Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1897 — SETS A NEW PLAGUE RECORD. [ARTICLE]

SETS A NEW PLAGUE RECORD.

Sixty New Cases and Six Deaths ate New Orleans. All previous records were broken at New Orleans Wednesday. Sixty new cases vvere entered in the books of the hoard. There were six death*. The most important death of the day was that of Ira T. Britton, manager of the General' Electric Company. Owing to the prevalence of yellow fever in Montgomery, Ala.,, and the fact that all of the towns and cities of the State have quarantined against that place, the State Government has temporarily been removed to Birmingham. The Governor and all the State officers have located there and are transactin*g business from that point.