| Show I STATE STREET ALARMED SUPPOSED CASE OF LEPROSY WAKES tP lIE RESIDENTS I Wall Hop the Old Cliinninnn Tnrn I Out to Die Develops n lingo Cnse of Cancer As Stated Once Before Ire Is Doomed to Vtdc Aimy Microscopical Analysis Will Be Made by the Physicians Readers of this paper will recall the case of the old Chinaman who lives with his cousin on State street near the Star saloon who was turned out to die some weeks ago and by the health commissioner ordered taken in side and cared for His name is Wah Hop or something similar but that cuts no figure Wall has been housed in the den at that point for the time fvhich has elapsed since and has evidently shifted for himself Yesterday word was sent to the police po-lice that a genuine case of leprosy existed ex-isted h the person of Wah and the colored people who live in the front the Chinese who exist in the rear and the Germans who while away sometime some-time drinking beer on the north side were all on the anxious seat The only cool layout was 3 stock of lumber wagons which rest in the structure on the south Dr Wright county physician and Dr Witcher were called and responded with an alacrity commendable in the extreme They found not a case of I leprosy or anything resembling it but a condition which was predicted by The Herald in its former account of the case This Chin man ha virtually received his transportation to that land where telephone connections with earth are as yet unknown He is suffering from a cancerous growth which is slowly absorbing all I the loose territory on his person and i is a matter of a short time when the fungii will have preempted every inch of surface on his yellow cuticle from his head down Nothing can stop the disease save death himself The Chinaman will be cared for as best can be done until the reaper adds another an-other straw to his sheaf in his Celestial person In the meantime the physicians have taken a portion of Wahs body which will be subjected to microscopical examination ex-amination to determine whether he has Introduced anything new in the shape of cancer into the country |
