Federal Surgeon White Leads Yellow Fever Battle
Federal surgeon Dr White has been placed in charge of the yellow fever fight, directing field teams and coordinating city health efforts to curb the outbreak.
08 Aug 1905
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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1905
Page
1
Federal surgeon Dr White has been placed in charge of the yellow fever fight, directing field teams and coordinating city health efforts to curb the outbreak.
New Orleans reports broad support for a government led battle to eradicate yellow fever. Funds surge toward the 250 900 goal as Governor Blanchard vows state help and federal officers increase on the ground. Two new infection foci appear outside the city while Dr. White takes charge and coordinates with state boards.
Angelo Palallo aged seven was fatally stabbed at his home near Lemont. When authorities attempted to seize the assailant Romain Porteo he leaped into the Illinois and Michigan canal and drowned. Porteo had attacked the boy while temporarily insane.
J Pierpont Morgan of New York met with President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay for about ninety minutes to discuss the Hankow railroad concession in China. The talks touched on peace negotiations and American controlled rail interests, with Chinese efforts to buy the concession for about 7 million dollars. European stockholders demand continued American control of the road and concessions.
Helena Ark August 8 Tom Wilson slayer of his brother and Will Robert son wife murderer were executed on the scaffold in this city Monday. Both men were Negroes and faced death with composure declaring readiness to go.
Sergius Witte, senior member of the Russian peace mission, lands in Portsmouth after rail arrival from Boston. Japanese envoys aboard Dolphin near Cape Cod, with Mayflower due in harbor. Witte opposes indemnity and cautions on Tokyo cables as fate of peace talks looms.
An official dispatch from General Linevitch dated Aug 2 reports Russians forcing the Japanese to abandon frontal positions near Nanchendonsi and Sutsuluchu and retreat to fortifications. The next day the Japanese counterattacked but retreated. Russians also drove the Japanese from Landunchensi, south of Taogau, and after destroying Castries bay post the Japanese retired to their ships, per Aug 5 telegram.
Three men died when lightning struck Boone North Carolina on Monday. A fourth man suffered a broken arm. The scene is described as remote and officials have not yet learned the victims' names.
The International Association of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers ordered a general strike against American Bridge company from Maine to California set for Aug 9. 15,900 to 20,000 workers may quit, delaying major projects and impacting the building trades nationwide.
A Hoboken blaze on August 8 gutted the Delaware Lackawanna and Western terminal within three quarters of an hour, seized two ferryboats, and threatened the waterfront including the Hamburg American and North German Lloyd docks. No lives were reported lost though the flames scorched wooden structures and ships drifted free.
Aug 8 report from Minneapolis details a tank charged with carbonic acid gas exploding at A. B. Crowell’s drugstore gas and soda fountain. Clerk W. L. Hughes died in the basement scene and another person was injured. Cause of the blast remains unknown.
Rioting on the lower East Side as Hebrew bakers walk out. Police use clubs freely to separate factions and prevent nonunion recruitment. About 1,000 Manhattan workers strike, with Harlem Local 305 joining and bakery prices rising. Strikers reject mediation offer from state board.
Baron Kaneko, a Japanese financial expert, met with President Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill on Monday afternoon by appointment. The exact purpose was not disclosed, and both men said the visit had no relation to ongoing peace talks or loans for Japan or Russia.
In view of hundreds of elevated and surface car passengers the well dressed man leaped from a Brooklyn bound car Monday evening. He ran to the center of the bridge, hesitated, then jumped through the railing into the river. Police searched a rowboat for the body but found nothing.
In Blaine Washington on Monday a clash between Japanese and white men left five injured. A fight at a cannery sparked the melee. a Japanese man stabbed a white man, and crowds chased arrestees as both sides clashed on the streets.
A boiler blast at a sawmill owned by T. J. Salts & Company near Del Rio in Cook County Tennessee killed Herman Tistler Frank Plate and Joe Turner. Merritt Burgin was fatally injured and several others were injured. Turner's mangled body was blown about 150 yards.
Five Italian laborers were struck by an engine and killed late Monday afternoon at a railroad junction about two miles west of Alexandria Virginia. The accident occurred near the city as workers were at the site. Authorities reported the fatalities and began investigations into the cause of the collision.
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