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( THE MORNING NEWS, 1
- Fataolished 1850. Incorporated 1888. V
I J. H. E9TILL, President. J
I ANY SICK BUT FEW DIE
IJSATHS DROP TO 4 BUT THE NEW
CASES RUN UP TO 143.
liarflty-Five cf the New Patients
Negroes—The Weather Cool and
Cloudy— The Cordon of Sanitary
Police Strengthened in Order to
Keep Out Hungry Negro Refugees
from Fernandlna.
Jacksonville,Fla,, Sept. 25.—President
leal Mitchell issues the following official
ulletin for the twenty-four hours ending
t 8 o’clock to-night - .
ew cases 143
icaths 4
otfl number of cases to date 2,134
Dial number of deaths to date 221
THE DEAD.
To-day’s deaths are those of
Joshua Lloyd Burch.
Mr . Hall (colored).
Otto Tripp.
Miss Florence Straw.
THE DAY’S NEW CASES.
To-day’s ne w patients are :
Miss Lula Godfrey.
Mrs. Gabia.
An infant of Mrs. Garia.
E. Frost.
Mrs. Frost.
Malinda Aryling.
Peter Andrews.
Susan Johnson.
Mrs. William Taylor.
Mabel Green.
J. Lee.
Rose Small.
Betsy Monroe.
Ida Wilson.
Aliok Grimly.
Joseph Joiner.
Mrs. Wanterhalten.
William Mason.
Josie Lee Pine.
Charles, Lilly and Minty Oliver.
A. P. Sinuer.
sfra. J ulia Reynolds.
Alvia and Benjamin Herrick.
Mrs. Arnold.
A. B. Campbell.
John Henry.
R. Clark.
A son of Rev. M. M. W aaiboldt.
Henry Bebee.
Sarah Beckwith.
George Holenbeck.
Miss May Hawkins.
A child of Alonzo Berman.
Annie Dopon.
Joseph Andrew.
Miss W HITE.
Edward Falona.
Mrs. H. C. Crowley.
Mary A. Cooper.
Bister Isadore.
P. A. Gardiner.
Patrick Fallon.
F. R. Kinghall, the World reporter.
Miss Sohler.
Tom Otagus.
Rev. Mr. Barbour.
Pearl and Minnie Clough.
Joseph Joiner.
Annie Pearl.
Ella Townsend.
Lizzie P. Fallana.
James D. Baldwin.
F. Marshall.
Charles Harkkll.
To-day’s total La made up of 58 whites and
6 negroes.
CLOUDY AND COOL.
The weather to-day was cloudy and much
tooler, the lowest temperature reported by
be signal office being 613°. The situation is
ibout the same as yesterday, the usual
lumber of deaths being reported and tbo
;roater number of new cases reported being
imong the colored population.
Eight new nurses arrived to-day from
Slew York, having been sent by Maj,
Durkee. They have not ‘yet registered at
lio headquarters of the medical bureau,
md their names could not bo ascertained.
The Travelers' hotel, in the Barr’s block,
(resents the liveliest scene in the city. In
be room back of the main office from ten
!o thirty nurses are seated, ready to go out
he instant a call is made. Physicians are
fonstar.tly arriving and departing, and Mr.
Douglas- , superintendent of transportation,
s kept busy providing carriages for the
loctors and nurses.
WARDED OFF AN ATTACK.
Mr. Douglass retired last night with every
jymptom of yellow jack rapidly approach
ing. By a heroic course of treatment he
Warded off the attack, and to-day is again
ittending to his arduous duties.
A meeting was held to-day at the medical
tureau by the members of the board of
italth, the physicians of the city and the
nembers of the auxilllary association, to
levise moans to furnish immediate relief to
Ihe sick and needy through the relief com
nittee.
Mrs. Hyatt, a nurse, who has rendered
Valuable service, and who w as recently sent
>ut to the Kami Hills with the fever, is
‘apidly convalescing, and will be out iu a
tew days.
Acting Mayor Gerow, aocompanied by a
•'■legation from the colored auxiliary bu
feau, went out to Inspect Camp Mitchell
{"-day. They report from thirty to
orty houses ready for occupancy,
bid the kitchen and outbuildings
ire progressing rapidly. The camp will
he divided Into two divisions, one for whites
bid one for colored, and the delegation
•trongly recommends that the colored peo
fle go there, as they will bo able to come
Into the city in the morning and return to
{he camp at night. The camp is built by
Hie government, which furnishes a cut a id
Iwo blankets to each room, while the auxil
iary committee will pay for all supplies
[m I the c st of running the camp. Acting
hayor Gerow is delighted with the camp
1 “I its situation. He says jocosely that he
•voulil like to spend several weeks there
bnisulf.
THE SANITARY POLICE.
Mr. C. W. Htansell, chairman of the
•unitary polico, now lias nearly 200 men at
*°rk. A cordon of 140 men has been
•'■talilisbed around the city to pi event all
lemons from coming from infected points.
•" cordon is divided into three sections,
bicli under charge of a lieutenant, the
t'nirds being stationed a quarter of a mile
•Part. All the bridges loading into the city
irom the north have lieeu nailed up, and it
‘ thought that no person can now enter
city without being challenged
'V the guards. Sauitary police have also
1 eii siationed at Chasm file, May|K>rt and
ahio Bench, the total force at those places
""ig about 100 men. Other towns in
hiviil county will also bo protected by the
Mice as occa iou requires.
I wo more telegraph e|ierators were taken
jjck to-day, and tb* force i* very short for
•no transaction of all busine a.
t’EATH AIDED BY A BROKEN HEART.
Hubert Grace, whose story has already
Kiveu. died to-day at the baud Hills.
He was completely prostrated by the death
of his wife, whicu occurred a fortnight ago,
and when his daughter made a runaway
match, his heart seemed broken. He was
taken sick yesterday with a slow fever, and
in his state fell an easy victim.
Anionr the honored dead to-day is J. L.
Burch, ex-mayor of LaVilla and a member
of the board of public works. Mr. Burch
was a native of Borden, N. J., and came
here about twenty-five years ago. He bad
always been a prominent politician and has
held many offices.
bishop weed’s story.
Bishop Weed relates a jolly good story of
Mayport life. A largo number of Jackson
ville people have summer cottages there,
and for the last month thev have been very
exclusive. They aro also exceedingly afraid
of yellow jack. Tlieir quarantine is very
strict against Jacksonville and Pablo Beach.
Anything tlint savors of the fever throws
the people there into a sort of conniption
fit. Miv. tV. H. Bodge, the wifa of the
heroic Presbyterian minister, is living there
with her children. The house is located about
a quarter of a mile down the beach.
A day or to ago her little boys erected a
young pino tree as a flag staff and ran up
the stars and stripes to the top. In an hour
or so the fluttering of the banner was seen
at Mayport and occasioned much commo
tion. A messenger was at once dispatched
to learn if there was any sickness in the
family, as anything in the shape of a flag
just now in Florida means yellow jack.
ORDERED TAKEN DOWN.
The messenger reported the result of his
investigation, but this did not satisfy the
power-- that be, and a request was sent to
Mrs. Dodge to have it taken down. She re
plied spiritedly that her little boys hud so
little recreation that she did not feel in
dined to int rfere with their sport. The
“big mogul” then commanded the flag to be
taken down, and the messenger went
there with that intention. Mrs. Dodge
met him at the door and politely
listened to bis story and then, with hight
ened color and flashing eyes, replied that
the flag would stay thore, adding with em
phasis; “I have a shotgun in this house and
know how to use it.” The flag still waves.
Mrs. Dodge and her little boys are happy,
but the Mayport magnates feel sheepish,
southmayd off for Washington.
Col. Southmayd left yesterday for Wash
ington, where he goes to have a conference
with Miss Clara Barton, president of the
Red Cross Society of Ame ica, by her re
quest. Of course he will be detained at
Camp Perry ten days.
B. H. Hopkins of the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia road, has been per
emptorily ordered by his company to reuort
for special duty at Atlanta. He returned
here with the intention of remaining during
the epidemic, and he will start hack to-day
much against his inclinations.
The fallowing new nurses arrived yester
day from Philadelphia: William H. Mo-
Euhull, Neal MeCallion, E. C. Smith,
Walter Robinson, J. C. Minster, Henry
Wilson, W. T. Clayton, Mrs. <_. Davis,
George C. Streiber, Mrs. Mary Herrion,
Adelaide Berry aid Frank Mildene. A
poorly clad woman named Fannie Moore,
living on Forsyth street, in LaVilla, at a
number which could not be learned, has
seat a note to the Times-Union saying siie
could secure from the relief store as rations
for a family of five only three pounds of
bacon. She ends her missive by saying:
“That storeman is hard-he irted. It looks
like he don’t want nobody to live but his
solf.” Edward Baker of Cincinnati is now
down with yellow fever.
meeting of the executive committee.
The executive committee of the Citize s’
Sanitary Association held a meeting at the
usual hour this morning. 1L W. Clark,
postmaster, reported that the baggage
fumigation station has been established and
completed by Dr. Wiseat LaVilla junction.
The attention of the committee was called
to '.he probable opening of the Fernandina
quarantine and the possibility from that
and other sources of indigent peo
ple eomi g into the city. The com
mittee on sanitary police was directed
to increase the number of guards around
the city and have them placed in such
positions as would prevent the influx of
persons from infected points. A letter
from Camp Berry said that from thirty-five
to forty people cc uld bo easily accomodated
daily at Camp Perry, as about that number
leave the camp every day.
PLENTY OF NURSES AND DOCTORS.
The following notice was sent to the As
sociated Press agent to-night:
Jacksonville is well supplied with physicians
and nurses at present. Those who are unrelia
ble or incompetent are being rapidly sifted out.
It is requested that relief orgaiiimatious should
communicate with the board of health relative
to its needs before engaging the services of
either physicians or nurses.
Neai. Mitchell, M. D.,
President of Board of Health.
The uppearance of sporadic or Imported
cases of yellow fever at high and healthy
points iu the interior has added to the alarm
in some sections, but is not regarded here
as serious. Many pitizens of Jacksonville
complain that the grading and liming of
the streets here by the sanitary society,
will tend to extend the epidemic and make
it more malignant.
Kinghall was sent to the Sand Hills.
The News correspondent bade him good
bye with a God speed, and will see that he
has every care and attention necessary.
Mr. Kinghall lias been somewhat imprudont
and has exposed himself needlessly iu his zeal
for news. The press boys will watch over
him carefully.
A HOPEFUL FEELING.
The situation to-night is practically un
changed, except that a boperul feeling that
the worst of the epidemic is over continues.
While now cases are developing very
rapidly, the type of the disease appears to
bo milder even than before the equinoctial
storms. There will hardly be accommoda
tions for any great number of refugees at
Camp Mitchell in time to assist to any con
siderable extent in the effort to depopulate
this city. All Ithe plans for depopulation
thus far havo fulled, owing to u lack of
practical methods for putting them into
execut on.
Mr. Grace, gardener of the sub-tropical
exposition, died last night of malarial fever.
He had yellow fever at the beginning of
tbe epidemic and reeovorod, but in his
weakened condition fell a victim to ma
laria.
A special from Macclouny reports eight
now cases of yellow fever and one death,
that of Jonathan Law.
Ample supplies for the present were yes
terday sent to MuecLnny by the sanitary
association. The fever has never been epi
demic on tbe south side of the river, though
several eases originating in this city have
developed on that side.
FERNANDINA'B OUTBREAK.
Surgeon General Hamilton Long Ago
Aware of the Iniection.
Washington, Kept. 25.—Surgeon Gen
eral Hamilton lias receivedu telegram from
Inspector Williamson at Live Oak, Fla.,
saving that the official report from Feruan
tliua shows twelve new coses there, and
three at Ellaville.
Murgeon Williams, at Fortress Monroe.
Va, telegraphed to-day that he examined
the crew of tho British stoainshin Hilda
Pes b, and found nine men sick with ma
larial fever, but be adds that the cases are
not suspicious.
a telegram to dottkrkr.
Httrseon Geueral Hamilton has sent the
SAVANNAH, GA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2<i, 1888.
following telegram to H. E. Dotterer at
Fernandina, Fla.:
Your problem now Is to get out your people
that are healthy. Dr. Fraser can give you re
ports of cases in Fernandina for some weeks
I’A-st. Please see him and find out what portions
of the city are infected. When Dr. Ross arrives
ha can take charge of such government relief
measures as are necessary, with your co-oiiera
tion. It is now impossible to run any trains
north special, owing to the intense opposition
of the local authorities. I think Mr. Maxwell
had better arrange for special trains to Camp
I’erry. Wire me fully your wishes.
The surgeon general has received the fol
lowing dispatch:
Fernandina, Fla., Sept. 25, 1888.
Will you permit refugees from this city at
Camp Perry? if so, how many? What kind of
certificates will he required? A train leaver for
Callahan. H. E. Dotterer,
President Board of Health.
FROM GOV. FERRY.
Following is from Gov. Perry:
Tallahassee, Fi,a., Sept. 25, 1888.
Kindly include Fernandina among the fever
stricken towns which you are aiding.
E A. Perry.
FERNANDINA DENOUNCED.
Jacksonville, Fla., Sept, 25.—There
have been about a dozen deaths iu Fernan
dina during the past two weeks. Stephen
A. Sessar, a civil engineer, died Sept, lit,
as was alleg'd, of gastric fever; L. B.
Aiken Sept. 15; T. B. Pryon, saidtohav*
died of typho-inalarial fever, and several
colored persons, among them S. B. Payne,
principal of the colored school. Last Fri
day the Nassau county board of health
denounced the reports of yellow
fever in Fernandina as untrue,
Dr. Palmer not agreeing to the statement
but being outvoted six to one, and the
mayor and other prominent officials and
citizens indorsed the denial. It was only
yesterday, when it became known that the
town would be inspected by a marine
hospital surgeon, that the presence of yellow
fever was acknowledged. The fact of the
fever outbreak was conceded by the officials
for a month, it being an open secret in
Fernandina, and many having quietly left
the place. The action of tlio Nassau county
board is severely censured and considered
an inexcusable outrage on other points in
the state, such as Gainesville, that have
been in communication with that town, and
is in striking contrast with the publication
of the first suspicious case that came to
Jacksonville.
DEATHS AT DECATUR.
Father and Son Succumb—Four New
Cases in Twenty-Four Hours.
Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 25.—A special to
the Evening Scimalar from Decatur, Ala.,
says:
Four new cases have been reported since noon
yesterday: Oliis Wright, an engineer on the
Louisville and Nashville; Mrs. Lester, whose
husband has had the fever and recoverd, and
two negroes. Three other parties
are sick and looked on as suspicious
cases. Two deaths were reported the healtu office
at 9 o’clock this morning. J. H. Weakly and J H.
Weakley, father and son. who had recently
come flora Brownsville, Tenn. The relict com
mittee are under a splendid system of organiza
tion, with plenty of nurses, both white and
colored, ami are now better prepared to handle
the disease thau heretofore.
no communication.
There is still no chance of communication to
or from Decatur, save by telegraph. No mails
leave here, and what is thrown off is not opened,
save letters for parties who are personally
known to Acting Postmaster Thomas, the post
master having fled for his life. Health Officer
Jerome Cochran went by special t uin from
here to Flint and Cullman last night to exam
ine a suspected case at each of those places.
He returned this morning and reported that
O. F. Buckert, a refugee from Decatur, lias yel
low fever at Cullman, but is not positive of a
case at Flint. The relief committee lias re
ceived only $45 in money since yesterday, and
it is believed a call will soon have to be made on
the general public.
TBE NUMBER IN TOWN.
The number of persons remaining In Decatur
has been veriousiy estimated from lfO to SUI,
but close observation shows that not less than
600 or TOO still remain here, anil most of them
are, or soon will be. iu destitute condition, us no
work of any kind is going oil, and they will have
to be cared tor out of the geueral fund of the
board of relief. The e.ty medical boar.!
called a meeting for 8 o’clock this
evening to elect a medical director. The
physicians are making no charges for their
services, ami are working as heroically as
though they expected to receive triple pay.
They are all well and in fine spirits, arid know
not the meaning of fear, although several of
them are from northern states and never saw a
case of yellow fever until the scourge broke out
here.
NO NEW CAHE3 AT JACKSON.
The City Surrounded by a Cordon—No
Additional Deaths.
Jackson, Miss., Sept. 25.—N0 deaths or
new cases of yellow fever have been re
ported here sinoe Sunday morning. The
health authorities are endeavoring to estab
lish a refuge camp near the city, and the
Howard Association will furnish supplies
only to such as go there.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee and Messrs. Daly and
McCoy are critically ill.
According to the state board of health
census there are 2,220 people within the
quarantine limits. Of these 427 are whites.
Only 404 of the whole 2,220 have had tbe
fever, leaving 1,810 who are liable to have
it. Government teuts and cots having
been received, a refugee camp will
lie established about six miles from
the city, and offorts will be made
to move all except fever exempts out to it
to-morrow. A great deal of suffering is
reported, both In and outside of the local
quarantine. At a meeting to-day of Col.
Clark, superintendent of the Illinois Cen
tral railroad, with the town authorities of
Holly Sprfugs, Kupt. Clark requester! per
mission to use the switches at that point
for southbound trains to stand on
while the northbound were passing.
This request was refused, and
the authorities doclared thut Capt. M inn,
who has been on the road south of Holly
Spring, should not stop at that place. At
other towns on the road the people are
equally unreasonable. The probabilities are
that tiie Illinois Central will discontinue all
local freight trains.
A DISPATCH TO DR. HAMILTON.
Washington, Sept. 25. —Surgeon Gen
eral Hamilton lias received the following
dispatch:
Jacrso*. Miss.. Sept. 25, 1888.
Total number of cases to date, 14; deaths, I No
newruiK'H are reported for the twenty-four hours
ending at 6 o'clock last night. Wo have the city
surrounded by a cordon, and are doing all that
wo can to prevent a spread of tbe dl.wiase. Tonis
bavo arrived to-day, and refugee camps will bo
established as soon as possible.
Wirt Johnston.
CUBANS DECIMATED.
The Fever Raging with Terrible Fatal
ity In the Old Capital.
Santiago db Cuba, Sept! 12.—Yellow
fever relgos supreme both in this city and
at tbe military bnrracks outside. Tho La
Antonimia of this city yesterday pub
lished tbe following item:
Of ninety-six men of the battalion of Ran
Quentin on dntylu Sauto Esplrltu, twenty three
buve fallen victims to yellow fever. Seventeen
more have been ittaoked with It, and three of
them are dangerously 111. Of the detachment
of ten men ori duty at I'iamloc*. a spot noled
for its salubrity ami gkod •<!■,, ..-'edition,
all were auacsed, and uven died of the
The mortality has been terrible. The El Palo
of that city one lay reported twenty
four deaths from It. Both native and
foreigner* have leen invent awav. Tbe anl-
demlc has been sweeping the island. The ter
rific inroads made by the yellow fever may be
gathered from the fact that out of a full com
pany of men, all but eight have been swept
away in this city. The island of Nassau, know
iug the danger, has declared a forty day quar
antine against us.
LOUISVILLE'S REFUGEES.
A Fund to be Raised for the Needy—
An Anti-Quarantine Proclamation.
Louisville, Ky., Sept. 25.—The situa
tion of the yellow fever refugees here to
day shows little change.
Benjamin Grant, from Decatur, has a
mild type of the disease, and is being cared
for at the Eruptive hospital. Many are
leaving for northern points as fast as their
baggage is fumigated and turned over to
them, A fund is being raised for those m
need, and a concert will be given for their
benefit.
The following proclamation was issued
to-night in response to the appeal of the
Illinois Central Railroad Company to Gov.
Buckner for relief:
Whereas, It has come to the knowledge of
this board that the local authorities in various
towns and counties in this state have estab
lished quarantines without the consent of ttiis
board, necessary to make such quarantine legal
or effective; and
Whereas, This board has placed an inspec
tion quarantine servioo along the entire south
ern border of the state widen will furnish ade
quate protection against any danger from in
fection from yellow fever, if any possible dan
ger exists at this late season of the year. Now,
therefore, be it known, that by virtue of the
authority vested upon us by the law in the
supervision of local boards iff health and of the
qiurantine regulations of the stale, all such
local quarantines are hereby revoked and
raised, except that of Hickman, which is not on
the line of an Inspected road. By order of the
board.
Pinckney Thompson, M. D., President.
J. N. McCormack, M. D., Secretary.
BRUNSWICK’S CORDON.
The Town to be Thoroughly Guarded
Both by Land Water.
Brunswick, Ga., Sept. 25,—Brunswick
is aroused by the annou .cement of the prev
alence of yellow fevor in Fernandina.
Ttie existence of fever there has been sus
pected for a week or more, and the uncer
tainty served to arouse a pitch of uneasi
ness quickly fanned into ttamo by the con
summation of the fears.
The meeting of the board of health this
afternoon was extremely interesting, and
was marked by an earnestne-s showing that
the members are alive to the gravity of the
situation. Fernandina is accessible to Cam
den county, and thence to Brunswick by
land and water. In view of the exodus
that must occur, especially of negroes who
do not confine themselves to the thorough
fares of travel, Brunswick’s danger is
greatly increased.
A VOLUNTEER GUARD.
The board received a communicotton
from citizens proposing to raise a volunteer
guard to strengthen tho cordon around th"
city and guard every possible avenue of
approach. The board sanctioned the move
ment, and authorized the organization and
placing of such a guard. A committee of
citizens at once went to work enrolling
volunteers for this service. The steam tug
combination also tendered to the boarA the
use of one of their steamers, the Inca, to tie
used to patrol every portion of the harbor
night and day, in addition to the govern
ment steamer Clara, already on duty. In
addition to these precautions, advices from
('amden county show that the authorities
there sre awake to the interests of them
selves and this city, which will move them
to exorcise a strict surveillance of every
stranger in the county.
Cumberland island sent word that her
citizens have organised themselves into a
self-appointed board of hotltli and guards,
and no suspects shall cross their island.
W ith these precautions Brunswick should
be sate.
ADDITIONAL PRECAUTIONS.
The board of health also enacted midi
tionnl precautions as to parties entering the
city by rail,and tho guard- w ill bo instructed
1 1 this i ffect, and in addition to the usual
health certificate will require a description
of the holder, giving the personal ap
pearance and characteristics and signa
ture in the handwiting of the
holder. The public is cautioned
that this new stipulation will be rigidly en
forced, and no one without the proper
pip rs can enter. Printed certificates, with
description blanks, will lie furnished all
railroad agents in the territory contiguous
to Brunswick where no board of health
exists, to be issued by tho agents only to
parties known to them, so that while none
entitled to entrance shall be kept back, the
utmost care can be used.
MEETINQ OF THE VOLUNTEERS.
A meeting of the volunteers was held at
8 o’clock to-night at the city ball to enroll
and organize. The Brunswick Riflemen
turned out as a compiny. In addition
thirty names wero enrolled, and tho entire
force placed on duty under direction of
Chairman Dixon of the board of health,
assisted by R. R. Hopkins and Mayor
Dunn. All took the oatn of special police,
and wore addressed by the mayor, who
pointed out the danger to the city and
people from refugees from Kertiandina.
I'he city will be entirely surrounded and
the water and land watched at every ac
cessible point. Tbe danger concentrates to
a large degree in tho next forty-eight hours,
and during that time the cordon will be
maintained. The volunteers will hold
the fort to-morrow, and eight horse
guards, with the assistance of the volunteers,
t i-morrow night. Brunswick realizes that
she is iu an exposod position, besides being,
to a great oxtont, the gateway to the entire
state. Tbe conductor to an incoming
freight train to-night, reports tlireo men
leaving his train at Kterliiqj, where hoover
heard them say that they intended to waik
to town and beat tbe guard.
LAKH OITY WITHOUT TRAINS.
Tbe Action Supposed to be tbe Result
of a Request
Lake City, Fla., Sept. 25.—Owing to the
rigid quarantine regulations Lake City is
virtually cut off from all communication
with the world. There are now no mail
facilities to this place fforn any point. It
is reported that the superintendent of the
Huvannab, Florida and Western railway
ordered the passenger coaches, mail and ex
press eer vice dropped at Fort VVhite because
of au order the county board of health
■node on Friday lasr creating all conductors
of trains health officers, with the request
that the superintendent allow the con
ductors commanding trains in and tbroug.
the county to allow no ptrvou to
enter toe county without the proper
certificate of health. This order was sent
to the superintendent of the Havaunub,
Florida and Western railway, aad immedi
ately au order was sent out directing that
the passenger train snould lie stopped. Tills
will inconvenience Ikike City a few days,
but will be corrected in due tin la The citizens
of take City have *•> far maintained their
record for good health.
The Columbia boys played tbe Lake City
boys a game of base ball Wl-iday afternoon,
which was the fourth t • • * -of games.
The scw :j iu favor of Lake
yssT*
Guard mounting is the order of the day.
The town has about 100 on duty, men who
have volunteered to ruard tbe town, day
and night, against immigrants, tramps ami
refugees. It is exceedingly inconvenient to
both the town and country people, but it is
thought expedient, and is therefore the or
der of business.
COUNTIES IN CONFERENCE.
Tho Restrictions on Traffic in Florida
Greatly Modified.
Sanford, Fla., Sept. 25. —A conference
of hoalth boards was hold at Tavares to
day; the following counties were repre
sented: Orange, by E. J. Heel, J. B. Mont
gomery and King Wylly; Putnam, by W,
H. Cyrus, I*. C, Canova, F. TANARUS). Ackerman
and C. P. Devereaux; Volusia, by H. J.
Long, John Sauls and G. F. Carlile; Clay,
by Thomas Roberts, C. C. Demis, G. w.
Hanford and Dr. Merrill; Lake, by R. H.
Deane, J. N. Taylor, \V. M. Bennett, S. S.
Sargent ana K. A. Wilson; Marion, by Dr.
T. P. Gary, William Fox, J. N. Strobhar,
T. W. Harris and F. E. Harris; Brevard, by
Robert Morrow.
The following transportation line's were
represented: Jackson villo, Tampa and Key
W est, by A. B. Mason, It. H. Mason and
L. K. Barker; South Florida railroad, by J.
E. Ingraham and B. It. Swo p; Orange
Bolt railway, by P. A. Demans; Florida
Southern railway, by J. A. Larnerd, W.
N. Denham and J. N. Strobhar.
I). . T. P. Gary of Marion was elected
president and G. F. Carlile of Volusia sec
retary.
The following resolutions wore adopted:
Resolved, That the certificates adopted at the
Ocala conference be adopted, with the addition
of the signature of the applicant, andean be
issued by any member of the board of health,
or any authorized agent of tho board.
Resolved, That througn passenger and freight
service be established immediately via the Ha
vannnh, Florida and Western railway to Way
cross and (-allalmn; t hen to Waldo and Haw
thorne, and then south viattio Florida Southern
and Florida Railway and Navigation railways,
and last, via the Florida Southern and connect
ing lines. Freights are to bo in solid cars, sealed
before entering the north line of the infect and
territory, and the seals not to be broken until
the oars have passed the southern line of the
infected territory. Passengers are to be
brought through infected territory in locked
cars.
Resolved, That freights north and west of
Live Oak l>e permitted to enter the state via
Baldwin under the restrictions embraced in the
foregoing resolutions.
Resolved, That tho Jacksonville, Tampa and
Key West railroad, ami the Savannah. Florida
ami Western railway can atouce resume freight
service via junction in the manner
aforesaid.
Resolved, That through freight and passengers
be permitted to enter Florida via the Savannah,
Florida and Western, and Florida Southern
railways via Gainesville as soon as transfers
shall he shown to be at least one mile from any
infected point.
Resolved , That all transportation lines be
permitted to bring freights orginating north of
Florida into the state in sealed cars as afore
said.
Resolved, That all transportation lines be
allowed to can y baggage and express through
infected territory in locked cars.
Resolved , That the foregoing resolutions ap
ply to the outgoing as well as the incoming
trains.
Resolved, That any county represented in
this conference which shall wish to change these
regulations shall give five days' notice to all
counties and transportation lines.
Gu motion the conference adjourned.
MEMPHIS OVER HER FRIGHT.
The People More Confident that the
Disease will Not Spread.
Memphis, Sept. 25.— The scare is over
and the panicky feeling of the past four days
has given way to a more rational view of
the situation. Many of those who were
moat alarmed are now confident that there
will be no further spread of the fever from
either Decatur, Ala., or Jackson, Miss.
The exodus from this city has ceased, and
some wtio were the first to leave are now
applying for passes to return.
At a meeting of the advisory committee
of the cotton und merchants exchanges,
held to-day, a resolution was adopted re
questing the board of health to rescind
their order enforcing quarantine regulations
against railroads on the west side of the
Mississippi river, which was to go into effect
to-night at 10 o’clock. The weather is quite
cool, and light overcoats were in demand
last night and this morning.
The local board of health met in session
to-night and declined to modify the resolu
tion placing all trains on the west side of
the river under strict non-intercourse quar
antine regulations, and therefore the ume
law will apply to them as now governs
trains on the east side of the river.
A SUSPICIOUS CASK.
At 4 o’clock this aiternoon Drs. Williford
and Herring were called to attend Berry H.
Bin ford, a resident of Memphis, but who
travels for a Cincinnati colfee and spice
house. Mr. Biuford bad a chill this after
noon at 8 o’clock, which was followed by a
high fever. The board ordered Mr. Bin
ford removed at onoe to the yellow fever
ward at the city hospital.
NO GOOD REASON FOR THE PANIC.
Washington, Sept. 25.—1n reply to a
telegram from the surgeon general, asking
the cause of thj panic in Memphis, Dr. O.
B. Thornton telegraphed as follows:
No Just occasion—sensational publications In
the daily press and over-sensitive and nen ous
people. The city is very healthy, and lam now.
us all summer, confident that there will be no
cases here.
MERIDIAN’S NF.RVOUSNKS3.
A Death at Vosabursr with Strong
Symptoms ot Favor.
New Orleans, Kept. 25. —The Picayune's
Meridian special says:
The confident feeling over the yellow fever
outlook was Home* hut demoralised to-day by a
telegram from l)r. Huff kins at Vossburg, Miss.,
stating that K. A. Hamilton had died there last
night with strong symptoms of fever. He was
in Jackson on Wednesday last. Meridian has
quarantined against Vossburg.
Tile railroads to-day made a strong effort to
run trains through Meridian, but the hoard of
health refused to grant permission. A commit
tee this afternoon mot Supt. Me lAw ran of the
Mohilu and Ohio road Just outside of the city
limits to confer as to running freight trains
through to Mobile.
no action taken.
No action will lie taken till Dr. [Hank's return
from the meeting of the State Hoard of Health
The Mobile anti Ohio road will begin running a
freight truin from Ht. Ix>ul to iAiiderdsle,
Miss., * veuteen miles north of here, and from
Enterprise, Miss., filt**en miles south
to Mobile. Tile city is already
short of supplies of meat and fl >ur.
The board of health to day granted the privilege
of sending a guarded switch engine to a point
some twenty miles north of Meridian to bring
in cars of provisions delivered at that point.
There is no fever here and no sickness of a sus
picious nature. A cordon la to lei placed
arrouud the city at once to keep strangers out.
MONTGOMERY OaDMKR.
The Reassuring Reports from Decatur
Relieve the Situation.
Montgomery, Ala., Bept 25.— -The re
ports from Decatur of no new coses and no
deaths have great ly relieved the situation.
There is no case of yellow fevsr anywhere
in Alatiama, except in Decatur, 200 hundred
miles noitb of here, and there has not beau
auv. Cold weather is likelr to stoD it there,
as them is no material to work on. There
are pln'ity of doctors and nurses to
lo ik after the new sick in that
place. The extent of the trouble
has been greatly exaggerated on aooount of
the local quarantine, wuicb caused some
railroads to stop trains. So far ns this city
is concerned, no trams have stopped, busi
ness has gone on ns usual, ami uo appre
hension is felt of yellow fever coming here.
The weal her to-day is cool and pleasant.
Cotton is rolling in, and the streots are
crowded with people, coming in to trade.
STOPPAGE OF TRAINS.
Threats of Destroying the Tracks and
Burning Bridges.
Washington, Sept. 35. —The postoffice
department this afternoon received a tele
gram from a postal official, dated Atlanta
to-day, stating that no trains are running
between Memphis and New Orleans except
accommodation trains; none between New
Orleans and Wilson, La., nor between
Greenwood and Jackson, Jackson ami
Natchez, Meridian ami Shreveport,
Meridian and New Orleans, Cairo
and Mobile, Aberdeen and Durant,
Selma and Meridan, Chattanooga and Mer
idian. except a short tram between Bir
mingham and Tuscaloosa.
Another dispatch states:
No new cases of yellow fever or deaths have
occurred at Jackson to day, but this fact does
not seem to abate the excitement In the least.
Then* are no trains running between Selma ami
Meridian and Montgomery and Akron. A fumi
gation station has been established at Decatur.
No station can as yet be placed at Jackson
as the neighboring towns tnmatnu if the mail,
or anything else fumigated or not, is taken on
at or near Jackson, they will tear up the track
and burn the bridges. Arrangements have
been made to establish a station at Jackson as
soon as the excitement subsides. There are
slight evidences of reaction. Business men be
gin to feel tile pressure and are commencing to
resist the mob element.
MU. king's expkrince.
Atlanta, Ua., Sept. 35. —E. P. King, of
the railway mail servico, returned last
night from a Hying trip to Now Orleans,
where he wont to see about having a fumi
gating car built ami fitted up for a fumi
gating station at Jackson, Miss. Mr. King
says the whole country is blocked by a shot
gun quarantine. The people refuse mail of
every kind from Jackson, whether fumi
gated or not. They have resolved tbem
solvos into a mob, and threaten to
do violence where any effort is
made to do things not according to
their idea of arbitrary quarantine. He
found that it was impossible to establish a
fumigating station at Jackson. The people
do not .'.nut the mails to go out of Jackson,
whether fumigated or not, and it would be
dangerous to attempt to send them out. Mr.
King gave up the idea of establishing a fu
migation station, and devoted his at.notion
to an effort to straighten out the mail serv
ice. This is nearly impossible under the
present slate of affairs. There is no excite
ment in New Orleans, Mr. King said, and
the people do not seem to think there is any
danger of that city being ransacked by the
dire disease. Mr. King says he is glad to
get back, and breathes easier since ho re
turned to Allauta.
CESSATION OF TRAFFIC.
The Business of the Illinois Central
Badly Crippled.
Chicago, Sept. 35.—“ How far on your
road can you do business without interrup
tion?” was asked of General Manager Jef
frey of the Illinois Central last evening.
“Our wholo business is interrupted, al
most disrupted, at the present time, but I
hope for better things very soon. I am
confident that within a few days cooler
heads and better judgment will control, ami
that the necessary business may bo con
ducted under proper restrictions.”
Referring to the number of dispatches
received during the day from various points
along the southern line, Mr. Jeffrey said,
“Ballard county, Kentucky, opposite Cairo,
111., has modified its quarantine so as to
jiermit engines and trains to run into East
Cairo the same as heretofore, thus enabling
the railroad company to run trains between
East Cairo and Jackson, Tonn., 105 miles,
although at nearly all the intermediate sta
tions local quarantines forbid the stoppage
of trains.”
BEGINNING or THE THAW.
“Between Jackson, Tenn., and Canton,'
Miss., 244 miles, two or three stations have
modified their quarantine regulations to the
extent of permitting trains to stop, pro
vided there is a rigid Inspection by the
proper authorities. Thore are no cases of
fever outside of Jackson, Miss., upon the
OtIO miles of railway controlled by the Illi
nois Central south of Cairo, nor is there a
rase on tiio Mobile and Ohio road between
Cairo and Mobile, and it may lie taken as
an absolute fact at this time that there is
not a single case of yellow fever in the
lower Mississippi valley, outside of Jack
son, Miss., and its vicinity.
“Yes, shotguns are still in use, but we
have heard of no shooting since the tragedy
at Durant.”
WHOLE DIVISIONS ABANDONED.
The Illinois Central Company has aban
doned all trains on its Aberdeen branch,
which extends from Durant northeast to
Aberdeen, a distance of 10*5 miles. It has
also abandoned all trains on 145 miles of
branch lines in tho Yazoo delta. A Jstrong
local quarantine compelled this course.
Ex-Gov. Head of Florida, who is in the
city, has started n local movement to aid
the fever stricken districts. A call is issued
for a meeting of all citizens of Florida now
in Chicago, to lie held to-morrow, to organ
ize for work in that direction.
freight refused.
The quarantine restrictions on account of
yellow fever in the south corrqielled the
Illinois Central Company to-day to issue
notice to shippers, setting forth that the
road cannot receive or forward freight for
Grand Junction, Term.; Jackson, Miss.;
stations on tho Aberdeen and Yazoo
branches, or for any points on or reached
by the following lines: Memphis and
Cfharleston, Vicksburg and Meridian,
Natchez. Jackson and Columbus, Now
Orleans and Northeastern, and Alabama
Great Southern. Hay mid grain will not
be received for Green IJne points via any
route.
CH ATT A NOOG A’B F ASBIN G CLOUDS
Resumption of Traffic Permitted aothe
Bcare Decreases.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Kept. 25.—Rail
road traffic is being resumed, the quaran
tine regulations here and et other points
south of here having t -day been so modi
fied as Pi permit trains to pass through from
Cincinnati to New Orleans by way of
Chattanooga, Birmingham and Meridian.
Trains from Memphis to Chattanooga are
also permitted, the railroad authorities
pledging themselves not to ship within tho
county in which Decatur is
located. The trains of all the other
various systems centering here are running
as usual. Telegrams to the Times from
numerous points in the south indicate thut
a much more hopeful fooling is prevailing,
and that the panic is subsiding. There was
a light frost on the luouutains adjacent to
Chattanooga this morning. The weather Is
delightfully cool, and jack frost U daily
expected to supplant dreaded yellow jack.
TERROR OF THE NORTH.
KRarlMiton't Hotel Project Retarded
by the Fever bcare.
Charleston, 8. C., Sept. 25.—George
W. Williams, who has just returned from
a visit north in the interest of the Charles
ton hotel project, brings very discouraging
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news. He says that there is a perfect panio
lu the north about yellow fever, floods, etc.
Ihe people there don’t seem to realize that
there is no fever on the Atlantic coast, but
think that the whole south is paralyzed by
,var - floods and other disasters. Mr.
W illiams says that even gilt-edge southern
securities are flat, and adds that so great
was the panio that he didn’t tnink ttiat a
#5 gold coin would bring more than $4 if it
came from the south at this time. Ho ap
prehends no trouble about the hotel project,
however, but only a little doluy. The panic
north is also observable in the theatrical
outlook. The bookings for Charleston this
season were very liberal, Anew theatre is
to open on Oot. 1. The managers say that
engagements art, being canceled daily, and
there will be a dearth of amusements,
despite the fact that all the seacoast cities
aro absolutely free of sickness of any kind.
AN APPEAL TO PYTHIANS.
A Circular Issued from the Office of
the Supreme Chancellor.
Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 35.—The
Knights of Pythias request the |publication
of the following circular:
OKiriCK SUPREME Chancellor K. P. 1
or thx World, y
.... Newahx, N. J„ Sept. 24. )
To the kniqhta of t'ythia* Everywhere:
The grand chancellor of the Jurisdiction of
Florida asks for relief for our suffering brethren
at Jacksonville, and our brothers elsewhere in
the south are urgently in need of help. Yellow
fever is making sad inroads into
their ranks. Death is on every side.
Utter helplessness is their oondltion, and
immediate aid is absolutely necessary.
Kvery moment is a moment of need. Let the
response to this appeal be cordial and swift.
Promptness is life -delay means death. “As ye
would that others should do unto you, do ye
also hi them.”
Forward contribution* to R. L. C. White, su
preme keeper of the records and seal, Nashville,
Tens. William Ward,
Supreme Chancellor.
HOARY HEADED JACK FROST.
The Welcome Visitor Reaches North
Georgia and Alabama.
Birmingham, Ala, Sept. 25. The
weather here Is clear and quite cool Sev
eral parties report having observed a slight
frost early this morning. The atmosphere
is crisp and bracing and the city in the
most hoalthful condition possible. There
lias been nothing like yellow fever in
Birmingham, and all fear of its reaching
here is now quieted.
JACK IN ALABAMA
Montgomery, Ala, Sept.
grams to the Advertiter state that there
was frost lost night in many parts of Ala
bama and within twenty miles of this city.
The temperature hero was 54*.
ROME SEES ITS HOARY HEAD.
Rome, Ga., Sept. 35.—The first frost of
the season was plainly observed here tbu
morning.
AUOUSTA LOOKING FOR FROST.
Augusta, Ga., Sept. 35.—1 tis cold here
to-night with a prospect of frost before day
light.
Bellevlew’e Scare Subsiding.
Belleview, Fla., Sept. 35.—1n this part
of the state the yellow fever excitement
runs so high that all other things sink into
insignificance compared to it. A great deal
of anxiety and alarm was felt when the
fever broke out at Gainesville, for it was
supposed the Ocala lioyg had been equally
exjiosod on their way to or from Fernan
dma, and the place has been watched with
a groat deal of interest, but now It is hoped
that all danger from that source is over.
The town council has prohibited all travel
by rail to ami from this town for the pres
ent, and twelve or fifteen uuarantine offlowu
are keeping a sharp lookout to prevent
straugers from visiting the town.
The citizens have uot become so demoral
ized as not to be able to attend to business
and the care of farms and orange groves.
Boston's Liberality.
Boston, Ga., Bent. 35. —Learning from
the columns of the Morning News of the
affliction and suffering of the fever-stricken
people of Maccleuny, Fla., the good people
of Boston have contributed slls and placed
it in the hands of Mayor Carmine to be for
warded to the relief committee of Mac
clenny. If necessary, more will be added
and forwarded.
R. G. Stone, recently agent of the Savan
nah, Florida and Western railroad at
Gainesville, Fla., was visiting his family
at Boston when the yellow fever broke out
at Gainesville. He left this morning to ac
cept a similar position at Albany. Ha wax
for many years the agent at this point.
Gaines villa Mora Cheerful.
Gainesville, Fla., Sept. 85. Dr. W.
D. Phlllii e says that there are no new cases
in the city, and all those who are tick are
convalescent oxcept K. Miller, who became
ill last Friday morning. Early this morn
ing for an hour or two it was thought that
he could not live through toe day, but this
evening some of bis symptoms are a shade
better. All persons who have been directly
exposed to the disease, it is hoped, will hie
removed to the hospital to-morrow. Ths
feeling here is much more cheerfuL
Goes to Battle with Death.
Fenbacola, Fla., Kept. 35.—Dr. War
ren K. Anderson, one of Pensacola’* moot
eminent physicians, left to-night for Jack
sonville, accompanied by William Blumet
as a nurse. Or. Anderson goes to Jackson
ville at the request and solicitation of Or.
Mitchell, president of the board of health
of that county. He leaves a large and re
munerative practice here to perform a
humane duty in rendering assistance to an
afflicted community. His experience will
be invaluable to the afflicted.
llacclenny’n Record.
Macclenny, Fla., Sept. 35.—For the
twenty-lour hours ending at fi o’clock to
night, the official report snows H new case*.
4 white and 4 colored, and one death, that
of Jonathan Law.
Carl Sliucv is not expected to lire. Ye*,
terday and last night the weather was very
stormy, and hence the lucre*** in thq
number of cases to-day.
Supt. Fleming's Gainesville Men.
Gainesville, Fla., Sept. 85. Supt.
Fleming, of the Savunnah, Florida and
Western railway, has sent the carpenters
who were working on the new platform into
quarantine. He has also raised the wage*
of all employes at that station 50 per cent.
This has cuusod a little ripple on the Florida
(Southern railroad.
Baker*’ Mill* Cheerful.
Bakers’ Mills, Fla., Sept. 35.— Every,
thing is booming and busy and cheerful
here, and there is but little fear of ths
fever, as the “shotgun quarantine” fit
strictly maintained here, os at all small
places in this part of the state. People
without satisfactory credentials are made to
“move on. ”
Philadelphia * Quarantine.
Philadelphia, Pa, Sept 35. — The board
of health gives notice to masters and pilots id
vessels that, quarantine will be ooutiuued at
the Lazaretto until further notice. 1
Waldo All Right
Waldo, Kla, Soot 34.—There Is no sick
ness, no symptoms of any and no panic u
Waldo.