Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1893 — THE DREADFUL TYPHUS. [ARTICLE]

THE DREADFUL TYPHUS.

Moro Ciisim at New lor i—lts Terrible Kn vnge* In 11c .) :'i). * Twenty-eight nmv coses of typhus fever doveloped.Stimlay, at New Voile, tho majority of them coming from the Cheap lodging house, 31 Bayard st., from which three cases were reported on Saturday. All these persons afflicted wero removal to the Uiversido hospital and quarantine has been established. A dispatch from Englo Pass, Tex.. Sunday, says: William bovine, who arrived to-day from the interior of Mexico,reports that, the accounts of the ravages of lyp'w-i* there have not yet been exaggerat’d, ta Zacatecas and Guanajuato tho opidem o Is at its worst, moro than £S cases b i;oportod at tho former place. The oar* tallty from tho disease is estimated at from 15 to 25 per cent of t'hoso stricV.o. Eight convicts In tho pen!tent : n-r n Littlo Kock. Ark., died within ha’f %n hour after being stricken down w»»h a disease having tho symptoms of c'l and something of a panic his rerc’ted Tho dlsoaio is Jielioved to liavo or'&tailed from a sewer upon which tlio convict* had boon working. * Ex Governor ftaldwin, of Michigan, and Who succoedod Scnutor Zach Chandler, Is dead. At New York Mrs. Harrington shot herself throngli disappointment iu her ‘ love for auothcr woman. I Supreme Justice Somerby, of the Iron ■ Hall, has boeu arrested at Philadelphia.