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Show (By W.U. Telegraph. THD UOB! DISKA9E. Philadelphia, Pa., 1. The plague has broken out among the racing horses. A raoe for $1,500 to havo oome off yesterday was postponed on account of the horses suffering with the disease. The horses entered were "Sensation," "W. S. Allen," and "Hotspur." It is reported that "Rosalind' "Ro-salind' is :-ick at Trenton. - - New York, 1. Although travel is still considerably obstructed, there is a marked improvement here. The horeos in the livery stables are greatly improving. The malady is said to be fully under control, and if there are still new cases, they are only those horses very recently attacked and not yet pafsed the climax. - The horses which hare had perfect rest are the first to 6how symptoms of improvement improve-ment Many truckmen and teams of business ineD, are out again, but it will probably be some days deJore the car companies fully resumo running. Eighty-five deaths reported yeBterday. The favorable weather causod improvement im-provement in the horses in Brooklyn. Pittsburg, Pa., 1. Ilorso disease appeared hero. Fifty eases aro reported. re-ported. Chicago, 1. Tho horse disease is spreading here with noarly as great rapidity as has marked its progress in eastern cities Over a thousand cases of the disease reported this morning. All the express companies, car companies, com-panies, and stage lines, are more or less aflcctcd. Though thcro is no interference in-terference with car travel, the Wabash avenue lines of stages and the Madison street lino are running very short. It is roportcd that tho former has one hundred and Bcvcnty-fivo horses on tho Bick list. farmeleo s omnibus stables havo nearly every horse sick, and the. hordes of Field, Deitter & Co., and Farwell & Co., largo dry goods firms, aro maoy of them sick. It ap. pears the strange disease has not developed deve-loped so early io these stables as the hordes were most carefully attended and tbcstablcs clean and well ventilated. ventilat-ed. fc?o iar thefe is do apparent diminution of the number of teams cn the streets but, as a general ihintr there is a disposition on the part of hore owners to keep invalids in the stables. A day or two will doubtless witness wit-ness tho same results here as have attended the disease in eastern cities. So far the disease appears to be of a mild form, but this may he becauo it is in the first stages. Most vigorous remedial measures have been taken by all Etablomen wbero the disease has already appeared, and redoubled precautions pre-cautions aro used by those who bavo so tar escaped. Tbe Piroielee's omnibus stables where there are 140 horses, and the Roberts Bro's. Uvcry, with eighty horses, are both cloecd and all hands are engaged attending to tho sick animals. ani-mals. Tho weather is without rain or snow, and if this weather continues it is hoped that tbo plague will be kept down. New York, 1. Business is comparatively compara-tively at a etaod-jtill in Jersey oily consequent npoo tho prevalence of the horse disease. Thirty three horBOs are dead. Philadelphia, Pa., 1. Tho Evening " Telegram" estimates tho number of sick horses at 5 to 10,000, but not a single fatal co-hc is roportcd. Nearly ovory railway company has withdrawn its cars so as to avoid tho uo of sick hijres. Many ol' tho horses taken sick Wednesday are already recovering. |