Show SlEEPiNG SICKNESS S KILLS PEOPLES PEOPLE-S ON DARK CONTINENT Africans Sink into Deep Slumber and Die SPREAD BY A TROPICAL FLY I I I I S I No Antidote Discovaredfor tho I I Fatal Disease I Headache and Swelling Glands Followed Fol-lowed by Protracted Sleeping Which Ends inDeath I New York Dec 7By the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions hap been issued a statement concerning the ravages of the strange epidemic known an the sleeping sickness sick-ness now prevalent in certain parts oJ the dark continent The facts were gathered by the boards missionaries in Africa The disease appeared n Uganda three years ago probably > coming from the Congo regions It prevails on the islands isl-ands and shores of Luke Victoria and Inland from these shores a dozen miles No less than G8000 persons have died 10000 within the last l five monthE The commissions from England has decided that the disease is scattered by a fly called l Klvu Xp antidote hasfcns yet been discovered J i f The nln mi11om0rtliif1 e j r rQr the disease Is headache vith swelling of the glands of the neck followed by I protracted sleeping on the port of the patient |