Show Lepers I jLANSisa IowaJanuary2 It is authoritatively au-thoritatively stated that there exists near the village Spring Grove Houston Hous-ton county Minn and near this place a large number of cases of leprosy The I afflicted persons are all Scandinavians The first ease which appeared was upon the person of an old man and was at first thought to be measles as red spots appeared all over his body Later La-ter he waS seized with excruciating pains in his limbs and the extremities began to wither This continued and the epidermis began to scale off and now there is but a semblance of skin over the body whj h retains its flesh but the limbs have withered and dried until the fingers and toes seem like sticks and seem ready to drop off This disease also exists in three other families all related Physicians from Decorah say that it is imported and perhaps contagious conta-gious |