Show THE SMALLPOX Late advices ad vices from Chicago are to the effect that while the outlook in connection connection connection con con- with the present prevalence of smallpox In the surrounding country is encouraging rather than otherwise apprehensions of a general epidemic have not altogether subsided According AccordIng AccordIng Accord- Accord Ing to the Chicago health authorities a a. number of cases have hav been the result of infection brought in on i raIlway all way trains from Iowa lI Michigan n and Wisconsin Wis Wis Wisconsin comin districts where th the disease is spreading actively The rhe State Board of Health o on Monday last Issued a re re- re port showing that smallpox then existed exited ex ex- isted in seven fifty counties of Illinois with an aggregate of twenty-six twenty hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred cases The Marine Hospital Service Service Ser Ser- vice announces that three seventy per percent percent cent of all the cas cases of smallpox in t the country country- at large are within territory tributary to Drastic roe me meas measures S- S ures of vaccination an and 4 o have been adopted by th the railway terns of olf the region regio and it IUs itis Is hoped q ped that I Ithe the pestilence may be kept at bay and andl prevented from farther e expansion until un- un un i n l. l til it burns Itself out |