE]

Quarantine in Texas.

AUSTIN, Tex., April 5.—Gov. Hogg has issued a proclamation establishing quarantine on the Texas gulf coast and Rio Grande border, to take effect May 1. It applies to vessels, persons and things coming from ports and places infected with yellow fever, smallpox or cholera. All places south of latitude 25 degrees are to be deemed infected unless proven to the contrary.