People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1895 — Mysterious Disease in Newfoundiand. [ARTICLE]

Mysterious Disease in Newfoundland.

Halifax, N. S., June 4.—A report from St. Johns, Newfoundland, says that at Port au Port nnd Bay St. George the people are panlc-stri/ckvn over a disease that has broken out. The epidemic brl. ginated on Red island among French flshefrfnefl and 1 as now spread to the mainland. The Rev. Father O’Rourke 'la strlcjtep; having contracted the disease during his ministrations to the sufferers at Port au Port. There is no doctor resident there and the jfeople de hot know wh-it the disease Is.