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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1892
Page
1
Reports say cholera is spreading from Hamburg to Gravesend and London as water supplies fail and port officials battle containment. Ships from Hamburg and New York show mixed responses while authorities warn, disinfect, and inspect, with outbreaks suspected in London and at Gravesend.
The steamer Kehrweider from Hamburg was boarded at quarantine in Boston with 70 passengers moved to Galloupes island for cleansing and fumigation of clothing and baggage. No illness reported. ship allowed to dock. The Giuseppe Castagliola from Alexandria arrived at New Haven after 101 days sea transit and was given a clean bill of health with cargo landings cleared. A Wandrahm sailing from Hamburg to Montreal was noted by Ottawa due to cholera concerns in Hamburg, with arrival procedures to follow upon reaching Grow Lele.
Report states the Wandrabin will be quarantined and thoroughly disinfected to prevent contagion. The ship will be fumigated and all precautions will be taken even if the vessel later receives a clean bill of health.
New York health officials anticipate cholera arrival within days and tighten controls on ships from infected European ports. Dr Edson and the Board of Health ordered tenement inspections, a citywide cleanliness raid, and distribution of a multilingual public guidance circular to prevent spread.
Police order residents to boil Elbe water before drinking and close river bathing spots. A house to house inspection targets sanitation and a special corps disinfects infected homes as cholera spreads. Wed new cases 188 and 82 deaths, Thursday 90 new cases and 41 deaths.dock workers most affected while Water Side Provident Society with 6,000 members reports 150 deaths. Other societies with 15,500 members report only two deaths.
A woman fell ill in an omnibus and was taken to the Central railway station and then to Moabit Hospital where doctors diagnosed Asiatic cholera. Officials ordered disinfection of lodgings and the station, halted omnibus service, and reserved Moabit for cholera patients. Second hand clothing trade stopped. A worker on strain died of cholera at Wittenberg. Altona reports 28 new cholera cases and 12 deaths since yesterday noon. An artisan died in Pinne and a Kiel child from Hamburg died of the disease.
City officials deny Asiatic cholera in the area and report merchant’s wife death attributed to supposed cholera. Officials say many patients show diarrhea and vomiting. Havre figures show 18 new cholera cases and nine deaths on Wednesday, plus 43 new cases and 21 deaths yesterday.
The Moniteur official denies cholera epidemic in Belgium. Imported cases in Antitomus have been isolated and N45 indicates measures to contain spread.
Bremen reports the Weser river is cholera free and North German Lloyd will continue steamship service as before. The decision preserves ongoing passenger and cargo routes along the Weser with no changes to schedules or operations announced.
Berlin Aug 24 delegates from Federal States are to convene in Berlin to coordinate measures against cholera. Liverpool teamsship companies report advances and the cholera district plan progresses amid international health concerns.
North German Lloyd Steamship Company bars passengers from Russia during the cholera epidemic and instructs agents on the Continent to cease booking emigrants from affected districts.
Cholera fears sparked a mob attack on police taking a woman to hospital. Cossacks and artillery suppressed the violence after three days, with rioters and soldiers disabled and property damage reaching millions of roubles. Further unrest feared in the mining region.
In East Palestine Ohio on August 26 Samuel Unger shot and killed J Hoffmaster, wounded John Muhlenberg and his wife, and fired at the marshal and constable before shooting himself. Unger and Hoffmaster had quarrelled after Unger’s wife left him for Hoffmaster. Unger had a history of violence, including an earlier stabbing. Authorities intervened as Unger neared Muhlenberg’s farm and then he killed himself with a pistol.
The Western Traffic Association commissioners refused to raise pig and manufactured iron rates from Birmingham and Chattanooga to Colorado and Utah points. Interes ted railroads protest that the special basis unfairly undercuts through rates west of St Louis. The panel found some merit to complaints but will not force the reform, noting tariffs are only partially within their jurisdiction.
The Empress of Japan arrived from China and Japan as of August 10. A fire started in the after hold due to electric light fusing while 800 miles from Yokohama. Captain sailed for Hakodate and fought the fire through a bulkhead hole. Ten tons of sugar and tea burned before flames were extinguished.
Advices from Puro Cortez state Bonita, the would-be president of Spanish Honduras, was captured at San Francisco near Tequeizalpa, the capital. He was described as starved and in poor condition, with uncertain fate.
Thomas Collier Platt visited the National Republican headquarters in New York to discuss campaign work for the state. The meeting included Will iam Brookfield Senator Hiscock Whitelaw Reid and other leaders. They stressed unity, the McKinley tariff, and mounting efforts to carry New York for the national ticket.
The steam yacht Wapiti, built in Cleveland and owned by Isaac Bearinger of Saginaw, disappeared in a Georgian Bay gale near Collingwood Ontario. Eight aboard died including New York capitalists H W Bibley and family, two Rochester women, Captain Ellsworth, and crew. Only the cook and one other survived.
Grand Master Sweeny sits in the Buffalo train shed as unrest spreads after a strike split. He denies selling out followers while troops depart, leaving about 2,000 in the Fourth Brigade. The rump strike is reported as the last act of the protest with orders to move homeward issued.
An epidemic of typhoid malarial fever hits the New York State Institute for Feeble Minded Children in Saranac, with 22 ill pupils including 7 students in strain and 15 sick, while 12 convalescing. No deaths reported. past outbreak linked to contaminated city water, now three wells closed as a precaution.
Philadelphia August 26 Judge Bregg appoints District Attorney George Graham as receiver for the Iron Hall in this State. Supreme Justice Somerby, a member of the order, returned today and was uncommunicative. The Iron Hall is said to be financially sound and the $88,000 tied up in the Mutual Bank possibly low.
H L Williams of Michigan fell 500 feet from a balloon at Staunton fair grounds after a rain soaked parachute failed to open. He landed about 20 feet from the ascent point, was found unconscious, and is reported to be out of immediate danger.
Edward Mittler a 16 year old from Pittsburg was captured in Chicago after running away August 15 and sent back to his parents. He is the son of the Pittsburg street superintendent and this is his third attempt to leave home. He claimed he sought adventure after reading dime novels and offered no clear reason for leaving.
New York August measures urge sweeping quarantine and port inspections as the International Conference of State Boards of Health weighs prohibiting immigration from infected ports. J N McCormick warns current checks inadequate and suggests sanitary experts at Atlantic and Pacific ports.
Washington reports acts by The State and Treasury to curb cholera risk by barring licorice from Batoum Russia due to infected district status and bagging contamination. Consuls in Odessa and Rostov instructed to refuse to certify imports. effort aims to prevent cholera spread despite not all material being infectious.
A circulars update notes that disinfection certificates requirements do not block ordinary certificates. It cites New York and the United Consuls, and mentions prohibitions on goods likely to spread cholera. It records sending copies of documents to the Secretary of State and a request for liaison with the Consul General in London.
Washington reports a probable order within days banning all immigrants from landing in the United States. Health officials cite cholera among migrants as a trigger for strict fumigation of clothing and cargo. Canada agrees to cooperate in drastic measures, with a possible inland land quarantine and nationwide detentions if cases arise. The President would use existing treaties to declare a general immigration interdiction.
The New York Board of Health orders thorough city cleaning to fight cholera. Inspections target old wells vaults lavatories gutters tenements and roofs with disinfection and repairs. Steamship companies must destroy or disinfect containers and bedding to prevent disease spread as quarantine measures tighten.
General Green states the Pennsylvania militia will remain in Homestead through winter to counter lawless activity and support workers. He cites economic reasons to keep the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Regiments. authorities expect ongoing duties and pay, with costs around $300000. Doerr boycott details are presented via Crawford, O'Donnell, and advisory board accounts.
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