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| Juan Guiteras, M. D. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Friday, September 10, 1897.
FIGHTING THE
SCOURGE.
Yellow
Fever Checked in New Orleans.
NO DOUBT
AS TO ITS IDENTITY.
Death
Occurs at Ocean Springs—Biloxi Strictly Quarantined—Many Cases of Sickness Not
Due to Yellow Fever as Reported.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 10.—Up to last midnight
there had been no change in the fever situation. Two or three suspicious cases
had been reported to the board of health—a material falling off.
Last evening Dr. Olliphant and his corps
realized that they had but one battle—that of preventing any more importations
from the coast towns, Biloxi and Ocean Springs.
Dr. Guiteras and the other government
experts have declared that yellow fever existed at Ocean Springs and Biloxi.
While the decision of Dr. Guiteras has set at
rest all doubt here that yellow fever exists at Ocean Springs, the people there
find some consolation in the fact that peculiar conditions surround the death
of Sheray Seymour, who was officially declared to have succumbed to yellow fever.
He was in bad health before he was stricken and unnecessarily exposed himself.
He was first treated with primitive methods by his family. No physician was
called for four days.
Dr. Guiteras, Dr. Murray and all who participated
in the autopsy declared, however, that there was no question that the man had
died of yellow fever.
One of Dr. Guiteras' doubtful patients, a
child, is dead. In Dr. Guiteras' opinion the prevailing fever is not yellow
fever, but there are isolated cases of that dread disease. Last evening Dr.
Guiteras pronounced the case of Ernest Beanges, now sick, as yellow fever.
Later the three cases reported as existing
at Biloxi were confirmed as yellow fever by Drs. Murray and Gant, after a careful
investigation. They are thoroughly isolated.
The sensational report given out that there
were seven additional cases in Biloxi is pronounced to be without foundation.
A late dispatch brings the information that
a lad named Theodore Sanchez in Biloxi shows a decided case of yellow fever, as
diagnosed by Dr. Haralson. No communication is allowed with inmates of the
house.
Drs. Salamson and Kelly examined nine cases
of fever in Moss Point. They declared that there was no case of yellow fever in
that town.
Dr. Zely, who has been nursing patients at
Ocean Springs, has been stricken with yellow fever at his home at Perkinton, Miss.
The case has been officially confirmed, and Dr. H. S. Gulley of Meridian, state
health officer, has gone to Perkinton to take charge of the town and establish quarantine.
EVICTED THE MINERS.
Little
Resistance Made to the Deputies.
HOUSEHOLD
GOODS IN THE STREET.
After
the Officers Had Departed the Evicted People and Friends Burst Open the Door
and Moved Back to Their Former Quarters.
PlTTSBURG, Sept. 10.—The work of evicting
the striking miners at Plum Creek and Clarksville is on, and as a result of two
evictions serious trouble is threatened by a mob of women armed with clubs and
baseball bats.
Sixteen deputies evicted James McCabe and
his family from one of the company houses at Plum Creek. Little resistance was
offered at the time, but as soon as the house had been emptied and the
furniture piled up in the middle of the street, the women gathered in front of
the house of the evicted family.
Immediately after the deputies had gone the
women forced an entrance to the house again and carried the furniture back.
Three hours later the 16 deputies arrived at
Clarksville and evicted John Pike and his family. After the deputies had
completed their work the furniture was carried into the house again and Pike,
his family and several friends, installed themselves there prepared to make
trouble for the deputies if they again attempt to evict them.
The deputies sent for Superintendent De
Armitt. The women of Clarksville gathered outside Pike's home, intending to
attack the deputies should they return.
A SECOND
EVICTION.
De
Armitt and Deputies Again Unhoused the Miners.
PITTSBURG, Sept. 10.—Superintendents Samuel
C. and Thomas B. De Armitt, together with Deputv Sheriff Samuel Young and a
posse of 25 special deputies appeared, and the eviction was done all over
again.
A party of 20 women from the neighborhood had
gathered and nearly all of the striking miners from Camp Isolation were
present. They jeered the DeArmitts. The women were armed with baseball bats and
pick handles. They conducted themselves in such a belligerent manner that the
De Armitts were glad to remain within doors while the eviction was being done.
Thomas B. De Armitt came out on the porch
and asked the men and women if they would permit him to make a few remarks. They
consented to hear what he had to say and he entered into an explanation of the
contract which the miners had made with the company, the purpose being to show
that the company was not doing more than it had a right to do.
Mr. De Armitt concluded by inviting Uriah
Billingham, leader of the striking miners at Plum Creek, to reply to his
charges.
Mr. Billingham accepted the invitation and
the result was a period of warmth that threatened to become a riot.
PAGE
TWO—EDITORIALS.
Yellow
Fever.
There is now no question but that the
disease prevalent at Ocean Springs, Miss.,
is genuine yellow fever. It is rumored that there have been cases in
another part of the state. There has been one death in New Orleans, the victim
having contracted the disease at Ocean Springs.
The worst yellow fever epidemic in this
country during the past twenty years was that of 1878. It extended along the
southern portion of the Mississippi valley, and there were cases as far north even
as Philadelphia. In 1887 there was a severe visitation at Key West, Fla., and
the following year Jacksonville had an epidemic. In 1892 there was considerable
yellow fever at Brunswick, Ga. The
disease had not been epidemic since in the United States.
The experts of the marine hospital service do
not believe that the present outbreak will prove serious. The methods of
handling an epidemic of this character have greatly improved of late years, and
the national and state quarantine regulations are systematic enough to prevent
the spread of a disease. The lateness of the season is also favorable to the
checking of the present outbreak. Nevertheless, the appearance of the yellow fever
in Mississippi naturally causes alarm in all of the southern states. The visitation
is peculiarly unfortunate at this time, coming as it does when these states are
experiencing a big business revival. Even should the fever be confined to the
place of its origin, the fear that it may spread will lead to rigid quarantine measures,
which must interfere more or less with trade and traffic.
COLORED
VASSAR GIRL.
The
People at Poughkeepsie Thought Miss Hemmings Was a Spaniard.
Anita Florence Hemmings, the Boston girl who
has stirred up such a sensation by daring to complete a course at exclusive
Vassar when she knew that there was negro blood in her veins, is a handsome,
modest and refined young woman. Both her mother and father are mulattoes, the
father of each being white. Miss Hemmings herself shows few traces of her black
ancestors. She is a decided brunette, but her black hair is as straight as that
of an Indian's, and it was supposed by most of her college mates that she was a
Spaniard.
The Hemmings have lived in Boston for 25
years. Anita was always a studious girl. She attended the Boston Grammar school
and was afterward graduated from the Girls' High school. Then she expressed a
desire to go to college. Vassar was her choice, and there she went. Mr.
Hemmings denies the report that a wealthy lady who had taken an interest in
Anita paid the bills. He says he paid them himself, as he was amply able to do.
Anita did not think it necessary to announce that her parents were mulattoes,
and no one suspected that she was not of pure Caucasian blood.
Miss Hemmings' friends say that the report
that she was a reigning social favorite at Vassar is an exaggeration. She was
modest and retiring, making few friends and not seeking to take a prominent
part in social life. Her pure, sweet soprano voice won for her a place in the
college glee club, but she did not belong to any other of the various college societies.
Miss Hemmings spent her summers at Cottage City, where she was received in the
best of society. The fact that there is a trace of Ethiopian blood in her veins
was discovered after she left college by the publication, in a Boston paper, of
an item concerning her brother, who was recently graduated from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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| Fast mail train at Cincinnatus, N. Y. |
OVER THE
ERIE & CENTRAL NEW YORK R. R.
Will
Occur To-night-Cortland Odd Fellows to
Visit Their McGrawville Brethren—Special Train to Leave the Lehigh Valley
Station at 7:30 O'clock—Fare for Round Trip 25 Cents.
The first excursion over the Erie & Central New York R. R.
will be run to-night from Cortland to McGrawville under the
auspices of the Odd Fellows of Cortland,
who will take the opportunity of paying a visit to their McGrawville brethren.
A special train of three passenger coaches will leave the Lehigh Valley station
at 7:20 o'clock sharp, will run down to the junction on the Lehigh
Valley tracks and then be switched upon the new railroad and proceed to the
Corset City. It will be a gala occasion in every sense of the word. With the
additional ties which arrived yesterday the track was pushed on into the
corporation of the village of McGrawville. It does not yet extend quite to the
new station, but it is not far from it, and the Odd Fellows are so anxious to
go in this way that they have expressed a willingness to walk the remaining
short distance to the station.
It was at first the intention of keeping the
matter quiet and of letting no one but Odd Fellows know of it and have the
Cortland lodges make a surprise visit to the McGrawville lodge, but it was too
good to keep and there was a desire on the part of all to have as many as
possible go and make it a grand affair. The fare for the round trip will be 25
cents. If more desire to go than the three coaches can accommodate, the train
will return for the second load.
The excursion will be accompanied by the
Hitchcock drum corps. All Odd Fellows are requested to meet at the John L.
Lewis lodge rooms to-night at 7 o'clock to march to the station. A general
invitation is extended to every one to join in the excursion.
Work on the road is progressing rapidly.
Three gangs of men are now engaged in the grading east of Solon. One huge dray
containing twenty-five Italians was taken over from Cortland yesterday morning.
The load was too great for a bridge over a little creek on the carriage road
near Solon and the bridge gave way. The rear wheels of the dray went down about
five feet into the bed of the creek. The Italians were piled in a heap, but no
one was hurt. The driver declares he never heard such a confusion of tongues in
his life as when these men were picking themselves up and getting ready to load
up again.
The ties for the switch connection of the
new road with the D., L. & W. R. R. have been laid, and it is expected that
the connection will be made in a couple of days at a time when there will be as
few trains as possible.
The question of ties which has been so
vexatious by reason of their scarcity in the market seems likely to be solved right
away. Two carloads came this morning and were used as far as they would go. A
considerable supply has already been shipped from Charlotte and will lay
several miles of track, and before they are exhausted a great number of
ties—all that will be needed will have arrived from Michigan. They are now on
the way. The contract calls for the completion of the railroad to the mouth of
Gee brook by Dec. 1. In addition to all the steel rails that have already
arrived and which are unloaded east of the river, eleven carloads arrived
to-day and are now standing on the cars in the yard.
Mr. Bundy informs us that as soon as the
road is built to Solon he expects to start regular passenger trains between
Cortland and Solon. Next spring the plan is—and there is every prospect that
the plan will be fulfilled—to push on the main line of the road to Deposit, and
to build a spur of the road up to South Otselic and Georgetown. This will open
up the rich and fertile Otselic valley that has so long wanted a railroad
outlet.
MEDICAL
SOCIETY
Of
Cortland County Holds Its First Quarterly Meeting This Year.
The quarterly meeting of the Cortland County
Medical society was held in the supervisors' rooms in Cortland village
yesterday afternoon.. The meeting was called to order at 2 o'clock by the
president, Dr. H. C. Hendrick. These members were present during the meeting:
Drs. Bennett, Beach, Didama, Higgins, Neary,
Reese and White of Cortland; Whitney and Green of Homer; Hendrick, Forshee and
Smith of McGrawville; Kinyon of Cincinnatus and Deane of Truxton.
After the reading of the minutes of the
annual meeting interesting papers were read by Dr. Didama on
"Malaria;" Dr. Reese on "The Use of Creosote in
Tuberculosis" and by Dr. Neary on "Hay Fever and Its Treatment."
The discussions which followed each of the
papers were of equal interest and mutual benefit to all present.
Concluding the reading of papers and
discussions thereon the society adjourned till its semi-annual meeting in
December.
F. H. GREEN, Secretary.
HOMER, N. Y., Sept. 10, 1897.
MORE
ABOUT THE BURGLARS.
Did Not
Operate in Auburn Yesterday—What Detective Seeley Says.
Another house in Homer is reported as being entered
by burglars on Wednesday afternoon, that of Dr. L. T. White on Cayuga-st. Drawers
were ransacked, bedding overturned and everything generally left in confusion.
A lady's gold watch valued at $70 is missing together with a few smaller
articles of jewelry.
Chief of Police Linderman this morning received
a telephone message from Ithaca from Chief Detective Seeley, who travels with
the show people asking him to push the case against the men captured at Homer
with all possible energy. He said that nothing was reported disturbed at Auburn
where the show exhibited yesterday, and that the capture of the two men had
evidently broken up the gang which he knew was following the show. One party
has followed the show all summer and has eaten at the mess tent all the time,
having procured meal tickets from a confederate in the commissary department.
Yesterday this individual did not appear at all and Detective Seeley is of the
opinion that he is one of those confined in the Cortland jail.
COMMUNICATION.
Mr.
Kelley States the Claims to Regularity of the Taylor Hall Convention.
To the Editor of The STANDARD:
SIR—Chairman Brown called the convention to
order. He put the nomination of Mr. Bushby. He declared it carried. Later 60
odd delegates named Bushby. Twelve full delegations handed up their
credentials, which were duly filed, and the 72 names borne upon them were
entered upon the roll of the convention. No protest was filed against the
seating of any one of these delegations, and no contesting delegations sought
admission to the convention. No Republican is now in a position to successfully
dispute their regularity or the regularity of the convention in which they sat.
Every one of those 72 delegates voted when the ballot on candidates for sheriff
was taken. The claim that any ballot was stuffed is a lie as foul as the mouth that
uttered it. If any one of these 72 delegates went out and took part in any other
convention, he stultified himself.
Will "Republican" publish over his own
name a list of the names of regularly certified delegates who participated in
the Billiard Room Convention, together with the names of the towns which sent
them?
Mr. Griswold of the Cincinnatus delegation
informed me that his delegation were without credentials; but when I offered to
see if the convention would not seat them on their word that they were the duly
elected delegates, he and his associates said they did not wish to be seated—that
if that was all the trouble they could fix their credentials up right there.
They talk about Lapeer, Solon, Harford and Taylor
each casting a dozen or so votes more in caucus than were cast for McKinley; but are silent as the grave about Cuyler's
52 more votes in caucus than she cast for McKinley.
"Republican," the personalities
which you indulged in are a fair index of your character, and in keeping with
the remarkable exhibition you make of yourself and your political methods
throughout your whole letter and similar letters in the Syracuse Herald and in
The Cortland STANDARD, which would seem to have been written by the same hand.
Be manly enough to sign your own name when
you have ill-natured flings to make at Supervisor Crane, the Hon. F. P.
Saunders, Mr. R. C. Duell, John H. Kelley or Edwin C. Alger, Esq., that people,
seeing who you are, may know how you come by the right to sling stones at men.
You mention Mr. A. P. McGraw. Now, I have
Mr. A. P. McGraw's word that he will not feel justified in serving on your
committee, as he does not believe the majority of Republicans are with it, and
I am informed that there are others who take the same stand. The men who take
this stand are the real Republicans.
And by the way, "Republican,"' what
a remarkable juggle of figures it is by which you reach the total proportions
of the Billiard Room convention; and what an astonishing feat of sophistry and
mendacity that was by which you sought to give it representative character.
Respectfully,
JOHN H. KELLEY.
Cortland. N. Y., Sept. 8, 1897.
BREVITIES.
—Cooper Brothers are putting in a dynamo for
the purpose of furnishing electric lights for their foundry and machine shop.
—Mr. A. Mahan has shipped two Haines
Brothers' pianos to Onondaga county and one to Bridgewater, N. Y., this week.
—New display advertisements to-day are—A. H.
Watkins, New Dress Goods, page 6; F. Daehler, Fall Suits and Overcoats, page 8.
—Mrs. E. H. Brewer and Miss Anna M. Pomeroy
are giving a reception this afternoon at the home of the former, 38 Port
Watson-st.
—Twenty-six tickets were sold at this station
for Cortland yesterday morning, but only one or two claimed they were bound for
the circus.—DeRuyter Gleaner.
—The last of a series of dancing parties
given by the St. Vitus club is to be given at the park to-night and music will
be furnished by McDermott's orchestra.
—A full account of the McGrawville grange
fair is to-day given in the McGrawville letter. The exhibition will be continued
through to-night and to-morrow and some special attractions are offered.
—The teachers' institute of the Second district
in Tompkins county has been postponed from the week beginning Sept. 20 till
December so as not to conflict with the Dryden fair. Everything gives way to
that fair.
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