Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1886 — Is It Yellow Fever? [ARTICLE]

Is It Yellow Fever?

[New Orleans telegram.] The State Board of Health, having received information of the prevalence of fever at Biloxi, Miss., eighty miles distant, and the death there of a number of persons, held A Special meeting to consider the matter. Statements before the Board showed that an itinerant mechanic named Sumpter, who came from Biloxi, died at Mississippi City. The physician pronounced Sumpter’s disease bilious fever, but one of the nurses said he vomited “black stuff.” Dr. Walker made the alarming statement as coming from people from Biloxi that nearly every family there has cases of fever. He was told that in all there existed up to last night 270 cases; that for the last two weeks people were being buried quietly at qight, and that in the daytime the bodies were laid away surreptitiously. Mr. Charles Marshall, superintendent of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, said he was told that Dr. Lemon had pronounced the cause of his wife’s death at Biloxi to be yellow fever. Mr. Marshall had received a telegram from the station agent which bore the information that there were thirty or forty cases at Biloxi, and that Drs. Lemon and Maybine had- advised about the nature of the fever, Dr. Lemon adhering to the belief that it was unquestionably yellow fever. The board thereupon issued a notice to the officials of Biloxi declaring a strict quarantine against it. Lnderhoe and Herren Chiem- See, the castles of the late King of Bavaria, have been opened to visitors, and the gate money amounts to $2,000 each week. J. B. Wells, of Red Bluff, Csl., cut down a sound oak, and four feet fromthe butt, in a little cavity in the heart of the tree, were five small and healthy frogs. Gol. J. B. Batchelder is the recipient of an odd gift from Massachusetts veterans—a cannon made of shot and shell gathered on Gettysburg battle-ground. Miss Fannie Hayes, daughter of the ex-President, will next spring complete her school course in Connecticut. Work has been begun on the permanent monument oyer the tomb of Victor Emmanuel, in the Pantheon at Rome.