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Show WIDOW IS IN SAD PLIGHT Mrs. Wagner Is Quarantined Quaran-tined for Smallpox and Family Is Destitute. Vndcr quarantine for smallpox, cut off from all water supply and with little food in the house, is the sad predicament of Mrs. Wagner and her family at 646 South First West street. Mrs. Wagner is a widow and the mother of Abe Majors, who is serving a life sentence sen-tence in the Stats prison for murder. Sho has two sons, 14 and 16 years old, but at the best they have been able to make only a scanty living. Last week, Fred. Taylor, the owner of the house, attempted t6 eject them from the premises because of their inability to pay the rent then due. When the Sheriff came to serve the writ of ejectment he found the younger son sick, presumably, of typhoid fever and he refused to serve the writ The County Physician visited the house, last night and pronounced the boy's malady mal-ady smallpox and placed the family under quarantine. ' A day or two ago the landlord shut off the water supply. Since then the needy woman and her sons have ben without assistance. |