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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1892
Page
1
Dispatch reports widespread cholera concerns across Hamburg and Berlin with authorities suppressing updates to avoid panic. Emperor may require twice daily bulletins. households to follow disinfection measures while army bill debates continue amid travel and isolation of cases.
Reports describe plans to expand the Prussian army by increasing recruits while shortening service, aiming to balance budget needs and younger manpower. Emperor William backs an army bill shifting reserves and boosting two year terms, with political support mixed and some opposition from Radicals and Social Democrats. The piece also details the capture of Jacques Hoffman, a long-time international swindler known as Baron Courtier, with a history spanning Berlin Paris London Vienna and Zurich and involvement in large-scale frauds and a failed railway scam.
New York investigations reveal disputed armor revisions in ships under construction, including the New York turret design and battleship armor. Officials discuss contractor roles, design errors, and potential performance impacts amid questions of responsibility and delays.
Boston Mass August 28 The Borden hearing will resume at 10 45 tomorrow morning with defense probes into Bridget Sullivan career and her reliability. Government evidence supports a strong case while Professor Wood and Dr Dolan testimony on blood stains may be challenged. Lizzie receives visitors as guard details curb disturbances.
Alice N. Young a 22 year old resident of Altoona died by suicide at her aunt Mrs. James Blair's home. She left a farewell note to relatives and to Charlie Dosk while inquest heard her friend Doak deny engagement. Coroner’s jury returns verdict of death by own action.
Curioaco Aug 28 Local police seek 8 N Jacobs once famed in diamond trade and brother of Jacobs Bros Washington. He is charged with robbing major jewelry houses by false sales pretexts and stealing about $2000 worth of diamonds with incomplete recoveries.
Several Welsh tin plate manufacturers closed their works Saturday leaving sixty plants idle and ten thousand workers out of work. Many sailed Saturday to seek employment in America through Lorpox.
A high level conference in New York City discussed stepping up quarantine and immigration controls as cholera nears. Mayor Grant and Health Board President Wilson urged strict measures, including possible use of quarantine boats and island hospitals on Hoffmann and Swinburne Islands. Dr. Jenkins warned a two year vigilance may be required and emphasized inspection of arriving ships and detaining vessels if needed.
A Hamburg physician accuses authorities of grave neglect amid cholera spread. A sailor with cholera waits two hours on a pontoon near Baumwall before removal as hospitals fill and sanitation fails. National Zeitung urges Prussian precautions and stronger central imperial sanitary powers to fix conditions.
Lorpon Aug 28. The steamer Gerona from Hamburg reached Middleborough and crews were allowed to disembark after no sickness. later one sailor fell ill with cholera and the Gerona entered quarantine. Passengers from the Gemma at Gravesend were disembarked after no further cases, with three days more confinement if needed. The Talavera from Hamburg arrived at Grimsby with two sailors showing cholera symptoms and sent to the floating hospital. Helens from Hamburg near Dover had diarrheal cases, now disinfected and restricted from Dover.
Health Officer Duffield orders that no ambulance may remove from railroad depots any person with cholera or diarrhea. He aims to prevent spread via immigrants arriving through Canada and has arranged proper care, keeping suspicious cases from boarding cars and isolating them until danger passes. Trains from the East through Canada were examined with no suspicious cases found.
City authorities deploy extra workers to scrub streets and flush gutters. Prisoners will form four gangs for street work as Board of Trade seeks a conference on sanitation funding and long term measures. The Sanitary Association to lead gutter flushing with 8,000,000 gallons daily capacity.
The Postmaster General orders all European mails arriving in Montreal inspected and fumigated. The French ship Ls Touraine delivered mail this morning and its contents were subjected to fumigation.
Lucerne August 23 German refugees flood into Switzerland escaping cholera but the Swiss federal council decides that special cholera measures are not yet required.
In Vienna on August 28 the Emperor scrapped his plan to visit Lemberg due to concerns over sanitary conditions across Europe, signaling extraordinary precautionary measures as regional health fears grow.
A lazaretto rises near the Radeteky bridge as Pesth authorities order all deliveries placed in closed paper bags to prevent hand contact. Sanita of Pesth enacts widespread precautions to curb the outbreak.
Reports say Ag a preseres P74 4112 justice outlines measures to curb outbreaks while Sanitary officials deny Asiatic cholera in Berlin. A suspected case from Hamburg prompts hospital admission for the couple at Moabit Hospital. Koch warns against panic despite Hamburg figures and the Sylvia voyage brings cholera cases ashore.
An Austrian man named Anton Potzel accused a New York officer at Second Avenue and Forty-ninth Street. He said he had sailed from Hamburg on July 23 and recently arrived from Hamburg. Bellevue Hospital isolated him as a precaution while Dr. Washburn evaluated him for possible cholera–related risk.
Hamburg's Daily Record reports 416 new cholera cases and 150 deaths in the city on Friday, with 128 cases and 55 deaths by noon yesterday. Prayers in churches, relief committees organized, and subscriptions issued as households are sent to cholera hospitals. Interments total 320 in the first half of the period, far above the normal 85. The Senate seeks £150,000 extra for medicines as suburbs see rising cases.
Still virulent in Russia with twenty eight cholera cases at a charitable asylum in St. Petersburg due to bad food. Across Russia 5757 cases and 2869 deaths reported on Thursday with 75 new cases and 37 deaths in St. Peters burg yesterday.
Seventy-one new cholera cases and 25 deaths were reported in Haver yesterday with several more cholerine cases surfacing in Paris. Three cholera deaths were recorded in Paris today and three more died of cholerine in Le Mans as the outbreak continued.
A dispatch from Mexico dated August 28 reports rumors that cholera exists in Havana, with the spread of the plague feared to reach Vera Cruz and surrounding areas.
Albany Aug 22 The ninth annual report by New York State Bureau of Statistics of Labor shows 75 percent of 8000 surveyed wholesale establishments answered. The study compares wages and output for the year before and after the McKinley Act. It reports a 6 377 925 09 dollar wage increase and 31 315 130 68 dollar production rise in 1891 versus 1890, with 67 industries studied and 49 717 wage increases framed in that year.
In Berlin Jackson County two rival doctors Dr Samuel A Henry and Dr J W Henry clashed over fees. Samuel fired thrice at J W but missed. J W struck Samuel with a brick and Samuel’s father died from disgrace. The son then killed himself.
Pittsburg police officers and sanitary inspectors start a six day drive to inspect every street and alley to ensure sanitary conditions. Chief Brown vows thorough work with the Bureau of Health guiding measures, focusing on crowded districts and foreign quarters to prevent cholera through cleanup of sewers cesspools and backyards.
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