Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1903 — BUBON C PLAGUE THREATENS. [ARTICLE]

BUBON C PLAGUE THREATENS.

Epidemic in Mexico and Many Cases in Californio. No country iu tho workl excels the United States iu efforts to ward off the Invasion and spread of deadly plagues, but it Is certain that we are now threatened by that great Asiatic scourge, the bubonic plague. It has reached the epidemic stage in the republic south Of us and has invaded California, it has umda its dreaded appearance in several parta of Mexico, but it is at its worst in Topolobampo, where the people are dying liks plague-stricken sheep. In Muzatlan there have been over 150 deaths and b«Jf the terrified population has fled. The disease has been present in California for several years and the cases have become so numerous that at a conference of twenty-one State boards of health it was resolved this week that California indsr taTic Tmmediate action oar be cut off from commercial relations with other Staten. Eighty-seven cases have been found in San Francisco’s Chinese district alone. Of twenty-two dead rata picked up in Chinatown eleven wore found to be infected. It is recommended that Chinatown be burned to the ground and the Inhabitants sequestered at some glace outside the city.