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Show DRINKING POISONED WATER. That is Why the Plague is Spreading Along the Volga River. Yienxa, July 23. According to report in the Austro-Polish papers a workman died of the plague at Baku July 2. The doctors declared de-clared it a case of plague, but the governor denied it and forbade any mention of the matter in the newspapers. No preventive measures were ordered by the authorities. The plague spread and a large number of the inhabitants have since died. The disease dis-ease came from Meshed. Three years ago the hospital authorities at Jarosslaff on the Volga river, had pipes secretly constructed to convey the hospital sewage into the river just aoove where the town obtains its water supply and the inhabitants in-habitants of the town have been drinking poisoned waterever since. If a similar state of affairs exists at other towns this pollution may explain the spreading of eholera along the Volga. : i |