Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1903 — Nothing In The Smallpox Rumor. [ARTICLE]

Nothing In The Smallpox Rumor.

A generally accredited report was circulated here on Thursday morning, that one of the jurors trying the Tanner oase bad the smallpox. The juror in question was Warren J. White, a young man from Kankakee tp. The statement was made with so muoh positiveness that Mayor Ellis ordered the man to be examined by the city health officer, Dr. Arthur Krealer. He found that Mr. White had been feeling quite badly for some days, and had been taking medicine, and two days before he had begun to break out with an eruption of some kind. When examined this eruption was pretty general all over-the faoe, and to some extent on the body. While it was too early to determine the point exactly, it was the doctor’s quite decided opinion that the disease was not smallpox, and therefore no official action was taken. Thedootorwas strengthened in this opinion by the faot that no smallpox is known to exist in the vicinity of Mr. White’s home nor at any place where he has been lately.