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Show A Strange and I'atal Disease. R. M. Grant, of New York, has just completed a trip through Central America. Amer-ica. He states that a new aud strange disease is creating alarm in the southern countries. "This disease," ha said, "is more fatal than yellow fever. It is called the black Jeverinsome countries, and it will do. more injury to a person in one day than would yellew fever in two weeks. It has played havoc in Honduras and in the southern part of Central America. A hospital which has just baen erected near the proposed line of the Nicaragua canal has some 200 victims. One half of them will probably die. The black fever comes almost as suddenly as a stroke of ' lightning and there is no relief. If you attempted to get out of the country you would not survive and you must remain quiet and take your chances. The first symptoms are burning sensations and before you have been afflicted two hours alive at the stake. Unless the black fever disappears from that country or acure is found for it the loss of life will be ap-palhng."-Clucago Tribune. |