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Show THE CHOLERA ISSPREADING A Spanish Commission Itaports That It is the Asiatic Variety. . .. i AWFUL SCENES IN .RUSSIA. Doctors Killed and Patients Dosed With Milk in the Belief That They Have Been Poisoned. Paris, July 14. The authorities have j voted IjOjOOO francs for the erection of. a j wooden cholerine hospital ia case of ne- ! cessity. Steps are being taken to subs.itute j spring water for tlit from the Seine, for j drinking. The chambers were reorganized. It AVID SiMtEAD OF TUE PLAGUE. ; j St. Pfteksbukg, July 14. Since last re- j port twenty new cases of cholera and eleven deaths have been reported at Sinibiriek. Some doctors here assert that cholera appeared ap-peared in Moscow, where there are thirty-live thirty-live cases in the hospital, but no deaths occurred. The disease continues to spread iu the towns and infected districts. It is' reported that cholera has broken out in a village near Jeietz. Astrakhan has become the chief nursery of cholera ou this side of the Caucasus. The epidemic advances rapidly there and not elsewhere. Latest reports from Astrakhan say iu one day 3i5 persons were attacked with cholera, and Klrit) others died. The Astrakhan Messenger publishes the details of the recent riots at that place growing out of the epidemic. It says the mob held the town for two days; the hospital burned to the ground and all the medical staff were more or less injured. One doctor and assistant were brutally beaten by the mob and then trampeled to death. The patients in the hospital were carried to the banks of the Volga, fed with milk as a supposed sup-posed antidote to the poison administered by the doctors. Several succumbed to this extraordinary treatment and only the tiring of infantry volleys brought the maddened mob to reason. SPANISH REPORT3. Madhip, July 14. The government commission com-mission reports the disease prevalent in Paris is Asiatic cholera. As a consequence, steps are being taken to prevent its introduction intro-duction over the Pyrenees. |