Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1892 — CHOLERA NOTES. [ARTICLE]

CHOLERA NOTES.

Cholera is reported to be raging at Vera Cruz. There is another case of Cholera in New York. Two new cases of cholera and one death are reported at>Stettin. Coffin makers have agreed to raise the price of coffiqs on account of the presence of cholera. 5 Herr Hermann, a well-known correspondent of the Boersen Courier, of Berlin, has died la Hamburg of Asiatic cholera. The German papers, Id dismissing the cholera epidemic, note that places situated on mountains are not cholera proof and tho basins of the Rhino and Moselle appear to enjoy absolute immunity from cholera. A report issued by the French Health Department says that there has been a rapid decrease in the number of Isolated cases of cholera In tho northern districts of France. Seven cases of cholera and three deaths havo occurred in the village of Moix Devaut Virtom, in Belgian Lnxumbourg. The captain of the steamer Maas, from Luxembourg, di Ad at Rotterdam of Asiatic cholera Monday. The war is over at Fire Bland, the enraged mob having peacefully submitted to the inevitable. The Normannla passengers have been landed and everything possible is being done tomako them comfortable. Tho Attorney-General has wlied Governor Flower at New York, tfiat Judge L Barnard’s i nJ unction on th- Governor and

■ ■■■■l, ~ , I I I !■ n fII I , , I*n i J health officer Jenkins against the use of Fire island is not binding. The Attorney General says, in a like case, the Supreme Coiirt held that the health officer of the port of New York was a State officer, and the Attorney-General holds that do injunction can be granted against such use of Fire island by a State officer, except by. the general term, mftder Section 605 of Ute code of civil procedure. z The Ne w York Board of education will make special effort to keep the public schools in a heal th v and cleanly condition. The citizens of Toledo, 1 0., are angry and charging the treasury department with breaking down their cholera quarantine through its refusal to pay for a tug employed In stopping vessels. The Hoboken, N. J., board of health, to--make sure that none of the infected steamships shall come to Hoboken, haveissued orders to the police to allow ho vem sei to land at any of the Hoboken docks without a permit from the local board o? health. The tank steamer Heligoland, Captain Donklage, which arrived at Quarantine Tuesday night from Altona, on the Elbe . a little below Hamburg, and is now anchored in tho lower bay, had two deaths on board among her crew, from cholera. The Spanish government has declared' quarantine against New, Y'ork. The official Gazette announces that all vessels arriving at Spanish ports will be detainedPersons arriving at frontier stations from New York will also be subjected to quarantine. There is little comfort in tho news of the cholera. Another original case Is reported within New York city; Brooklyn and New Haven have suspected cases, and another shipful of steerage passengers has reached New York harbor from Hamburg with a .report of eleven deaths since sailing, fifteen days ago.