Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1897 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Bishop Maes of Covington has been appointed archbishop of New Orleans. Serious damage to the tobacco crop of Kentucky and Tennessee has been done by frosts. The Mexican War Veterans, in session at Nashville, elected Major S. P. Tuft of Illinois president. Light frosts are reported at Covington, Milan and Arlington, Tenn. Arlington is only a few miles from Memphis. A second death from yellow fever occurred in New* Orleans Wednesday, making eight in all. The victim was Miss Elizabeth Nussbaum, aged 17 years, of 1300 Galves street. The sawmill boiler of E. G. Dex, three miles from Livermore, Ky., blew up on Thursday. Three men were killed and ten injured. Cold water running into the boiler caused the accident. The mill was totally wrecked. At Edwards, Miss., eight new cases, tlirye deaths from yellow fever, is the report. Indicatios at present are that nothing but a killing frost can allay the disease. The disease is rapidly spreading, and while it is regarded as q mild type, it is feared it will become more malignant owing to cool weather now prevailing. The New Orleans fever situation was greatly improved Tuesday morning by a materially lower temperature, the thermometer at 6 o’clock being 62. Incubation of yellow fever germs requires a sustained temperature of 70 Fahrenheit, and if the present cool spell continues conditions promise steadily to grow better. Dr. Touatre, an experienced yellow fever physician and a member of the board of experts, says in an interview: “The records since 1853 show that yellow fever has never been declared epidemic. That was the case in 1853, '67, and ’7B. The history of the epidemics of the last half century proves that all epidemics waned with the first cold of October, disappearing almost entirely in November. If we add a month and a half more to the period of incubation for infectious foci to establish themselves, we are brought almost to the end of October to have an epidemic. An epidemic at that late date is out of the question.” Dr. Touatre produces a number of instances where fever broke out in August. September and October, only to be quickly stamped out by the frost before it had assumed the proportions of an epidemic.